How lavera’s People team rethought workforce cost forecasting for
500+ people

How lavera’s People team rethought workforce cost forecasting for
500+ people

How lavera’s People team rethought workforce cost forecasting for
500+ people

Sarah Düing, Chief People & Legal Officer at lavera, uses Cartha to strategically analyze the personnel costs of 500 employees and draw conclusions that are crucial for the company’s workforce cost development.

Sarah Düing, Chief People & Legal Officer at lavera, uses Cartha to strategically analyze the personnel costs of 500 employees and draw conclusions that are crucial for the company’s workforce cost development.

40+

40+

Budget control surveys eliminated

Budget control surveys eliminated

5

5

Days to setup lavera in Cartha

Days to setup lavera in Cartha

23

23

Individual Excel sheets replaced

Individual Excel sheets replaced

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Customer

Customer

Meet lavera, the market leader in natural cosmetics

Meet lavera, the market leader in natural cosmetics

Location

Hannover

Size

>500 FTEs

Industry

Cosmetics

Founded

1987

HR Tech Stack

Laverana GmbH & Co. KG, founded in 1987 is a German company based in Hannover. It specializes in certified natural cosmetics produced within a closed competence and value chain. The company sells its products internationally.

  • Business model: Selling certified natural cosmetics

  • Biggest departments: Bottling, Production and Logistics

  • People team size: 6 FTEs

  • Planning details: 40+ hiring managers that have to track on a monthly basis whether they are over or under budget regarding their workforce

  • Yearly hiring rate: ±25%


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We used to send surveys around asking each budget manager whether they are over or under budget. Imagine doing this with 40+ managers. It was a manual process not synced with data.

Sarah Düing, Chief People & Legal Officer at lavera

We used to send surveys around asking each budget manager whether they are over or under budget. Imagine doing this with 40+ managers. It was a manual process not synced with data.

Sarah Düing, Chief People & Legal Officer at lavera

Context

Context

A range of challenges for lavera's largest cost item

A range of challenges for lavera's largest cost item

Given the general issue of high fluctuation in the industry, lavera meticulously reviews their forecasts and assesses their workforce spending at every point in time. It is crucial for them to be in touch with all managers to know how team compositions change in comparison to the budget.

Before lavera started using Cartha, they faced a variety of challenges:

  • Budget managers did not have accurate data to evaluate budget comparisons

  • Preparing the monthly workforce reporting was a manual and time consuming effort

  • Tracking planned positions and syncing them with replacements and new joiners led to inaccuracies in Excel

  • Sarah: “Keeping everyone informed about the workforce development was an organisational Herculean task”

Solution

Solution

Bringing all workforce costs in one platform

Bringing all workforce costs in one platform

Because lavera started to have a single source of truth of their workforce, Sarah and her team can now focus even more on the strategic tasks of their job rather than managing data accuracies updating Excels.

Because lavera started to have a single source of truth of their workforce, Sarah and her team can now focus even more on the strategic tasks of their job rather than managing data accuracies updating Excels.

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Cartha is exactly what we needed to assist lavera in its next development phase as a People team.

Shortly after the implementation, we realized the massive advantages Cartha had for my team. Now, I know all stakeholders look at the same data since everything is synced in one plattform.

Cartha is exactly what we needed to assist lavera in its next development phase as a People team.

Shortly after the implementation, we realized the massive advantages Cartha had for my team. Now, I know all stakeholders look at the same data since everything is synced in one plattform.

Learn how your team can benefit from Cartha

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Before Cartha, lavera was using a complex combination of Excel sheets to track their workforce budget, additional cost types (like mobility budgets, bonuses and many more) and hiring plans.

Although the setup was quite advanced, maintaining the sheet and updating it with more sophisticated requirements proved difficult.

The reason to change to Cartha were clear:

  • Inviting managers based on cost center responsibility

  • Live integration with Personio

  • Visual explanations if and why the live forecast deviates to budget

Before Cartha, lavera was using a complex combination of Excel sheets to track their workforce budget, additional cost types (like mobility budgets, bonuses and many more) and hiring plans.

Although the setup was quite advanced, maintaining the sheet and updating it with more sophisticated requirements proved difficult.

The reason to change to Cartha were clear:

  • Inviting managers based on cost center responsibility

  • Live integration with Personio

  • Visual explanations if and why the live forecast deviates to budget

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I was looking for such a solution for the last 2 years. The choice was clear to me in no time because Cartha brought exactly what a mid-sized company needs at this point.

I was looking for such a solution for the last 2 years. The choice was clear to me in no time because Cartha brought exactly what a mid-sized company needs at this point.

After the decision, it took less than 5 days to transfer the whole process into Cartha, incl. setting up lavera’s organisational dimensions, integrating Personio and uploading the budget as a benchmark.

Through Cartha’s invitation process, Sarah decides who can see which specific dimensions and cost information.

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It’s been a breeze so far. The onboarding was fast and the Cartha team was always available if we had any questions.

I am especially impressed to see how fast new features are added to the product.

It’s been a breeze so far. The onboarding was fast and the Cartha team was always available if we had any questions.

I am especially impressed to see how fast new features are added to the product.

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