HR Process Improvements and Outsourcing

We were asked by a mid-szied technical company to review its HR Systems as part of responding to some audit items prior to their IPO.  We found they we running three HR applications, from two separate companies, using two different banks to process the payroll.  After doing a little research, we proposed a new solution that would leverage one outsource partner to provide a managed HRIS Application and process payroll in a single package.  The initial project schedule from the vendor was a nine week implementation.  By leveraging the lifecycle process and a little common sense, the implementation was completed in less than 4 weeks with no errors on the first production run.  The company saved over $1000/month in processing and was able to reduce the HR headcount 75% with no impact to the services provided.