Labour Force SA - a fast-growing provider of outsourced staffing, industrial relations and payroll services - has implemented the People Payroll & HRIS solution from Sage VIP, a division of Sage HR & Payroll to take charge of its payroll processing environment. The solution gives the company the ability to streamline its payroll processes so that it can, in turn, deliver a superior level of service to its clients.

The People Payroll & HRIS solution is designed to meet the needs of companies that have complex payroll requirements yet don’t want to make heavy investments into customising or custom-building applications. Labour Force decided to implement the solution to address one of its long-standing challenges - the need to do accurate and timely job costing for client engagements.

The People Payroll & HRIS solution features a universal calculation engine spanning features such as calculating medical aid deductions and printing detailed reports to generating complex job-costing calculations. The Job Costing module, meanwhile, makes it easy and quick to allocate labour costs to projects and different departments.

Says Sandra van der Merwe, Payroll Manager at Labour Force SA: “As our business has grown over the years, job costing has become an increasingly time-consuming and challenging process. The People Payroll & HRIS solution from Sage VIP offered us an ideal way to simplify job costing, while also offering us a scalable and reliable payroll platform that can handle our payroll processing volumes.”

The rollout of the solution was quick, and the team from Sage VIP showed a strong understanding of Labour Force SA’s business needs, she adds. “We were live and running in no time,” says Van der Merwe. “The support and training we received was excellent. Now, we have a user-friendly system in place that gives us easy access to reports for job costing and other facets of the business.”

Other benefits of the solution include access to historical reports and payslips, simpler and faster data capture, and client reports. “The transparent and precise job costing information we can now provide to our clients means higher levels of client satisfaction - a benefit that is as important to us as the internal efficiencies we have achieved,” says Van der Merwe.

“Our aim is to help companies like Labour Force to easily comply with the country’s tax requirements and stay on top of their payroll so that they can focus on their core business,” says Anton van Heerden, Managing Director of Sage HR & Payroll. “An automated payroll environment lets them do what they do best rather than spending time on manual processes or wrestling with legacy software.”