Enhancing Hostess Brands' Project Efficiency with Cloud Coach

Hostess Brands manages iconic bakery brands such as Hostess® Twinkies®, CupCakes, Donettes®, Ding Dongs®, and more

Use Case

Project Portfolio Management

Headquarters

Lenexa, Kansas

Industry

Food and Beverages

Employees

1,000 – 5,000

Real time executive dashboards and reporting

Custom innovation Stage Gate process for PMO

NO MORE SPREADSHEETS

“With Cloud Coach, we will bring cross functional teams together to vet projects and make sure nothing gets missed; which is the beauty of Stage Gates.”

Jean Foreman

Director of Enterprise Activation

Key Capabilities

The challenges

The solutions

The challenge

Hostess was using a range of siloed solutions to manage its PMO processes.

The solution

Cloud Coach has provided a uniform solution that is also native to the Salesforce platform.

The challenge

Hostess Brands was looking for a more efficient process to guide overall strategy, make better decisions, and provide governance to all active demand and projects at a executive level.

The solution

Using Cloud Coach stage gate management, all projects can be related to Hostess Brands’ custom stage gate process which can enforce checklists at specific gates, provide a big picture overview across projects, and promote pragmatic decision making.

The challenge

Hostess Brands had no method of standardized reporting to capture both incoming demand and active initiatives within one reporting engine.

The solution

Being native to Salesforce, Hostess can now leverage Salesforce dashboards & reports to visualize all Cloud Coach data including the demand management and project execution modules.

The challenge

Hostess Brands’ commercialization process was very manual and spreadsheet based.

The solution

Automation of workflows using Salesforce automation tools.