LECO Ensures Precise Employee Profile Management Through Hire2Retire Automation

As researchers across the world push to make the next innovative scientific breakthrough, having the best tools and equipment is incredibly important. One wrong data reading can completely alter the outcome of an experiment, so every little detail is significant when creating laboratory equipment. No company understands this responsibility better than the Laboratory Equipment Company, or LECO. Since its foundation in 1936, LECO has provided reliable, high-quality equipment for metallographic, thermal, and elemental analysis. With sales in over 75 different countries, LECO is recognized as a global leader in its field. 

With over 25 subsidiaries and offices spread as far out as Brazil, South Africa, Japan, and Australia, maintaining over 1,000 employee profiles between ADP and Active Directory (AD) proved a daunting challenge for LECO. IT teams and sysadmins struggled to keep up with the demand caused by employee lifecycle changes, especially as the company built new facilities in 2012 and 2018. The manual process required significant time and resources to operate but was still prone to lagging, leading to inefficient onboarding of new hires, security access risks upon termination, and general confusion. LECO sought a way to make this process more efficient and secure while also freeing up the resources being devoted to it.