Technomania

Capgemini bags Office Depot’s contract

by VARINDIA 2015-01-30

Capgemini has announced that it has been selected by Office Depot, a leading global provider of office products, services, and solutions formed by the merger of Office Depot and OfficeMax, to drive critical technology migration and finance and accounting services resulting from the merger. As part of the contract, Capgemini’s role will be to –

Help standardize and optimize Office Depot’s global finance and accounting operations, extending its existing business process outsourcing (BPO) services until 2020 (extension of contract which was set to expire in 2016).
Provide new services for application development and maintenance to 2017, as well as testing services through to the end of this year. Testing services include the implementation of a Testing Center of Excellence to enhance Office Depot’s application testing function.

“Capgemini has been a longstanding and trusted business partner for Office Depot, providing us a strategic approach to restructuring our financial management processes. The sheer velocity of change and reorganization at our company required a partner that would work as a core component of our team. Capgemini has successfully implanted its consultative business process outsourcing expertise across the finance organization, which has brought us heightened benefits,” said Kim Moehler, Senior Vice-President, Chief Accounting Officer Finance Department, Office Depot Inc. “We are excited to expand our program and partnership with Office Depot, becoming an integral business partner in their global restructuring initiative,” said Christopher Stancombe, CEO of BPO and member of the Group Executive Committee, Capgemini. “We continue our emphasis on enhancing Office Depot’s productivity and accelerating value realization by providing next-generation business and IT solutions that will reduce costs and improve performance across its business operations.” With the expansion of its global footprint and shared services, the newly-merged conglomerate has engaged Capgemini for additional applications maintenance services to support the integration of OfficeMax’s legacy IT systems. Also, Capgemini aims to provide testing services for more than 70 IT merger-integration projects. By creating a Testing Center of Excellence for Office Depot Inc., Capgemini will provide a virtual and centralized command center that delivers mature software testing functions and leverages best practices in migration projects.