KRÜGER GROUP

The name KRÜGER stands for top quality, continuous innovation and reliability. With around 5,300 employees at 21 locations and an annual turnover of over €2.2 billion, the KRÜGER GROUP is a globally successful family business in the food industry. Together with numerous subsidiaries, the KRÜGER GROUP stands for popular brands such as FRITT, KRÜGER, Schogetten and many more. www.krueger-group.com

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Management Summary

The KRÜGER GROUP has launched the multi-year "Flex-Cloud" program in order to continue fulfilling its role as a "business enabler" in the future. The aim is to make the IT environment agile and future-proof through the targeted use of cloud technologies, among other things. With its consulting services, IT-HAUS played a key role in determining the target image for the future IT strategy and the structure of the customer's internal project organization.

Project environment

Changing user behavior and digital transformation are placing new demands on corporate IT as an "enabler of business". The continuous growth of the KRÜGER GROUP also poses new challenges. In order to provide the best possible support for the Group's innovative strength in the future, the management of the KRÜGER GROUP is focusing on the consistent further development of the IT strategy as part of the Group-wide "Flex-Cloud" transformation project. Particular attention is to be paid to the targeted use of modern cloud technologies - as a supplement to existing IT. In addition to cost savings through consolidation - of the IT infrastructure that has grown through acquisitions - the focus is on promoting collaboration and productivity among employees at the 21 locations in 10 countries. The aim is also to set up the company's IT in such a way that it can react quickly and agilely to changing business requirements at any time.

Project success

The starting point for the further development of the IT strategy was the creation of a solid foundation for the project. To this end, the existing system landscape (infrastructure and applications) was analyzed and documented with the help of tools at IT-HAUS . In a series of enterprise architecture workshops, the target image for the future IT architecture was developed together with the customer. Particular attention was paid to the evaluation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) approaches
(including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure). A phase plan shows 11 sub-projects for achieving the target image and compares the expected investment costs with the expected savings in IT operating costs and efficiency gains for employees in an ROI analysis. The accompanying further development of the corporate culture and employee training were identified as key success factors and anchored in the phase plan with specific measures. A detailed analysis of all relevant stakeholders led to the draft of the planned project organization with around 35 members. A decision template summarizes the target image, ROI analysis and the planned project organization and was also presented to the management of the KRÜGER GROUP with the support of IT-HAUS . 

Outlook

Now that the project has been approved by the management, IT-HAUS is supporting the KRÜGER GROUP in the successful implementation of the "FlexCloud" transformation project, which is scheduled to run for around 18 months. The future activities of IT-HAUS include the further establishment of the project organization, the coordination of internal stakeholders and external service providers as well as (for selected sub-projects) the technical implementation by the company's own system engineers.

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