Los Angeles Dodgers Enlists Ultimate Software’s UltiPro to Help Resolve Complex Payroll, HR Challenges
April 12 2018 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of human
capital management (HCM) solutions in the cloud, announced today
that the Los Angeles Dodgers, a U.S. professional baseball team and
a member club of Major League Baseball, is using UltiPro to help
the organization achieve goals related to compliance, scaling
growth, and workforce intelligence.
The Los Angeles Dodgers organization oversees approximately
1,200 seasonal gameday staff who work in areas such as ticket
takers, ushers, security and merchandise sales and 375 full-time
employees, including scouts in 27 states. With a fluctuating and
traveling workforce, the organization must handle a number of HR
and payroll challenges, including managing multi-jurisdiction tax
withholdings for player salaries and its employees across the
country, and scaling its workforce at various times throughout the
year. The Dodgers sought an HCM solution that would deliver the
same advanced HR technology it saw other MLB teams using with
success. The organization selected UltiPro and went live in March
2016.
“Our industry is known for complicated HCM. For instance, when
players live in one jurisdiction and travel into different local
and state jurisdictions, payroll can get complicated and become a
real headache,” said Eric Hernandez, vice president of finance for
the Los Angeles Dodgers. “Prior to UltiPro, when our team visited
an unfamiliar jurisdiction, our Payroll department was responsible
for setting up a tax ID and filing with the right city, state,
county, or tax authority. We’re not specialists in every
jurisdiction, but Ultimate is. With UltiPro’s out-of-the-box
features for managing compliance, the technology provides guidance
on identifying the correct payroll tax rates—and applies any
updates—so we no longer need to contract with a third-party tax
service.”
According to Hernandez, UltiPro has not only simplified the
team’s payroll and helped ease compliance, but it has also improved
the seasonal hiring experience for everyone involved.
“Every year, we have to reactivate hundreds of part-time
employees in our system,” said Hernandez. “Prior to UltiPro, these
employees had to come into our facility, physically fill out paper
documents, and update their information as necessary. With
UltiPro’s functionality, the process will alleviate a lot of delays
and inefficiencies. All our hires are able to submit their
information online and make any adjustments directly in UltiPro. We
can also securely deliver orientation documents to new hires for
them to complete remotely, which makes the onboarding experience
more convenient for them, and faster for us.”
Once employees are in UltiPro upon hiring, their information is
immediately available for reporting and business intelligence. For
ever-evolving organizations like the Dodgers, analytics are
critical to decision making and forecasting.
“We have configured UltiPro to automatically distribute an
overtime report to our department heads—something that we used to
create and push out manually, and not always timely. Now, managers
have an opportunity to take action on projected overtime, and save
money for our organization,” said Hernandez. “UltiPro’s reporting
capability also helps me personally with my responsibilities in
finance, such as preparing year-end bonuses. With our previous
system, I found it difficult to pull the necessary information and
the data wasn’t always reliable. Now, it’s easy for me to access
the information I need and to create the files we use to generate
bonuses. I no longer need the expertise of our HR or Payroll
departments to provide reports or other information, and I am
confident I can produce the information quickly.”
“Ultimate is very proud to have many sports organizations as
customers, and we understand their personal and organizational
challenges,” said Chris Phenicie, chief sales officer, mid-market
and strategic, at Ultimate. “The Dodgers are a great partner,
and we are pleased that UltiPro is making life easier for their
employees and the HR/Payroll team.”
About Ultimate Software
Ultimate is a leading provider of cloud-based human capital
management solutions, with more than 37 million people records in
the Ultimate cloud. Ultimate’s award-winning UltiPro delivers HR,
payroll, talent, and time and labor management solutions that
connect people with the information they need to work more
effectively. Founded in 1990, Ultimate is headquartered in Weston,
Florida, and employs more than 4,200 professionals. In 2018,
Ultimate ranked #3 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For
list, its seventh consecutive year in the top 25, and #1 on
Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Technology list for the third year in
a row. In 2017, Ultimate ranked #7 on Forbes’ list of 100 Most
Innovative Growth Companies; #2 on People’s 50 Companies That Care
list; and the National Customer Service Association named Ultimate
Service Organization of the Year in the Large Business category.
Ultimate has more than 4,100 customers with employees in 160
countries, including Bloomin’ Brands, Culligan International,
Feeding America, Major League Baseball, Red Roof Inn, SUBWAY, Texas
Roadhouse, and Yamaha Corporation of America. More information on
Ultimate’s products and services for people management can be found
at www.ultimatesoftware.com.
UltiPro is a registered trademark of The Ultimate Software
Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of
their respective owner.
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