Kon­tio­tuote and Islet into coop­er­a­tion on SAP Busi­ness ByDe­sign Cloud ERP solution

Kon­tio­tuote is the world’s largest man­u­fac­tur­er of log build­ings. The com­pa­ny, known for its Kon­tio brand, deliv­ers saunas, log hous­es, vil­las, and oth­er log build­ings to cus­tomers around the world from its Pudasjärvi fac­to­ry in North Ostro­both­nia. As part of a wider sys­tem reform, Kon­tio­tuote start­ed to look for modern, cloud-based ERP solu­tion. At the end of the high­ly sys­tem­at­ic selec­tion process car­ried out in a tight sched­ule, Kon­tio chose SAP Busi­ness ByDe­sign, aimed at the grow­ing SME sec­tor, and Islet Group as its part­ner. 

Changes in Kon­tio’s busi­ness mod­els had devel­oped new needs, which the old sys­tems could not meet any­more at a suf­fi­cient lev­el. At the same time, Kon­tio also want­ed to mod­ern­ize the oper­a­tional tools and the sys­tem archi­tec­ture more wide­ly. For the new ERP, they start­ed look­ing for a solu­tion that would bet­ter sup­port their strong growth, as well as the busi­ness’s con­tin­u­ous­ly evolv­ing needs in the long term.

One of the first require­ments and goals for Kon­tio was to cov­er as wide a range of func­tions as pos­si­ble through one stan­dard solu­tion and that way avoid expen­sive cus­tomiza­tion which often might also hin­der future devel­op­ment. Still, the next solu­tion need­ed to be wide­ly inte­grable. In addi­tion, Kon­tio want­ed to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce man­u­al work. But there were oth­er inter­ests as well. They want­ed to offer mod­ern and user-friend­ly tools to sup­port a pos­i­tive employ­ee expe­ri­ence, as well as the ful­fill­ment of the high-qual­i­ty stan­dards of their cus­tomer ser­vice also in the future, con­sid­er­ing the growth targets.

The hous­es of Kon­tio’s pop­u­lar Glass House col­lec­tion are very adapt­able to dif­fer­ent types of cus­tomer wish­es. Source: Kontio

The col­lab­o­ra­tion between Islet and Kon­tio­tuote start­ed in the spring of 2022. The SAP Busi­ness ByDe­sign solu­tion cov­ers a sig­nif­i­cant part of Kon­tio’s finance, sales, ware­house man­age­ment, pro­cure­ment, pro­duc­tion, project man­age­ment, work time man­age­ment as well as trav­el and expense man­age­ment relat­ed process­es. Also, the embed­ded report­ing and ana­lyt­ics capa­bil­i­ties pro­vid­ing real-time data of all areas of the solu­tion sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhanced the usabil­i­ty of infor­ma­tion in every­day business.

“The choice of sup­pli­er was based on the com­pa­ra­ble score­card sys­tem, as well as the over­all coop­er­a­tion dur­ing the selec­tion phase — Islet stood out from the com­pe­ti­tion in every cat­e­go­ry we mea­sured, plus the atmos­phere and ener­gy of doing things and get­ting things done togeth­er was always present through­out the process. The fac­tors with most empha­sis were strong indus­try knowl­edge, expe­ri­ence and know-how of the cho­sen solu­tion, and a spir­it and ener­gy of our coop­er­a­tion. The deci­sion to choose Islet as Kon­tio’s part­ner was sur­pris­ing­ly clear and easy,” Mus­to­nen continues.

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Kon­tio­tuote is the world’s largest man­u­fac­tur­er of log build­ings, found­ed in Fin­land in 1976. As an excep­tion to oth­er com­pa­nies in the field, Kon­tio­tuote han­dles the entire process start­ing from pro­cess­ing of wood — from logs all the way to fin­ished build­ings. In addi­tion to Fin­land, Kon­tio exports its log build­ings to around 20 dif­fer­ent coun­tries, the most impor­tant ones being Swe­den – where they’ve also estab­lished a sub­sidiary Kon­tio Hus AB — Nor­way, France, and Japan. Kon­tio’s turnover in 2021 was 71.4 mil­lion euros and it employs almost 300 employees.

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