From Ceylon Tobacco Company's website:

Ceylon Tobacco Company Limited (CTC) is popularly recognized as one of the leading companies in Sri Lanka. It is the country s sole manufacturer of cigarettes and its dynamic approach to business has earned a prominent place amongst the nations highest performers.

Through many years of doing business in Sri Lanka, CTC has been successful in effectively fending off competition, resulting in a quasi monopoly situation. More than 90% of the country s Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) trade is involved with the sale of cigarettes.

CTC s success was based upon the fact that the organisation embarked on purposeful, deliberate and focused initiatives coincided with a new meaningful vision.

Every employee had to truly understand, believe and live the vision; walk the talk easy to say but in reality a daunting task. A well thought out effective communications package was put together to carry the message to every level of the organisation. All sections of the business, the unions in particular, were supportive and eager to understand the new strategy.

Training, development and effective internal communication greatly improved work practices in all areas of the business, from the farm to the retailer. This, coupled with a caring attitude towards the environment and safety, are some of the many factors that have led to success.

We have provided a total integrated solution (HRM, Payroll & Time Attendance) for CTC - Ceylon Tobacco Company (member of the British American Tobacco Group – UK) one of Sri Lanka’s prestigious manufacturing companies.
The total solution provides CTC with a host of features and functionality, including special security (authorized access control – Group wise, Employee wise & functionality wise), a powerful, value packed bi-lingual ESS (Employee Self Service) module which provides & processes employee information related to personal & census information, leave, loan, medical, fund, bonus, allowances & expenses (which provides history, entitlements, balances & applications for employee use) which drastically reduces the work load on the HR department, who otherwise have to refer bulk documentation to provide such information. The system facilitates to divert valuable time of resources to more strategic & productive work. Employees can instantly access their information securely & proceed with their day-to-day information requirements.

The payroll module processes the salaries of approx 650 employees of three categories - expatriate, executive &non-executive, having multiple & complex calculations on salaries, allowances & incentives. The system also processes bonuses for different time frames of monthly, quarterly & annual basis. The system is also integrated with the Time Attendance solution to capture & process attendance & attendance based incentives, location based user configurable incentives & allowances and also handles multiple shifts & roster scheduling. The HRIS system also generates a wealth of Management Information Reports for management & analysis purposes.

After evaluating many options including International software houses, we decided to select a local company with the right capabilities to partner us in this project
“Peter Hiltermann - CEO of Ceylon Tobacco Company”.