Case Study: Productos Metalúrgicos S.A. (PROMESA) achieves 80% faster performance evaluations and automated bonus calculations with SAP SuccessFactors

PROMESA Automatically aligning goals and metrics to create a performance culture

Productos Metalúrgicos S.A. (PROMESA), a leading Ecuadorian manufacturer and distributor of automotive and hardware parts, needed to modernize HR to support a new B2C strategy and improve employee engagement. PROMESA faced paper-based, 90-degree reviews and slow, manual variable-pay calculations that could take three to four months. Working with Seidor Ecuador, PROMESA chose SAP SuccessFactors—deploying the SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite and the SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals solution integrated with SAP S/4HANA—to digitalize and standardize talent management.

By implementing SAP SuccessFactors integrated with SAP S/4HANA, PROMESA automated performance appraisals and linked evaluation results to finance, enabling forward-looking, 360-degree reviews and real-time visibility into bonus costs. The change cut the performance and goals evaluation cycle from about three months to two weeks (>80% faster), planned to eliminate manual variable-pay calculations (100% planned elimination), boosted employee engagement, and freed HR to focus on strategic initiatives. SAP SuccessFactors delivered the connected talent-management foundation PROMESA needed for growth.

Productos Metalúrgicos S.A. (Promesa)

Miguel Sotomayor

Technology Manager