PeopleSoft sidelines Oracle and SAP in Tesco HR deal

PeopleSoft has beaten arch-rivals Oracle and SAP to provide Tesco with its new HR system.

The system will be implemented worldwide to include 240,000 employees.

The UK and Thailand will be the first countries to go live with the PeopleSoft 8 human resource management software, with eight other countries following suit from 2003.

David Richardson, people insight director at Tesco, said in a statement: "We looked at solutions from SAP and Oracle but felt that a combination of functionality and PeopleSoft's culture matched our requirements best."

The browser-based system will replace the existing mainframe infrastructure and will help centralise Tesco's HR admin.

Richardson added: "We are becoming a global retailer with stores in Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia but have no global reporting structure in place. All of our reporting had to be done in one central place to achieve standardisation and this created a bottleneck."

Tesco also hopes the system will help it cut costs.