Wihuri Oy Aarnio gears up towards SAP HANA togeth­er with ISLET

Inno­va­tion and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment are an impor­tant part of Aarnio’s strat­e­gy. There­fore, the whole­saler works hard in being in the edge of tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment. By devel­op­ing its enter­prise resource plan­ning and oper­a­tions, Wihuri Oy Aarnio’s aim is to dig­i­tal­ize their oper­a­tions and ful­fill their cus­tomers’ needs with mod­ern ser­vice offer­ing. With a ver­sion upgrade project real­ized with ISLET in 2016, Aarnio took an impor­tant step towards SAP S/4HANA enter­prise resource plan­ning sys­tem, which intro­duces new and inno­v­a­tive func­tion­al­i­ties and capa­bil­i­ties. With this step the whole­saler ensures its abil­i­ty to respond to con­tin­u­ous­ly chang­ing needs in the market.

ISLET was a key part­ner in the project. Pre­cise and detailed project plan, strong project man­age­ment and prompt and open com­mu­ni­ca­tion between dif­fer­ent par­ties result­ed in a suc­cess­ful project. The exe­cu­tion was effi­cient and agreed sched­ules were fol­lowed through­out the whole project time­line. Aarnio chose ISLET as their part­ner due to Islet’s reli­a­bil­i­ty, com­mit­ment, exper­tise and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills. These were test­ed already before the start of the project and in this way Aarnio made sure to select the right part­ner for their needs.

Accord­ing to Aarnio, pro­fes­sion­al project man­age­ment and smooth and flex­i­ble coop­er­a­tion are ISLET’s strengths. More­over, the pro­fes­sion­al pro­gram­mers in ISLET Hun­gary team were valu­able key play­ers with­in the project exe­cu­tion. With the new ver­sion of SAP enter­prise resource plan­ning sys­tem, Aarnio enables the con­tin­u­ous improve­ment of its per­for­mance and future busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties cre­at­ed by dig­i­tal­iza­tion. Aarnio warm­ly rec­om­mends ISLET as a part­ner for this type of projects.

“We exe­cut­ed togeth­er with ISLET a suc­cess­ful enter­prise resource plan­ning upgrade project where we took a next step towards SAP HANA and it’s new capa­bil­i­ties”, tells Aki Pousar, Devel­op­ment Direc­tor of Wihuri Oy Aarnio.

High-qual­i­ty ser­vice and more than a cen­tu­ry of tra­di­tion have made Wihuri Oy Aarnio one of the largest dai­ly goods whole­sale oper­a­tors in Fin­land. Aarnio serves cus­tomers under the Metro name. Metro’s prod­uct selec­tion includes near­ly 30 000 prod­ucts, every­thing from fresh and frozen foods to indus­tri­al foods, alco­holic and brew­ery bev­er­ages as well non-food items. Metro is a nation­wide dai­ly goods whole­saler that has a strong local pres­ence with its 25 Cash-and-Car­ries, nation­wide dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work and a sales orga­ni­za­tion that cov­ers the whole coun­try and is tai­lored with the cus­tomers’ needs in mind. Metro serves more than 30 000 cus­tomers every day and its turnover was approx­i­mate­ly 500 mil­lion euros in 2014.

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