About Dr. Reddy’s

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. (DRL) is a global pharmaceutical leader that manufactures and markets more than 190 medications and 60 APIs. With operations spanning over 30 countries and a diverse workforce across manufacturing, R&D, sales, and corporate functions, DRL continues to shape the global healthcare landscape.

Their rapid global growth created increasingly complex compensation needs—fragmented tools, multiple plans, decentralized processes, and significant operational overhead.

Before Compport: What Challenges Did DRL Face?

Outgrowing Their Existing Tools

As DRL expanded, spreadsheets became the backbone of compensation planning. For a 22,000+ workforce across 30+ countries, this meant:

• Countless spreadsheet versions
  
  
• Sensitive data exchanged through emails
  
  
• Manual updates prone to error
  
  
• Separate files for every employee cohort
  
  

The volume and complexity became unsustainable for HR.

Custom Processes, Rigid Systems

With diverse roles across manufacturing, sales, R&D, and corporate teams, DRL needed flexible processes. Instead, they were stuck with:

• Offline workflows
  
  
• Siloed teams
  
  
• Limited stakeholder access
  
  
• Decisions concentrated at the top
  
  
• 35–40 compensation letter formats
  
  

Their grassroots insights never reached decision-makers. HR was overloaded with operational work.

Time Spent on the Process, Not the Decision

With teams working in isolation and processes spread across spreadsheets, compensation planning required constant chasing, consolidation, validation, and version tracking—leaving little space for strategic decision-making.

Finding the Right Solution with Compport

When DRL explored compensation systems, their priority was clear:
A single platform that could unify global processes without forcing them into rigid templates.

Compport stood out for:

• Its ability to support DRL’s scale and diversity
  
  
• Full flexibility for country-level rules
  
  
• Simulation capabilities
  
  
• A manager-friendly interface
  
  
• Multi-currency and multi-language support
  
  

This alignment allowed Compport to complete DRL’s implementation in just 2.5 months.

Implementation That Worked for Everyone

Compport didn’t deploy standard templates.
The team:

• Studied DRL’s real compensation workflows
  
  
• Mapped how decisions actually moved across teams
  
  
• Identified bottlenecks
  
  
• Built a connected, unified structure
  
  
• Automated rules, guardrails, and approvals
  
  

The result: A system customized to DRL’s processes—without heavy customization or long timelines.

Bringing Order to Spreadsheet Chaos

Compport became DRL’s single source of truth, replacing:

• Spreadsheet versions
  
  
• Manual calculations
  
  
• Unregulated changes
  
  
• Email-based approvals
  

DRL now operates on one secure, auditable platform with standardized data and clear access control.

The Simulation Engine eliminated spreadsheet modelling entirely, giving Rewards teams the ability to run multiple scenarios and choose the most optimal model before execution.

The Intelligent Letter Module reduced 35–40 letter formats to just 2, while enabling country-specific configurations.

Managers Onboarded in Minutes

With Compport’s Manager Self-Service screens, managers now:

• Access real-time employee data
  
  
• View budgets clearly
  
  
• Make decisions in minutes
  
  
• Reduce email exchanges
  
  
• Follow guardrails that prevent bias
  
  

Once-tedious decisions now happen quickly and confidently.

Cycles That Run Faster

What previously took weeks of consolidation now runs in a fraction of the time.

Cycle duration dropped by 75%, and overall process efficiency improved by 90%+—freeing DRL’s HR team to focus on insights and partnership, not admin work.

Global Visibility, Local Flexibility

With operations across 30+ countries, DRL needed:

• Global frameworks
  
  
• Local autonomy
  
  

Compport delivered both.

DRL now manages:

• Multi-currency reviews
  
  
• Local regulatory rules
  
  
• Country-specific letter templates
  
  
• Language packs for different regions
  
  

All within one unified system.

Clearer Communication with Employees

Compport automated DRL’s compensation communication, ensuring:

• Accurate letters
  
  
• Consistent formatting
  
  
• Faster distribution
  
  
• Localized versions where needed
  
  

HR no longer manages dozens of templates.

Decisions Backed by Data

With everything centralized, DRL now uses:

• Live dashboards
  
  
• Scenario modelling
  
  
• Budget tracking
  
  
• Guardrails
  
  
• Bias alerts
  
  

Leaders and HR make more objective, transparent decisions—grounded in real-time data, not spreadsheets.

The Results Speak for Themselves

• Zero dependency on spreadsheets
  
  
• 90%+ increase in process efficiency
  
  
• 75% faster comp cycles
  
  
• 35 → 2 letter templates
  
  
• Multi-currency and multi-language support
  
  
• Managers onboarded in minutes
  
  
• Unified global framework with local flexibility

Moving Forward

DRL’s success with Compport is not just about solving operational challenges—it’s about building a scalable, connected compensation ecosystem for future growth.

With a unified platform, automated workflows, and real-time insights, DRL’s HR and Rewards teams have become true strategic partners to the business.

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