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Grenke Renting

German multinational

The problem

There was a lack of control on all the processes related to asset brokers, from retrieving equipment to managing contracts and issuing invoices, as well as a decentralization of information related to the company’s legal affairs.

Solution

Development of a portal that allows employees to know exactly what equipments are in the asset broker’s warehouse, which contributes to the better management of commodities’ flow, and creation of a module that connects all lawyer’s firms to the company, making it easier for the managers to control the legal part of Grenke by analyzing their lawyers’ efficiency and performance.

Impact

• Effective control of all processes, from the retrieval of equipment to its sale
• Grouping of all tasks in one unified system, simplifying management and decision making

Grenke Factoring

German multinational

The problem

It took a long time to evaluate and analyze the risk of the clients’ portfolio, meaning it took a long time for Grenke Factoring to close deals.

Solution

Creation and development of a risk analysis platform, that creates risk indicators based on the company’s calculation matrix and the clients’ financial ratios and reports.

Impact

• Great decrease of the time needed to analyze clients’ risk, due to the reduction of processes and human error

HVAC Systems

The problem

Termak is a company responsible for the distribution of ventilation and climatization solutions for professionals based in Portugal and France. Their main problem, initially, was the difficulties felt when creating budgets for clients — due to its complexity and different factors constantly changing, it took forever to finish it. Later it was needed to enhance and upgrade the customers’ prospecting and monitoring processes.

Solution

Development of a budget management platform that automatically calculates the total costs based on the employees inputs on the configurator, cutting off a lot of unnecessary and time consuming processes, and a future add-on of a CRM module that allows a better client prospecting by stating the probability of closing the deal, while also analyzing the performance and productivity of the employees.

Impact

• More organized work environment
• Increase in profitability
• Effective control over the business

SASocial

Polytechnic Institutes’ social services www.sasocial.eu

The problem

Support services for college students are an extremely important area, as their quality dictates the success of strategies that aim to enlarge the number of new students, as well as the happiness of already enrolled ones, but despite this fact, there are clear discrepancies between the current state of these services and the state they should be in, namely in the organization and digitization of processes, the online offer of services for the academic community and the digital skills of employees.

Solution

Co-development of an innovative open source platform, SASocial, composed of 27 microservices made available in 4 different platforms (web, mobile, kiosk and TV) to improve the life of all the academic community of 9 different Portuguese Polytechnical Institutes.

Impact

• Improved experience of more than 48.000 people
• Possibility of digital and instant execution of social services processes
• Increase of information channels

Dourdin Group

French multinational

The problem

A french multinational company needed to manage the requests of proposals for the production of automotive components, a work done by Key Account Managers (KAM’s) based in 12 countries who are responsible for the work done in 4 different production units. This management was being done via a shared excel file, whose data wasn’t enough for the best forecast of objectives and results.

Solution

Development of a Web solution that assures the segmentation of information by KAM and by production unity, giving a great overview of the general situation to the company leaders. This system manages all the different phases of the commercial process, from the creation of the request until the final decision, and is supported through a secure repository of all the documents exchanged and created.

Impact

• The system becomes the base and support for the forecast and setting of annual objectives
• The time it took for KAM’s and directors to present the periodic results and to make decisions was greatly reduced since every piece of data and report are now available in real-time
• Increase in data quality, which contributes to better analysis, and therefore to the improve management work/li>

Doureca

Automotive industry

The problem

The records related to the parts’ quality and the work being done were all kept in individual and loose papers, which implied a non uniformation of data, as well as a waste of time of the employees gathering, organizing and registering all the information in the system.

Solution

Creation and continuous development of SGIID, a management system tailored to the company’s needs, where all the data related to the different departments of the company (quality, production, maintenance, finances, etc.) is stored. A fast response dashboard was designed to help with meetings and decision making, as it gave insights and a general analysis of the current and the previous days.

Impact

• More time for employees to perform added value tasks
• Easier costs calculation
• Easier productivity analysis
• Real-time view of processes being done

Wedding Day SLevada & QLCisnes

Events company

The problem

This wedding venue needed to actively and efficiently manage the planning and allocation of human resources for the events. It was necessary to manage the recruitment process before said events, to manage and evaluate the execution of all the different jobs and to calculate the costs to deliver to the customers. All this work was being done through emails, excel tables, phone and papers, not being efficient enough. There was a previous deal with a company that was in charge of developing the software but the deadlines weren’t being respected and the defined budget was too big.

Solution

Study of the already existing source code and further improvement based on the feedback and the needs of the client, implementing functionalities such as the ability to see the availability of employees, the automatic calculation of costs and needs for the events and the management of payments.

Impact

• Reduction of time (4 days/month per employee) needed to organize and handle payments
• Zero time wasted checking for the availability of the staff for each event
• Elimination of errors and possible mistakes inherent to human processes
• Real-time access to all the data