Case Study: Great Lakes Cheese achieves employee-first HR transformation with SAP SuccessFactors

Transforming HR to preserve an employee-first culture amid rapid growth

Great Lakes Cheese, the world’s largest packager of private-label cheese, needed to preserve its employee-first culture while managing rapid growth and a largely paper-based HR process. As the company expanded, it became harder to onboard, hire, and support employees in a way that reflected its values, and workers also struggled to access pay, benefits, and personal information. Great Lakes Cheese turned to SAP SuccessFactors to modernize HR and make services more accessible, especially for its deskless workforce.

SAP implemented a flexible, agile suite of SAP SuccessFactors solutions to unify HR processes, improve mobile access, and give employees more ownership of their information. The result was a streamlined HR environment that better supported onboarding, learning, profile updates, and benefits access while helping Great Lakes Cheese protect its culture during growth and equip teams to work more effectively.

Great Lakes Cheese

Brian Shellhorn

HRIS Manager