Launched in March, the global roll-out was completed in June and 79 countries are now using Red Bull’s order management portal utilizing hybris’ B2B Commerce solution.
Founded by Dietrich Mateschitz in the mid-1980s and inspired by functional drinks from the Far East, Red Bull is currently available in more than 165 countries.
As part of its global expansion strategy, the company was looking for an order management solution that could deliver all the functionality of its incumbent in-house solution on a flexible platform.
Prior to selecting hybris, Red Bull used a costly in-house solution which was time-intensive to maintain and lacked the scalability needed to support business expansion and multi-channel commerce. Red Bull also needed a solution that provided a quicker and more efficient shopping experience for retailers and distributors.
“Red Bull is a highly recognised and respected brand around the world. We needed a commerce platform that delivers an exceptional level of service to our B2B customers,” said Christian Stoxreiter, Head of Red Bull’s business application team. “The flexibility of our new and innovative online B2B store enables us to provide a user interface that creates a highly personalised shopping experience for our customers, as advanced as any of the best consumer sites customers are accustomed to using.”
On evaluating the market, hybris stood out due to its ranking by Gartner, in addition to the ease with which it integrated with Red Bull’s existing ERP system from SAP. Additional benefits experienced on implementation were hybris’ master data management and order orchestration capabilities which, teamed with an intuitive user interface, significantly streamlined the order processes for Red Bull’s customers and minimized the company’s total cost of ownership.
The platform was implemented by hybris’ partner, exc.io, using the hybris B2B Commerce Accelerator, a production-ready, customisable, multi-channel framework designed for business-to-business trading.
The flexibility of the solution enables it to support Red Bull’s indirect and direct sales models, with the additional capability for large regions to act as sales hubs for smaller surrounding landscapes. Its extensive order tracking system provides Red Bull with the ability to export to a wide range of formats and develop separate purchasing conditions that are tailored to the B2B portal.
Due to the capabilities of the hybris Commerce Suite, Red Bull will leverage the B2B Commerce platform’s best-in-class functionalities to support future B2B and B2C initiatives across the brand.
0 comments:
Post a Comment