Venlo, 13 July 2021 – Office Depot Europe, known by their Viking Trademark, is today announcing it is transferring all its HR processes to Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). The European expert in workplace solutions decided to replace their current HR system by digitizing their complete hire to retire cycle, including Learning, Talent Management and Recruitment with Oracle HCM. In the future, all HR topics will be accessible via a central access point for employees, managers, and HR staff. The main drivers for the digital HR transformation at Office Depot Europe were cost efficiency and standardization.
Office Depot Europe
Office Depot Europe is a leading expert in workplace solutions, powered by talented people in multiple countries across Europe Office Depot Europe operates in multiple countries within Europe and is serving many customers. Working towards a standardized, scalable and automated future, it seemed to be a logical next step to build on its existing Oracle IT infrastructure with Oracle Cloud HCM.
By transitioning to Oracle’s HR cloud solution, employees will be able to handle personnel issues much more simply and easily. The new system’s user-friendliness is geared towards the expectations of a generation of employees whose everyday life is characterized by smartphone apps and digital services.
“At Office Depot Europe, we work hard to maintain our role as leading expert in workplace solutions for everyone, everywhere. HR serves as a vital element in our mission. Implementing a new comprehensive HR IT system is a logical part of our mission to digitize and further streamline our core HR and Finance processes. By migrating to Oracle Cloud HCM, we are laying the technological foundation for more efficient and more intuitive HR processes.”, says Sandra Vogels, Director Compensation and Benefits at Office Depot Europe.
One unified platform
Oracle Cloud HCM is part of the existing ERP environment of Office Depot Europe. Having both HCM and ERP within one platform and data model, takes away the need for expensive customized integrations. The implementation of Oracle Cloud HCM makes an important contribution to the IT strategy of Office Depot Europe, consolidating their IT infrastructure, standardization and saving costs.
One seamless employee experience
While Office Depot Europe enables their customers in creating great workplaces, Oracle Cloud HCM will enable them in fostering a seamless and consistent employee and user experience. This means employees will have the exact same user experience for HCM, as they are currently accustomed within their Oracle Finance solution and aligning with the future rollout of Oracle Cloud for Order management and Finance to the rest of EU7.
“We are delighted that Office Depot Europe has chosen our solution and is working with us to transfer a very important core process to a modern cloud environment, both for their HR and also Finance”, said Ruud Geensen, Sr. Sales Director HCM BeNeLux at Oracle. “With Oracle Cloud HCM, Office Depot Europe is ideally positioned for the future of the HR department.”