Case Study
How Bloomin’ Brands Boosted their Back-Office Operations
About Bloomin' Brands International
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. is one of the largest casual dining companies in the world. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, they have over 90,000 employees and 1,500 restaurants in more than 20 countries. The company holds the rights for brands such as Outback Steakhouse, Abbraccio Cucina Italiana, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Bonefish Grill, Aussie Grill, and Carrabba’s Italian Grill.
In Brazil alone, Outback Steakhouse, Aussie Grill, and Abbraccio have over 200 storefronts in 16 Brazilian states, as well as the Brazilian Federal District.
Case overview
In order to support their restaurant network all over Brazil, Bloomin’ Brands needed to efficiently control a number of their back-office processes.
In 2019, Bloomin' Brands Brazil was challenged with managing requests for all its stores. After analyzing several vendors, they chose Pipefy as the tool to operate these processes.
This was such a success that the company later broadened its usage of the platform, implementing other processes from finance (accounting, controllership, treasury, accounts receivable), IT (user access concession and revocation control), and HR (benefits and recruiting). Their Internal Control team also implemented an SOX conformity process, among several others.
Specifications
- Industry: Food and Beverages.
- Company Size: 12,000 employees in Brazil.
- Process Vertical: Operations, Human Resources, Finance, IT, Shared Services Control.
- Processes in Pipefy:
- Supplier and products registration.
- Tax and accounting processes.
- Benefits management
- Recruitment.
- Employee offboarding
- SOX compliance.
Bloomin’ Brands before Pipefy
- Bloomin’ Brands teams managed processes over many different channels including telephone, email, WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams
- Insufficient control, visibility, and transparency over back-office processes
- Decentralized information with no history of past exchanges
Bloomin’ Brands after Pipefy
- Centralized receiving demands through Pipefy Forms and Portals
- Managers now able to track metrics and generate reports
- Increased visibility over the status of each request
- Standardized and controlled processes
With Pipefy, we found the solution to centralize and efficiently manage a high flow of important information inside the company. Pipefy fit perfectly as a key element in orchestrating several processes, bringing our operation into a new standard of excellence with great cost-effectiveness and scalability.”
Frank Wundheiler, Vice President of Finance
Key Results
84
active processes
95%
of requests duly concluded according to standardized flows
400%
user growth in 2 years
12
departments using Pipefy
150%
ROI
Given the current scenario in which remote work has become common, controlling requests that arrived from several different channels became an even greater challenge for management. These challenges encouraged us to implement new business solutions by way of tools such as Pipefy, bringing flexibility, agility, and reliability in controlling and fulfilling those requests in record time, very rapidly and effectively.”
Marcos Faustino, Systems Manager
About Pipefy
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