Jeeves ERP at Bygg-Ole
Bygg-Ole is now one of Sweden’s leading building materials retailers, offering a broad range of timber, paint, flooring, wallpaper and textiles, tools, kitchens, plumbing and bathroom products.
Bygg-Ole’s motto, “the town’s most alert”
Is not just about generous opening hours, but also about offering a range that keeps pace with developments, knowledgeable and inspiring staff, and supporting services that make purchasing decisions easier for customers.
Jeeves ERP is the foundation of everything in the building materials retailer’s daily operations.
In 2009, Bygg-Ole switched to Jeeves after evaluating several ERP systems for the building materials trade. It chose Jeeves because it needed an industry solution that allowed change and could support the company’s development.
“This enables us to fulfill our customer promise of high quality and knowledgeable, efficient service. In the building materials trade, you need a flexible, comprehensive ERP system providing full control of the product range, supplier processes, order handling, and timber sizes and volumes. The market and our customers are constantly changing, and we must adapt quickly,” says Jens Bodén.
Jens Bodén’s story at Bygg-Ole began in 1988, when he started a holiday job at 14. After high school, he became a permanent employee and has since held several positions in the company. Today, he is responsible for the operations of all of Bygg-Ole and Nacka Trä.
“I have been part of the entire journey through Bygg-Ole’s ERP history. Now that we use Jeeves, we achieve major time and cost savings.”
Our previous system held us back in development. Changes often took a long time, became expensive and failed to meet expectations.
With Jeeves and support from its partner Systemstöd, we can quickly develop new in-store business concepts or logistics improvements and launch them in a short time.
Another advantage is the ERP system’s ease of use. More than 180 people work at Bygg-Ole and Nacka Trä, needing to understand the logic quickly and work efficiently to meet customers’ needs. Since switching to Jeeves, learning time has halved.
Jeeves at the heart of the complete solution
Bygg-Ole and Nacka Trä’s current ERP solution is comprehensive. At its foundation is Jeeves, which handles finance, logistics, sales and order management.
Systemstöd, a Jeeves partner, has developed several industry apps for the building materials trade that Bygg-Ole uses. Other systems are connected or integrated with Jeeves, including an Extenda point-of-sale system and an additional financial management system that simplifies invoice importing.
Despite having over 980,000 items in its range, Bygg-Ole has complete control down to individual screws and nuts. The fully integrated system provides an up-to-date inventory picture every day, every second. “The item management solution tells us exactly how many brushes, paint cans, nails and screws we have in stock and when to reorder.”
In other words, we have full control of inventory levels and avoid tying up too much capital. We can also quickly give customers information on stock availability, meeting their needs even better.
Complete control in no time
As Operations Manager, Jens Bodén needs a good overview of everything happening in the stores. Jeeves lets him quickly retrieve older order histories and details of deliveries and invoices. With the previous ERP system, this took half a day. Now it takes three minutes.
The ERP system also lets me quickly see price adjustments to our products and what a price increase or promotional price would mean. This saves considerable time, allowing us to focus on our core business instead of working with Excel documents and similar tools,” says Jens Bodén.
Jeeves’ ease of use and unique architecture are clearly central to Bygg-Ole. Both are key to success in a company culture characterized by innovation, curiosity and short decision-making paths.
“We want to grow rapidly, so we need an ERP system that adapts to us and can keep pace with our big plans. Jeeves is undoubtedly the easiest ERP system to change of all those I have worked with. That is reassuring when, as in our company, so much happens so quickly! Jeeves also has knowledgeable consultants who know the system inside out, a major advantage when turning ideas into reality,” says Jens Bodén.
Bygg-Ole has four stores in the Stockholm area and is a part-owner of Byggtrygg, the Nordic region’s largest purchasing alliance, with XL-BYGG as a shared marketing concept. Its sales serve both individuals and business customers. Business customers range from major companies such as Skanska and Riksbyggen to smaller painting and construction firms. All share a need for high-quality building materials and professional service.