

450+
Administrative hours saved annually
12
Full workweeks reclaimed per year
1,800+
Compliance forms processed annually
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems designs, develops, and supplies leading-edge active safety technologies, energy management solutions, and air brake charging and control systems and components. A member of Knorr-Bremse, Bendix’s headquarters is in Avon, Ohio and employs approximately 7,600 people. Bendix has been a valued Rival customer for 10+ years.
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Manufacturing plants across U.S. and Mexico
“Prior to integrating Rival and UKG, each completed employee form was manually uploaded into UKG PeopleDoc. With an average of 1,800 completed forms per year, this left plenty of room for error, opening up Bendix to compliance risks and delays in onboarding and offboarding.”
For Astrid Hintze and the HR teams at Bendix, managing onboarding and offboarding documents had become tedious and time-consuming. For each new hire onboarded, HR had to follow these steps once receiving a completed employee form: download a single PDF, split it into separate files, rename every document manually, and re-upload them one by one into UKG PeopleDoc. Offboarding had its own set of manual uploads and reminders to IT. What should have taken seconds was taking up to 15 minutes per employee and creating backlogs during busy hiring periods.
Beyond the administrative drain, the process carried real compliance and audit risks. Misfiled documents, incorrect dates, and upload delays were common. With limited support and growing complexity across regions like Mexico and Canada, Bendix needed a faster and more reliable way to automate and customize documentation across a multinational workforce.
From manual chaos to automated confidence
Bendix partnered with Rival to transform a manual, error-prone process into an automated, audit-ready journey that gives HR more control across regions.
Streamlined documentation integration with UKG
HR now uploads complete, compliant document packages into UKG with a single click in Rival. They've eliminated manual steps and integration errors while cutting handling time to near zero.
Automated offboarding notifications
Rival notifies IT up to 30 days in advance of an employee's departure, eliminating the risk of missed system access and closing compliance gaps.
Location-specific journey customization
Rival gives Bendix the speed and configurability to operate as a global organization while still incorporating local nuance. They've customized region-specific journeys, languages, and fields without sacrificing consistency or compliance.
No-code configuration
Using Rival's self-service drag-and-drop builder, HR can adjust forms, tokens, and journeys in minutes — no IT tickets required.


“Rival took the lead on setting up all the configurations for us. I just told them the process and the system we needed to store everything in. I’m in HR, not IT. I don’t always understand IT language. They are lifesavers. They know how our business works and have answers to my questions before I even ask.”

Astrid Hintze
Regional Project Lead, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems
Rival is helping Bendix’s team work faster and with more confidence. The platform’s flexibility makes it easy to meet local language and compliance requirements on the backend while delivering a seamless experience for employees on the frontend.
“My team loves the system. The Rival platform is really user-friendly with no limitations. We can use the system to customize whatever we want to.”
Near-zero handling time for document uploads
Multi-region, multi-language journey support
Audit-ready compliance across all locations
Seamless employee experience on day one
Measurable impact at every level
450+ hours saved
12 full workweeks reclaimed annually for HR
Global localization
Regional journeys customized for Mexico and Canada
Audit-ready
Errors cut with automated uploads and offboarding alerts
Rapid expansion
Strong adoption led to new HR workflows within two months

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