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Torf Corporation achieves higher levels of project excellence using FlexiProject
Torf Corporation is Poland’s leading manufacturer of cosmetics, which are available under the Tołpa brand. The company currently employs over 250 people and is growing very dynamically from year to year. The organisation is constantly designing and implementing new products, modernising production potential and improving business and organisational processes.
Operating in the highly competitive cosmetics industry, Torf Corporation launches a number of new, innovative products to the market every year. The design and implementation of each new product is treated as a separate project. It was the increasing number of new projects related to the development of innovative products from year to year that led to the need to implement a professional project management system. Torf Corporation decided to implement the FlexiProject project and portfolio management program.
Course of implementation
As a first step after the implementation of the FlexiProject system, a detailed breakdown and refinement of the standard of the new product implementation process was undertaken. The project templates available in the FlexiProject system proved to be very helpful in this process. The refinement of the above standards proceeded in parallel with the increasing use of the system – this parallel approach to the creation of a standard for the new product design process and its simultaneous implementation in the system, proved to be a very effective approach. After several iterations, the required standard was achieved and is still in place today. During this process, Torf Corporation also refined the responsibilities of project managers at subsequent stages of the process.
Another organizational area where FlexiProject is effectively applied is the entire production division. In this area, virtually all investment projects, or those aimed at optimizing costs and operational efficiency, are carried out in FlexiProject.
Benefits of implementing the FlexiProject system
Torf Corporation is making very innovative use of the functionality that allows custom design of columns on project schedules. This created a very interesting way of reporting and then monitoring the execution of health and safety orders or the implementation of recommendations after quality audits. Such a record of the above events has enabled significant structuring of activities in these areas.
For all projects carried out in the FlexiProject system, project schedules are created with a clear breakdown of tasks to be carried out, dates and assignment of owners. Project teams use the built-in communicator, thus improving communication as well as storing the necessary information in one place. On more complex projects, modules are used to manage project budgets or risks.
The system is also used effectively by the company’s Board of Directors and Management. Here, the automatic project reviews, the extensive possibility of creating reports on the company’s project situation and the possibility of strategic management of project portfolios prove to be of great value. The company’s Board and Management regularly analyze the status of the company’s ongoing projects using the automatic project reviews available in FlexiProject. This functionality is very helpful because it allows you to set a review date, and then the system automatically reminds project managers of the review date and the things they need to prepare in connection with it. Such a process “enforces” positive discipline and thus punctuality – which from the point of view of decision-making by the Board of Directors is very important.
The success of the implementation of the FlexiProject project management system at Torf Corporation was possible thanks to the great determination of the company’s Board of Directors, Senior Management, the Project Management Manager and the people who operationally increasingly use the system for their daily work on project implementation.