In addition to basic human resource information, the company intranet also has an application that all managers use to figure merit raises. The company plans to add a program next year to allow managers to calculate stock grants to employees. Managers spend about the same time using the salary calculation tool as they did with a previously provided spreadsheet. But when they are done, human relations is able to capture their calculations electronically, cutting costs. Kraft's sales force can log in from the road and generate sales reports.
Intranets are useful tools for doing that.