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Brenntag improves transparency for employee recognition & rewards with the Empuls app on AWS
Brenntag digitized its employee recognition and rewards program by adopting Empuls' SaaS solution on AWS to eliminate manual tasks using workflows to automate recognition and rewards and make it easy for employees to understand recognition criteria, resulting in high transparency and employee adoption.
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"HR and employees highly benefited since implementing Empuls as it has every reward and recognition option possible, helping us drive complete transparency. As the platform is interactive and interesting, employees visit and use it often thereby increasing adoption rates. When an employee gets recognised even for the smallest achievements, everyone gets to know– which is the best way to recognise people."
1000+
Global Empuls customers
2500+
People leaders trust Empuls
65%
Reduced HR and admin effort
80%
Reduced HR and Admins Effort
100%
On-time reward distribution
3x
Increase in Employee Recognition
About the company
Brenntag is a Germany-based global market leader in chemical distribution. They simplify market access to thousands of products and services by managing complex supply chains for chemical manufacturers and consumers. Brenntag operates from more than 600 locations across 72 countries, and employes more than 17,700 people worldwide.
Location:
APAC
Use case:
R&R
Features used:
Recognition, Rewards & Social Intranet
Opportunity | Elevating Brenntag's rewards program
Brenntag is a global chemical manufacturing and distribution market leader, operating from over 600 sites in 72 countries. They firmly believe that their 17,700+ employees are their greatest asset and are committed to providing an exceptional work environment where employees can thrive.
Brenntag's employee rewards program is a critical part of the workplace experience, and it includes performance and milestone awards tied to rewards. Engagement activities include birthday celebrations, team-building activities, Bring-Your-Kids-to-Work days, and CSR activities. Rewards for awards and activities were bank gift cards, which were manually procured, distributed, and tracked by the HR team.
An assessment of the rewards program uncovered that employees were dissatisfied with the lack of transparency, limited visibility for recognitions, and unexciting reward choices. The HR team wasted time on manual tasks such as managing multiple reward programs and negotiating with numerous vendors for reward procurement and distribution, hampering accurate budgeting and reporting.
Solution | Boosting HR efficiency
Brenntag explored multiple solutions before zeroing in on Empuls, an AWS Partner, for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) employee engagement and rewards platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This cloud-native application offers solutions for recognition, rewards, perks & benefits, surveys, and social intranet with community groups. Nidhi explains, "Empuls stood out for its intuitive and stellar user experience, AI-led approach to engagement, and professional services expertise spanning program design to adoption and everything in between, giving us the confidence to choose Empuls over others."
Built on a scalable microservices architecture, the platform utilizes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage and scale Kubernetes control plane nodes. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances support the application's MySQL databases (Amazon RDS), while Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) optimizes performance by distributing incoming requests across various application services. Furthermore, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) serves as a reliable high-availability data store.
Since adopting Empuls, Brenntag has leveraged workflow automation for multiple types of recognition and rewards, including awards and milestones. Additionally, employees can stay connected and cheer colleagues being recognized or celebrating milestones through a user-friendly web and mobile app, amplifying visibility. For HR staff, this has led to 80 per cent less time spent on administrative tasks and 100 per cent on-time reward distribution, saving time and resources.
The high configurability and customizability of Empuls' R&R solution on AWS helped drive 92 per cent adoption and three times more social recognition by Brenntag employees in just six months. The HR team has real-time visibility, with reports and dashboards, into program adoption, budget utilization, and reward redemption, providing detailed insights into the effectiveness of Brenntag's reward program.
Outcome | Motivating employees with a modern rewards solution
Utilizing workflow automation coupled with AI prompts and nudges within the R&R module, Brenntag empowers HR and People Managers to promote a culture of transparency, appreciation, and employee engagement. Brenntag benefits from Empuls' Professional Services team, which unearths and shares valuable insights for making critical adjustments to ensure the continued success of the reward program and ROI from the platform. With our support, Brenntag can optimize its rewards program to meet its employees' evolving needs and preferences.
Brenntag improves transparency for employee recognition & rewards with the Empuls app on AWS
Brenntag digitized its employee recognition and rewards program by adopting Empuls' SaaS solution on AWS to eliminate manual tasks using workflows to automate recognition and rewards and make it easy for employees to understand recognition criteria, resulting in high transparency and employee adoption.
1000+
Global Empuls customers
2500+
People leaders trust Empuls
65%
Reduced HR and admin effort
About the company
Brenntag is a Germany-based global market leader in chemical distribution. They simplify market access to thousands of products and services by managing complex supply chains for chemical manufacturers and consumers. Brenntag operates from more than 600 locations across 72 countries, and employes more than 17,700 people worldwide.
Location:
APAC
Use case:
R&R
Features used:
Recognition, Rewards & Social Intranet
Opportunity | Elevating Brenntag's rewards program
Brenntag is a global chemical manufacturing and distribution market leader, operating from over 600 sites in 72 countries. They firmly believe that their 17,700+ employees are their greatest asset and are committed to providing an exceptional work environment where employees can thrive.
Brenntag's employee rewards program is a critical part of the workplace experience, and it includes performance and milestone awards tied to rewards. Engagement activities include birthday celebrations, team-building activities, Bring-Your-Kids-to-Work days, and CSR activities. Rewards for awards and activities were bank gift cards, which were manually procured, distributed, and tracked by the HR team.
An assessment of the rewards program uncovered that employees were dissatisfied with the lack of transparency, limited visibility for recognitions, and unexciting reward choices. The HR team wasted time on manual tasks such as managing multiple reward programs and negotiating with numerous vendors for reward procurement and distribution, hampering accurate budgeting and reporting.
