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Budget & Vendor Process Management

January 2010 - March 2011

 

Circumstances :

 

-       The ICT support unit of the Company employs 650 people and manages a budget of 110 M €.

-       The ICT support unit is organised in 3 segments:

o    Infrastructure, Operations & Support

o    Application Services

o    Project Services

-       Within the IOS department, a team of 21 people is in charge of: processes and services portfolio management, vendor & contract management, licence management, annual budget set-up and follow-up.

-       B-management was asked to provide an Interim Manager to lead the team, while the Company was searching for a permanent collaborator.

 

Assignment objectives :

 

-         Implementation of an activity based cost allocation model of the overall IOS costs to the business and support units

-         The enforcement of existing processes

-        The improvement of the Vendor & Contract management

 

Management approach:


-        Direct participation and contribution to the 5 year strategic plan definition

-        Direct participation to an internal benchmark assessment performed by Gartner

-       Defined and shared a vision for the upcoming ERP requirements to bring up to required level of performance the existing tools for the administration of the IT services and processes

-       Overall improvement of the Financial Reporting of ICT, based on a single repository aiming at removing data conflicts and increasing the reporting reliability