France Champignon has set itself the following objectives, above and beyond the traditional targets linked to internal operations:

• Improving customer service:
• Ease the flow of information to achieve greater reactivity
• Monitor levels of service better: order processing times, delivery times 
• Speed up information retrieval (product/customer statistics)
  
• Be in a position to adapt to changes in needs for information exchanges with third parties
  
• Improve product traceability and production and distribution operations
  
• Reinforce the functioning of the Supply Chain: forecasting, management of needs and availabilities, global and transverse view of flows through the organisation.
• Forecasting
• Management of needs and availabilities
• Global and transverse view of flows through the organisation
• Focus all levels of the organisation on the key components of products and services and limit the number of tasks with low added value
• Set up a robust, sustainable, upgradable Information System that will accompany the Group's growth.

After a project stage lasting around 18 months, the system started up successfully in June 2006.

• The first stage of the project, known as "Convergence+", was to introduce the accounting "base"; since July 2005, the general and cost accounting of virtually all the companies in the group has been carried out under SAP (FI/CO modules). Fixed asset management has also been operational since early 2006.
  
  
• The management of consignments of button mushrooms (reception, inspection, invoicing) intended for transformation has also been under SAP since January 2006 (MM, QM modules).
  
  
• Finally, since June 2006, the entire transformation activity logistics chain (sterilisation, freezing, pasteurisation,) has been fully integrated into SAP. After a project stage lasting 18 months, our three transformation factories, packaging and distribution platform and administrative and logistics departments are now all working totally under SAP. The following functional modules have been introduced: FI, CO, SD, MM, WM, PP, QM, PM.
  
  
• This company project has been successful as a result of the efforts of an internal team of around 30 people and a SAP technical and functional integrator, and of the active participation and training of 200 end users.

The next phases of the project involve deploying SAP in the other Group activities: Growing, Fresh Products and Woodland Mushrooms.