Travis Perkins
Our capabilities
Travis Perkins benefited from our capabilities in these areas:
Our Solutions
Find out more about the specific solutions we implemented:
Travis Perkins is a leading supplier to the UK building and construction industry, with a long-standing and trusted reputation that dates back over 200 years.
Operating from more than 1,000 branches, with over 120,000 product lines, it is easy to see why Travis Perkins is considered the supplier of choice for most trade professionals and self-builders. The company has recently been designated as a ‘Business Superbrand’ in recognition of their status in business-to-business trading.
Risk Reduction KnowHow
A common problem faced by many companies who come to Ceridian is how to retain the business information built up by individual employees. Often, little focus is placed on capturing this information, and the departure of one particular employee could be a point of failure.
Travis Perkins had already identified a single point for payroll information within the team. Having recently acquired the Wickes organisation, they equally faced challenges integrating different procedures used at Wickes into its overall business processes.
Sara Davies, Group Head of Reward, worked alongside Ceridian to facilitate the process and document the re-engineering project. Ceridian was chosen thanks to its KnowHow in delivering projects and reducing risk for its customers.
Supporting Change KnowHow
As Travis Perkins was undergoing a period of change, Ceridian provided a detailed framework of what the project would involve, documenting all existing processes and identifying potential improvements.
The initial phase was one of understanding – how well were processes working? Ceridian consultants interviewed all key payroll and payroll-related employees, including members of IT and Pensions departments, giving them insight into all payroll procedures and related transactional HR processes.
When the existing Group Payroll Manager left the business, all her knowledge had been captured and documented in time for the induction of the new Group Payroll Manager.
A series of workshops were run as a knowledge-sharing exercise for the new Manager along with her colleagues to ensure that knowledge was transferred, and that the integration of new payrolls into the business would be seamless.
