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Case Studies

We supported these companies in developping personalized solutions through our expertise and our softwares.

Rip Curl

RIPCURL is one of the world leaders in Board Sport universe.

RIPCURL designs and produces products always more innovative to enable to all riders to live fully theirs passion.

  • Worldwide group
  • 200 employees in Europe
  • 3000 distributed references
  • Business to Customers

Problematic

  • Preparation of the seasonal collection with a complete renewal of the products range.
  • Difficulty to control the data coherence.
  • Accumulated delay in the ressources retrieving due to certain complexities and a lot of stakeholders: model maker, products manager, marketing managers, etc.
  • The launching date of the collection being fixed, it's a lot of stress to come.
  • 3 information systems.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • Gather products data with SolidPDM.
  • Solidcatalogue allows 3 marketing departments (USA, Australie, Hossegor France) to generate automatically a seasonal catalogue. Now it only needs to add the marketing pages and finish the printing.
  • SolidPepper reduce the « time-to-market » by optimizing the process, from the creation step to the product communication.
  • SolidPDM and SolidStore are installed on the Rip Curl world server, interfaced with the ERP.
  • The marketing team is working with SolidPepper's tools to integrate their own graphic charter and template.
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Delagrave

Since 1865 the Delagrave company designs, produces and distributes furnitures and equipments intended to the local authorities and schools.

Its know-how and dynamism enable the company to offer a large range of colored products innovative and safe.

  • Industrial French SME
  • 200 employees
  • 3500 referencies distributed
  • Business to Business

Problematic

  • Very long preparation and creation of the product catalogue.
  • Data come from multiples sources.
  • Many communications are linked to the control and gathering of data.
  • A lot of time is wasted before being able to communicate data to the communication agency.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • Gather data in only one database accessible to all collaborators.
  • SolidPDM enables to constitute products datasheets with a quick overview of data and pictures.
  • After the selection of the 3500 references, a paper catalogue is automatically generated with SOLIDcatalogue in a few minutes and is transmitted to the agency for the last marketing modifications.
  • The saved time is used to do more marketing actions or products referential ressourcing.
  • The personalized e-business platform SOLIDSTORE collects customers orders.
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Croix Rouge Internationale de Genève

The International Committee of The red Cross created in 1863 take part in the entire world to offer a humanitarian assistance to all victims from military conflicts, natural disasters, etc.

The International Committee of The red Cross based in Geneva takes part in more than 80 countries and supplies fields operatons with a big diversity of products : generators, to hospitals with 1000 places, medecines, communication posts, chirurgical material.

  • First international humanitarian organization
  • Perform in the whole world with 3 delivery platforms
  • 12 000 employees
  • More than 10 000 articles

Problematic

  • In 2005 the IFRC decided to create a product catalogue in order to standardize the material demand and to help fields operators (technicians, doctors, logisticians, etc.) and to communicate in a better way theirs needs.
  • They had to create thousands of technical files with the more details as possible.
  • Really quickly, these thousands of Word and Excel files became unmanageable.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • SolidProcess enabled to clarify the existing, structure thousands of datasheets and to move forward in the building of a centralized database.
  • Today, products datasheets are updated and completed with pictures and technical files directly from a web interface : the SolidPDM.
  • Result :
    • Three catalogues volumes of 1200 pages are reachable from the web and form an international product referential used by all the international humanitarian companies.
    • The ecatalogue website works in low-bandwidth or even without network in isolated places.
    • The mastery and control of information.
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Gunnebo - For a Safer World

Gunnebo benefits from many years of experience in the security system supplying.

Gunnebo offers access control systems that protect people, goods and activity spaces.
Four strategic domains :
  • Bank Security & Cash Handling
  • Secure Storage
  • Global Services
  • Entrance Control
 Brands : Mayor, Hygiaphone, Fichet-Bauche, Chubb Safe, ...

  • International organization : 31 countries
  • World leader in the security systems for goods and people
  • 5500 employees, 580 M€
  • Business to Business
  • Quoted on the stock exchange

Problematic

  • Retrieving ressources and products data.
  • Many stakeholders are involved in the creation and update of data.
  • Tedious updating of prices and catalogues.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • Automatisation of the creation process.
  • Structuring products data, files and medias.
  • Creation of the general catalogue and illustrated costs.
  • Catalogue targeted by market.
  • Skills transfers and team training.
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Parker legris

Parker Legris is an industrial company specialized in manufacturing connectors and accessories for compressed water and air.

Parker Legris supplies at an international level many agrifood and automobile industries.

  • International organization : 51 countries
  • World leader in the liquid fluids and pneumatic systems
  • Business to Business

Problematic

  • Catalogue with more than 25.000 articles.
  • Big diversity of products.
  • Specialized technical data, illustrated with pictures, pictograms and technical drawings.
  • Multiple departments are concerned : research unit, marketing, factory, etc. that take part in the products datasheeets creation.
  • An error in the technical information presentation can have disastrous consequences for an industrial company integrating the product in its manufacturing process.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • SolidProcess : With the feasibility audit and the analysis of what already exists, a product database was extracted of the information system and completed by the technical data, pictures, etc.
  • The IT Director reorganized the structure and, from a central database, the catalogue is generated. Solidcatalogue generates automatically all the pages taking in consideration all the different technical tables. Each layout is re-wedge to create an optimal page.
  • Coherence between known products information in the research unit and their catalogue presentations that reassures the relationship with an industrial customer.
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Zurfluh-Feller

Creator, developer and manufacturer of systems and solutions for the outside closing of buildings.

ZURFLÜH-FELLER is nowadays the Leader in France for rolling shutters component.

  • Industrial French SME
  • 400 employees
  • Design and make closing systems
  • Business to Business

Problematic

  • Wholesaling to manufacturers and rolling shutters integrators only.
  • 8 technical catalogues targeted by markets with many technical drawings, exploded and study plans.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • Structuring and establishment of an editorial database that supplies Solidcatalogue.
  • Automatic generation of the paper catalogue targeted by selling zones and edited in the language of the country.
  • The establishment of the ecatalogue is based on the SolidStore engine and secured by login.
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Mabeo Industries

One of the main leaders of professional supplying in France with 40 agencies.

MABEO is a multi-specialist trader intervening on the industry market, construction and civil engineering, services and local authorities.

  • French SME
  • 700 employees
  • 40 agencies
  • Multi-specialist industrial supplies
  • Business to Business

Problematic

  • More than 400 pages of products data to constitute in a short delay.
  • A big diversity of products as set of tools, consumables, multi-articles in different formats.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • Solidcatalogue enables to generate an automatic page layout and to recalculate the necessary space per product for an optimal layout.
  • Result : a vented catalogue, modern and colored while minimizing the pages number.
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Cercle Vert

The specialist in supplying grocery products, maintenance, hygiene and equipment for catering and local authorities.

  • French SME
  • 250 employees
  • 275 000 delivering per year
  • 21 000 articles references
  • A park with 80 trucks

Problematic

  • Create a catalogue with more than 5000 articles, targeted for different professions in less than 15 days.
  • Present to profesional customers data stocked in the ERP AS400.
  • Manage different prices according to sectors.

SOLIDPEPPER solution

  • With the data extraction of AS400 and predefined patterns in Indesign, SolidCatalogue generates a catalogue by sector with selected products.
  • The marketing department gets back the formatted catalogue and add its final touch. As Solidcatalogue manages the delayed update, prices are injected at the last minute.
  • The catalogue is ready to be print in a numeric high quality.
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Celio



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Hygienyl



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