Digital Initiatives Roadmap

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▶Baymard UX audit 2023

▶Shelf Allocation via Ace for store personnel

TMS Migration - Centiro SaaS (Transport Management System)

LEKA 24 - Warehouse expansion Finland

Clothes printing - FI scope

▶Vivaldirelease Q1 2025

▶Vivaldirelease Q4 2024

▶Symbrio price file

Improved integration support in STEP for M&A

Upgrade A-SRM v182 (Ivalua)

AOM/Vivaldi standard upgrade

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Solelgrossisten (SE)

▶One Ahlsell Telephony - A joint Nordic solution

▶M&A Digital Integration assist of Rexel (FI)

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Skydda (SE, NO, FI)

▶AOM/Vivaldi standard upgrade

▶IFS Cloud journey

▶Credit Monitoring - Bisnode to D & B

▶New site Hallsberg

▶New warehouse site Eidsvoll

S/4 Hana upgrade

▶Sustainability - CO2 Data for Products

▶AWW

▶One Assortment

Consolidation of Visma applications - stand-alone subsidiary's and new M&A

▶New people (HR) solution

▶Product Data Hub

▶Co2 Analytics- Logistics

▶Price File Generator

▶AOM 2.0 (Vivaldi)

▶Device as a Service

▶Generate product texts with AI in STEP

▶Goods Received in Store - in and out delivery customer goods - GM 0.1

▶Concurrent Ahlsell Scanning orders using several customer cards

▶Marketing Automation SS25

▶Transition of SQL Data Warehouse into Databricks

▶Data Infrastructure in Databricks

▶New network - Wifi/Lan

Merging Ahlsell DK Infrastructure into Nordic solution

▶LC Security 2.0 - improvements in IT, OT & Physical security in current LC

▶The European Accessibility Act (EAA)

▶Product page optimisation - Product

▶Unified inventory

▶Enhancing Ahlsell Search Experience

▶Always Open launch - site Kungälv

Always Open launch - site Boden

▶Always Open launch - site Häggvik

Prevex Scanning

▶Ahlsell Storage Workflow

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▶NCS-coding in webshop & app

▶M&A Digital assist when Verktygsboden (SE) transforms to Ahlsell Infrastructure

The EU Digital Services Act (DSA)

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▶Checkout flow optimisation

▶Track & Trace – Wave 2

ASN-Advanced Shipping Notes for LC

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Secure that Ahlsell lives up to correct ADR information for dangerous goods and its lifecycle

▶Sales channel management

▶E-commerce navigation improved

▶Omni Experience - Checkout, Cart and Lists

▶Optimized workflow for onboarding and maintaining items & products

▶Master Data KPI - Efficiency

Master Data KPI - Product Data Quality

▶Ahlsellgroup.com

▶Customer Journey Mapping

▶Customer SSO - Secure Authentication - Identity Federation

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PDF and files library for product information

Include services and delivery fees in EDI order confirmation and punchout.

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Upgrade Astro 24R2 (SE, NO, FI, DK)

▶24/7 Warehouse Operations

▶Integration FINFO => STEP

▶Golden Record Improvements

▶Marketing Automation - Customer Oriented Communication

▶Sanistål Rebranding

▶Baymard UX audit 2024

▶Scanning in Ahlsell App

Clothes Printing 2.0

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Stocked Calculation System Support

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Article Phase-out

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▶Ahlsell Scanning self check-out - Pilot

▶Manual Stocktaking in Ace

Digital assists when HJM Tak&Byggplåt transforms to Ahlsell flavour Feb 1.

