Finnlamelli chose Islet Group and SAP Business ByDesign

Finnlamelli, part of the Finnish DEN Group, is a builder and supplier of turn-key ecological log buildings and houses. DEN Group has a long-term growth strategy, and they seek growth also from international markets. To support their plans, they started to look for a comprehensive, continuously developing and scalable ERP solution for Finnlamelli. After careful mapping of the choices and familiarization with the different solutions, they chose the cloud-based SAP Business ByDesign as the backbone of their operations. Islet Group was chosen as the partner to deliver the transformation project revolving the modern technology solution.

“At Den Group, we aim to open-mindedly and diversely utilize the newest technology and the possibilities that it creates. We manage long supply chains from designing all the way to delivery. We want to guarantee high quality throughout our processes but also accordingly to our growth strategy, enable scalability of our operations also in the future. Based on these factors we wanted to choose the modern, extensive and continuously developing solution of SAP Business ByDesign. With the solution, our goal is to further streamline our delivery processes, improve our already high customer satisfaction and to keep developing our profitability sustainably and long-term.”, tells Chief Development Officer, former Business Officer of Finnlamelli and member of DEN Group’s management group, Markku Uotinen.

The solution for Finnlamelli within SAP Business ByDesing covers financial integrations, procurement, sales, production, warehouse, and service business areas plus the related HR functions. The solution also provides embedded reporting and analytics capabilities to ease the operative reporting and data-driven decision making.

Finnlamelli is known as a pioneer and a trailblazer in lamela log building. (Picture: Finnlamelli.)

“Many of Islet’s and Finnlamelli’s values base on the same principals and we also share a lot of mutual goals from sustainable growth and eco-friendliness to customer-centricity and innovativeness. It creates a lot of positive anticipations and a great setting for our cooperation.”, says Jukka Penttinen, Islet’s Chief Business Officer in Business Transformations.

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Finnish DEN Group offers design and construction services to different kinds of needs in living, business, storage and warehousing as well as curricular activities. Over 30 years of experience has greated a strong base and brought them to the A-class of especially log home building.  In Finland, they hold the position of markets leading provider in turn-key detached houses. Finnlamelli, founded in 1995, is known as a pioneer in lamella log technology and building of log houses both in Finland but also internationally. It’s customers are private builders of homes and villas but also public operators building e.g. schools and day care centers. On top of Finnlamelli, other brands of DEN Group known in the Finnish market are turn-key ready detached house brands Designtalo and Ainoakoti (latter which is mutually owned with Kesko) and Talliosake focused on space solutions for storage, business use and curricular activities. The Group also has their own designer and implementor or building technology DEN Tekniikka. At DEN, they are proud of their reliability, experience, controlled processes, and their customer service attitude, which is deeply rooted in the whole organization. The Group employs almost 500 people and its revenue in the year 2020 was 174 million euros.

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