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Background
The company
Eurea is an agricultural cooperative based in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region. It comprises around ten companies active in the agri-distribution, animal nutrition, cereal collection, milling and garden/animal markets.
The CIO team
Just under a dozen people with a fairly traditional segmentation (operations/business line) within a highly integrated IT organization.
The major challenges facing the CIO
- Modernize the IS and promote digital agriculture in businesses that are still very traditional, while preserving the identity of an agricultural cooperative and the notion of responsible food.
- Meeting the challenge of digitalized retailing, by moving towards a unified IS
- Deployment of a flexible, Agility IS, adapted to the company’s growth challenges
- Set up a real IS management system with high-performance KPIs for tracking Budgets and consumption.
The need
A tool that supports and facilitates IS budget management within an organization split into multiple companies
Benefits
- Secure, time-saving, high-quality CIO management
- Simplify and automate CIO department steering with the right KPIs.
- Ready-to-use reports and Dashboards
- Facilitating and accelerating decision-making
The interview
Interview conducted in October 2021; functions and scope may have changed since then*.
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As a CIO, you address many fundamental issues, but what are your day-to-day irritants and difficulties?
Given Eurea’s multi-company organization, I deal with a very large volume of invoices, multiplied by a large number of suppliers. Even if, over time, I manage to rationalize and contain it, tracking can be quite time-consuming.
Tracking alone is not enough: you need to be able to extract the right KPIs, the right areas of analysis: what are the costs by supplier, by type of purchase, by business line, by company… A complex challenge when data is so fragmented.
Why Abraxio?
To replace the big Excel file I inherited with fifty tabs and from which it was almost impossible to get anything!
Quite apart from the joke, I was looking for a solution that would make it easier for me to manage my CIO’s budget and communicate with my General Management. A tool that would enable me to ask the right questions. For example: how much do telecoms cost overall, and is there not a simplification or massification project to be carried out to reduce costs? Aren’t we spreading ourselves too thin with too many suppliers?
That’s what Abraxio brings me. I was one of the first customers; I quickly felt that the solution was going to be a real thorn in my side…
What do you do with the platform?
Abraxio is always open, and is really my day-to-day assistant for managing and steering my department, which it has made so much easier.
In a very concrete way, I control the evolution and execution of my expenses. With Abraxio, I can link my invoices to an expenditure schedule, and even link them to my Projects. So I can constantly check that they are in line with forecasts, and be alerted in the event of overruns or anomalies.
Tomorrow, I’ll be doing the same with my Projects and Project portfolio. The Projects module is really well-designed, bringing a lot of common sense, simplicity and cross-functionality by being associated with the Budgets module, so that we can work in continuity without dissociating the two aspects. This helps to modernize IS management and inject a new dynamic into the team.
If you had to remember 3 benefits of Abraxio?
In line with the above, for all CIO management, Abraxio brings a great deal of security, time savings since all information is at your fingertips, and therefore quality.
Asset2: Abraxio simplifies and automates CIO steering. The Abraxio platform really helps you formulate the right KPIs. Of course, this doesn’t mean you don’t need to define your analysis categories beforehand and enter your data correctly, but once you’ve done that, everything’s simple. And the reports and Dashboards are ready to use and send! One click and you’ve got it all.
This naturally leads to the3rd benefit: Abraxio facilitates and accelerates my decision-making, in conjunction with my management: with the right KPIs, we save a considerable amount of time and make our decisions much more efficient.
A final word in conclusion?
To sum up what we said: Abraxio provides secure management and a global view of spending, enabling me to make the right decisions. An invaluable ally for my CIO!
*This testimonial represents feedback gathered at a given moment, in the professional context of the interviewee at the time he/she held the position mentioned. His functions and scope may have changed since then.
