CHL Moves in the Right Direction

CHL Mortgages has used Snowdrop’s HR Consultancy and software tools to reduce time spent on administration; fulfil its recruitment needs and stay compliant with the Financial Service Authority’s (FSA) regulations.

Thames Valley Police: A Force for Change

Thames Valley Police implemented Snowdrop's HR and training software in 2003, to meet guidelines set out by the home office for a new performance management system: the Performance Development Review. Since installation, the force has seen a more open and consistent approach to employee development; better performances across the ranks and an overall improvement in manager-employee relationships.

Four Pillars Puts Recruitment Admin to Rest

Four Pillars Hotels is using Snowdrop's online recruitment software to streamline its recruitment processes, ensure visibility within the marketplace and increase its competitive edge.

Jewel & Esk Valley College: An Education in HR

Jewel & Esk Valley College has two campuses in Edinburgh and Midlothian. It employs over 400 staff, working with 10,000 students across the two sites. The college offers a broad range of courses, encompassing everything from HR and IT, to beauty, health and trades.

Jewel & Esk Valley College has implemented HR software from Snowdrop to consolidate employee information, produce better management reports and streamline processes across the board.

Thames Valley Housing: Bringing HR Software Home

Thames Valley Housing develops and manages affordable homes for rent, shared ownership and key workers in the Thames Valley region. It owns and manages some 10,000 properties in West London, Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and also manages staff accommodation at 6 NHS Trusts.

TVHA required an HR system to keep in line with the rest of the organisation and ensure greater efficiencies in HR. Online functionality was also needed to provide a common platform of HR information for line managers and employees.

Jardine Lloyd Thompson: Ensuring Results with HR Software

The Jardine Lloyd Thompson group of companies (JLT) is a leading risk management adviser and insurance broker. It is also a major provider of employee benefit administration services and related consultancy advice.

JLT required an HR system that would consolidate its HR information as part of a business restructure and improve the overall quality of employee data.

Rowcroft Hospice Case Study

Rowcroft Hospice provides care and support to the people of South Devon suffering from life limiting illnesses. The Hospice is now in its 25th year and currently employs 180 people.

By introducing a computerised system, Rowcroft has been able to streamline many everyday tasks, through information delivery and process automation.

Spratt Endicott Firms Up with Snowdrop’s HR Software

Spratt Endicott is a firm of solicitors, based in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Originally part of Shoosmith solicitors, they demerged in May 2002 to form Spratt Endicott and now number 113 employees. Since implementing Snowdrop's HR software several benefits have been realised across the organisation, including:

• Greater awareness of the impact that absence is having on the firm
• New HR initiatives to reduce sickness absence
• More effective recruitment administration, through the monitoring of applicants, vacancies and ad campaigns, which has helped with the firm’s expansion
  
  

Tayside Contracts - Servicing HR with Personnel Software

Tayside Contracts is a commercially based local authority contracting organisation that provides catering, cleaning, roads maintenance, vehicle maintenance and winter maintenance throughout the Tayside area of Scotland. Since introducing HR software, a number of key benefits have been realised, including:

• The production of sophisticated reports that inform the decisions of Corporate Management Team - absence reports are automatically generated and e-mailed to managers
• Significant reduction in recruitment administration
• On-line access that allows line managers to view training, absence, appraisal & disciplinary information

Eden Project Blooms with Snowdrop's HR Software

The Eden Project has cut wasteful administration and dramatically improved the quality of its employee information with Snowdrop, other benefits include:

• Savings by better management and retrieval of company property
• Less printing, thanks to letter audit trails that prevent the need for paper printouts
• Ease of access to important information, such as contracts and certificates
• Timely completion of tasks, due to automated e-mail reminders regarding contract expiry dates, change of age and maternity dates
• Better compliance with legislation – records are now kept of when employee data was agreed to be accurate by the employee
• A single database for more consistent information

Dune Puts Right Foot Forward with Snowdrop

Dune is using Snowdrop’s personnel records and pay administration software to minimise time HR and Payroll spend on administration. The software module is integrated, preventing the need for either team to re-key data. It will provide the company with consistently accurate information on its 1000 employees. It will also reduce any risk of pay errors - mistakes no company can afford, and help the HR and Payroll teams work together more efficiently.

Wates Group: Building up HR with Snowdrop Software

The Wates Group has introduced HR software to consolidate its employee data and provide remote access to local directors, alleviating the demand for HR information and enabling the production of both reliable and meaningful reports. Wates implemented the full suite of Snowdrop modules to manage the data of its 2000 employees and has already seen excellent results.

Fläkt Woods - Breathing New Life into HR

Fläkt Woods is using Snowdrop’s HR software to streamline its HR processes; produce more accurate information and improve access to recruitment information. The organisation has implemented Snowdrop’s Spring (recruitment) and Evergreen (personnel) modules, with Snowdrop Workflow (an e-mail information delivery tool) and both Snowdrop & Crystal Reports.

Snowdrop Helps Nando's Train up Staff

Nando's is using Snowdrop’s HR software to manage the personnel and training records of its 3000 employees. Nando’s is expanding rapidly - opening 30 new restaurants a year; it needed a new system to monitor training and keep employee information up-to-date. The team can now quickly identify training needs across the organisation – cutting the time spent on administration.

Sports Council for Wales: Kick-Starting HR Software

The Implementation of an HR system is often only half the battle in ensuring that you make the most out of HR software. Actually knowing what you want from the system and how to achieve it is crucial in gaining any level of ROI. Here the Sports Council for Wales provides some valuable insights into why systems fail and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.

