"The platform has changed our way of working, now we can manage the corporate risk treatment, formalize the internal audit works, and follow the improvement plans throughout the whole organization, maintaining the process reliability, and transparency. Everything has resulted in the productivity increase, and we believe there is potential for more expressive results in the next years".
Brena Rebouças - Cimento Apodi Internal Audit coordinator
Process reliability and agility
The company was looking to optimize the management of different sectors
Real-time information
Senior management gained agility in decision-making
Complete platform
With the solution, it is possible to map, analyze, monitor and continuously improve non-conformities
Cimento Apodi is one of the most modern and sustainable cement companies all over Brazil, with a production of two million T per year. The business is a multinational joint venture multinational, and its associates are the Dias Branco family and Titan Group. With more than 60 years of history and presence all over the Brazilian territory, the Dias Branco family is one of the most representative in the Northeast region when the subjects are investment and business. And the Titan Group has more than one-hundred-year experience and presence in more 15 countries.
Easy access to information
The company has been seeking the work management optimization of the internal audit and corporate, operating, financial, and compliance risks with a tool that would bring reliability and agility to the processes. The objective was to make easy the employee daily routine when accessing information and to support the leaders, thus bringing strategic theme transparency and follow-up in real time.Adherence to the business
Cimento Apodi Internal Audit Coordinator, Brena Rebouças told the company has chosen the SoftExpert Suite tool because it fits perfectly to the group business strategies.The solution has a unique interface among the internal audit, risk and internal control management modules and this point was crucial for the choice,” she comments.Nowadays, all the company leaders have access to the platform, and they can follow, in real time, the action plans and mapped risks. So, the top management has increased the agility in the decision-making, and they can focus on increasingly strategic activities.
Improvement management
SoftExpert has allowed the Cimento Apodi Industrial Company to map, analyze, follow, and improve continuously non-conformities found in internal audits and reduction of the business risks, integrating several management structures in a single platform, in addition to the management of the corporate risks, internal audits, and internal controls. Brena emphasizes the solution impact in the company business, helping the top management in the decision-making, since the managers have efficient and agile information any time, making easy the activity control and traceability, besides directing where the improvement and effort concentration is necessary.We can emphasize the operating economy with the process optimization, where we had an average reduction of five days in the report attention for the top management and an increase by almost 25% in productivity and agility in the activity follow-up and execution by users,” she adds.
SoftExpert Features
- Low implementation complexity
- Excellent cost x benefit ratio
- Integrated components
- Agile Software
- Platform in cloud
