Schnitzer Steel, Inc. improves employee experiences with the Nintex Platform

Nintex Platform reduces process time and complexity

Those time-consuming and difficult questions became faster and easier to answer when the company discovered Nintex. Schnitzer Steel has given the Nintex treatment to processes from compliance to recycling management and point-of-sale (POS) notifications. Among the HR processes enhanced by the Nintex platform are employee onboarding, status changes, and performance reviews.
“Because Nintex gives us greater insight into workflow status, we are now able to proactively collaborate with business leaders, confirm expectations, and quickly circle back when changes are completed,” Buchanan says. “Nintex enables us to provide more impactful communications to our business leaders and HR partners.”

When David Dean, SharePoint/Office 365 Architect at Schnitzer Steel, needs to change the form, he can implement that change himself in a few days from dev/test to production, a lead-time reduction of two weeks.

“I’m saving 60 percent of my time on development and turnaround of changes,” he says.
Schnitzer Steel’s HR department also automated the performance review processes with Nintex Advanced Workflow for SharePoint. Dean, the SharePoint architect, developed the complex workflow in just three weeks, just 60 percent of the time it might have taken before Nintex. And that’s just a fraction of the total savings that the company gains from this Nintex workflow.

Buchanan estimates that managers save a total of 175 working hours by using Advanced Workflow for their performance review process. For HR business partners like himself, who review each form, it saves 25 hours—per business partner.

Buchanan expects to add 360-degree employee reviews—reviews of qualifications for stretch-assignments and promotions, goal setting, in addition to traditional merit pay increases—to the roster of Nintex HR workflows and Dean expects the company’s 11 Nintex workflows to more than double over the coming year.