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How Favorite Gifts is now using AFAS Insite and Profit internationally.
Favorite Gifts has been helping clients with promotional items for more than 50 years. It is a successful international family business with its headquarters in the Netherlands. There are also branches in six different countries.
In 2018, Favorite Gifts decided to choose AFAS Profit as its new system for payroll and HR. Before the implementation, both departments attended courses at AFAS to gain knowledge about the system. By the end of 2018, the implementation was ready and several months of shadow running was completed. In January, Favorite Gifts went live with AFAS in seven countries.
A consultant from Salure came by to review together what needed to be set up. Because the HR staff as the payroll administrators at Favorite Gifts were already familiar with the system, they knew what options were available. Then all the processes were figured out and implemented in the system. There are separate teams at Favorite Gifts for payroll and HR, so Salure also used two consultants to do the implementation.
After implementing the system, Favorite Gifts decided to enter into a functional management contract with Salure. They employ their own HR staff and payroll administrators. Still, they like being able to fall back on Salure with questions. A consultant also visits every now and then to maintain things and share knowledge about new functionalities.
- Set aside about a year from decision to implementation so you can think everything out;
- Map out your requirements well in advance and take some AFAS courses;
- Get good advice from a partner who has experience with it;
- Take time to turn shade;
- Don’t adopt all current processes, but try to work more efficiently with the new system.
Favorite Gifts about Salure:
“Salure’s consultants advised us well in setting up AFAS Profit and InSite in 7 different countries. Because of Salure’s experience with international implementation of AFAS, we were able to make the right choices. Once you are live, you have more and more wishes. That’s why we have a contract with functional management and a consultant visits regularly to help us maintain our knowledge and systems.”
Stefan Heggen
Employee Finance at Favorite Gifts
