sumtotal strategic hcm solutions for consumer packaged goods

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SumTotal Strategic HCM Solutions forConsumer Packaged Goods

Driving Compliance, Reduced Costs, Greater Efficiency and Growth
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The consumer products industry faces several key challenges. First, thereis increasing volatility in the consumer industry in generalhigh variabilityin commodity prices, for example, as well as the rising pace of innovationand significant changes in consumers aspirations and shopping behavior.Second, there are the challenges brought about by a rapidly consolidatingretail trade landscape.

Today SumTotal helps many of the worlds most recognized consumer packaged goods companies to retain and grow their talent and run moreefficiently and effectively. SumTotal has the industrys most completeStrategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solution and unmatchedexperience managing complex compliance, talent and workforcemanagement needs for todays consumer packaged goods companies.

Complete Learning & Talent Management Capabilities

Effective, Efficient Compliance & Certification Solution: Ensuring your talent has theright skills to succeed in the job is key to maintaining good customer service. SumTotalsindustry leading Learning Management solution provides complete functionality to meet thecompliance and certification needs of consumer packaged goods companies. In addition,SumTotals ability to automatically track certifications and manage the recertification processfor employees reduces the risk of non-compliance penalties/fines while minimizing theamount of administrative overhead required to manage these requirements.

Available Anytime, Anywhere: SumTotal Mobile provides powerful, next generationlearning through most major mobile devices giving consumer packaged goodscompanies increased access and flexibility in delivering learning programs. Withindustry leading features, such as support for multi-media and SCORM content, offlineaccess to content, course tracking and reporting, and multi-language support, SumTotalMobile truly provides customers anytime, anywhere access to their learning programs.

Robust Support for Matrix Relationships: SumTotals Strategic HCM solution providesout-of-the-box support for the often complex reporting relationships of that can exist withinconsumer packaged goods companies including support for matrix management.

Integrated Learning & Talent Capabilities: Because SumTotals solution is completelyintegrated across all learning and talent processes, organizations are able to take aholistic approach to their human resources programs. As a result, SumTotal providesorganizations better visibility into their talent pipeline, better ability to find talentinternally for specific projects, increased talent mobility to help retain high performers,and a more effective overall talent management strategy.

Critical Decision Making with Information: Consumer packaged goods companiesare very metric driven this includes key human capital metrics such as continuingeducation credits, charged hours, utilization, and process compliance. From providingtools to define, create and monitor these key metrics to working towards far-reachingstrategic decisions that increase revenue, SumTotals Strategic Workforce Analyticsproduct provides a complete set of analytical tools to help consumer packaged goodscompanies track their key metrics and make better informed decisions.
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Complete Workforce Management Capabilities

Control Workforce Costs: How can you account for every dollar spent on everyworkforce activity and then link those costs to projects, sales, or customers? WithSumTotals Workforce Management solution project-based organizations can easily trackall these variables as well as factor in different wages, premium pay, or partial shifts, whileensuring that bids for new business or contract renegotiations are profitable and accurate.

Increase Workforce Productivity: Incentive pay programs have been known tosignificantly increase productivity. Many businesses have their workforce managementdata in various applications but lack the information to execute. The SumTotalWorkforce Management solution is a centralized application that collects and transformsthis data into meaningful information and then applies work and pay rules to createaccurate, effective incentive pay plans. With SumTotal Workforce Management,

supervisors and managers can find, diagnose, and solve workforce-related problemsand incent behaviors that drive increased productivity with incentive pay programs. Inaddition, the software will identify actual time worked as well as nonproductive timeassociated with scheduled breaks, material delays, or any uncontrolled incidents.

Minimize Safety & Compliance Risk: Automatically track incidents, generatewarning letters, provide audit trails for actions taken, and have it all tied directly to anemployees record. With SumTotals Workforce Management solution, you can alsocapture and report on all hours worked, including hours of service rules, while settingalerts and reminders for when licenses are nearing expiration or recertification isrequired. Reduce the risk of compliance violations by correctly identifying and aligning

professionals with appropriate certifications, training, and licenses, and trackingadherence. SumTotals Workforce Management solution can help you have the rightpeople where and when you need them most.

Compliance with Bargaining Unit Work, Leave & Pay Rules: SumTotals fully-integrated, end-to-end solution removes the headache of trying to manually complywith complex work, leave and pay rules; along with the resultant grievances, fines, andemployee relations issues.

Complete Expense Management Capabilities

Increased visibility into expense spend: For many consumer packaged goods

companies employee expenses represent the second largest controllable expense behindpayroll. Yet, most organizations do not have good visibility into their overall businessexpense spending. Companies can access details on high level GL categories but willnot be able to get a full breakdown of who, what, where, when and why on spending.SumTotals Expense Management solution delivers full access to your detailed expensespending data. This allows you to identify spending trends and patterns, consolidate datafor merchant analysis and negotiation, view breakdowns of compliant and non-compliantexpenses and quickly adapt to opportunities and risks. This increased visibility will reduceyour overall spending while allowing more informed business decisions.



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About SumTotal // SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader of strategic HumanCapital Management (HCM) solutions that provide organizations with a new levelof visibility to help make more informed business decisions and accelerate growth.Recognized by industry analysts as the most complete solution, SumTotal providesfull employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, from a singleprovider for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizesand industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration,and deployment options. We have increased the performance of the worlds largestorganizations including Sony Electronics (NYSE: SNE), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR];London: AZN), Amway (KUL:AMWAY), Seagate (NYSE: STX), Dell (NASDAQ:DELL),and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG).

For more information, or to request a demo, please call +1 (866)768-6825 (US / Canada), +1 (352) 264-2800 (international) or visitwww.sumtotalsystems.com

SumTotal Strategic Human CapitalManagement Solution

SumTotal provides an end-to-end, strategic human capitalmanagement (HCM) software solution that enables better alignment of resources, rapid development of both internaland external audiences, improved cost containment, allwhile providing greater visibility to help organizations better manage their business. As a global leader in strategichuman capital management (HCM) with over 3,500customers and 45 million users, SumTotals solution,approach, and people enable organizations to grow their businesses by more effectively and efficiently managing

the entire employee lifecycle.SumTotal offers the most complete end-to-end solution,flexibility to match varying needs, and deep understanding

of customers business challenges. Whereas yesterdays HR technologies often resulted in isolatedsilos of workforce data across disparate systems, SumTotals complete platform connects all HR,workforce management, expense management and talent functions into a unified solution. By providinga single platform and user experience across all core human capital functions, organizations achieveunprecedented analytic visibility into their business, leading to improved decision making.

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