JEDOX SUCCESS STORY · FOOD & BEVERAGE
Bell Food Group streamlines sustainability indicator monitoring with Jedox
Bell Food Group, a leading European meat and convenience food processor based in Basel, needed a better way to collect sustainability data across its business units. With Jedox it now gathers around 180 metrics in 25 data areas from about 160 employees in 15 countries, with live visibility of progress.
180+
sustainability metrics collected
25
data areas
15
countries
About Bell Food Group
Bell Food Group is a leading European meat and convenience food processor headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It employs about 12,200 people across 15 European countries and produces meat, poultry, charcuterie, seafood and fresh and non-perishable convenience products. It is the market leader in Switzerland and in several European countries for certain product segments, and its main shareholder is the Coop Group.
Challenge
Excel could no longer cope
Bell Food Group is the market leader in Switzerland and in several European countries for certain product segments, operating in 15 countries with about 12,200 employees. Sustainability is central to its corporate strategy, and monitoring sustainability indicators across all business units is a key way of steering it.
These indicators feed into the Coop Group’s annual sustainability report, prepared under Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. Since 2014, Bell’s expansion had made Excel unworkable for collecting non-financial data, and the Sustainability Competence Centre wanted software to make the process more efficient.
Solution
Input masks for 25 data areas
After evaluating several options, Bell selected Jedox for its group controlling and HR expertise, flexibility and ease of use, with Consilix as implementation partner, valued for its Jedox expertise and partnership approach to training and knowledge transfer. Bell aims to make Jedox its single source of truth for management reporting, planning and performance management.
Input masks for 25 data areas were built in Jedox. About 160 employees in controlling, engineering and facility management across 15 countries enter data at almost all locations, drawing on sources such as SAP procurement figures and invoices from waste and transport providers.
Responsible staff receive emails asking them to enter data within 15 days, with links to the input report, a training video and the support team; people covering several areas receive aggregated emails. Around 180 metrics are tracked, including energy use by type and source, greenhouse gas emissions per distributed unit (following the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard), waste and water use.
“Our goal was to make the process of collecting metrics more efficient.”
Samuel Widmer
Project Manager Environment and Sustainability Management
Bell Food Group AG
Outcome
180+ metrics from 15 countries
Bell sees improved transparency as the greatest benefit: the sustainability team can see who has entered what, live and at a glance. Built-in plausibility checks flag values that deviate sharply from expectations, which must then be explained or corrected.
Transparent metrics help Bell identify measures to become more sustainable and meet legal and reporting obligations, including TCFD climate-related disclosures, mandatory for large Swiss organisations from the 2023 reporting year.
Next, data from a group-wide energy management system will flow automatically into Jedox so data owners only need to approve measurements, and Power BI will be added to visualise key figures.
I can see who has entered what live and at a glance.
Samuel Widmer, Project Manager Environment and Sustainability Management, Bell Food Group AG
Jedox in use at Bell Food Group
- Sustainability / ESG data collection
- Input masks and plausibility checks
- Automated email workflows
- SAP integration
- Power BI (planned)
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