Manufacturing

Balance Short-Term Costs with Long-Term Product Innovation

Increased global competition is squeezing cost structures. Manufacturing companies are adopting lean on-demand practices and supply chain operations. Many short term cost discussions start with the biggest line item—the workforce.

The Challenge | The Solution | The Results

The Challenge

However, long term success lies in the ability to quickly bring innovative and profitable products to market. The key for global manufacturers is to leverage their human capital practices to reduce cost and risk while maintaining their ability to bring innovative and profitable products to market quickly and efficiently.

Hiring and retaining the right people in research and development, sales and service, manufacturing, logistics, and marketing—while making sure they are assigned to the right projects—is critical to success.

The Solution

Manage Key Talent to Drive Innovation

Taleo has provided many of the world's largest manufacturing companies with the talent management tools they need to optimize their human capital investments. Taleo's integrated approach supports key retention programs and all types of talent acquisition, including hourly workers, salaried professionals, and contingent labor on a single platform. Our manufacturing clients reduce their overall cost structure, while finding and retaining the key talent required to drive first rate customer service and innovative product development.

Taleo for Manufacturing provides:

Agile, highly flexible process workflows so you can tailor your talent management processes to attract and retain the right type of talent from engineers to sales representatives.
Support for applying quality initiatives like Six Sigma, TQM, and ISO to enterprise talent management practices
A robust assessment platform to screen and assess all types of talent including call center employees, sales executives, or engineers.
Multiple candidate interface options to match any environment from online career sites to the factory lobby. You can use kiosks, staffing stations, digital pens or other tools to attract and capture the best candidates.
A contingent workforce solution to help you manage costs and track your administrative, IT or light industry contingent labor workforce.
Effective, easy to use tools to manage talent management of all hourly workers across your enterprise, from call center to distribution center.
Workforce mobility tools increase retention by providing immediate employee visibility into career opportunities within your organization.
Regulatory and diversity capabilities for managing regulatory compliance and supporting diversity hiring initiatives that foster innovation.
Proven integration with major HRIS/ERP systems including Oracle/PeopleSoft/J.D.Edwards and SAP along with many solutions for tax credits, background checking, and more.
Multiple language and currency capabilities with support for local talent management practices and regulations for global deployments.

The Results

No matter what you manufacture-electronic components, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, or chemicals-Taleo has made companies just like yours better able to reduce cost structures and more effectively deploy human capital across the enterprise and around the world. Many of the world's largest manufacturers have chosen Taleo for the flexibility, broad functionality, global capabilities, and ability to manage all types of enterprise talent.

Taleo for Manufacturing delivers results, including: