zetVisions CIM at Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB

Company profile

The SBB (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen) is the largest travel and transport company in Switzerland. The SBB Group is made up of four divisions: Passenger service, Freight (SBB Cargo) Infrastructure and Real Estate. Every year about 327 million passengers travel with SBB.  Every day SBB Cargo transports 220,000 tonnes of freight. In the financial year 2010, the Group (with about 28 000 employees) generated a revenue of approximately 8 billion Swiss franc.

Initial situation

• No unified administration of master data (reliability)
• Heterogeneous  storage of formal documents (topicality)
• Insufficient electronic support in  process handling
• Mixture in the process handling (central/ local)

Objectives

• Centralized information platform and efficient master data administration
• Uniform and efficient controlling of legal entities throughout the group
•  Monitoring of appointments (BoD meetings, general meetings, contracts etc.)
• Uniform process handling und tracking
• Ensuring Governance Rules
• Transparent capital transactions (additions/ retirements, change of book values etc.)
• Depiction of  financing/ guarantees and current financial and performance numbers

Benefits

• Comprehensive testing by project team, incl. company-specified adaptations (Customizing)
• Ongoing support for users by a core team
• Extended user training
• zetVisions support is guaranteed if required
• Compatibility with specific needs of SBB
• Convincing look & feel (surfaces, easiness, user friendliness)

“The close cooperation with zetVisions and the ongoing support by a project team were the key success factors for the implementation of zetVisions CIM.”

Beat Kofmel
Corporate Controlling, M&A / Legal Entity Management
Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB