INTER-COMMERCE

INTER-COMMERCE has been an exclusive distributor of BAUER in the Russian Federation and in the near-abroad countries since 2005. This brand, one of the most popular ones in the field of design and production of hockey kit, belongs to BAUER. The company’s central office with over 30 employees is located in Moscow.

Success Story

Business growth required process optimization associated with the order fulfilment, customer service, and direct interaction with the primary supplier. Besides, the company management being interested in a thorough analysis of all activities within the company longed to acquire as much detailed, prompt and full information as possible.

The company has already implemented a business process management system from one of popular Russian vendors. However, its version has been already outdated for several years. In fact, the company needed not an ordinary system update, but implementation of a new integrated project for the process automation and full-fledged transition to new modern software and user training.

SAP® Business One solution that has successfully proven itself at the Russian and world markets satisfied many of the company’s requirements. The main supplier, BAUER, also uses SAP software products in its activity, and this fact became an additional argument in favor of this solution, as it opened up an opportunity for integrating BAUER and INTER-COMMERCE systems in terms of goods movement flow management.

For the purpose of system implementation the company’s management was looking for a reliable partner with a big experience in the implementation of similar projects. Finally, the choice was made for GazIntech, a leading consulting company in the field of SAP® Business One implementation in Russia. Alongside with many years of expertise in the implementation of SAP-based solutions for small and medium business companies, including in the field of distribution, GazIntech has ready models of their own design, which supplement the standard functionality of SAP® Business One.

SAP® Business One was implemented in two stages. It allowed getting certain advantage from its implementation upon completion of each stage, and minimizing negative consequences of the transient period, making the implementation process less stressful for users.

Creating a corporate information system on the platform of SAP® Business One helped INTER-COMMERCE to build a maximally transparent and effective interaction pattern with the main supplier — BAUER. After the system has been implemented, business processes have become more structured and transparent, and the speed of their fulfilment has increased. Two-way integration with the accounting system 1C:Enterprise facilitated work of the accounting office. The availability of full information about orders helped to facilitate and speed up work with the customers significantly. Processing of pre-order session with BAUER was simplified — thanks to the automation, the whole cycle now takes 1-2 days instead of 5.

 

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The integrated solution has united all units of our company into a single information environment, and allowed to reaching a brand new business level.

The management and the employees have got access to all data required for quick and quality performance of regular activities, control and correction of key business processes, analysis and planning of interaction with the customers, suppliers and representative offices in the regions.

 

Anna Dorodnikova, INTER-COMMERCE CEO