MADRID, 25 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -
IBM has been awarded a contract with Adveo to modernize the back office and smarter commerce platforms of the office supply distribution firm for more than nine million euros.
Thus, the contract, which is part of the group's transformation project, has an expected duration of four years and involves the unification, standardization and automation of the processes and applications of the three original companies --Unipapel, Adimpo and Spicers-- that have formed Adveo.
Specifically, the project of implementation and maintenance of certain systems, led by IBM's consulting services organization, IBM GBS, covers the homogenization of SAP ERP as financial, commercial, purchasing and administrative software for the entire company.
Likewise, the project includes the updating and unification of Adveo's product catalog, which has 40,000 references, and the implementation of IBM Websphere Commerce software to substantially improve the online capabilities of distributors, companies and wholesalers who are customers of the company.
Adveo's objectives with this agreement are to obtain synergies from the union of the three companies and economic savings to continue its growth throughout Europe and comply with its strategic plan for 2015; have a standard and flexible technology platform that serves to integrate future acquisitions and incorporate IBM methodologies to gain efficiency and savings in application management and in the development of new innovation projects.
For the CEO of Adveo, Millán Álvarez Miranda, this agreement with IBM constitutes a "very important" step within the transformation project that the company is carrying out and with which it intends to create a single global business model, at European level, in the eight markets of the European Union in which the group operates.
