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Powerhouse Food and Beverage Company Selects PM Solutions as Its Project Management as a Service Partner for Company's Most Strategic Initiatives

Company

Food and Beverage Company

Challenge

Faced with growing digitization demands from the business and the acquisition and integration of a leading snack brand, this food and beverage company identified the need for an experienced, reliable strategic partner with program and project management expertise that would manage the end-to-end process of overseeing and delivering superior project management. The company struggled with: 
  • Inconsistent quality of resources and lack of partnership due to multiple project resource vendors
  • Lack of accountability from project management resources and vendors
  • Missed timelines and budgets due to poor project delivery. 

Solution

The food and beverage company selected PM Solutions as its Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) partner. Hitting the ground running, PM Solutions’ project management professionals led the implementation of the company’s PMO, focusing on Governance, Portfolio Management, and PM Methodology. PM Solutions also invested in quickly understanding the organizational culture in order to serve as an extension of the company’s own team. In partnership with  the organization transitioning to ongoing operations, PM Solutions established an accelerated orientation and onboarding process to ensure that PM Solutions’ project management resources were a good fit and prepared for the client’s environment. PM Solutions managed the identification, onboarding, and resource and demand management of the dedicated team. Service levels included:
  • Resource demand and capacity planning 
  • Quick scaling and onboarding of impact-ready project managers
  • Experienced and certified resources trained in the client’s project delivery methodology
  • Leveraging a team approach to project delivery
  • Management and oversight by experienced PMaaS leaders to ensure quality delivery
  • And project management resources for acquisition, ERP, and infrastructure initiatives, working closely with a team of the company’s employees, other third-party vendors, and specialty system integrators. 
Additional projects included data and application storage, new product innovation, marketing, network security, and infrastructure.

Results

The successes at the completion of this initiative included: 

  • Reduced time from project management need identification to onboarding of project management resources
  • Improvement in successful delivery of projects
  • Improved project stakeholder and sponsor communication

Types of projects delivered included: 

  • ERP migration and consolidation
  • Data center migration
  • Infrastructure implementation
  • Software implementation
  • Data and application storage
  • Security
  • CRM implementation
  • Manufacturing system implementation
  • Data security
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