The Ovalt Group transforms its IS to improve operational efficiency

Onepoint chosen to partner the Ovalt Group as it transforms its business

In 2022, the Ovalt Group launched the Phare programme. The aim of this programme is to transform the company in order to improve its operational performance in 3 areas:

  • A customer experience ;
  • An employee experience;
  • A value experience.

The Ovalt Group, a major player in industry

The Ovalt Group works with manufacturers to optimise and modernise their production tools. Their industrial solutions cover a wide range of areas, including :

  • Automation and supervision
  • Industrial electricity
  • Industrial computing
  • Weighing and metrology
  • Industrial robotics
  • Piping and boiler making

The Ovalt Group has developed recognised expertise in various industrial sectors, including :

  • Food and agro-industry
  • Energy and environment
  • Cosmetics and pharmaceuticals

Their approach aims to improve the performance, flexibility and sustainability of industrial installations, by adapting to the specific needs of each customer.

 

‘The growth of the OVALT Group, both organically and through acquisitions, quickly highlighted the need to rethink the way we operate, our processes and our tools to ensure greater cross-functionality and greater control over our performance.

We launched the PHARE transformation programme around 3 strategic axes: improving performance, facilitating collaboration and solidarity between subsidiaries and preparing for the future’.

Vincent Rault, Chairman of the Ovalt Group

An incremental and collaborative approach

In order to achieve the programme’s objectives, the Onepoint teams worked in partnership with the employees of the Ovalt Group’s Information Systems Department, as well as with the various business lines: business managers, project managers, management control, administrative and financial management.

The collaboration was built around an incremental approach, based on ‘initiatives’. For example, during the 1st initiative, Onepoint was able to provide tools to manage the performance of the group’s business. This was followed by initiatives on a variety of themes, always linked to the initial objective of operational performance.

For almost 3 years now, the initiatives have followed one another like a succession of value-oriented objectives. These objectives have been developed jointly by Onepoint and the Ovalt Group, and include in particular :

  • Pre-sales workflow tools;
  • an overhaul of the customer invoicing process;
  • the rationalisation of data repositories (customer, employees, opportunities, etc.);
  • or the integration of the Group’s subsidiaries into these tools, enabling practices to be standardised across the Group.
Capture of the business performance management software created as part of the PHARE programme

Phare, the fruit of close collaboration with Onepoint

Once the strategy and objectives have been defined, Onepoint’s teams carry out the operational implementation of the plan, developing and integrating the software tools and ensuring that they are taken up by users. Each initiative is dealt with in conjunction with the business lines and IS governance to ensure the best effort-impact ratio.

 

‘The Onepoint team was able to represent the interests of the Ovalt Group in a very collaborative approach, working closely with internal teams as if they were an integral part of the IT department. This is what we look for in our partners, as we are convinced that this way of working, based on trust and the long term, is a guarantee of efficiency and performance.’

Jérôme Champenois, Chief Information Officer, Ovalt Group

 

Together, the Ovalt Group and Onepoint teams have helped the business lines to achieve greater cohesion. The Phare programme has transformed the company’s processes and tools. It has also had an impact on corporate culture and the standardisation of employee practices.

The collaboration between Onepoint and the Ovalt Group is regularly challenged and improved in order to push the effectiveness of the collaboration system even further.

Currently, 2 initiatives are still underway:

  • The first will enable the industrialisation of the customer invoicing process.
  • The second concerns the integration of the ID Automation subsidiary, based in Locminé, so that it can benefit from the same processes and tools as the rest of the group, thereby improving its operational performance.