162 Agribusiness conglomerate Groupe Roullier used Nintex K2 Five and Nintex K2 Cloud to comply with new transparency regulations For a successful company like Groupe Roullier – an agribusiness conglomerate with over 130 subsidiaries – managing enterprise resource management (ERP) is a complex challenge, especially when it comes to developing group-wide or multi-entity applications. In 2019, the group’s parent company Compagnie Financière et de Participations Roullier (CFPR) elected to deploy a business process management (BPM) system to break down silos between its disparate information systems. The decision was driven by a need to comply with France’s Transparency, AntiCorruption, and Economic Modernisation Act, which requires companies with more than 500 employees and annual sales over €100 million ($99.95 million) to disclose all the third parties they work with. “To help us comply with the law, we developed a dedicated application that lets subsidiaries submit third-party authorisation requests via an automatic approval workflow,” says Paul Santana, BPM IT project manager at Groupe Roullier. Automating this approval process meant interfacing the application with different ERPs across the group’s subsidiaries. To successfully achieve this, Groupe Roullier chose Nintex K2 Five for its ability to support complex processes and interface with a wide range of ERPs via application programming interfaces. Nintex’s advanced profile management features were also a key selling point, since the group needed to keep data isolated across its user and entity base. CFPR enlisted the help of Nintex’s digital services partner Orange Business Services to develop the application – known as Roullier Compliance Platform (RCP). However, infrastructure constraints caused persistent issues with the applications after they were deployed. After analysing the group’s environments, Nintex decided that the best solution would be to migrate all applications and workflows to Nintex K2 Cloud. “The holding company likes to host applications in-house at our two redundant data centres,” says Santana. “That’s how it’s always been done around here. We explored four options: keeping things on-premises with Nintex K2 Five and fixing the problems, adopting a hybrid model, going full cloud with Nintex K2 Cloud, and switching to another BPM solution. But none of the other systems we looked at came close in terms of supporting our highly complex workflows.” Agribusiness conglomerate Groupe Roullier implemented Nintex solutions to automate authorisation requests and comply with France’s new transparency regulations P ROF I L ED : GROUP E ROU L L I E R Breaking down silos
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