32,000 Interstate Bakeries Employees Live on Kronos; Kronos helps Interstate Bakeries ``SOAR''.Business Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004 Kronos(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: KRON KRON Knowledge Representation Oriented Nets ) today announced that it has completed a successful upgrade to the Workforce Central(R) suite for the workforce of Interstate Bakeries Corporation Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) (Pink Sheets: IBCIQ) or Interstate Brands Corporation was the largest wholesale baker and distributor of fresh bakery products in the United States, and is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's (IBC IBC International Building Code IBC Iraq Body Count IBC Institutional Biosafety Committee IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer IBC International Business Company IBC Independence Blue Cross IBC Insurance Bureau of Canada IBC International Broadcasting Convention ), including approximately 32,000 employees on a single database. IBC is the largest wholesale baker and distributor of fresh baked bread and sweet goods in the U.S. As part of a larger initiative at IBC that includes, among other things, SAP payroll and HR, Kronos has standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. and centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. all employees on a single time and labor system. A Kronos customer for 14 years, IBC had formerly used Kronos products on a site-by-site basis. "I was very pleased with the way Kronos handled this assignment. We had to mitigate any risk of failure with this implementation in order to meet the testing timeframe for SAP. Kronos worked under intensive time constraints In law, time constraints are placed on certain actions and filings in the interest of speedy justice, and additionally to prevent the evasion of the ends of justice by waiting until a matter is moot. and extremely high expectations to complete this project on time. Kronos has given us a sound, solid platform to continue to improve how we manage our workforce." said Scott Way, vice president at Interstate Brands Corporation. The Kronos and SAP implementations are part of an initiative that IBC calls System Optimization And Reengineering (SOAR), which is focused on re-engineering IBC's business processes to increase efficiency; and on rationalizing IBC's investment in production, distribution, and administrative functionality to reduce the ongoing cost of supporting these infrastructures. The Kronos component of the initiative gives IBC a centralized, stable system to capture hours for employees in order to ease the SAP payroll set up and interface. "Kronos realized that IBC's success hinged upon meeting the fast installation of our solution in order to move forward with their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. implementation," said Charlie DeWitt, senior director of enterprise marketing at Kronos. "We aligned ourselves with their business goals and helped them move onto the next phase of their strategic business initiative within the timeframe they set for us. We are proud to have completed yet another enterprise implementation with speed and success. " About Kronos Incorporated Kronos Incorporated is a single-source provider of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , payroll, scheduling, and time and labor solutions. Kronos' best-in-class Employee Relationship Management solution enables organizations to reduce costs and increase productivity, put real-time information in the hands of decision makers, align employee performance with organizational objectives, and improve employee satisfaction. Learn more at www.kronos.com. (C) 2004 Kronos Incorporated. Kronos, Workforce Central and the Kronos logo are registered trademarks of Kronos Incorporated or a related company. All other product and company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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