Vallourec, a leading supplier of tubular products to the oil and gas industry, is a multinational enterprise with a presence in 20 countries with 22,535 employees worldwide. But despite offering its customers global solutions for today’s energy challenges, the company traditionally had no HR tools capable of supporting globally consistent HR policies, processes and initiatives.  

'We were still living with what we call local systems, linked to local requirements,' says Vallourec’s Employee Relations Director Philippe Ferrie.

'So we had different types of SAP or other tools deployed at the country level, but we did not have any corporate HR tools.'