From 5 days to 3 hours:reworking payroll and HR operations for 5,000+ employees
VISCAP helped Cadila Pharmaceuticals move beyond a largely standard SAP SuccessFactors setup, reduce manual intervention across key HR processes, and streamline payroll processing through SAP HCM Payroll.
An HR environment creating operational rework
As Cadila’s HR requirements evolved, its existing SAP SuccessFactors environment required increasing manual intervention across several day-to-day processes.
The key business challenges
Manual HR processes. Leave, time and permission-related activities involved repeated handling, data corrections and rework.
Manual effortStandard configuration limitations. The existing setup did not fully support business requirements across leave, time management, permissions, reporting, payroll and connected processes.
Fit to businessMulti-day payroll processing. HR-to-payroll activities required significant operational effort, with payroll processing taking up to five days for a workforce of more than 5,000 employees.
PayrollThe SAP HR environment needed to work more closely around Cadila’s actual processes.
Reshaping the environment around how HR needed to operate
VISCAP approached the engagement across three connected transformation areas — each one slides over the last as you scroll.
Rework core HR processes
Leave, time, permissions, reporting and payroll-related processes were reviewed and adjusted around Cadila’s operating requirements.
The focus was to reduce repeated manual work and move beyond the limitations of the original standard setup.
Expand the SuccessFactors landscape
Additional capabilities implemented and enhanced across the employee lifecycle — beyond core HR processing into compensation, learning, development and onboarding.
Strengthen HR-to-payroll processing
VISCAP worked across the payroll journey from HR-side activities through SAP HCM Payroll, covering payroll processing and payment preparation for 5,000+ employees.
Rather than treating payroll as an isolated process, the engagement addressed the HR activities and data surrounding it.
Enablement was built into the transformation — Cadila’s SAP recruiters were trained to work with the updated SuccessFactors environment and newly implemented modules.
A connected business technology environment
The whole engagement on one thread — from the first leave request to every employee paid.
Business impact
The most visible result: payroll processing reduced from a multi-day cycle to approximately three hours.
Less manual rework
Processes around leave, time and permissions were reworked to reduce repeated manual handling.
Broader HR process coverage
Four additional SuccessFactors capability areas were implemented or enhanced across compensation, learning, employee development and onboarding.
Better user readiness
Recruiters were trained on the updated SuccessFactors environment and newly implemented capabilities.
More than a faster payroll cycle
Cadila moved from a largely standard SuccessFactors setup toward an SAP HR environment better aligned with its operating requirements — four moves, brought together within one transformation program.
Processes reworked around the business
Leave, time, permissions and employee data flows were redesigned to cut repeated manual handling — before any new technology was added.
A broader SuccessFactors footprint
Four capability areas — compensation, learning, career & talent development and onboarding — implemented or enhanced on the platform Cadila already ran.
Payroll on the same thread
SAP HCM Payroll and user enablement landed within the same program — payroll processing down from a five-day cycle to about three hours for 5,000+ employees.
An HR technology environment designed around how the business needed its processes to work.
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Payroll still taking days, or a SuccessFactors setup your HR team has outgrown? Speak with VISCAP’s HXM team about reshaping it around how you actually operate.