Activities (1,3 MB) - Colruyt Group

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4. Corporate activities
4.1. BP&S
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Wholesale
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foodservice
The corporate activities combine all support services,
including business processes and systems, central
administration, accounting and finance, environment,
human resources, communication, corporate
marketing, real estate and expansion.
Since April 2001, Colruyt Group can count on the
restructured corporate partner ‘Business Processes and
Systems’. BP&S arose from the former ‘IT’ and ‘Processes
and Systems’ (which comprised system design and work
simplification). BP&S seeks to capitalise on the rapid
technological development and on the constant attention
of Colruyt Group for high quality and efficient processes,
information flows and communication systems. BP&S
aims to be an enabler for Colruyt Group in the creation of
sustainable added value.
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Other
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Corporate
activities
BP&S employs 872 people in Belgium and 45 people
in France; 229 people work in its own office in India
(Hyderabad). In addition, the group continues to work
together with external parties. For the flexible employment
of professional IT personnel in projects and constantly
bringing in new expertise, Colruyt Group also works
together with the Indian partner Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS).
In March 2012, Colruyt Group opened a new office in
the Research park Haasrode in Heverlee. The staff of
the central BP&S services in the Leuven area have their
permanent work stations here.
In order to reduce the costs of the group’s IT park, the
infrastructure teams in Colruyt India were also involved in
IT management projects. For example, they now carry out
more than 25% of the software maintenance projects on
the server park.
BP&S is working on innovative concepts regarding research
and development and is testing new methods within
software development. To this end, the cooperation with
the University of Antwerp has been intensified.
In order to accommodate the growth of the number of IT
systems (and the accompanying technical installations),
the existing data centres will be relocated to new locations
between 2013 and 2015. Together with the revision of
the management processes, these new data centres
will contribute to guaranteeing the availability of IT even
better, to a swifter introduction of new technology and to
the further reduction of the energy consumption.