Great Lakes Cheese: Carving out an employee-first culture with SAP SuccessFactors solutions
1INTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if “Public”)
“We wanted to make our systems and processes more
efficient while ensuring that our employees felt
empowered and valued. SAP SuccessFactors solutions
help us hugely with retention, leadership, and excellence
in HR as well as document compliance.”
Brian Shellhorn, Human Resources Information Systems Manager,
Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc.
Hiram, Ohio
www.greatlakescheese.com
Industry
Consumer
products
Employees
4,500
Revenue
US$3.6 billion
Products and services
Natural, processed, and
snacking cheese for retail
and food services
Featured solutions
SAP SuccessFactors HCM, SAP SuccessFactors
Extended Enterprise Content Management by
OpenText, and SAP U.S. Benefits Administration
by Benefitfocus
80%
Reduction in paper use
360º
View of employee data
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Desire to adopt a cloud-based solution for core HR processes aimed at prioritizing employees and
achieving efficiencies required for a growing business
• Capabilities to include self-service, personalization, accessibility, user-friendliness, and mobile first
Why SAP
• SAP SuccessFactors HCM, including the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, SAP SuccessFactors
Learning, and SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding solutions to streamline HR processes
• SAP SuccessFactors Extended Enterprise Content Management application by OpenText to simplify
records management, including disposition rules and reference retention
• SAP U.S. Benefits Administration application by Benefitfocus integrated with SAP SuccessFactors
Employee Central to provide a simplified employee user experience with single line of sight for
employee information and benefits
After: Value-driven results
• Centralized and digitalized employee records, delivering a primarily paperless working environment,
improving document compliance and safeguarding employee files
• Achieved more efficient management of employee documents by establishing consistent document-
related processes across plants
• Made plans to further explore the document generation and retention capabilities
Carving out an employee-first culture with SAP SuccessFactors
solutions
94434enUS (24/12) © 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
“We wanted to make our systems and processes more
efficient while ensuring that our employees felt
empowered and valued. SAP SuccessFactors solutions
help us hugely with retention, leadership, and excellence
in HR as well as document compliance.”
Brian Shellhorn, Human Resources Information Systems Manager,
Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc.
Hiram, Ohio
www.greatlakescheese.com
Industry
Consumer
products
Employees
4,500
Revenue
US$3.6 billion
Products and services
Natural, processed, and
snacking cheese for retail
and food services
Featured solutions
SAP SuccessFactors HCM, SAP SuccessFactors
Extended Enterprise Content Management by
OpenText, and SAP U.S. Benefits Administration
by Benefitfocus
80%
Reduction in paper use
360º
View of employee data
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Desire to adopt a cloud-based solution for core HR processes aimed at prioritizing employees and
achieving efficiencies required for a growing business
• Capabilities to include self-service, personalization, accessibility, user-friendliness, and mobile first
Why SAP
• SAP SuccessFactors HCM, including the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, SAP SuccessFactors
Learning, and SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding solutions to streamline HR processes
• SAP SuccessFactors Extended Enterprise Content Management application by OpenText to simplify
records management, including disposition rules and reference retention
• SAP U.S. Benefits Administration application by Benefitfocus integrated with SAP SuccessFactors
Employee Central to provide a simplified employee user experience with single line of sight for
employee information and benefits
After: Value-driven results
• Centralized and digitalized employee records, delivering a primarily paperless working environment,
improving document compliance and safeguarding employee files
• Achieved more efficient management of employee documents by establishing consistent document-
related processes across plants
• Made plans to further explore the document generation and retention capabilities
Carving out an employee-first culture with SAP SuccessFactors
solutions
94434enUS (24/12) © 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use