Etienne Udry

Entrepreneur, Projects, IT and Logistics

Swatch Group Nordic

Go Live : 2004

Results

Project delivered on-time and in budget

Objectives

Decrease of inventories

Optimize Products Availability

Decrease IT Cost of Ownership

Improve Productivity

Scope

Sales & Distribution

Materials Management

Finance

Controlling

Retail

Logistics Transportation

Challenges

This project was in fact 3 countries into one (Denmark, Sweden, Finland). As the T&E costs were quite high, we had to be creative to keep the project budget. One time we even had to sleep in a former jail house hostel to save travel costs.

Solutions

Centralized Distribution of Watches and Jewellery ouf of the EDC

Direct deliveries to Point-of-Sales

Products Demand Planning

Master data harmonization

Migration from legacy systems to SAP ERP

User Support out of Switzerland