Solution | Boosting HR efficiency
Brenntag explored multiple solutions before zeroing in on Empuls, an AWS Partner, for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) employee engagement and rewards platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This cloud-native application offers solutions for recognition, rewards, perks & benefits, surveys, and social intranet with community groups. Nidhi explains, "Empuls stood out for its intuitive and stellar user experience, AI-led approach to engagement, and professional services expertise spanning program design to adoption and everything in between, giving us the confidence to choose Empuls over others."
Built on a scalable microservices architecture, the platform utilizes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage and scale Kubernetes control plane nodes. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances support the application's MySQL databases (Amazon RDS), while Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) optimizes performance by distributing incoming requests across various application services. Furthermore, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) serves as a reliable high-availability data store.
Since adopting Empuls, Brenntag has leveraged workflow automation for multiple types of recognition and rewards, including awards and milestones. Additionally, employees can stay connected and cheer colleagues being recognized or celebrating milestones through a user-friendly web and mobile app, amplifying visibility. For HR staff, this has led to 80 per cent less time spent on administrative tasks and 100 per cent on-time reward distribution, saving time and resources.
The high configurability and customizability of Empuls' R&R solution on AWS helped drive 92 per cent adoption and three times more social recognition by Brenntag employees in just six months. The HR team has real-time visibility, with reports and dashboards, into program adoption, budget utilization, and reward redemption, providing detailed insights into the effectiveness of Brenntag's reward program.
Outcome | Motivating employees with a modern rewards solution
Utilizing workflow automation coupled with AI prompts and nudges within the R&R module, Brenntag empowers HR and People Managers to promote a culture of transparency, appreciation, and employee engagement. Brenntag benefits from Empuls' Professional Services team, which unearths and shares valuable insights for making critical adjustments to ensure the continued success of the reward program and ROI from the platform. With our support, Brenntag can optimize its rewards program to meet its employees' evolving needs and preferences.
Brenntag improves transparency for employee recognition & rewards with the Empuls app on AWS
Brenntag digitized its employee recognition and rewards program by adopting Empuls' SaaS solution on AWS to eliminate manual tasks using workflows to automate recognition and rewards and make it easy for employees to understand recognition criteria, resulting in high transparency and employee adoption.
80%
Reduced HR and Admins Effort
100%
On-time reward distribution
3x
Increase in Employee Recognition
About the company
Brenntag is a Germany-based global market leader in chemical distribution. They simplify market access to thousands of products and services by managing complex supply chains for chemical manufacturers and consumers. Brenntag operates from more than 600 locations across 72 countries, and employes more than 17,700 people worldwide.
Location:
APAC
Use case:
R&R
Features used:
Recognition, Rewards & Social Intranet
Opportunity | Elevating Brenntag's rewards program
Brenntag is a global chemical manufacturing and distribution market leader, operating from over 600 sites in 72 countries. They firmly believe that their 17,700+ employees are their greatest asset and are committed to providing an exceptional work environment where employees can thrive.
Brenntag's employee rewards program is a critical part of the workplace experience, and it includes performance and milestone awards tied to rewards. Engagement activities include birthday celebrations, team-building activities, Bring-Your-Kids-to-Work days, and CSR activities. Rewards for awards and activities were bank gift cards, which were manually procured, distributed, and tracked by the HR team.
An assessment of the rewards program uncovered that employees were dissatisfied with the lack of transparency, limited visibility for recognitions, and unexciting reward choices. The HR team wasted time on manual tasks such as managing multiple reward programs and negotiating with numerous vendors for reward procurement and distribution, hampering accurate budgeting and reporting.
Solution | Boosting HR efficiency
Brenntag explored multiple solutions before zeroing in on Empuls, an AWS Partner, for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) employee engagement and rewards platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This cloud-native application offers solutions for recognition, rewards, perks & benefits, surveys, and social intranet with community groups. Nidhi explains, "Empuls stood out for its intuitive and stellar user experience, AI-led approach to engagement, and professional services expertise spanning program design to adoption and everything in between, giving us the confidence to choose Empuls over others."
Built on a scalable microservices architecture, the platform utilizes Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to manage and scale Kubernetes control plane nodes. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances support the application's MySQL databases (Amazon RDS), while Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) optimizes performance by distributing incoming requests across various application services. Furthermore, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) serves as a reliable high-availability data store.
Since adopting Empuls, Brenntag has leveraged workflow automation for multiple types of recognition and rewards, including awards and milestones. Additionally, employees can stay connected and cheer colleagues being recognized or celebrating milestones through a user-friendly web and mobile app, amplifying visibility. For HR staff, this has led to 80 per cent less time spent on administrative tasks and 100 per cent on-time reward distribution, saving time and resources.
The high configurability and customizability of Empuls' R&R solution on AWS helped drive 92 per cent adoption and three times more social recognition by Brenntag employees in just six months. The HR team has real-time visibility, with reports and dashboards, into program adoption, budget utilization, and reward redemption, providing detailed insights into the effectiveness of Brenntag's reward program.
Outcome | Motivating employees with a modern rewards solution
Utilizing workflow automation coupled with AI prompts and nudges within the R&R module, Brenntag empowers HR and People Managers to promote a culture of transparency, appreciation, and employee engagement. Brenntag benefits from Empuls' Professional Services team, which unearths and shares valuable insights for making critical adjustments to ensure the continued success of the reward program and ROI from the platform. With our support, Brenntag can optimize its rewards program to meet its employees' evolving needs and preferences.