Plano, TX - 6/29/2009

AspireHR Completes Phase 1 SAP HR Initiative for Shire Pharmaceuticals

Plano, TX (June 29, 2009) – AspireHR, an SAP HR software, consulting, and SaaS company, is proud to announce the successful Go-Live of Phase 1 of their SAP HR initiative at Shire Pharmaceuticals.

With more than 3,500 employees worldwide and approximately 70% located in the U.S., Shire is a global specialty biopharmaceutical company with operations in more than 25 countries. Despite being one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies, Shire was challenged by the rate at which the company was out growing its human resource technologies, undocumented internal HR processes, divergent business “best practices,” and an HR budget that exceeded expectations. Phase 1 of the initiative was customized to lower costs and increase efficiency by unifying the HR processes into a single solution that maximized efficiencies and eliminated rework while standardizing global business processes.

A team of 12 AspireHR consultants partnered with a team from Shire to implement SAP HR solutions including Organizational Management and Personal Administration modules, and paved the path for future phases of implementing ESS/MSS. These united modules achieved the desired end result that allows Shire to increase efficiency by removing dependency on outside consultants, creating a single method of data entry, and leveraging the global template thereby saving time, effort, and cost to streamline Shire’s HR and business processes on a global scale.

This Go-Live is the culmination of an eight month effort that combined the requirements, information, and knowledge transfer for 26 countries where Shire has operations. The new system converted 300,000+ pieces of historical legacy data. When asked what made her most proud of the project, Winnie Chu, Project Oversight and partner at AspireHR, said, “Within a very short time span, we completed 7 rounds of conversion tests, 3 rounds of parallel tests, and 97 business scenario tests that yielded zero errors, making the information look as if it had always been in the SAP HR system.”

An innovator in the area of software solutions for SAP HR technology, AspireHR used its proprietary HR DataExchange and Payroll LaunchSuite to save the initiative hundreds of man hours of data manipulation, providing Shire significant time and financial savings. HR DataExchange addressed the challenge of converting massive amounts of data while Payroll LaunchSuite allowed for the cloning of data across systems within minutes, accelerating the testing and training process.