CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- hybris software, an SAP company and the world's fastest-growing commerce platform provider, announces that Red Bull has implemented a new global B2B order management portal based on the hybris B2B Commerce solution. The portal, known as the SOET 2.0 Solution, provides a highly flexible solution for quick and easy order entry for global retailers and distributors placing orders with the beverage brand across multiple channels. Launched in March 2013, the global roll-out was completed in June 2013 and 79 countries are now using Red Bull's order management portal utilizing hybris' B2B Commerce solution.
Founded by Dietrich Mateschitz in the mid-1980s and inspired by functional drinks from the Far East, Red Bull is currently available in more than 165 countries. As part of its global expansion strategy, the company was looking for an order management solution that could deliver all the functionality of its incumbent in-house solution on a flexible platform. Prior to selecting hybris, Red Bull used a costly in-house solution that was time-intensive to maintain and lacked the scalability needed to support business expansion and multi-channel commerce. Red Bull also needed a solution that provides a quicker and more efficient shopping experience for retailers and distributors.
"Red Bull is a highly recognized and respected brand around the world," said Christian Stoxreiter, head of Red Bull's business application team. "We needed a commerce platform that delivers an exceptional level of service to our B2B customers. The flexibility of our new and innovative online B2B store enables us to provide a user interface that creates a highly personalized shopping experience for our customers, as advanced as any of the best B2C sites customers are accustomed to using."
On evaluating the market, hybris stood out due to its ranking by Gartner1, in addition to the ease of integration with Red Bull's existing ERP system from SAP. Additional benefits experienced on implementation were hybris' master data management and order orchestration capabilities which, teamed with an intuitive user interface, significantly streamlined the order processes for Red Bull's customers and minimized the company's total cost of ownership.
The platform was implemented by hybris' partner, exc.io, using the hybris B2B Commerce Accelerator, a production-ready, customizable, multi-channel framework designed for business-to-business trading.
The flexibility of the solution enables it to support Red Bull's indirect and direct sales models, with the additional capability for large regions to act as sales hubs for smaller surrounding landscapes. Its extensive order tracking system provides Red Bull with the ability to export to a wide range of formats and develop separate purchasing conditions that are tailored to the B2B portal.
"While there are undoubtedly greater complexities involved for the B2B market, the simple truth applies for both B2B and B2C – the success of acquiring and retaining customers depends heavily on delivering exactly what they want," said Mark Holenstein, senior vice president, EMEA, at hybris software. "Industry-leading organizations like Red Bull understand this necessity and we're proud to work with the brand to deliver a highly productive, state-of-the-art business customer experience to further build on customer satisfaction and maximize its conversion rates and revenues."
Due to the capabilities of the hybris Commerce Suite, Red Bull will leverage the B2B Commerce platform's best-in-class functionalities to support future B2B and B2C initiatives across the brand.
To find out more about hybris B2B Commerce, visit http://www.hybris.com/en/products/b2b-application
About hybris software
hybris software, an SAP Company, helps businesses around the globe sell more goods, services and digital content through every touchpoint, channel and device. hybris delivers OmniCommerce™: state-of-the-art master data management for commerce and unified commerce processes that give a business a single view of its customers, products and orders, and its customers a single view of the business. hybris' omni-channel software is built on a single platform, based on open standards, that is agile to support limitless innovation, efficient to drive the best TCO, and scalable and extensible to be the last commerce platform companies will ever need. Both principal industry analyst firms rank hybris as a "leader" and list its commerce platform among the top two or three in the market. The same software is available on-premise, on-demand and managed hosted, giving merchants of all sizes maximum flexibility. Over 500 companies have chosen hybris, including global B2B sites W.W.Grainger, Rexel, General Electric, Thomson Reuters and 3M as well as consumer brands Toys"R"Us UK, Metro, Bridgestone, Levi's, Nikon, Galeries Lafayette, Migros, Nespresso and Lufthansa. hybris is the future of commerce™. For more information, visit www.hybris.com.
1 Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce" (May 2013)