Setra – Future-Proofing Order and Freight Management
Background
Setra is a Swedish wood industry company that processes and sells wood products, specializing in sawn and refined timber. With a global export reach, Setra is a key player in Sweden’s forestry sector.
ForestX has a long-standing partnership with Setra, providing continuous system management along with individual IT and digitalization projects.
Opportunity
Setra sought to modernize and future-proof its order management and freight calculation systems. The goal was to save time by streamlining workflows with a modern user interface, improving efficiency and usability.
Solution
ForestX developed and implemented new order and freight management functionalities within Setra’s existing system. These solutions were tailored to meet current business needs while being technically robust for future adaptations.
Key enhancements included:
- Expanded functionality, including a more efficient search feature, seamless linking, and faster access to documents.
- Customization to align with Setra’s operational requirements.
- Improved technical stability to support future changes.
Malise Johansson
Customer Service Setra
“We can now create customized reports for customers, such as delivery schedules and summaries of loading orders. We also have greater flexibility to adapt the system to changing needs. The system is more efficient, more flexible, and makes our work easier.”
Approach
The order management and freight calculation components of the ERP system have been migrated to a modern, web-based platform by ForestX.
The focus has been on adapting the application to meet current business needs and processes while minimize risk while ensuring maximum performance, long-term stability and maintainability. A key objective has been to build a highly flexible solution that can easily evolve alongside the business, supporting future requirements as they emerge.
Setra’s new ERP platform is built using Angular and Material Design, providing a scalable and user-friendly foundation for ongoing development.
Karin Gröndahl
Project manager ForestX
“Managing orders and freight is essential to the business, so replacing the system that supports these processes has naturally been a highly complex project. The end result and seeing how what we’ve built at ForestX can make such a significant impact, is incredibly rewarding. This is what drives me – solving problems and making things work.”
Results
The project delivered significant improvements, ensuring a scalable and efficient system for the future:
- Adaptable and flexible technology
- Increased operational reliability
- Time savings through streamlined workflows
- Higher data quality
- Modern and user-friendly interface
- System support for various transport setups
- Prepared to use Azure cloud for all managed services
About Setra
Setra is one of Sweden’s largest wood industry companies. The company processes raw forest materials into sawn timber, glulam, components, and cross-laminated timber (CLT), at its eight production units across Sweden. Setra has approximately 800 employees and an annual turnover of around SEK 4 billion, with exports accounting for about 70% of sales to markets in Europe, the USA, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.
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