Assortment Self-Service

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Self-Service Individual Account

Product Configurators

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▶Cyberdefence and Servicedesk ITSM Integration

▶DC Expansion

Upgrade Astro Sattmate to Astro WCS - Logistics Nordic

KBS Upgrade SE/NO/FI (Pick to Light solution)

▶CMDB - Asset Managment

▶Customer account change

▶Peppol API integration to ServiceNow

▶80% e-Invoice 2025-2026 (inbound flow)

Standardized Web services / API incl. stock information, returns & complaints

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Possibility for customers to order services via EDI

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Include EPD and other sustainability data in EDI communication

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All Web product page and search improvements are adopted in PunchOut

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Tool for country e-com support, or customer self-service, to handle customer specific material classification mapping used in PunchOut.

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Digital Project Binder - Phase 2

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Supplier Owned and managed inventory

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Transparency on EDI integration implemenation project schedules to handle customer and supplier communication.

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Assortment management on the Web for our Punchout customers (EDI).

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Kit items relating to the sum of components' price.

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Records of Processing assessment (RoPa) for all personal information in Ahlsell

▶High Touch Customer Onboarding - Pilot Region 87

▶Marketing Automation - Workflow Implementation

▶Order PDF Automation

Sales Staff Efficiency program 2023

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▶Efficiency in adminstrative hiring and employment processes

▶Vivaldirelease Q2

▶XML invoice data output (Opus)

▶Vivaldi 11.4

▶Vivaldirelease Q1

▶Translation with AI

▶Recommendation Engine

▶Incident process for Finance Account Payable

▶KPMG-IT revision 2024 and actions from 2023 report

▶Need for a controlled process for the creation and troubleshooting of various integration solutions with customer systems, such as EDI and PunchOut, to reduce processing time.

Chat/other methods for Web and App

AhlsellGPT: maintenance and enhancements

AI for Product Descriptions

▶AhlsellGPT - Internal Language Model Chatbot. Safe for employees to use.

Credit flow re-birth due to Credit portal end-of-life

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▶API from ServiceNow to Vivaldi for automatic registration of new customers in Norway

▶HR Operations

▶VIP users/callers in ServiceNow

▶ServiceNow License type discovery

▶Operative purchace FI

▶Filters in app

▶Measure customer satisfaction and Conversion rate in using App or Webshop

Consolidation of Datacenters (Test systems on-prem)

Manual reservations on customer number, customer category, and main customer

Change/Modify Placed Order

▶Ahlsell You – our future design strategy

Order acknowledgment to the customer only upon confirmed delivery date

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▶Customer contact information on the purchase order to the supplier

General UX/CX improvements Web

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Pay with Vouchers and campaign codes

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EHF catalogue solution for Norway (not working today!)

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UX overhaul incl check in screens and admin interface Ahlsell Scanning

▶Robot Process Automation (RPA)

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▶Assorted GenAI

Explore possibilities of more Automation to improve effectiveness in store

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▶Gelia Customer Service flow (Pilot)

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Show available cable pieces on product page

3PL and Crossdocking

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Cost reduction calculator – develop for customer for webshop use

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Freight cost control and allocation

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Automate Finnish market standard OVT/EDI price file generation and publishing

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Nordic KPIs in monitoring customer behavior in any channels

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Nordic level KPIs in monitoring digital development success

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AI tool to identify where in the customer journey customer dropping out

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Customer specific startpage

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▶Regional salgs support & Propertymanagement SE

Geographical shipment/sales based on Post address

Recurring business with subscription of Products and Services

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▶Nets online and terminal, merchant flow cloud update

POS solution for Hallsberg lunch restaurant

Test automation - pilot 2

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Database Cloning 2024 (Prod to Test)

▶Always Open productification - wave 2

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▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Movab (SE)

▶IFS Oracle database upgrade to latest release

▶Smooth invoice Archive for all Customer channels and back-office

▶Fully automated Order to Invoice processing

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VAT alligment and reporting

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Finance Platform (multi-erp)

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▶Future and Operator proofed Outbound invoice flow

▶CIS Security Framework - Improve our baseline

China Compliance

▶BI and Reporting in a better tool. (Power BI)

