McKee Foods is a privately held, family-run company with a history of innovation and a deeply held belief in the importance of doing business with integrity. McKee Foods, headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee, is best known for its line of Little Debbie® snack cakes and Sunbelt® products. Little Debbie® is America's leading snack cake brand in unit sales. McKee Foods has nearly 7,000 employees in the U.S. and Canada, and annual sales in excess of $1 billion. www.mckeefoods.com

Previous Business and System Challenges

• Legacy ERP system too costly to maintain and customize
• Wanted greater emphasis on self-service functionality and usability

Why Workday?

• Confidence in Workday's management, product vision, and business philosophy
• Wanted new direction, fresh approach to technology
• Opportunity to advocate for a new business computing paradigm and translate the resulting benefits into a leadership position in the company
• Integration capabilities
• Security, auditing, and actionable reporting capabilities
• Configurability
• Total cost of ownership
• Positive feedback from end user community during evaluation period
• Opportunity to partner on co-development efforts as the first user of Workday Payroll Software