Spicing up the food industry, from field to fork

Performance Management System built with Microsoft Power Platform 

7 April 2022 | Noor Khan

Performance Management System built with Microsoft Power Platform

Key Challenges

In the bid to streamline HR processes and improve employee engagement, our client required an all in one onboarding and performance management system.

Key Details

Service

Software Development

Technology

Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, AAD, SQL, SharePoint

Industry

Food

Sector

Retail, Wholesale

Key results

  • Automating onboarding process
  • Streamlined HR operations to increase efficiency
  • Overview of data to gain actionable insights
  • Increase in engagement with employees

The food supplier of choice to the UK client and beyond

Our client is a well-established food manufacturing company that has been running for over five decades. Based in the UK, the company supplies to several food manufacturing and food services companies in the UK as well as internationally.

Need for an HR onboarding system

Working with the technology of choice

The client required an HR onboarding and performance management system built using the Microsoft Power Platform. They wanted to be able to streamline their HR processes from recruitment to onboarding to improve efficiency. At Ardent, we make technology recommendations, however, our client specifically required the software system to be built using the powerful tools offered by Microsoft as part of the Power Platform.

Performance Management System built wit Microsoft Power Platform

An intelligent performance management system to automate HR processes

Enhancing employee experience

Ardent provided a streamlined onboarding process by automating the new starter communication to measure onboarding success with an intelligent performance management system. Surveys can be set and sent at regular intervals to gain consistent feedback, helping ensure new hires are fully engaged. Beyond onboarding, Power Platform has been used across the entire HR function to drive efficiencies including leave requests requiring workflow and approvals by managers. With Power Platform request forms are sent, captured, and tracked from any web-enabled device. Power BI is used to spot trends for benchmarking and management reporting, providing managers with a single source of truth.

As part of the performance management, all employees can view their assigned objectives and actions which can be updated. The employee can request new training, which is routed to the managers for review and approval. Dashboards are provided for the HR management to view team or member-based insights using the Power BI platform.

Performance Management System built with Microsoft Power Platform

Significant improvements in efficiency with streamlined HR processes

Improved communication and happier employees

Our client experienced a significant improvement in efficiency as they were able to save time and resources and increase productivity. They were also able to provide a better communication process for their employees through the new HR system.

Ardent Software Development leveraging the Power Platform

At Ardent we have worked with the Power Platform to deliver a number of powerful solutions to our clients. We use Power BI to unlock insights and intelligence, Power Apps to convert that intelligence into action through transformative applications built quickly and Power Automate to make business process orchestration an easy point-and-click exercise.

If you are looking to leverage Microsoft’s Power Platform technologies for your next project, get in touch and our highly skilled engineers will be on hand to help.

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