Solit's Automated Resource Management System (ARMS) division has released its first product - an online real-time payroll, personnel administration and human resources (HR) enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Solit hopes to fill the gaps in current ERP offerings resulting from country-to-country HR and payroll requirement differences.
The pilot site in SA - Northern Platinum Mines - caters for 5 000 employees, and the system went live before the product was launched. The product is also in use in the heavy industry, government and bureau vertical sectors in the Middle East, proving the product's multilingual capabilities.
The payroll component is continually audited to ensure compliance with the appropriate country's tax laws, and the system facilitates salary package structuring, accommodating the company's compensations policies and grading systems. The payment can take many forms, including wages, salaries, productivity bonuses and package-based remuneration.
A budgeting module allows managers to record budgeted, actual and forecast staff costs and find trends in staff expenditure. Any changes are immediately validated against budget figures, warning when budgets are exceeded.
A "What-If" facility allows managers to create scenarios and view the financial effects. Solit hopes this will help managers assess the long-term effects of wage negotiations and salary increases.
HR can track attendance through third-party time and attendance systems, while a leave administration module monitors all forms of leave and highlights leave abuse.
The server-side system runs on IIS on a MS-SQL 7 or Oracle 8 database, while the client can use Microsoft's IE5 Web browser. This enables the system to be accessed remotely through the Internet or intranet.
The system integrates with Solit's NESSI application, which allows users to self-administer their HR details, which then work through a company workflow until details are correctly validated. Other NESSI features include user payslip delivery and imaging for HR to keep copies of photographs, certificates and other documents without having to physically file them.
Solit sees the system integrating with existing ERP packages. It is a Lawson reseller, so it is likely that we will soon see a Lawson ERP offering with the ARMS HR component replacing Lawson HR.
UPDATE: Solit has responded to this article, saying the ARMS component will not replace but compliment the Lawson packages.
"Solit sees the system integrating with existing ERP packages. It is possible that we will soon see a Lawson ERP offering with the ARMS Payroll component, complimenting Lawson HR," the company says.
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