The Company
STEF is the European leader in temperature-controlled transport and logistics. With a presence in eight countries, the Group employs 25,000 people and operates a network of 305 sites across France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Group works closely with companies in the food, retail, restaurant, and seafood industries on a daily basis, meeting their high standards for safety, speed, and quality. In a multi-site, highly operational environment, structuring project management is a key factor in improving consistency and efficiency.
Challenges & Objectives
The Challenge
Within the Finance Project Management Office and several cross-functional and business teams, STEF sought to establish a structured process for monitoring the rollout of its IT projects. Before Tabsters, various tools had been tested, but their limitations prevented the company from successfully scaling up its project management processes.
The goal was to establish a single platform to better track schedules, tasks, risks, project statuses, and portfolio reviews, while facilitating the consolidation of information across multiple teams and regions.
Key Issues
- Streamline IT project management,
- Standardize project data and management practices,
- Improve the tracking of schedules, tasks, and risks,
- Facilitate portfolio reviews, particularly regarding the budget and schedule,
- Simplify project reporting and communication,
- Consolidate information across business teams, cross-functional teams, and regions.
How to Use Tabsters
Use cases
- Monitoring the deployment of IT projects,
- Management of detailed schedules and to-do lists,
- Risk monitoring,
- Generation of project statuses,
- Portfolio review (budget, schedule, consolidation),
- Project reporting and communication.
User profiles
Finance Project Management Teams, Transformation Department, Procurement, Development Teams, Real Estate Teams, and project contributors.
Tabsters enables STEF
- To standardize project data across multiple teams and regions,
- To establish a common framework for monitoring the rollout of IT projects,
- To better track schedules, tasks, risks, and project statuses,
- To streamline management practices and portfolio reviews,
- To facilitate data consolidation and reporting,
- To save a significant amount of time, particularly when generating reports.
The benefits
- Standardization of project data,
- Improved tracking of IT projects,
- Significant time savings, particularly thanks to reporting,
- Streamlining project practices,
- Simplified consolidation of information,
- Better visibility into schedules, risks, and project statuses,
- More structured coordination among business teams, cross-functional teams, and regions.
