Capgemini will undertake the technology migration and finance accounting services as a result of the merger between Office Depot and OfficeMax.
The company will be responsible for consolidating and standardising the financial and accounting processes across the combined global operations with OfficeMax.
Capgemini’s role will be to help standardise and optimise Office Depot’s global finance and accounting operations, extending its existing BPO services until 2020, an extension on a contract which was due to expire in 2016.
Kim Moehler, senior vice president, chief accounting officer finance department for Office Depot, said: "Capgemini has been a longstanding and trusted business partner for Office Depot, providing us a strategic approach to restructuring our financial management processes."
"The sheer velocity of change and reorganisation at our company required a partner that would work as a core component of our team. Capgemini has successfully implanted its consultative business process outsourcing expertise across the finance organisation, which has brought us heightened benefits."
Christopher Stancombe, CEO of BPO and member of the Group Executive Committee at Capgemini, said: "We are excited to expand our programme and partnership with Office Depot, becoming an integral business partner in their global restructuring initiative."
"We continue our emphasis on enhancing Office Depot’s productivity and accelerating value realisation by providing next-generation business and IT solutions that will reduce costs and improve performance across its business operations."
Todd Hale, chief information officer, information technology division for Office Depot, said: "With Capgemini’s deep retail industry expertise and its proven track record of transformational migration projects, we knew that its team and services aligned well with our business roadmap."
"Our collaborative efforts to execute a global transformation will not only enhance the operational framework across this new global enterprise, but provide our executives and teams with invaluable insights to streamline business processes and bring greater value to our partners and customers."
As part of the contract, Capgemini will provide support for the integration of OfficeMax’s legacy IT systems as well as providing testing services for 70 IT merger-integration projects. In order to deliver software testing functions and leveraging best practices in migration projects, the company will create a Testing Centre of Excellence for Office Depot.
Capgemini began working with Office Depot in 2011 to streamline its end-to-end finance processes and is now expanding its services post-merger. Additionally, Capgemini will provide new services for application development and maintenance to 2017, as well as testing services through to the end of this year.
