Clever Age accelerates its global growth with the Alibeez ERP

An ERP for ESN structuring at the service of growth, performance and business simplification. Clever Age, an expert firm in omnicaneous digital projects, is experiencing rapid growth on three continents. To support this dynamic, the group was looking for an ERP solution capable of centralizing and reliable its processes. He chose Alibeez to automate his operations, streamline his business flows and strengthen his performance internationally. Presentation of the deployment of a tailor -made solution and its concrete benefits.

30% productivity gain

For ADV and accounting teams

Reinforced monitoring

Package projects with better calculation of PCA/FAE

Improvement of Tace

Thanks to real -time visibility

Decrease in billing time

Accelerating cash flow

Clever Age: a global digital actor

Clever Age is a consulting firm, training and realization IT, specializing in omnichannel digital projects. Thanks to his "Consulting to Delivery" approach, he intervenes on the entire value chain, from strategy to technical production. Its horizontal organization, controlled by senior experts: the famous "web papis", combines strategy, design and technology. Its key figures:

500 employees spread over 3 continents:
  • Europe: 5agences (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse) spread over 12 BU
  • Asia: 3agences (Hongkong, Singapore, Vietnam)
  • North America: 1 agency
3 transverse entities for specific expertise:
  • be Clever: Digital strategy and advice
  • Clever Garden: UX/UI, Front-End and Design
  • Clever presence: run, exploitation and performance

Context before Alibeez: partitioned and time -consuming management

Before ERP Alibeez, Clever Age used a constellation of disparate tools with weak integrations and without unified vision, generating:
  • Multiple rejected, sources of errors
  • High treatment time
  • Difficulty piloting projects and profitability
  • Important administrative charge for ADV teams and accountants
The tools used before
  • Pipedrive for the generation of project codes
  • Clevercra for time monitoring
  • Odoo for sales administration (ADV), absence management, quotes, invoicing and recruitment
  • Cleemy for costs notes
  • Sage for accounting
  • Peopledoc for HR management
  • Docusign for the validation of quotes
Despite the use of Clever CRA, Odoo and Cleemy as a base, their functional limits and their lack of interoperability made the whole difficult to keep. Group growth accentuated these constraints, highlighting the need for structural change. The management team wanted to have more precise analytical follow -up by companies, agencies and by BU, in order to rationalize the entire information system. The objective was to find the effective tool to sustainably support group growth. With a multi-continental presence and sustained growth, Clever Age needed an ERP for ESN capable of adapting to the complexity of its activities and its geographic specificities.

Objectives and needs: centralize data and automate processes

The project aimed to reconcile operational efficiency and reliable piloting worldwide:
  • Centralize all project data, HR, finance in a single standard
  • Automate flows between tools to reduce re -entered
  • Offer a consolidated view by BU, Agency, Region
  • Improve real -time visibility on KPI KPIs: CA, TACE, Profitability, Rate to do, etc.
  • Unify the user experience, regardless of the role or location

The choice alibeez: a complete, modular and interconnected ERP

Clever Age chose Alibeez for its complete business functions, its modularity, and its ability to adapt to service companies operating in several geographic areas. The software was deployed to replace Clever Cra, Odoo and Cleemy in France, then extended to Canada, Vietnam, Singapore and Hong Kong.

3 -phase integration

1

Entering times, absences and invoicing

Implementation of the first project management bricks.

2

Fence module, costs and purchases

Extension to finance functions.

3

HR basis, recruitment, skills

Finalization of the global system.

Key connectors made

  • Synchronization of absences with Silae
  • Integration of costs, sales and purchases with wise
  • Payments automated in Sepa format
  • Pickyourskills connector for staff
  • Implementation of APIS & Webhooks for the automation of business processes

Concrete results: Boost of productivity and acceleration of invoicing

Alibeez’s adoption has resulted in measurable gains in business processes. Clever AGE was aimed at unifying data in a reference tool, then automating interactions with its third -party tools as much as possible. A skills base was completed in Alibeez, and a connection to Pickyourskills has been set up.
In addition, a centralized BI has been implemented in order to facilitate the reading and analysis of the data from a consolidated view. The development of webhooks and APIs has also made it possible to automate many processes with third -party tools, thus improving the overall efficiency of the information system.

An operational deployment controlled in 4 months

A progressive, rigorous and collaborative implementation has allowed a smooth transition. The project was first deployed on France and then Asia and Canada.

Integration study
Redesign of the configuration and adaptation of user roles to define them according to the populations (consultants, managers, agency manager, etc.)
Structuring of analytics via relevant tags
Clarification of management rules by pole
Complete audit of static and dynamic data
Tailor -made tests, recipes and training with teams
The speed of deployment is one of the key success factors: the first agencies were operational in less than 4 months.

"Our internal solution, Clever CRA, was not sustainable: it lacked scalability and reliability, especially in terms of control between monitoring of time and absence management, which caused gaps and errors in pay. The monitoring of times spent by project as well as the management of the remains to be made was complex, making it difficult to calculate PCA and FAE. With the growth of the company, it became essential to have more precise analytical monitoring, by company, by agency and by Business Unit. We are an independent structure, convinced of the need to build, with Alibeez, a lasting and enriching relationship. »»

- Frédéric Bon, 
Président, Clever Age

“The project with Clever Age perfectly illustrates our approach: to offer a modular ERP solution, robust and quickly deployable, even in complex and multi-country environments. Alibeez becomes their operational spine, with rapid deployment and concrete results. »»

- Pascal Chiron

Directeur Associé, AlibeeZ 

Alibeez becomes the heart of the IS of Clever Age: Evolution perpetrations towards more automation

Today, Alibeez has become the pivot of the Clever Age information system:
  • Replacement of several software with a unified solution
  • Quick international deployment
  • Fine multi-bundling and multi-aging management
  • Performance real time control
The next steps include:
  • The implementation of a centralized BI from consolidated data
  • The creation of new connectors via APIS and webhooks
  • Advanced integration with Pickyourskills for the management of skills

Clever Age was able to cross a course in its internal management thanks to the ERP for Esn Alibeez

  • If unified, automated workflows
  • Fine analytical view on each profit center
  • Time saving and data reliability
  • Adaptation capacity to future issues

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