UPSHER-SMITH LABORATORIES

Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc is a rapidly growing pharmaceutical company that manufactures and markets both prescription and consumer products. Privately held since 1919, the company strives to recognize the unmet healthcare needs of our customers. Upsher-Smith prides itself in providing safe, effective and economical therapies to the ever-challenged healthcare environment. www.upsher-smith.com

Previous Business and System Challenges:

• ADP HR Perspectives was not feature-rich enough to support future growth plans
• Too many processes still manual or paper-based
• No employee or manager self service
• Weak reporting with ADP HR Perspectives

Why Workday?

• Software-as-a-Service model helps their busy IT department support an important software implementation
• Leading-edge underlying technology
• Support Workday’s vision and strategy for products—believed the company would be further along in 1-2 years with Workday than with a traditional vendor like Lawson, Oracle, or SAP
• Liked being one of “Dave’s First 50 Customers” so they could have influence on product direction and strategy
• Good synergy between the two companies—same values of integrity and innovation
• Usability and simplicity to roll out employee and manager self-service
• Ability to automate the manual and paper-based processes with Workday’s configurable workflow
• Better reporting with Workday delivered to the manager desktop