The group has more than 250 stores and has reduced delivery lead time and the volume of stock stored
Fortbras is one of the national market leaders in automotive replacement retail | disclosure
With more than 250 stores spread across more than 170 cities in 20 Brazilian states, Fortbras stands out as one of the national market leaders in automotive replacement retail. Always looking for improvement and customer satisfaction, the company innovates in its strategy to achieve high availability of products in all its stores distributed throughout the country.
Focused on improving its results, Fortbras implemented Sawluz's innovative SwPaaS Platform, making the exchange of information between the company and its suppliers more accessible, fast and manageable. This not only guarantees transparency and agility in the commercial relationship with your business partners, but also maintains security and tracking of access to your order systems.
With SWPaaS, the most innovative EDI system on the Brazilian market, Fortbras increases its level of cooperation with its suppliers, boosting its presence in the locations where it operates.
The company operates in the retail, wholesale and e-commerce segments and operates through different brands offering a portfolio of products that includes electrical and mechanical auto parts, tires, lubricants, motorcycle parts, among others.
“We needed to strengthen communication with our suppliers and make it agile, minimizing the use of email in order traffic. Given the complexity of our operation and the large number of items we work with, our main mission is to serve our end consumer with greater excellence, availability and speed. The SWPaaS Platform has helped us mitigate problems, speeding up communication with our suppliers, through an automated process of forwarding purchase orders, ensuring traceability and delivery follow-up, reducing failures in our communication“, explains Lucimario Campos, Systems and Applications Manager at Fortbras.
Reduction of inventories and greater operational efficiency
The first results show that SWPaaS has positively impacted Fortbras' operations, reducing lead time delivery times and the volume of stock stored, thanks to more consistent deliveries.
Fortbras distribution center in ES | disclosure
The use of the solution has created stronger bridges between Fortbras and its suppliers, allowing the acquisition of goods more quickly and efficiently, minimizing errors in manual orders sent via emails, which are more difficult to systemically integrate and lack of follow-up. of deliveries.
“In this way, our company was able to achieve a more equalized supply process in all stores, increasing the satisfaction of our end customers, who can count on our network to find the parts and services they are looking for.”, adds Lucimario.
Regarding the future use of SWPaaS, Fortbras has ambitious plans. “We would like to adopt EDI for all our suppliers, but we know that it is a long-term task, which is in the initial phase“, concludes the executive.
SWPaaS: a platform for digital transformation
SWPaaS is a scalable platform, which was developed to meet the most diverse needs of the segment, offering the security and availability of the AWS cloud, as well as exclusive features such as:
- Provision of WEB EDI for supply chain management;
- Alert system (notifications);
- Autonomy for managing the internal environment (CNPJs, users, commercial partners);
- Portal for monitoring exchanges and traceability of files transferred (tracking);
- Management of deliveries via DF-es (Tax Documents).
- APIs for autonomous integration with the most diverse ERPs on the market.
- Multilingual, with Portuguese, Spanish and English available, in order to serve the global market.
“The SWPaaS Platform stands out for its scalability, and can be adjusted and customized according to the exclusive requirements of each of our clients' business operations. This adaptability enables companies to implement a solution completely tailored to their needs and processes. Conventional EDI is only part of the equation. A communication platform between a company and its business partners is essential for differentiation and competitive advantage strategies. An easy-to-use solution, “turnkey” in its implementation, with tools that allow integration with any ERP system must be premises. In the automotive market, our customers rely on, in addition to this unique tool, the unbeatable expertise and full support of Sawluz. “, points out Werter Padilha, CEO of Sawluz.
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