YEAR 2008 - SDF

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ANNUAL REPORT 2008
OTHER ACTIVITIES
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Agrostar is responsible for all information systems,
and generally acts as a contracting party on behalf of
STEF-TFE. Agrostar pursued its integration and refocused
its publishing activities on transport, warehousing and
marketplace software for fresh foods. These activities
are mainly conducted on behalf of the STEF-TFE Group's
companies and its customers. Agrostar has therefore
implemented a new matrix organisation, with internal
and external activity units on one side and services lines—
R&D, infrastructures and deployment—on the other.
The unit deployed considerable resources for its management
system for warehouses and logistical platforms,
REAL ESTATE AND OTHER SERVICES
The real estate unit, which mainly comprises operational
assets, is structured into subsidiaries. Most of
these subsidiaries own properties which are rented out
within the Group, and some own reserved areas. This
Real Estate Unit consists of 52 subsidiaries (including
the Immostef company) and 54 operating sites, of which
34 are part of Immostef.
The Group also leases buildings on the sites at Bordeaux
(SCI Bruges Conteneurs), with 3,000 m2 of offices and
warehouses, and Suresnes (FIM), with 6,800 m2 of
WMS, releasing versions 3.0 and 3.1, including co-packing
and coordination functions, which have been installed
on almost half of STEF sites.
TMS, TFE's transport and activity software, was successfully
launched in all network subsidiaries in 2008. At the
end of the year, it was also extended to Tradimar
(seafood) and SDF (Spain) subsidiaries. The customer
profitability section of the CGO module (operational
management control) was also deployed in 2008, and a
pilot of the automatic berth management project has
been deployed in each region. Designed for internal use
by the TFE and Tradimar networks, these two modules
will be enriched with additional functions.
The year also saw an ambitious project to dematerialise
supplier invoices in all the Group's entities.
External sales, corresponding to the marketing of
industry-specific solutions developed by Agrostar, came
to €4.3 million, compared to €5.1 million in 2007. ●
offices and operations. There is also the entire operational
site at Allonnes which was leased outside the Group
throughout 2008. Between them these three sites, which
were totally occupied at 31 December, contribute
revenues of €4.1m.
Les Chais de la Transat, a specialist wine-trading
subsidiary, recorded a slight increase in sales (€4.6m)
and ended the year with a positive net result of similar
proportions to the previous year. ●