Client Success: Compass Group UK streamlines their SAP HCM support pack process

My name is David Hall. I head up the development and product support teams at Compass Group UK and Ireland. We've been operating and running an old legacy tool to copy our payroll data back from production to our development and test systems. That system, is was out of date, out of support, and really functionally didn't meet our business requirements. DSM as a tool has has enabled the team to take on the additional workload that the business, is always putting our way. We to be in a lot of new employees with new contract terms and conditions, so we can copy the data back and make sure that, the results are as expected. We apply the support packs twice a year, and in addition, we use it for our production support tools. So it's been a real game changer for us and and really allowed the team to work much more efficiently.

Using the EPI-USE Labs HCM Productivity Suite, Compass Group UK can create scrambled data in their testing environments, and then apply the necessary support packages. Once this is done, they can then run the Payrolls and use Variance Monitor to compare the wage type data to ensure it balances. They then move the support packages into their Production system. Their business gets considerable benefits from this process in terms of time and cost savings, reduced risk and increased security.

“Variance Monitor, along with Data Sync Manager provides us with a robust and secure regression testing strategy for our employee data.”

David Hall, Head Of Business Solutions at Compass Group UK & Ireland

The HCM Productivity Suite consists of Query Manager™ with Document Builder, Variance Monitor, and Data Sync Manager™ (DSM) for HCM. Compass Group UK's benefits from using the suite include:

With Data Sync Manager for HCM, the business can copy payroll data for any number of employees, saving time and the effort of manually recreating data
They can copy subsets of Employees, or larger sets that meet all the businesses’ terms and conditions
With Variance Monitor, they can compare all wage type data between Production and Test systems in a repeatable process
Easier comparisons; only compare the data that is relevant to the test plan, such as Gross, Net Pay.