Swedish manufacturer Husqvarna Group, the world's largest producer of outdoor power products, has selected Stibo Systems' award-winning multidomain master data management (MDM) solution to optimize its supply chain processes and improve the way they buy and sell products. Leveraging Stibo Systems' MDM platform STEP, Husqvarna will create an MDM solution that centralizes disparate data, improves data quality and shares valuable insight into critical product and supplier data. Ultimately, the Company will rely on accurate business information to improve analysis and decision making, enable strategic purchasing and increase sales.

Key Points:

  • Husqvarna Group is the world's largest producer of outdoor power products as well as a leader in consumer watering products, cutting equipment and diamond tools for the construction and stone industries. The Group's products and solutions are sold via dealers and retailers to both consumers and professional users in more than 100 countries. Husqvarna Group has 15,400 employees. The global market for the company's products is estimated at more than ?15 billion annually.
  • Using Stibo Systems' MDM platform, Husqvarna will be able to share comprehensive and detailed business information throughout the supply chain allowing them to reduce internal IT costs and optimize purchasing decisions.

Customer Quote:

"In order to stay positioned as a leading manufacturer in the industry, we as a company need to develop and improve where we can. Now we want to prioritize optimizing business information, which we see as a strategic area of great importance to the entire company," said Ulf Axelsson, Director of IT Strategy and Architecture, Husqvarna. "We have great confidence that STEP will have a significant and positive impact on our business and ultimately provide a substantial competitive advantage."

Stibo Systems Quote:

"We are proud to announce that a global manufacturer like Husqvarna will implement our STEP solution to address its MDM initiative," said CEO Mikael Lyngsø of Stibo Systems. "We look forward to working with Husqvarna to improve their strategic information and create significant business value."

About Stibo Systems

Stibo Systems is the global leader in multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. Industry leaders rely on Stibo Systems to provide cross-channel consistency by linking product and customer data, suppliers and other organizational assets. This enables businesses to make more effective decisions, improve sales and build shareholder value. During the last 30 years, Stibo Systems has helped hundreds of companies to develop a trusted source of operational information. A privately held subsidiary of the Stibo A/S group, which was originally founded in 1794, Stibo Systems' corporate headquarters is located in Aarhus, Denmark. For more information, visit www.stibosystems.com.

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