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Building a Successful Global Payroll RFP: Part 1- Creating an Internal RFP Strategy

For multinational organizations, moving from a decentralized vendor landscape to a true global payroll solution involves multiple steps. Before a company can implement a new solution and onboard its Payroll team, it needs to build a business case, win internal buy-in, prospect potential vendors, and finalize an agreement with its […]

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5 Best Practices for Successful Integration

Investing in an automated enterprise solution is a big decision, one that can impact aspects of your operations well beyond its immediate function. A global payroll solution, for example, can affect processes in HR, Finance, IT and even Sales. As you consider your options, it becomes clear that a key

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Understanding Payroll Maturity: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?

In conversation, payroll practitioners may describe their companies’ global payroll operations using many different terms – ranging from inefficient and error-prone all the way to streamlined and data-driven. Those descriptors are more than just adjectives. They’re clues into the features, form, flaws, and overall “maturity” of an organization’s global payroll

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Eliminating the Gray Spaces Between HR & Payroll

Human resources (HR) and payroll each play key roles in the employer-employee relationship. For either department to run smoothly, there must be collaboration between the two. At a macro level, however, the relationship between HR and payroll can be fraught with challenges. The disconnect between the two functions is well-known,

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Split the Difference: Understanding Double Taxation Agreements

Understanding Double Taxation Agreements: Monitoring the traffic of business visitors from abroad is increasingly becoming a requirement for Payroll & HR departments. Regardless of whether visitors are coming on short- or long-term secondments or are frequently visiting another country for a few days at a time, stakeholders must give due

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3 Practical Ways Validation Rules Improve Data Integrity & Outcomes in Payroll

As an extremely high-volume business function, global payroll is an area of the enterprise where delays, corrections, and reprocessing incidents are all too common. The typical source of most processing problems: incorrect, incomplete, or mismanaged payroll data. The fact that data issues lead to payroll errors is no revelation: Payroll

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How Should a Shared Service Center & Global Payroll Solution Work Together?

Since their emergence in the early 1990s, many multinational companies have utilized shared service centers (SSCs) as part of their global operations. It’s easy to see why: As organizations grow through acquisitions or expand into new markets, shifting certain administrative functions to the shared services model can help them control

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Evaluating Global Payroll: Not All Solutions Are Created Equally

Due to a wealth of well-documented benefits, switching to a unified, integrated global payroll platform is a highly compelling proposition for many international businesses. Choosing the right technology vendor or outsourcing provider for the job, however, can be challenging. The main point to bear in mind before undertaking the vendor

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7 Signs That Organizations Need To Improve Their Payroll Shared Service Centers

Around the globe, shared service centers (SSCs) are evolving, expanding, and delivering greater significance to multinational companies. Whereas the SSCs of yesteryear were typically implemented as a cost-cutting measure, driven by the potential financial gains of labor arbitrage, today’s shared service centers are carving a new niche as drivers of

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The 7 Hidden Costs of Decentralized Global Payroll

The million-dollar question for many companies considering integrated global payroll is whether this strategy will create clear savings. In some cases, organizations have reduced costs by as much as 30%; for others, the business case has proved far more underwhelming. Upon closer consideration, however, the economics of utilizing a single

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