The firm’s Indonesian implementation supports 50,000-person workforce planning, shared services, talent development, compensation management, and planned expansion into five Asian markets.

An Asia-based agrifood firm employing more than 50,000 people, Japfa, has expanded from animal feed into livestock breeding, commercial farming, and consumer food operations across multiple markets.

Its growth created a need to standardize HR administration, improve workforce-data visibility, and support planning across geographically dispersed business units.

On 1 September 2026, Japfa announced that it had completed an eight-month deployment of a cloud-based human capital management platform in Indonesia, its largest market. The project centralizes HR administrative processes from Indonesian business units into a shared-services model and is intended to reduce manual work while establishing more consistent processes.

Previously, HR teams and managers faced fragmented visibility of workforce information, including headcount, personnel costs, and reporting structures. This had limited the organization’s ability to compare staffing needs, allocate resources, and plan talent development consistently as it expanded across Asia. The Indonesia deployment includes:

  • A centralized HR data platform providing a consolidated view of employee, organizational, and cost information
  • Workforce-planning capabilities to support headcount forecasting, budgeting, and resource allocation
  • Talent-management tools for employee development and deployment
  • Compensation-management functions to standardize related HR processes
  • A shared-services operating model for HR administration across Indonesian business units

Japfa plans to extend the implementation to Singapore, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India. The wider rollout is intended to create more consistent HR processes and workforce-data management across the group, although the firm did not disclose projected cost savings, adoption rates, or other performance metrics.

The firm’s head of HR, Jasper Tan, said the platform is intended to support “talent development, budgeting and cost allocation” while standardizing processes to improve productivity, compliance, and operational consistency.

The technology provider, Workday, supplied the cloud-based HR and workforce-planning platform used in the project. It’s general manager of ASEAN, Jess O’Reilly, said the system is designed to streamline HR processes and give managers greater workforce visibility to support talent management and planning.