Rooted in deep industrial traditions, GEA Group operates as a premier engineering firm focused on innovative food, beverage and pharmaceutical technology, all while championing its vision of “engineering for a better world”.
Standardising HR across 18,000 employees globally
As one the first customers in the DACH region to deploy Workday Human Capital Management, GEA since then went all in, building digital end-to-end HR processes across a global, multi-country workforce.
Workday helps us build the foundation in HR to have technology and innovation ready to use.
Esther Schürmann, Vice President, People Technology and AI, GEA
With Kainos Employee Document Management, GEA also gained a compliant, end-to-end document management system fully inside Workday – improving the employee experience and again standardising processes globally.
Because the solution is seamless, end users don’t even realise a separate product is at work.
With Kainos Employee Document Management, an end user won’t realise they’re working with something separate – it’s seamless.
Esther Schürmann, Vice President, People Technology and AI, GEA
Adopting innovation without the manual overhead
But managing a global workforce of 18,000 sometimes presents a significant hurdle for consistency, which limited GEA’s capacity to pursue transformative projects. Enter Kainos’ smart Built on Workday solutions.
GEA’s Workday team was spending significant time keeping the system compliant and running governance, risk and compliance processes. With Kainos Smart Test and Smart Audit, GEA automated its testing and security controls monitoring with immediate impact.
What used to take five weeks of UAT to bring new functionality live now takes just one. That means GEA can move faster on the bi-annual releases and new functionality that Workday delivers.
The result: GEA adopts new and innovative technology faster, getting innovative capabilities into the hands of employees sooner, without adding manual burden on the team.
Kainos and Workday help us tremendously when it comes to the digitalisation of our HR processes which is in line with our overall mission at GEA, “engineering for a better world”.
Esther Schürmann, Vice President, People Technology and AI, GEA
A trusted partner for innovation
Beyond the technology, GEA values collaboration. When a challenge arises without an obvious solution, the team can reach out to Kainos or Workday and get good advice on how to solve it.
Together, Kainos and Workday help GEA digitalise its processes and continually adapt and improve the system as end-user needs evolve – supported by a strong exchange around releases and new features.