Stephen McCoy

So, Tyson Foods’ next Frontier is a transformational journey where Tyson Foods is transforming the way HR works, as well as expanding our Workday footprint to our global HR organization and team members.

Some of our biggest and key challenges throughout this journey has been truly understanding how every aspect of our business operates. Whether it is our domestic population, with each one of our locations operating in a different way. All the way to our International Footprints where each segment operates in a completely different manner. So, at the start of our project we had a lot of security challenges. We did a complete shift and moved to a location-based security model. It is allowed HR Partners to get better detail into the data that they need. It is allowed easier reporting and it's removed some of the burden of roll assignments from our people operations team.

We have made several enhancements some of the biggest key ones though have been for our Frontline team members they have to find jobs available to bid on at their locations. With the help of KPMG, we actually developed a solution that we called a bid board and that's where they simply just click a single link and it's going to display all open positions at their location.

KPMG actually has brought a lot of leading practices and solutions for us. They were able to take Tyson back to basics of the Workday out of the box solution. They have shown us the best ways of having business processes configured and the way it's intended to operate as a true business process. To any organization looking to expand globally or implement Workday globally, take your time, understand your business, understand your operating model, understand the local laws and regulations of the country or countries that you are looking to expand into, and then ultimately tailor your business processes to match that.

So, working with KPMG has actually been a very fun journey. They take the time to actually know the business, know the people. They get to understand your needs. They are just a part of the team and almost like part of a larger family.

Robin Rogers

We're a multinational, protein focused food company. We supply 20% of the beef, pork, and chicken to the United States. We have about 140,000 team members across the globe. And last year had 47 billion in sales. It's time for us to transform. We're never going to get that return on our investment unless we fully embrace digital transformation and a new way of working for Tyson.

We had deployed Workday in 2019 and it was quickly becoming apparent that we were not going to get our return on our investment. And we engaged a lot of consulting firms, and every single one of them came back and said, hey, you really need to think about your operating model. It's really never going to be impactful unless you can get people to use it.

So, it was really important that we had a partner that looked at this holistically, and KPMG was really the one that did that for us.

They really had the best experience and being able to not just deploy a system or take a system and optimize it for us but providing us with a path forward with our operating model. KPMG style of work has really been about bringing us together and KPMG was really the one that had us understand that moving from this very disparate HR model and moving it into an HR shared services model would really help us see the value and not just Workday, but all of our H.R. system landscape.

So, in the future, I think we've got a great path forward with rolling out Workday to some of our additional countries. It's also given our leaders an opportunity to see what investment and Workday really looks like. I think this has helped show them where we can be if we really invest in this product.