ROSELAND, N.J., June 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- ADP®, a leading global provider of Human Capital
Management (HCM) solutions, today announced that Southwest
Foodservice Excellence (SFE) – a company that has grown from four
employees a decade ago to more than 2,100 today – has chosen ADP
for an integrated HCM solution based on ADP Vantage
HCM®.
SFE, which started providing nutritional food service in a
single school cafeteria in Arizona
and today operates in schools across eight states in the United States, has succeeded by focusing
on the nutritional needs of children in grades K-12.
"We consider it an honor, as well as our duty, to instill
healthy habits that will properly nourish students today and help
them develop a healthy lifestyle that will benefit them for years
to come," said SFE Co-Founder Donald
Gala. "Just as we focus on the health of
schoolchildren, we need to ensure we also focus on the well-being
of our employees who interact with thousands of children, teachers
and administrators."
Gala said SFE needed technology and expertise to help it manage
its growing team of people, and give them tools to help enable them
to manage their own HR information.
"Two things drove our original decision to use ADP and its ADP
Vantage HCM solution," said Gala.
"First, there was a definite lack of client service and
commitment from our prior vendor, which was frustrating for
everybody," he said. "Second, as we grew our business over
the years, we had not automated a lot of our processes nor kept up
with the hiring needs various departments had. We've
experienced such phenomenal growth that we needed to automate
things to facilitate our future growth."
"Southwest Foodservice Excellence is on the leading edge of
bringing nutrition to millions of schoolchildren. The
company's growth is a testament to its ongoing success," said
Mark Benjamin, President of Global
Enterprise Solutions at ADP. "We're proud that they are
counting on ADP to help them care as much for their employees as
SFE employees care for the guests they serve every day."
Kristi Perrine, Director of
Accounting and Administrative Services who leads a five-person team
at SFE, said not having the prior vendor deliver the level of
service she knew they needed – additive to the technology – was
hindering their drive for efficiency.
"Given the nature of our business, we constantly need to add
people quickly when we are awarded new contracts," said
Perrine. "But when we called for help, it was a daily
struggle in working with the prior vendor because there was no
commitment to service. So the technology never really worked
the way we were promised that it would."
Perrine said the company did its homework, and invited as many
as half a dozen companies with whom they shared SFE's business
challenges and then evaluated potential solutions.
"Many of them had nothing that was really that novel," said
Perrine. "We were looking for a business partner to help not
only with our immediate needs, but also one that shared our vision
and was willing to support our growth into the future. I
always appreciated the level of service a colleague told me she
received in the past from ADP and its ADP Workforce Now®
solution for midsized businesses. I realized the only partner
who could effectively help us today and as we grew was ADP."
Today, SFE leverages the ADP Vantage HCM platform for
recruiting, onboarding, HR, benefits, payroll, COBRA administration
and document management. In the near future, SFE will
implement ADP Vantage HCM's time and attendance features, which
will contribute to accurate paychecks and long-term cost savings,
and ACA support.
In the meantime, SFE's management team stays as committed to its
product as it does to efficiently engaging its employees.
"When we go to a school for a meeting with administrators and
our staff, we have our SFE school chefs cater to us as well,"
Perrine said. "I try hard to be a vegetarian and it's
fantastic!"
Perrine went on to address the long-term advantages that ADP
will be delivering to help SFE continue to succeed.
"Working with ADP will enable us to automate many things, which
will let our small, but impactful HR team focus on providing
strategic value to the business, not doing transactional tasks at
which ADP is expert," she said. "Paid time off is a good
example. We don't have that automated today, so when we look
at automating that – along with open enrollment, onboarding,
electronic i9 and cloud storage systems for documents – we feel
like we're coming into the 21st century."
About ADP
With more than $11
billion in revenues and more than 60 years of experience,
ADP® (NASDAQ: ADP) serves approximately 620,000 clients
in more than 125 countries. As one of the world's largest
providers of business outsourcing and Human Capital Management
solutions, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll,
talent management, tax and benefits administration solutions from a
single source, and helps clients comply with regulatory and
legislative changes, such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
ADP's easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to
companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading
provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck,
motorcycle, marine, recreational vehicle, and heavy equipment
dealers throughout the world. For more information about ADP,
visit the company's Web site at www.adp.com.
About Southwest Foodservice Excellence
Southwest
Foodservice Excellence LLC is committed to enhancing students'
quality of life through fresh and wholesome food, a strong focus on
nutrition and unparalleled customer service. It is equally
committed to becoming its clients' food service partner of choice
by building personalized, long-lasting relationships within the
school districts and communities it serves. Southwest
Foodservice Excellence may be reached at info@mysfellc.org or
480.551.6550. For more information about Southwest
Foodservice Excellence, visit the company's Web site at
www.sfellc.org.
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property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2014 ADP,
Inc.
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