The cost of lost time and the opportunity for 350% ROI: Time-tracking reinvented and integrated

Success Story

The TIMETOACT GROUP faced a massive challenge: countless hours lost due to inefficient work logs, duplicate entries and errors that led to high costs. By integrating Tempo Timesheets and SAP, the TIMETOACT GROUP has transformed a flawed, inefficient system into an automated, accurate process. The result: over 10,000 hours less administrative work per year, 100% billing accuracy and significantly optimized budget control.

At the TIMETOACT GROUP, every hour counts – whether it's for customer projects or internal tasks. But the monthly drama of time tracking was omnipresent:

A harmless reminder lands in the inboxes: “🕒 Reminder: Please submit your work logs by Friday!”

Initially ignored, panic sets in by Thursday at the latest:

  • The phantom of forgotten hours: ‘What did I actually do last Tuesday?’
  • The spreadsheet zombie: Scroll through emails, Slack and Jira, trying to reconstruct their time.
  • The overtime overlord: “Why are there suddenly 300 hours booked?”
  • The witch of the error account: Drives team leads crazy as they desperately try to assign hours correctly.
  • The billing grim reaper: “27 hours on a Monday? Explain that to accounting!”

The only solution? Real-time time tracking – but only a few make it. So the confusion starts all over again every month.

The challenge: Hidden costs due to inefficient time tracking

Our team members logged hours in different systems, often twice, to ensure that invoices and internal billing were correct. This led to:

Manual double posting & errors

Hours had to be recorded in Tempo Timesheets, SAP and other tools.

Risk of incorrect invoices

Incorrect bookings led to financial losses and problems with customers.

High administrative burden

Absences and errors had to be laboriously corrected – an enormous cost factor.

Lack of transparency for project managers

Without real-time data, budgets were exceeded and teams overloaded.

The solution: a seamless integration of Tempo Timesheets and SAP

Our answer to the problem? A smart, automated interface between Tempo Timesheets and SAP. This is how it works:

  • One-time entry in Tempo Timesheets – no more multiple entries necessary
  • Automatic synchronization with SAP and Personio for payroll, invoices and overtime control
  • Microsoft Teams notifications for instant error correction and budget control
  • Integration with M365, Slack, VS Code, GitLab, GitHub & more to generate worklogs with one click
  • Automatic worklog suggestions based on the day's activities

The benefits: More efficiency, lower costs

  • 10,000+ hours of administrative work saved per year
  • 350% ROI in three years through reduced errors and optimized processes
  • 100% billing accuracy – no more lost billable hours
  • Faster invoicing & better budget control
  • Early detection of overload – HR can react before burnouts occur

Integrating Tempo Timesheets with SAP wasn’t just a technical upgrade - it was a step-change towards operational excellence and enabling our group-companies to jointly deliver value to our customers.

Sascha Wadenpohl Chief Delivery Officer  TIMETOACT GROUP

Conclusion: Time is money – we're using it better now

By integrating Tempo Timesheets with SAP, TIMETOACT has transformed an inefficient, error-prone system into a lean, precise process – and is eliminating unnecessary time drains.

A big thank you 💐 to the teams that made this solution possible:

  • #Atlassian with Jira
  • #Tempo with Tempo Timesheets
  • #Personio as our global HR Tool
  • #TIMETOACT for building the middleware
  • #Walldorf Consulting for their support on integrating the right way with SAP
  • and of course our #catworkx team for the configuration and onboarding work for our colleagues

Thanks to you, time is now running for us – not against us! 🎉

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