Ahlsell Group

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Customer Snapshot

Ahlsell is a leading technical trading company within installation products, tools and machinery in Scandinavia, the Baltic States and Russia. Ahlsell offers professional users a wide range of goods and peripheral services within the product segments of Heating & Plumbing, Electricity, Tools & Machinery, Refrigeration and DIY (Do-it-yourself). The Group has an annual turnover of about EUR 2.5 billion and some 5,500 employees.

Challenges

  • Strong growth through acquisitions
  • Local presence, more than 220 stores and sales offices throughout the Nordic region.
  • Over 100,000 customers
  • Very high requirements on stability and availability

Solution

  • CDC Supply Chain has been supporting the operation from 1999
  • The entire Ahlsell Group is using one system
       - Standard routines throughout the Group for accounting, finance, e-commerce, sales and purchasing operations

Results

  • One common and shared IT platform across the Ahlsell Group
  • Improved cost effectiveness and quality as a result from one common Group IT platform and the use of standard procedures and routines within the Group
  • Acquired companies are integrated quickly, using the shared IT platform