“The P.O.Int. project has been a breakthrough in the performances of the Procurement processes in the Food & Beverage area: from a paperbased “management” with more than 70,000 documents per year to the possibility to accurately analyze the procurement exceptions by increasing the level of service delivered to our fleet. The project has been deployed within the defined realization times and without relevant criticalities. Also the portal acceptance level by our suppliers – a crucial aspect of the project – has not generated any problems in practice. The application solution integrated with the Costa ERPs has proven to be robust and did not require specific maintenance activities. Currently Costa aims at extending this TESISQUARE solution in an horizontal way and replicate the POInt project in further procurement commodity categories (the solution go-live concerning the procurement in the Technical Operation area is expected in 2013); Costa also plans a vertical extension of the sourcing processes in the BID, catalogue and RFQ management area.”