Söder Sportfiske is a leading sport fishing company in the Nordics with a well-established omnichannel platform. They operate e-commerce through domains such as Sportfiskeprylar.se, Sportfishtackle.com, Sportfishtackle.de, Sportfishtackle.fi, Sportfishtackle.nl, Sportfishtackle.fr, Sportfishtackle.dk, Sportfishtackle.no, and Fishline.se, as well as a physical store under the Söder Sportfiske brand. The business offers a wide and carefully curated range of products for modern sport fishing, providing customers with competitive prices and fast deliveries.
Company: Söder Sportfiske, Sweden
Business Area: Retail and e-commerce in sport fishing
Why Ongoing WMS? "Ongoing WMS is a cloud-based platform with good integrations to our existing systems (Specter and Askås) and excellent connections to many more systems, making it proof for the future from a technical standpoint. The integration process was relatively simple, and the system had the features we were looking for."
How Ongoing WMS is used: "Ongoing WMS:
- Manages our entire e-commerce warehouse along with related operations and will handle our click-and-collect store.
- Handles inbound and outbound deliveries, along with structured replenishment tasks from multiple storage locations for over 40,000 different SKUs, all without using paper.
- Allocates orders and creates multi-pick tasks based on our different picking queues, which have been custom-built for us.
- Generates customs documentation for Norway in bulk shipments and for other simpler export markets.
- Features a specialized workflow for our click-and-collect store, which will be opening soon.
- Integrates with Specter and nShift."
Key Benefits: "Ongoing has been vital to our transition from manually printed orders to fully digital handling of our picking flow. Due to various allocation options, digital picking, and smoother handling of multiple storage locations, we’ve been able to increase the revenue handled per labor hour in the warehouse by 65-85% over our three-year journey. This includes a move to a larger warehouse, which increased picking efficiency, but we wouldn’t have realized nearly the same benefits without Ongoing."
Collaboration with Ongoing: "The service has always been remarkably fast, and they typically find solutions to our particular requests. The team is highly competent."
Additional Information: "We relocated our operations from Årsta to Järfälla in one week in January 2024. We had been in talks with Ongoing since July 2023 to set up the system the way we wanted. The biggest change was moving from single picking for all orders to multi-picking, where we can pick up to 65 orders at once. We had many special requests, and there was always a solution to achieve what we wanted.
Regarding the move itself, one of the reasons it went so smoothly was that Ongoing set up the Järfälla warehouse parallel to our old warehouse. This allowed us to move stock from locations in the old warehouse to new locations in Järfälla by simply scanning the locations. We didn’t need to scan the individual items we stock. This way, we scanned over 30,000 stock locations in just four days."
Contacts:
Einar Eiriksson, Warehouse Manager, and Erik Nordén, CFO.