Portuguese retailer Sonae has won the Shared Services and Outsourcing Excellence Awards Europe 2017, for its implementation of a new HR team management process.
The retail group was awarded in the Excellence in Transformation category based on the importance of the project, the work carried out, its implementation, and the achieved results.
The winning project involved enabling stores to increase productivity through a more efficient team management system. The new process contributed towards halving the time spent on tasks such as defining shifts and working times, saving managers time to focus on other activities.
Innovation Success
Sonae beat out other finalists including Coca-Cola, Shell, Hexaware Technologies, and the UK Department of Finance.
The retailer also received the European Excellence Award 2016 last December, for its Book of Innovation in Retail 2015, which celebrates good ideas, teamwork and projects that make substantial improvements or create something totally new.
More recently its main retail brand, Continente, was voted number one in Portuguese consumers’ preferences in the Trusted Brands 2016 survey.
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