Stihl Case Study

Customized B2B Platform for Wholesale

Client
The Stihl Group is an international developer, manufacturer, and distributor of power tools for professional forestry and agriculture, landscape maintenance, construction, and private users. They partner with a variety of qualified dealers who are responsible for retailing their products. The Stihl brand has been the best-selling brand of chainsaws in the world since 1971. Part of what makes them stand out is that any of their products can be tested before a consumer buys them. For over 90 years, Stihl’s motto has been “To ease people’s work with and in nature.”
Business Challenge
Stihl was focused on providing the best B2B retail platform to its retailers and distributors to make communication and cooperation easy and quick. The challenge was that Stihl needed integration of specific local workflows for 23 countries. Beyond being modular and scalable, they needed a platform with high availability and multi-device compatibility, and one that worked in multiple languages across multiple localities.
Solution
Our team provided strategic consulting and solution concepts and development of Stihl’s B2B specialty retail platform. We were responsible for rolling out the platform and providing ongoing support and web analytics.

Location: Germany
INDUSTRY: Retail
SERVICES: B2B retail platform development and support
TECHNOLOGIES: ASP.NET Core, Apache, JQuery

Product Overview

Client’s goals

Stihl wanted to enhance B2B customer service by providing an intuitive platform to collaborate and communicate with their retail partners in real time.

Implementation

This project was focused on retail ERP development with particular functionality such as their product catalog, including coupling with PIM, e-shop, marketing, contact details, and document management, messaging and workflow module, technical service, and processing, e-training, statistics and evaluations, product life cycle, product registration, user management, and rights management.

Value Delivered

Jelvix delivered centralized, standardized, and optimized processes with a customized, direct-interface platform between retailer and ERP.

Leonid Nekhymchuk

CTO, VisiQuate Inc

The Jelvix team worked collaboratively to produce a higher-quality code and deliver a suitable MVP. Project management is a clear strength, and the desire to achieve customer goals within scheduling and guidelines are evident. Their agile methods were vital for project success.

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Patrice Archer

Founder & MD, Appy Ventures Farnham, Surrey, UK

Great to work with such a professional team. I've worked with many development teams over the past 2 years but Jelvix had by far the most proactive communication style and the quality of output. They met the timeline, delivered code after each weekly sprint and generally impressed us.

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Joanna Conti

CEO, Vista Research Group Annapolis, USA

Over the last year, Jelvix has developed a very complex, HIPAA-compatible app for my research company. I have been extremely pleased with our developer and the company, and highly recommend Jelvix. I am continuing to work with them on the next phase of the app.

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