Mars Plans Investment In Microsoft Project Platform With Marque360 Envisioning Workshop
About Mars Petcare
Mars Petcare is a unified force of 140,000+ Associates, taking action every day toward the world we want tomorrow. Their Five Principles have kept them true to themselves and to their commitment to treat others in ways that are consistent with those values.
Industry: Manufacturing | Employees: 10,000
Business Problem
Mars, Incorporated is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$40 billion in annual sales in 2021. Mars was ranked as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States. They were in the process of creating a PMO centralized location – Mars has 430 sites around the world in 82 countries – It’s a complex organization with 5 regions: North America, Europe, Canada Latin, America, China. Their projects were loosely managed by customer driven projects, and their program and demand requests were being submitted in random formats without a cohesiveness or a dedicated process in place. Other issues were tracking risks, issues, governance, and financial reviews. The Customer experience differed between each PM, and there was a lack of organization globally with no variable or resources existing to scale up project initiatives and no PMO model or cycle moving projects.
Marque360’s Solution for Mars Petcare. Here’s how the solution works:
Winning Proposal
- Voice of the Customer- Marque360 would facilitate working
sessions with key stakeholders and Executives to outlineCharcoal and Green Effective Communication Process Flow Chart (1) existing process and map out future PMO processes based on best practices. - Capture Project Lifecyle-Sessions would be conducted to mirror the Project life cycle, right from Project Intake/Business case, Project Creation, Schedule Management and Governance, Collaboration and Dashboards.
- Roadmap-Based on the findings, the Marque360 team provided a roadmap for a phased rollout as it aligned to key business drivers and priorities.
- Expanding investment in M365 Platform-Given the existing adoption and investment in the Microsoft platform the Mars PMO team wanted a single platform to fulfill all process, automation and collaboration needs utilizing Microsoft Project, Teams and Power Platform.
