London, November 17th, 2020 – The manufacturer of pleasure boats, Groupe Beneteau (including Beneteau, Jeanneau, Lagoon, Excess, Prestige, Four Winns, Wellcraft, Delphia) has chosen to equip itself with a fully integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform from IFS, the global enterprise applications company. The IFS solution will be implemented by BearingPoint, IFS Platinum service partner and the 2020 winner of the IFS Global Systems Integrator of the Year Award.
To manage the growing complexity of information flow between the different subsidiaries of its Boat division, Groupe Beneteau needed to replace its aging and highly customized legacy business system with a central ERP platform. This new ERP will enable improved data analysis and decision-making, increased operational efficiency by harmonizing business practices within the division, and better integration of processes and information between subsidiaries.
Evaluating a range of solutions from major vendors, the company chose the IFS/BearingPoint tandem, for its exceptional functional breadth and depth with a coherent integration project. The IFS Applications™ solution will cover all mission-critical business processes, including production, project management, supply chain, sales and service, and finance. BearingPoint, for its part, was able to demonstrate its ability to meet Groupe Beneteau expectations through its expertise of the software solution and its pragmatic methodological approach.
For several years now, Groupe Beneteau has been thinking about upgrading the information systems of its Boat division in order to make them more efficient, secure, transparent and fast. The complete and specific functionalities of IFS solution are well suited to our needs, and the quality of the references of its manufacturing customers has convinced us to engage with IFS, jointly with BearingPoint, in this investment which is fully integrated in our business project.
As one of the most celebrated brands in the industry, we are proud to be able to support the transformation of Groupe Beneteau, to ensure a future-proof technological infrastructure for its future growth. Empowering global manufacturers with deep and highly configurable industry capabilities is very much in our wheelhouse and we look forward to bringing our extensive domain experience to bear on Groupe Beneteau’s digital transformation.
Groupe Beneteau is a leader in its industry and we are pleased and proud to be able to contribute to improving the performance of its services. IFS Applications is a complete solution particularly adapted to this context; our teams are already working hard to put their skills and experience to work for the success of this project.
