– We kept to the schedule, the budget, and stayed calm.

Production, automation, and logistics are just a few examples of the areas where ROL uses IFS Cloud. With four factories across different continents, around 900 employees, and offices in eight countries, it goes without saying that the Swedish company ROL has a lot to keep track of.

Martin Odqvist is CFO of ROL Group and is happy to elaborate on the process, together with his colleague Stefan Brengdahl, Director of ERP:

– We have been satisfied users of IFS ERP since 2005. We see the system as a very important enabler. It is a vital part of our success. We are very comfortable with IFS and continuously invest in developing our expertise, says Martin.

– We have a high degree of automation, and IFS also plays an important role there, as it can communicate with robotic cells and autonomous forklifts. We have come a long way in automation thanks to IFS ERP, Stefan explains.

With increasingly higher demands for production and efficiency, ROL decided to upgrade to IFS Cloud.

Martin Odqvist summarizes the migration simply:

– We kept to the schedule, we kept to the budget, and we did not experience any serious problems during the transition. Those are the three factors I usually use to summarize our success story, he says.

To illustrate: he explains that when employees left work on the Friday before the migration, they could start again on Monday almost as if nothing had happened. There were some issues to handle, but overall everything worked very well. Out of a total of 900 employees, around 800 are directly affected by the update, and they can feel confident that everything works as it should, Martin explains.

– I have seen companies carry out similar upgrades that they had to abort because the process did not work as intended. They lost major contracts as a result.