Vinci Energies joined forces with Unit4’s ERPx solution to reduce labor costs and facilitate growth plans
Vinci Energies has become part of the growing customer base using Unit4 ERPx to cut costs, modernize operations, and facilitate ambitious growth plans.
Cloud-based solutions continue to define the future for many organizations, enabling them to achieve their ambitious goals through having a flexible, reliable, and adaptable solution.
In this blog, we’ll tell Vinci Energies’ story, describing the challenges it faced, why it chose Unit4, and the benefits it can now reap from using Unit4’s ERPx solution.
What challenges did Vinci Energies face?
Vinci Energies is a growing international organization that creates customized, multi-technical solutions and services for energy, transport, and communication infrastructures. The Norwegian company handles electrical installation, fiber installation, renewable energy, mobile power plants, and energy infrastructure. It has several legal entities and currently consists of six companies requiring consolidation.
International growth naturally makes operations increasingly more complex, raising issues ranging from HR challenges and payroll complexity due to handling multiple currencies to processing large amounts of data. This challenge is compounded by the broad portfolio of services and solutions Vinci Energies offers, which means it has many different types of employees with different payroll needs.
Given the number of employees it was planning to hire and collect data on, its legacy payroll process was already generating significant internal costs and prohibitive workloads, which would only worsen as they grew.
But it’s not just about having the right systems in place to hire new talent; it’s also crucial to have state-of-the-art systems in place to attract state-of-the-art talent and meet their payroll management expectations.
Explore the power of HCM in minutes
Watch short demos that match your HR priorities – whenever it fits into your schedule.
Why did Vinci Energies choose Unit4?
Vinci Energies chose to invest in Unit4’s Cloud-based ERPx payroll solution because Unit4’s local presence and delivery enabled Vinci Energies to obtain the relevant customer references it needed to ensure confidence in the ERPx solution. It was also important for Vinci Energies, as a market leader, to collaborate with an organization showing the same ambition and modern mindset.
It chose Unit4 over other major competitors such as Visma SD Works (formerly Aditro) and SAP, demonstrating how the benefits of Unit4’s ERPx solution lie in next-generation technology, helping organizations abandon legacy systems in favor of a modern way of working.
Click to read Unit4 HCM product brochure
What benefits did Vinci Energies gain?
The ERPx solution’s flexibility will support its continuous growth and the need to constantly add new departments and employees to the ERP system. This is a state-of-the-art solution, offering employees peace of mind when running their payroll processes in the Cloud.
By bringing payroll management in-house, they can:
- Respond quickly to growth plans and unforeseen circumstances
- Onboard employees easily, quickly, and efficiently
- Reduce IT costs for payroll management
- Replace manual, time-consuming tasks with streamlined processes that allow employees to focus on strategic analysis of payroll data
Due to the complex employment structure at Vinci Energies, it didn't require an off-the-shelf solution, but one offering rich features that can help it manage different contracts and collective agreements, while maintaining a general overview – once again, productivity is essential for longevity.
Unit4’s partnership with Microsoft Azure provides a proven way to reduce IT costs by offloading maintenance, updates, and security tasks for Vinci’s IT systems. This not only reduces the workload for IT teams, allowing them to expand the Unit4 platform more easily, but also cuts the costs generated by legacy payroll processes.
Given the other key third-party HR applications it runs, it was crucial for Vinci to choose a payroll solution that could easily integrate with these systems. Unit4’s ERPx solution has the plugin-based architecture they needed, as well as great implementation support that ensured a quick and painless transition.
How can Unit4 help your organization transform your payroll process?
Unit4 offers a time-saving, automated payroll management module that seamlessly synchronizes HR and payroll data, eliminating the need for manual data entry.
Empower your teams to report the payroll process in a simple, automated manner, using intuitive dashboards for monitoring.
You can watch a demo or talk to our sales team and start making smarter, faster decisions today.
