BUFAB Selects Jeeves for International Roll-Out
"We are in need of a modern and international system that can handle thevarious legal requirements that our subsidiaries in different countries arefacing," said Joakim Karlsson, financial manager at BUFAB. "We have goodexperience with Jeeves ERP from our production companies. Jeeves is anatural choice as we are standardizing our IT-platform internationally. We getan attractive combination of a competitive ERP system and a low total cost ofownership."
BUFAB is market leading on the European market within fasteners and small partsfor the general industry. The operation is built on powerful logistic solutions with costeffective purchases and own production. The company has 780 employees in 20countries. BUFAB has had a strong growth during the latest years by e.g. a numberof larger acquisitions and are now establishing a common structure for the entirebusiness. Jeeves ERP is an important tool in this process.
"We are happy that BUFAB has chosen to expand their co-operation withJeeves and SYSteam as they are growing and developing their tradeoperations," said Lars Dahlberg, Sales director at Jeeves. To start by creatinga group wide platform for the financial control, as in BUFAB´s case, is animportant step in our strategy to support our customers' business operationsand internationalization.
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For more information, please contact:Joakim Karlsson, Financial Manager BUFAB, tel: 0370 69 69 56E-mail: joakim.karlsson@bufab.comwww.bufab.com
Anders Gidlund, SYSteam, tel: 0371 58 85 56E-mail: anders.gidlund@systeam.sewww.evry.com
About Jeeves Europe´s fastest growing supplier of ERP-systems*, Jeeves Information Systems AB developsERP systems for companies within the manufacturing, trade, maintenance and service sectors.Jeeves concentrates on product development, while sales are channeled through partners andresellers. In total Jeeves has around 70 partners globally. In Sweden partners are represented at20 locations. The main products are Jeeves Universal, Jeeves Selected and Garp, all in allinstalled at over 3 900 companies. The present operations started in 1992 and the company hasbeen listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange since 1999. For more information: www.jeeves.se
* According to Gartner, August 2006
About BUFABBUFAB is market leading on the European market within fasteners and small partsfor the general industry. The line of goods consists of 100 000 items including screws, nuts,washers and special details. Bufab´s head office is located in Värnamo, Sweden and thecompany also has sales companies in Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, France, Holland,England, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, Spain, India, USA, China,Taiwan and Slovakia. The Bufab turnover is app. 2,4 billion SEK and the company has 780employees. Bufab is owned by Nordic Capital Fond V.For more information: www.bufab.com
About SYSteamSYSteam works as a strategic and complete IT supplier and offers services within management,engineering, ERP systems, system development/integration and technical infrastructure andoperation. SYSteam is a complete supplier to small and midsize companies as well as aspecialist to larger companies and selected trades. This specialist knowledge is also offered tothe SME-segment. Thorough knowledge of the customer’s business and processes together withcomprehensive IT knowledge makes it possible for SYSteam to provide business benefit.SYSteam has offices and subsidiaries at around 40 places throughout northern Europe, employsaround 1,250 people and is owned by the Norwegian ErgoGroup. For more information:www.evry.com