Case Study: Kennametal achieves faster, more agile HR and better talent insight with SAP SuccessFactors

Kennametal Building Competitive Advantage and Brand Awareness with SAP SuccessFactors Solutions

Kennametal, a global industrial-technology leader, faced a fragmented, on-premise HR landscape that limited agility, made talent identification and succession planning manual and slow, and hindered mobile and centralized HR services. To address these challenges the company turned to SAP SuccessFactors solutions, seeking a flexible cloud-based core HR system and integrated talent-management tools.

SAP SuccessFactors implemented Employee Central (decoupling payroll and outsourcing it in four key countries) and rolled out Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation and Workforce Analytics—going live in more than 40 countries in seven months. The deployment delivered measurable benefits: 50% faster annual variable-pay adjustments, streamlined recruiting, improved ability to identify internal talent and track attrition, diversity and headcount, and greater organizational agility and user ease thanks to SAP SuccessFactors’ cloud solutions.

Kennametal

Andreas Bäuerlein

Supervisor of Global Human Resources Information Systems