The two-year program, now completed across 52 countries on five continents, provides the company with increased opportunity to focus on its core competency.
Westcon-Comstor began its business transformation program in EMEA in 2015, continued with the project in Asia-Pacific last year, and concluded this month by going live in North America. Creating regional shared service centers, and integrating with one global BPO partner, Genpact, gives the company a unified platform for transactional processes, global consistency, and simplified integration with its customers and vendors.
The BPO project was completed alongside a separate SAP ERP platform deployment, completed in three years across 54 countries, and has been cited as the root of Westcon's poor financial performance.
“These business process improvements will enable our sales teams to spend less time on administration and more time helping customers grow their business,” said Dolph Westerbos, CEO of Westcon-Comstor. “Combined with the completion of our global ERP rollout, the company is now optimized to take full advantage of future opportunities at an accelerated, more efficient pace.”
Partnering with Genpact has provided Westcon-Comstor the opportunity to transform its country-based operating model to that of regional operating platforms which result in better service and support for vendors and solution providers. To date, Genpact has processed nearly half a million orders for Westcon-Comstor on behalf of more than 10,000 solution providers around the globe.
“We have been on an intense transformation and modernization journey these past years, and certainly not without challenges,” continued Westerbos. “But being the global distribution partner for many of our vendors and customers, with operations in every corner on earth, we needed to provide a consistent and compliant operating model to scale our business further. Our employees have managed unprecedented change, and I am very proud of their achievements. We will continue to optimize our operational processes, but with this initiative complete, we have the foundation for long-term, sustainable success for our company, as well as the strengthened ability to accelerate our customers’ success.”