Jason Nord, Director of People Services
Jasper is the nation’s largest remanufacturer of gas and diesel engines, transmissions, differentials, rear axle assemblies, air and fuel components, marine engines, sterndrives, performance engines, and electric motors.
Jasper was struggling with managing three significant challenges regarding its Dayforce implementation.
Seequelle provided a range of software implementation and systems integration services.
Jasper has been remanufacturing quality products since 1942, and today the company is the nation’s largest remanufacturer of gas and diesel engines, transmissions, differentials, rear axle assemblies, air and fuel components, marine engines, sterndrives, performance engines, and electric motors. Jasper’s more than 2,300 associates and 48 branch and distributor locations are committed to providing their customers with the perfect product.
Jasper faced a range of challenges with its Dayforce implementation. They had gaps in their general ledger output. Their safety incident reporting system was a manual process. Moreover, their benefits open enrollment forms needed to be available to employees both in English and in Spanish.
Regarding the general ledger, their Dayforce implementation was set up to export some of the metrics that Jasper needed in their financial system, but not all the necessary metrics. This created an information gap. Closing this gap required a lot of manual work to be performed by the accounting team in Excel. The file needed to be manipulated to make sure that all the pertinent information and attributes were represented.
Also, the safety incident reporting system was entirely manual. The problem was that there were lots of checkpoints that required paperwork to be shuffled from one person to the next. Not only was there lots of duplication of effort throughout the life cycle of a safety incident, paperwork often was lost, and the reporting process needed to be restarted from the beginning.
Finally, the benefits open enrollment process required forms to be in English and Spanish. This meant that Jasper was creating two versions of each piece of collateral, one being for the English-speaking employees and one being for the Spanish-speaking employees. This required double the maintenance effort.
To deal with all three of these challenges, Jasper needed a technology consultant that could handle a wide range of issues. They turned to Seequelle.
Jasper brought in Seequelle to handle all three of their challenges with Dayforce. Because Seequelle is well adept with various facets of the human capital management software deployment process, the team dove right in by first understanding Jasper’s requirements, then planning the implementation, and finally configuring the software.
Seequelle helped Jasper achieve the following results.
Closed general ledger implementation gaps
Seequelle took the time to understand what the end result needed to be and eliminated several manual steps. “As a result of the changes Seequelle made to Dayforce, we are saving time by not having to manipulate the files that our accounting system needs to get from Dayforce,” says Jason. “This smooth integration saves us time and reduces cost from our bottom line.”
Automated safety incident reporting
The Seequelle team automated the highly manual safety incident reporting workflow while adding the capability to attach images. “Consequently, we are no longer losing documents required by this workflow.” Not only are forms getting to the right person at the right time, Jasper’s safety administrators now have greater visibility into the safety incident report queues.
Benefits open enrollment support
Seequelle streamlined the process so that Jasper only needed to update the English-version form. Because the translations were now embedded in the form, and the system knows the language preference of the user, there is no longer a need to keep a Spanish version of the form updated.
Another beneficial result was that Seequelle reduced the amount of time to integrate new carrier feeds from 90 to 100 days down to just 35 days. This upgraded the process and improved service to employees.
Seequelle applied a broad spectrum of expertise to Jasper’s problems. “When we went live with Dayforce, their implementation team was able to get the system to meet our basic needs,” explains Jason. “However, Seequelle was able to dive in and better understand what we needed out of the system and make sure we got what we needed.”
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