Complete the business outsourcing management to positively build saving enterprises

From: "Business Intelligence", China Business Herald News Weekly

As one key part of the Celebration Ceremony for the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of China Cuisine Association, the Forum for Building A Saving Society and Developing the Catering Business, jointly hosted by China Cuisine Association(CCA) and the Experts’ Work Committee of CCA, began on April 21st, 2007, in the Meeting Hall of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC). This forum got high-level attention from the government leadership at various levels and the positive support from relevant government organs. Ms. Zhang Meiying, Vice Chairperson of CPPCC, attended the forum and gave important instructions. Many senior government officials went to the forum and made important speeches. They include Feng Zhijun, Deputy Director of the Environmental Resources Committee under the National People’s Congress(NPC); Jiang Zengwei, Vice Commerce Minister; Chen Xiaohong, Vice Health Minister; Liu Yanhua, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Zhou Changyi, Deputy Head of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environment Protection of National Development and Reform Commission. On behalf of Sodexo, Mr. SOLAS made a speech at the Forum as the following:

Constructing a saving society and materializing sustainable development is a significant policy based on the experiences of the modernization drive and the specific situations of China.

Service outsourcing represents a mode of service that provides the best external resources for client companies to employ. It can help client companies fully explore their core competitiveness, more focus on the accomplishment of their main missions, and to enhance their responsiveness for external relations. With the development of global service outsourcing business, Sodexo has become the specialist in the field of group services management. Established in France in 1966, Sodexo has got its business spread across over 80 countries in the world, with 332,000 employees and over 20,000 restaurants under its administration. Sodexo rank the second (with IBM as the first) in the list of 100 top service-outsourcing companies in the world made by International Service Outsourcing Association. Besides, Sodexo has been selected as one of the best in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). Sodexo is named as the leader by Dow Jones Index in the service field it is engaged in. It is in 1995 that Sodexo began its business in China. Currently, it owns over 600 operation sites with 14,000 employees in China. Sodexo is in charge of the administration and management of the dining halls of our clients including enterprises, educational institutions, and hospitals.

Since its entry into China market in 1995, Sodexo has set up Sodexo Management Academy (SMA) to provide professional trainings to managers of our operation sites, with one important training course being about the reduction of energy consumption. We inform our employees the importance of reducing energy consumption. We have specially made some plans to save energy resources and kept some energy-using records to assess the progress in the field of energy conservation. Sodexo Greater China own a specialized team, composed of by chefs, nutrition experts, and professional purchasing personnel and purchasing systems. Therefore, we are able to supply different client groups including employees of client companies, kids at schools and patients in hospitals with tailor-made menus featured by appropriate seasonings, balanced nutrition, and wonderful tastes. These menus respectively oriented to different characteristics of every operation site can effectively reduce the waste of raw materials and the thrown dishes. Meanwhile, Sodexo’s design team will provide smart designs based on the space characteristics of dining halls to promote the reasonable arrangements of the construction funds and facilities for dining halls. Besides, our professional teams are also specialized in maintaining the kitchen equipments of Sodexo’s operation sites to make those equipments function long and well, thus enhancing the resource-using efficiency and avoiding unnecessary inputs of money.