Company-wide opportunities

• Replace aging, on-premises applications, data stores, and point-to-point integrations that differed across divisions and functions
• Reduce manual, disparate processes, freeing up more resources for insights and analytics
• Enable enhanced management/financial reporting and make it more widely available across the enterprise
• Act with greater speed and agility to capture value in operations and acquisition integrations 

Finance opportunities

• Redesign the chart of accounts to drive more valuable insights in a rapidly growing omnichannel business
• Process more than 60 million transactions per month with greater accuracy and efficiency
• Optimize reconciliations and transaction matching, freeing up valuable capacity for resolving anomalies
• Enable new finance and accounting analytics and insights across the business
• Migrate towards a continuous close
• Control rising finance function costs while deriving greater value and support for the organization

HR Opportunities

• Improve technical capabilities to keep pace with increased hiring needs
• Reduce dependence on IT and tech resources for supporting and enabling continuous compliance with more than 800 collective bargaining agreements
  
• Unify and automate workforce administration processes across the enterprise
• Eliminate the need for employees to learn new systems and interfaces as they move from recruitment to training to managing benefits
• Improve HCM’s ability to govern and make system improvements

• Reduce HCM tasks at store level by allowing employees to easily manage their own benefits via a mobile app.

Company-wide initiatives

• Replace aging, on-premises applications, data stores, and point-to-point integrations that differed across divisions and functions 

• Reduce manual, disparate processes, freeing up more resources for insights and analytics  

• Enable enhanced management/financial reporting and make it more widely available across the enterprise 

• Act with greater speed and agility to capture value in operations and acquisition integrations 

Finance initiatives

• Redesigned the chart of accounts, combining retail and corporate close, working to reduce the close period, and supporting enhanced reporting
• Redesigned the financial data model, implementing hub-and-spoke cloud integration across more than 90 interfaces with hundreds of sources
• Enhanced financial operational reporting through expanded self-service capabilities and embedded analytics leveraging Oracle
• Transactional Business Intelligence and Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning
• Empowered analyst capabilities with exception-based views and reduced the reliance on large data extracts
• Consolidated numerous business key performance indicator requirements with our Powered Dashboards, providing real-time metric visibility for AR, AP, and Procurement transactions
• Improved store-level inventory reporting with a fully automated calculation and results delivery process
• Designed workflow processes, including automated preparation and approval, supporting the integration of Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service as the global reconciliation and transaction-matching tool
• Consolidated and rationalized P&Ls across lines of business, reducing the total number from more than 100 to 4 (one each for retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, and distribution)

HR initiatives

• Deployed a custom application for union-rule processing, enabling a single HCM platform to administer benefits to all employee populations under more than 800 complex union agreements 

• Helped guide development of a platform able to support a 10 percent increase in hiring volume 

• Created a digital-first, digital anywhere experience resulting in higher employee engagement  

• Reduced new-hire onboarding time  

• Streamlined and improved the integration of new employees post acquisition 

• Helped integrate processes and technology across the employee lifecycle from recruiting through compensation and performance 

• Improved HCM’s ability to make continual system updates in response to changing needs via quarterly updates 

Company-wide vision

• Continue to enhance analytics-driven planning and forecasting 

• Optimize the supply chain 

Finance vision

• Achieve a continuous, virtual accounting close 

• Increase data mining insights and monetization

HR vision

• Establish a continual feedback-and-improvement loop based on quarterly HCM reports from the field and deployment of new capabilities

• Migrate payroll, benefits, and absence management to Oracle cloud for 2023

• Insource benefits administration