Admiral Ensures HR Confidence through Snowdrop Systems

Admiral Insurance has implemented software from Snowdrop Systems to reduce the amount of time spent on administration and increase the efficiency of its Human Resources team.

Sight Savers: Employee Information Made Clearer

Sight Savers International is using HR software from Snowdrop to enhance the quality of its employee information and provide a better service companywide.

Cairngorms National Park Authority Develops HR Through Snowdrop

Cairngorms National Park Authority has introduced HR software from Snowdrop Systems, to ensure better management of its employee data and the production of accurate reports.

WSP Engineers Better HR Processes Through Snowdrop

The engineering organisation, WSP, has implemented HR software from Snowdrop to improve the quality of its employee information; streamline internal communication and reduce administration.

Northwest Regional Development Agency Regenerates HR Through Snowdrop Software

The Northwest Regional Development Agency is utilising HR software from Snowdrop to reduce administration and streamline its processes.

Pret a Manger

Pret A Manger, the leading sandwich retailer has over 110 outlets across the UK and a growing presence in New York. It currently employs over 2,200 paid staff and has a turnover of £100m (2001). Previously Pret had no HR system or software of any kind in place and out sources its Payroll function to ADP. Pret challenged Snowdrop to develop an HR software system that would:

• record and retrieve accurate and reliable personnel and recruitment information in an efficient manner
• introduce a more robust method of data transmission between shops, Head Office and ADP
• reduce need to increase heads in administrative roles

Pret a Manger - Revisited

Sandwich retailer Pret a Manger has upgraded its e-HR system from Snowdrop Systems to cut the time staff spend on admin in its Pret shops so they can focus more on customer service.

Line managers can take greater responsibility for updating personnel records, with more access to details on pay and working hours and less contact with Payroll.

Snowdrop Ensures Training Compliance at Balfour Beatty Utilities

Balfour Beatty Utilities is using HR software from Snowdrop Systems to reduce data errors & cut administration; centralise the training process for accurate and up-to-date information; provide line managers with remote access to training information and ensure staff compliance with health & safety legislation.

Bristow and Sutor Unites HR Information Through Snowdrop

Bristow and Sutor, the Civil Enforcement Agent, is using software from Snowdrop Systems to unify its employee data and improve absence management.

RDF Media Takes Snowdrop on Location

RDF Media (RDF), the television production company responsible for Wife Swap and Faking IT, is using software from HR and payroll software provider, Snowdrop Systems.

The software is being used to keep track of RDF's employees and reduce time spent on HR administration. The HR team can now quickly generate employment contracts and view up-to-date personnel records that remote employees can amend even while away filming on location.

Snowdrop Helps HR Team at Chrysalis Through Transformation

The media organisation, Chrysalis Group Plc, has implemented modular software from Snowdrop Systems, to assist with the streamlining of its HR & training processes and cope with a rapidly expanding workforce.

Snowdrop implemented Evergreen (Personnel records) with Crystal reports in the first phase, and Fountain (Training administration) in the second phase. Chrysalis also implemented Snowdrop Workflow, a tool that picks up and delivers information.

Snowdrop Serves up HR Software to Arora International Hotels

Hotel chain, Arora International, is using software from Snowdrop Systems to consolidate its HR data and enable management to easily track and accurately manage the data of its 250 employees.  Process automation has also assisted in streamlining current HR administration tasks.

Snowdrop Helps Ofcom Switch on to e-HR

Communications regulator Ofcom is using HR software from Snowdrop Systems to help its HR team work more efficiently. By linking fully to other business systems such as Payroll, on-line recruitment and e-learning, Snowdrop helps HR offer a streamlined and integrated service to the organisation.

BPHA: A Welcome Home for New HR Software

Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association owns and manages almost 11,000 homes across Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire. BPHA chose Snowdrop Systems to install an integrated HR solution, including an extended set of 'establishment-focussed' tools that are particularly suited to the spinal column pay structure used by many Housing Associations. With the additional use of Snowdrop's on-line tool, U-Access, BPHA is now confidently using its new HR system across the board, ensuring devolved responsibility amongst its employees and greatly enhanced absence management.

Devon County Council Plans for the Future with Snowdrop

Devon County Council has become one of the first local authorities to implement specialised training and development software to help manage training for its 12,000 employees, replacing its basic spreadsheets and paper based files.

Milklink:  Streamlining Processes Through HR Software

Milklink is the UK's fourth largest integrated dairy business. Owned by 2,400 members farming across the South of England from Cornwall to Kent, and with a processing capacity of around 800 million litres per year, Milklink is now the leading supplier of long-life milk in the UK. Established in April 2000, Milklink currently has around 2000 employees across thirteen sites in the UK.

Snowdrop Helps National Society For Epilepsy Drive HR Strategy

The system implemented by Snowdrop consisted of the Evergreen module, (Employee records) and the Fountain module, (training & development).

• Evergreen, has enabled HR to implement a new absence policy.
• Fountain, has brought in an estimated annual saving of £2000 in training costs.
• Improvements have been made in career and development planning for staff.
• Data is now shared between all offices, generating a return of £6000 per annum.

Snowdrop's solution combined a specially designed logistics module with the Spring (recruitment), Evergreen (employee records), Fountain (training & development) and Fountainexecutive (succession planning & competency assessment) software.

• The system meets all health and safety legislation.
• Employees are now empowered to update any changes to their personal details. Saving vital HR time as well as ensuring accurate information.
• A high level of employee training and development is maintained by a development needs report generating facility.