Future Group modernizes Human Resource department with Infor's human capital management suite

Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced that Future Group, one of India's retail pioneers with multiple retail formats, has chosen Infor CloudSuite HCM, WFM, Payroll and Infor XM to optimize its talent management and acquisition function, catering to fast-growing HR demands within the company.

Headquartered in Mumbai and spread over stores in over 240 cities across India, Future Group employs more than 43,000 people directly and this number is growing. To help cope with an expanding business that will have to be even more responsive to an ever-growing number of new and existing employees, Future Group will roll out Infor's HCM suite comprising natively-developed functionalities and acquired applications for requirements such as new-hire on-boarding, off-boarding, employee rewards management, payroll, time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, compensation management, goal-setting, learning management, advanced pre-hiring assessment and elements of core HR.

In essence, Infor will provide Future Group with a broad toolset of beautiful, industry-specific applications with flexible deployment options that help fit their business and technology strategy from workforce management, to training and to talent science. The solution is expected to go-live in the next six months.

"Human Capital Management is an integral part of the organizational strategy, capable of driving better business performance by enabling the People Office function and employees alike. Our expectation is for a technology solution that will meet our workforce needs today and also adapt rapidly to future requirements. We believe that Infor's HCM solution can create this value for our organization," said Joint Managing Director Future Retail, Rakesh Biyani.

"We are excited to enable the HR function of one of the leading retail groups in India. We understand that in a dynamic and competitive consumer landscape, companies need to have a technology platform that is robust enough to help recruit, retain and advance the right team members. This should happen while simultaneously providing critical data that will help contribute to a well-rounded talent management strategy," said VP and MD South Asian Subcontinent Infor India, Ashish Dass.

Infor CloudSuite HCM is designed to offer a set of software solutions that can be deployed alone or in any combination to help optimize workforce and related HR processes to support the entire life cycle of the employee and includes Infor Global HR, Infor HR Service Delivery, Infor Talent Management, Infor Learning Management, Infor Talent Science and Infor Workforce Management.