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SCC is delivering an IT lifecycle management service that will help CFS – a leading manufacturer of equipment and packaging solutions for the food processing industry – to reduce costs and standardise IT infrastructure worldwide. This is a multi-year contract, worth an estimated 6 million euros.

“In addition to simplifying systems management and driving efficiency gains, the new systems will be more flexible and help to generate significant reductions in total IT costs.”

For some time, each of CFS' national offices had been responsible for procuring their own IT systems. Consequently, the worldwide IT infrastructure comprised a disparate mix of various hardware, software and operating systems – resulting in complex and expensive systems management, and making it extremely difficult to roll out common applications. CFS, therefore, made the decision to standardise and centralise its procurement and technologies.

Under the new contract, all of the hardware, software and operating systems for the desktop systems used by CFS' 2,000 employees across 32 countries, will be standardised and centrally controlled. In addition to simplifying systems management and driving efficiency gains, the new systems will be more flexible and help to generate significant reductions in total IT costs.

SCC is providing a lifecycle management service – including helping to migrate data from CFS' existing systems onto a common platform, replacing or refurbishing older systems as well as providing ongoing support, including remote systems management. SCC will ensure that any equipment that is not suitable for refurbishment will be disposed of in accordance with data protection and environmental regulation. SCC has also helped CFS reduce costs by producing comprehensive instruction manuals that will help CFS' own IT personnel to install the new systems locally.

CFS invited SCC to facilitate its technology infrastructure standardisation project due to a combination of its technical understanding and ability to offer a solution that perfectly matched CFS' needs. Furthermore, SCC was also prepared to work within a flexible framework that allowed CFS to maintain full control of its IT infrastructure.