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Fredun pharmaceuticals modernizes group-wide HR operations, cuts payroll time by over 50% with greytHR

50% of overall operational time saved

Payroll processing timelines
Reduced from 11 to 5 days

Mobile geo-attendance tracking

About Fredun Pharmaceuticals Limited

Pharmaceuticals

Total - Employees 1500+

Headquarters - Maharashtra, India

Chitralekha Retails LLP is a premier regional apparel and fashion retail enterprise specializing in large-format family clothing stores. Established with a multi-generational legacy in value and lifestyle fashion, the company offers an extensive curation of ethnic wear, western apparel, and daily essentials for diverse consumer segments. To support its accelerating market footprint and multi-store expansion, the organization leverages a localized retail model backed by an integrated supply chain, high-volume inventory management, and centralized regional logistics hubs.

Challenges Before greytHR

As the Fredun Group of Companies expanded its market presence across multiple industry sectors, relying on manual data handling across dispersed teams began to impact corporate processing speeds.

High-Volume Spreadsheet Processing for Payroll

Compiling data manually in Excel worksheets for over 1,500 employees stretched the monthly processing cycle out to 11 days and introduced human risks of calculation errors.

The Shift to greytHR: Unifying Group-Wide Operations

To unify administration across its diverse business divisions, Fredun Pharmaceuticals rolled out greytHR group-wide, deploying integrated modules for payroll, attendance tracking, and employee self-service.

During the onboarding phase, the HR team worked directly with implementation specialists to map the company's multi-location rules, configuring distinct holiday calendars, varying policies, and continuous manufacturing shift hours into a single system. By shifting routine data management to an automated platform, the enterprise successfully cleared its core administrative bottlenecks, allowing the HR team to support rapid corporate scaling without increasing headcount.

Benefits Experienced After Implementing greytHR

Over 54% Reduction in Monthly Payroll Cycles

By replacing disjointed manual Excel compilation with a centralized calculation engine, greytHR empowered the HR team to compress their massive 11-day processing window down to just 5 days. The platform completely eliminated the risk of human calculation errors, ensuring that all 1,500+ group employees receive 100% accurate salary distributions and instant automated payslips with a single command.

Automated Shift Management for Continuous 24/7 Plants

To resolve the complex challenge of managing continuous manufacturing operations alongside staggered marketing timelines, greytHR provided a flexible shift-allocation framework. HR managers can now configure and assign rotating rosters digitally once a week, allowing the system to automatically track attendance loops and calculate correct hours without requiring constant manual oversight.

One-Click Aggregation for Year-End Financial Planning

greytHR stepped in to bridge the gap between HR data and corporate financial planning by simplifying year-end report aggregation. Instead of forcing administrators to spend days manually opening and plugging numbers from historical spreadsheets, the platform compiles consolidated annual gross salary and TDS data into instant reports for the finance team's budget provisions.

Real-Time Geo-Attendance for the Distributed Field Force

By deploying geo-attendance tracking and mobile ESS portals, greytHR transformed how Fredun connects with its remote workforce across regions like Delhi, Chennai, and Gujarat. Field staff gain immediate, independent visibility into their attendance logs and leave balances, while the corporate hub gains trusted, location-verified check-ins that protect field force safety and transparency.

Before implementing greytHR, calculating payroll and pulling annual financial reports manually from multiple Excel sheets was incredibly time-consuming. Now, our year-end gross salary and TDS reports are generated instantly with a single click, and we can distribute salaries to our entire workforce with one command. The platform has allowed us to handle rapid organizational growth and high recruitment demands seamlessly without having to increase our internal HR headcount.

Sumit ThakurHR

Fredun Pharmaceuticals Limited integrated greytHR across its manufacturing plants, diversified business divisions, and nationwide field marketing network to transition away from manual spreadsheet administration. With greytHR, Fredun’s HR team reduced payroll processing timelines from 11 days down to 5 days with 100% data accuracy, while saving over 50% in operational hours. By automating complex 24/7 plant shifts, providing instant annual financial reports, and launching mobile geo-attendance for dispersed field staff, Fredun optimized its administrative capacity, allowing the HR team to support rapid corporate scaling without increasing headcount.