Clothing firm buys tailored HR and payroll solution

Suits and shirts firm T.M. Lewin has invested in a single platform to support its talent management, workforce planning, HR and payroll solutions.

The company has signed a five-year contract with MidlandHR, a provider of human resource management software and services, for the use of its iTrent solution. ITrent, is an integrated HR and payroll solution and can be tailored to each organisation.

The solution is being implemented in a phased approach with HR and payroll having gone live at the end of 2010. It will be followed by two more implementations – manager and employee self-service – which will be pushed out to all UK stores over the next one to two years.

"ITrent's fully integrated system enables efficiencies by eradicating duplicate tasks and supporting distributed working arrangements. It is also expected to deliver the improved decision making that accessible personal information typically allows," said Kevin Blumenthal, head of finance at T.M. Lewin.

"Our chosen solution needed to be user friendly and robust as the second phase of implementation entails deployment in over 90 UK stores. This devolvement of responsibility away from head office and toward manager and employee self-service will ensure local management assumes responsibility for their own staff and the maintenance of their respective personal information."