FUCHS Lubricants transforms employee collaboration and communication across AISEA region.

FUCHS commits to local infrastructure and expertise as it develops, manufactures, and sells technologically advanced lubricants and specialty products around the world. FUCHS was looking to assist staff in its AISEA region find the internal connections and information they needed to more efficiently fulfil their roles.

As Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator at FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia), explains, “Our existing intranet’s search function wasn’t organised in a logical or intuitive way. This caused a lot of frustration navigating it making it really difficult to find information or complete tasks – so a lot of people would avoid using it. And the system wasn’t compatible with new technologies, like mobile devices or cloud-based applications, and that put real limitations on its usefulness.”

“We were given the go ahead to modernise our intranet to transform how we worked. From the latest solutions, we knew we’d have new, clear paths to all the people and information we needed.”

FUCHS has a strategic focus on service excellence and, with its staff across the region operating more effectively, there would be a payoff too for its AISEA customers.

“We had a clunky intranet with limited functionality. Our project was to create better connections between local, regional, and head offices. The employee experience, communication channels, and information sources for news and events, were central to the brief.”
Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator, FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia)

“We had a clunky intranet with limited functionality. Our project was to create better connections between local, regional, and head offices. The employee experience, communication channels, and information sources for news and events, were central to the brief.“

Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator, FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia)

Delivering consistent branding from SharePoint Online collaboration platform.

The FiveP SharePoint Foundations addressed FUCHS’ business requirements through the creation of a modern intranet site for the AISEA region, as well as complementary, specific country sites. Based on a globally endorsed site template, it was to achieve uniform branding across the regional and country pages. The goal was to provide a simple and consistent intranet experience for users across the AISEA region, with access to hyper-local content triggered by the user’s location.

Consistent with the approach at FUCHS head office in Germany, the new collaboration platform would be built using SharePoint Online intranet.

To establish the AISEA site, FiveP implemented its purpose-designed foundational framework for deploying SharePoint Online. Over five days, a FiveP specialist worked closely with nominated FUCHS subject matter experts.

From there, FiveP applied its expertise in combining business productivity and operations toolsets to build out a base intranet platform.

The result was a unified capability that aligned with the FUCHS’ working model. Its people across the region now have a broad range of built-in communication tools, such as team sites, newsfeeds, and discussion boards. With the SharePoint Online streamlined workflows and real time access, tasks can be completed with no wasted time.

In the next phase of the project, FiveP conducted the critical knowledge transfer. Via a range of activities, workshops and training sessions, the focus was on the country-level site structures, high-level information architecture, a governance plan, and content strategy. The deliverables were supported by eight Champions training sessions and a group admin training session. To ensure the successful ongoing management and maintenance of each country’s intranet, FiveP provided appropriate training to local country SMEs.

“The FiveP folks talked to us in business terms not IT jargon. And they were very helpful in making sure we’d be confident to use and update the platform,” Rochelle says.

“Our SharePoint Online project with FiveP has galvanised the region, unlocking the potential of our people, and FUCHS’ solutions, to fulfil the needs of our customers.”
Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator, FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia)

“Our SharePoint Online project with FiveP has galvanised the region, unlocking the potential of our people, and FUCHS’ solutions, to fulfil the needs of our customers.“

Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator, FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia)

Perfectly positioned to respond to customers. 

Rochelle says: “Like FUCHS, FiveP has proven excellence through its innovation and specialisation. They brought their enviable expertise to design a clear path to our desired results.

“We have a vastly improved user experience. Now the search function has been organised in a logical and intuitive way, the intranet is so easy to use. With everything centralised, we can get things done and shared so quickly.”

Two elements new to the FUCHS workplace from the new intranet are enhanced security and scalability.

SharePoint Online provides robust security features to control access to FUCHS’ data and track user activity.

And the platform is also highly scalable as FUCHS’ business grows and expand through regions and head offices across the world. FUCHS has achieved consistency in its Intranet regional setup. And it can easily add new users, sites and features to the platform without any downtime or disruption.

“Our new digital workspace, delivered by FiveP, allows us to engage with each other across the region, to know what’s going on. We have easy access to the latest information that’s consistent across the region. FUCHS’ intranet is everything you’d expect in a modern workplace.”

Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator, FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia)

“Our new digital workspace, delivered by FiveP, allows us to engage with each other across the region, to know what’s going on. We have easy access to the latest information that’s consistent across the region. FUCHS’ intranet is everything you’d expect in a modern workplace.“

Rochelle Liyanage, Product Services Coordinator, FUCHS Lubricants (Australasia)