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Solutions are expected to streamline and simplify purchasing, inventory management, and logistics processes.  

International Business Systems, the leading software application supplier for wholesale and distribution, has announced that wood processor Derome Timber has chosen IBS to help streamline its  operations and central warehouse functions. 

Implementing new business systems using IBS Wood, IBS' industry-specific software application for the wood processing industries, Derome Timber will better optimize its inventory management processes as well as shorten lead times to its customers.
Derome Timber, one of Sweden's largest wood processing companies and part of the larger Derome Group, markets wood products from three different sawmills in western Sweden. Producing a wide range of products for the Swedish construction market, as well as exporting approximately half of its overall production, Derome Timber Group has annual sales of around SEK 1 billion ($142 million).
Derome Timber identified a need to further optimize their central inventory processes and shorten their lead times to customers, and quickly discovered that only a business system with industry-specific functionality would satisfy their requirements. After evaluating several vendors, Derome selected the IBS Enterprise for Wood, IBS' industry-specific application solution for the wood processing industries.
"Since the business system, IBS Enterprise for Wood is such a well designed and established solution for our industry, the final choice was quite obvious," said Anders Thorild, CEO of Derome Timber. "We have great expectations of these new business systems, which include streamlining and simplifying our purchasing, inventory management and logistics processes, and ultimately shortening the lead times to customers."
The initial implementation of the system from IBS will start in August 2009 and is expected to be fully operational in just over six months. A second implementation stage encompassing the three sawmills is scheduled for the autumn of 2010.
"We are proud that Derome Timber has chosen us," commented Louise Öström, Vice President, IBS Nordics. "The entire wood processing industry is changing in the way it manages its systems and processes. Historically an industry underpinned by custom-made IT systems, we are seeing increasing demand for business software like ours to deliver enhanced and best-practice functionality. As the only provider of specific business systems for the industry, we look forward to the future with confidence."

Backgrounder: IBS Enterprise for Wood

IBS Enterprise for Wood is designed to help companies manage their wood processing businesses and underlying information in a coherent and consistent manner. The software application is based on IBS Enterprise, IBS' leading business application for manufacturing, distribution and wholesale, with additional and tailored functionality for the wood industry, sawmills and companies dealing with wood products. IBS Enterprise for Wood is a powerful distribution solution that covers the sawmill's processes. The solution is the common information base of the company and lays the foundation for a unified structure. The information is linked from the client to the working order of production, through sales to the financial report. With production links reporting can be automated, providing updated information of high quality.

About Derome Timber Group

Derome Group is the largest family-owned wood industry with operations in Varberg, Kungsbacka, Gothenburg, Kungälv, Falkenberg, Hylte and Mjölby, and purchase and sales offices in several places in the country. Activities include, as our mission and motto is talking about everything from forest to finished house, which means forest, wood and wooden structures, bio-energy, construction, building and construction components. Out of this exported about 30%. The group also operated land and property in Sweden. Our manufacturing and sales companies are quality certified to ISO 9001:2000. Most are also environmentally certified according to ISO 14001:1996. Since its inception in 1947, the small family sawmill has grown to more than 700 employees and sales of approximately SEK 2.3 billion in the year 2009.Derome culture, we want to summarize in the following four concepts, spirit, earth, economy and Sound Quality.

Derome Timber is the parent group Derome sawmill operations, which have a total sawmill production of around 400 000 m3 of the three sawmills Anneberg saw, Derome Saw and Kinnared saw. Further processing includes planning, strength grading, finger jointing, luck manufacture and impregnation. Total Timber Group employs 240 people and has annual sales of approximately SEK 1 billion.

About IBS

IBS specialises in differentiating companies from their competitors on the strength of their distribution operations.

Founded in 1978, IBS has over 30 year's experience of distribution in industries ranging from automotive and electronics to paper, publishing and pharmaceuticals. This deep understanding of distribution models and best practices is embodied in IBS' global distribution system, which is enhanced with local expertise to create a unique system for each IBS client.

More than 4,000 companies in 40 countries rely on IBS to improve their distribution operations - enabling them to achieve both increased profitability and higher valued services to the channel.

IBS B share is listed on NASDAQ OMX First North Exchange Stockholm. For more information, please visit www.ibs.net

For more information please contact Louise Öström Vice President Sales, IBS Nordics, phone: + 46 (0) 768 09 04 27, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Also, Anders Thorild CEO, Derome Timber, phone: +46 (0) 340-66 64 15, mobile: +46 (0) 706-99 26 42 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Also, Malte Ekedahl Area Sales Manager, IBS Nordics, phone: +46 (0) 8-627 23 00, mobile: +46 (0) 70-662 32 55 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

International Business Systems US

After a turbulent few years, IBS has become a revitalized business with long-tem and profitable structure. Now in its 33rd year, IBS is still the world leader in distribution resource management with offices and partners in over 40 locations and more than 4000 customers throughout the world.

International Business Systems, IBS, was founded in 1978, when Staffan Ahlberg and Gunnar Rylander decided to turn the IT division of Ekonomisk Företagsledning into an independent company. The company’s first major success was a global assignment to develop an order processing system for all of Alfa Laval’s international subsidiaries. This type of close, long-term partnership set the company on a course of exceptionally close cooperation with customers, which is the backbone of the current strategy for recovery.

The company joined the Stockholm Stock exchange in 1986 and around that time established close cooperation with IBM. IBS became one of the leading suppliers of software for the IBM AS/400 (now Series i). In 2001, IBS set a new record by achieving the highest transaction volumes ever recorded in IBM’s testing lab in Rochester, New York for the AS/400.

 

During the second half of last year, IBS launched an extensive program to transform inefficiency and loss into a revitalized operation with long-range profit-able growth. A new organization and an extensive cost-reduction program yielded quick results and the last two quarters of the year were much stronger than the first two. This trend has continued into 2011.

The appointment of Johan Bergs as new CEO and the development of a fundamentally new platform for business has turned the company in the right direction and has created a confidence and renewed focus which is characterizing the new IBS.

 

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