Case Study
How Standard Steel eliminated payroll errors with CloudApper + UKG
A leading US steel manufacturer faced mounting payroll complexity — piecework rates, shift bonuses, and holiday pay interactions that manual spreadsheets couldn’t keep up with. Here’s what changed when they automated.
- Steel Manufacturing
- UKG Pro WFM
- Piecework Pay
- Payroll Automation
- No-Code Integration
100%
Payroll error elimination
3x
Payroll error elimination
Zero
Manual calculations
Standard Steel LLC
Steel components manufacturer · Pennsylvania, United States
Industry
Steel Manufacturing
HCM Platform
UKG Pro WFM
Pay Complexity
Piecework, Bonus, Holiday
Country
United States
Solution
CloudApper + iPaaS
Time to Live
Under 30 days
CloudApper AI + UKG Pro WFM
Bi-directional real-time integration
No middleware. No CSV exports
LLC · Pennsylvania, USA
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- Piecework pay configuration walkthrough
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- Before / after payroll error data
- Implementation timeline + HR team quotes
The challenge
Three pay structures that manual spreadsheets couldn't handle
Standard Steel compensates floor workers across multiple overlapping pay rules. Every payroll cycle, HR had to reconcile outputs by hand — a process that was slow, error-prone, and demoralizing for the team expected to sign off on it.
Piecework calculations at scale
Workers are paid per unit produced, with rates that vary by part type and shift. Computing accurate gross pay meant pulling data from multiple systems and reconciling it manually.
Bonus and performance pay rules
Attendance bonuses, output bonuses, and team incentives had conditional logic that couldn’t be expressed in standard UKG pay rules without customization.
Holiday and overtime interactions
Holiday pay interacted with overtime calculations in ways no existing payroll template handled — leading to underpayments that went undetected for weeks.
The solution
Custom pay logic, built once, runs every cycle
CloudApper’s no-code platform let HR configure all three pay structures without writing a single line of code — then connected them to UKG Pro WFM in real time.
Holiday and overtime interactions
Holiday pay interacted with overtime calculations in ways no existing payroll template handled — leading to underpayments that went undetected for weeks.
Holiday pay interacted with overtime calculations in ways no existing payroll template handled — leading to underpayments that went undetected for weeks.
Full implementation details in the PDF
See exactly how CloudApper configured each pay rule
and connected to UKG — step by step.
The results
What changed after go-live
Standard Steel saw immediate, measurable impact across
payroll accuracy, team productivity, and employee trust.
The headline numbers:
payroll accuracy, team productivity, and employee trust.
The headline numbers:
100%
Payroll errors eliminated since go-live
12+ hrs
Saved per payroll run by HR team
<30 days
From kickoff to production go-live
~Zero
Employee pay disputes since deployment
Holiday and overtime interactions
Holiday pay interacted with overtime calculations in ways no existing payroll template handled — leading to underpayments that went undetected for weeks.
Holiday pay interacted with overtime calculations in ways no existing payroll template handled — leading to underpayments that went undetected for weeks.
Full implementation details in the PDF
See exactly how CloudApper configured each pay rule
and connected to UKG — step by step.
and connected to UKG — step by step.
Technologies used
- CloudApper AI Platform
- UKG Pro WFM
- CloudApper iPaaS
- Real-time audit dashboard
- No-code pay rule builder
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4.7/5
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- GDPR · HIPAA · CCPA
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Same situation?
UKG customers with complex pay structures typically see full ROI within 2 payroll cycles. Let’s find out if CloudApper is a fit.
We used to dread payroll week. Now our HR team runs it with confidence. CloudApper took our most complex pay rules and turned them into something that just works.
Angela N. Wolfley
VP of Human Resources
Standard Steel LLC
Standard Steel LLC
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CloudApper integrates with UKG Pro WFM to automate piecework, bonuses, and any custom pay logic — without replacing your existing HCM investment.
