June 9, 2013
Nancy Mingus
Introduction
Kudler fine foods employees approximately 140 employees across three stores including administration staff (Apollo Group, 2010). The current human resources (HR) and payroll systems are under review to increase productivity, security of information, and employee access. A fully computerized, integrated system between the three stores will enable the current HR and payroll personnel to track better and store employee information, streamline timekeeping, track training, control manager access, and allow employees access to benefits and other information. Brenda Wagner, the current HR Director will monitor and control access to the various modules.
Current Human Resources/Payroll Systems Kudler fine Foods is outsourcing payroll through Intuit services as it integrates with the current Qouckbooks financial software. This payroll system is in-line with the current recommendation for the expanded POS system through Intuit. Changes or new employee payroll information is submitted to the accounting clerk who enters and verifies the information into the Intuit payroll system. The hard copies of tax forms are stored by the account clerk. Most of the human resources system is manual with forms stored in each individual store. Time keeping is also a manual process, including vacation and sick time requests, and tracked only by the store managers. Hiring is conducted by individual stores with assistance from the HR staff and applications and other forms are stored by the store manager in a locked cabinet. Workers compensation is handled by a third party vendor (Apollo Group, 2013).
Recommended Systems With the expansion of Kudler Fine Foods from one store to three with future store openings in the business plan, payroll, timekeeping, and HR systems must
