Etienne Udry

Entrepreneur, Projects, IT and Logistics

Swatch Group Poland

high-rise buildings during night time

Go Live : 2004

Results

Project delivered on-time and in budget

Objectives

Start-up of a new subsidiary in Poland within 3 months

Purchase and Installation of ICT infrastructure

Train all new staff on Sales and Distribution processes

Setup finance and administration

Setup Retail processes

Setup Customer Service processes

Scope

Sales and Distribution

Materials Management

Finance

Controlling

Retail

Customer Service

ICT Infrastructure

Challenges

Within 3 months, we had to train all new staff on business processes, setting up operations from scratch and install the ICT infrastructure (VoiP, Servers, Workstations, Standard Images, Printing services, etc…)


We had also many cultural challenges and to overcome the language barriers (migration to SAP ECC 6.0 Unicode was required to manage Polish characters).

Solutions

Centralized distribution of Watches and Jewellery out of EDC

Direct deliveries to Point-of-Sales

Test shipments

Can-do Attitude

Products Demand Planning

Brands Integration

Outsourced IT infrastructure maintenance