CorePay

"Since the implementation of Core's Online Payslip, our staff across the University can view their current and historical payslips at the touch of a button in a secure environment. We've saved a lot of printing time each month and found that staff are delighted with this new and very simple way of seeing their payslip."

Paul O'Sullivan, University College Dublin

About University College Dublin

University College Dublin (UCD) is a dynamic, modern University, committed to becoming one of the top thirty research Universities in the European Union. With a new academic structure of five colleges and thirty-five schools, UCD is one of Ireland's premier Universities, offering a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the humanities and sciences. Its student population is approximately 22,000 including 2,000 international students.

Key Objectives

The key objectives for UCD included developing aspects of payroll distribution and management to an employee level, thus reducing the time spent by the payroll department in dealing with routine salary enquiries, explanations of tax and deductions, and requests for replacement payslips. UCD realised that by empowering their employees to control their own payslip, they could significantly reduce the amount of payroll and HR resources required to carry out payslip distribution. They also found that they could enjoy a rapid return on investment, substantial cost savings and a more content, informed workforce.

What was done

Core provided UCD with a state of the art online payslip solution. The University has now moved from traditional centrally controlled HR management to a technologically advanced employee self-service payslip solution. Employees can now view their current and historical payslips online at the touch of a button. All historical payslips are provided on a per year basis.

The benefits

Through the implementation of Core's Online Payslip, UCD have enjoyed a rapid return on their investment. The printing costs associated with paper-based payslips have been removed. The frequency of routine requests for informations to payroll management has been minimised, allowing payroll managers the time to focus on more critical payroll functions. Management can rest assured that payslips are provided in a completely secure environment utilising leading technology. Because the Core solution is used by government departments, the University can be confident that they are satisfying all current and future legislative requirements. Employees are empowered by having access to their salary information when and where they want it. Through the implementation of Core Online Payslip, the University is now taking a further step towards a paperless organisation, protecting the environment and reducing waste.

CRH is Ireland's largest company by turnover and was formed through a merger in 1970 of two leading Irish public companies, Cement Ltd (established in 1936), and Roadstone Ltd (1949). The newly formed group was the sole producer of cement in Ireland, and the principal producer of aggregates, concrete products and asphalt. Since that time, CRH's strategic vision has been to become an international leader in building materials, delivering superior and sustained shareholder returns. The success of this strategy has made a group with sales in 2003 of €11 billion from over 1,500 locations in 22 countries around the world.

Number of Employees: 54,000 worldwide

Core Modules in Place: CorePay, CoreTime, Core Business Intelligence, CoreDBA

Implementation Date of CorePay: 2005

Challenge

Due to their large and varied workforce, CRH needed a flexible solution to cater for their changing work patterns and pay rules for both onsite and offsite employees.

Solution

A key requirement for CRH was the implementation of a fully integrated solution. Because CoreHR is modular by design, CRH were in a position to tailor the Core solution to their requirements in the knowledge that whether they selected one or all of the Core oroducts, they were being provided with a fully integrated system.

Benefits

• Improvement in the speed and efficiency of CRH's entire payroll process
• CorePay solution's ability to manage CRH's various payment schemes efficiently and cost effectively proved a major advantage. In addition to paying CRH's staff on time, CorePay also manages CRH's sick pay scheme, holiday supplement, Christmas bonus calculation, share participation and meal allownace.
• Reduced duplicate data entry, minimising the risk of errors
• CorePay is fully integrated with Core's Time & Attendance solution, CoreTime. This allows CRH to directly feed approved standard and overtime hours from CoreTime to CorePay, ensuring all worked hours are reflected accurately and instantly in an employee's payslip.

The Department of Social Protection (previously the Department of Social and Family Affairs) appropriate social protection policies and administers and manages the delivery of statutory schemes and services. The Department is responsible for the delivery of a range of social insurance and social assistance schemes, including provision for unemployment, illness, maternity, caring, widowhood, retirement and old age. Payments are made to nearly 950,000 people each week with over 1.5 million people directly benefiting from those payments.

"Our mission is to promote a caring society through ensuring access to income support and other services, enabling active participation, promoting social inclusion and supporting families."

Core Modules in Place: CorePay, CorePay ESS, CorePay Platinum Support

Implementation Date of CorePay: 1997

Challenge

To provide a guaranteed, 100% secure and reliable payroll and HR solution to one of Ireland's most public and influential government departments. The number of payments processed by the Department of Social Protection is far in excess of what most organisations would experience and as such they needed to employ a payroll solution that they were confident could handle their extensive requirements.

Solution

Core provided a state-of-the-art payroll solution incorporating back-office payroll and self-service payroll facilities for employees using CorePay ESS. The Department selected the CorePay solution because of the system's proven reputation in operating successfully in high turnover environments and its track record for processing payroll with zero error.

Benefits

• The Department of Social Protection can rest assured in the knowledge that they are running a trusted, secure payroll solution that has been the system of choice for Ireland's leading organisations for over 25 years.
• Through the implementation of CorePay's Employee Self Service functionality, Department employees can now access their payroll details at the touch of a button in a guaranteed secure enviornment. Routine queries to the payroll department have reduced substantially as employees are provided with all necessary payroll information.
• The Department also opted to add CorePay Platinum Support to their CorePay package. CorePay Platinum Support provides the Department with support services that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. As a Platinum customer, the Department receives superior, highly personalised support. The Core Platinum Support Service has allowed the Department of Social Protection to incorporate planned proactive activities, ensuring they get the maximum benefit from their system.