Digitalt Product Passport - ProTrack

▶Sustainability - WEEE

▶CloudOps LCM

Sustainability - Other Customer Demands

Adjust to new technical platform NRF / NOBB

Integration STEP => ServiceNow

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Supplier Product API

▶Sustainability information on physical product

Common standard across ind databases

Disaster recovery exercise

Analyze of Cert and SDB solution

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▶Windows 11 - nordic rollout

▶Workplace LCM

▶Finland VAT Change (24->25.5%)

▶Vivaldirelease Q3 2024

▶New Product Search in Vivaldi

▶Systems ERP/WMS LCM

▶Email Security

▶Manage and Access Controll for all Devices

Data domain - Store information

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Connect GTIN to Sales Packaging

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PTO - Purchase to Order products

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▶Always Open launch - site Falun

▶Assemblin - Alarm, Fire protection, Entre

▶MOQ, external transit/drop shipment

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Tool/web/app functionality for flows within Project Logistics

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Loyalty program for Gelia

Proffsmagasinet infra to Ahlsell

Discount information/data to Customers

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Sales price per packaging size using GTIN

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Price on request at non-stocked procucts

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▶Marketing Calculator Norway

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▶Sales Anomaly Detection

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▶Share of Wallet Scale Up

▶Product GAPs Analytics

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Handling of chemical taxes

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NIS2 Operational legal requirements for companies that are critical to society.

Improve Ahlsells Information Security Management System in line with ISO27001

Supplier Masterdata cross-country harmonisation

Indirect agreement in A-SRM (Ivalua)

▶Proceedo file format

▶Price file generator Norway

Price file generator Finland

VIDA - VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA)

▶Group emission reporting (Position Green)

▶Upgrade of Tomcat used in Nets payment flow

Transfer assist/sunset of Flex Scandinavia

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▶GDPR employee data cleanup

▶Improved HR reporting and analytics capability

Procurement support flows

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Future Ticketing Workflows

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▶Vulnerability Management integration to Service Now

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Gelia gap-analyse to avoid Synonym handling - short/long term

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Validation of Sales of Services

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Nets terminal change due to legal requirements (Norway)

▶Supplier Onboarding (Pilot flow)

▶M&A Digital Assist of Heribolagen (SE)

▶Supplier Support Tickets (Ivalua - ServiceNow)

▶Ahlsell DK integration to Ivalua/A-SRM

▶Risk & 3rd party data

Justering av Leverantörs inloggning 96h gräns

Finance Black Month

Nordic GRC-process needs for Ahlsell

Nordic/International KAM

▶Portal for external users

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Next level user administration - Smart Storage (Nordic)

Purchaser Portal in Vivaldi

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Test Initiative (Template)

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Fit testing for respiratory protection

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Upgrade of Nets Baxi agent and platform (OS)

Increase registration link validity from 96h -> 168h

▶Supplier Bonus Tool

Integration & Data Collection Relex, Vivaldi, C2 into PowerBI

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▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Luneco (SE)

M&A Digital Assist of integration of Pre-Pipe Construction (SE)

▶M&A Digital assists of Almens (SE)

AI PDF documents Ivalua

Inte-Bonding ServiceNow Ahlsell > OCD added service Managed SIEM

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▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Industripartner (NO)

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Tromas (NO)

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Proffklær (NO)

M&A Digital Assist of integration of Neo-Select (NO)

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of T Bentsen (NO)

▶Migration of Visma Payroll (NO) to Cloud due to end of service

Clothes Printing 3.0

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More efficient Transit flow

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Finnish Intratstat and Customs handling

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Setting Party Structure for all Orders through Vivaldi

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▶New Microsoft Agreement in May

Code of conduct e-sign with Docusign (Ahlsell group)

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Inseco (SE)

Marketplace Light - allow Ahlsell customers to buy from subsidaries using their Ahlsell account

Point of Sales (PoS) pilot for Sweden and Norway

▶Vivaldirelease Q2 2025

Upgrade Astro 24R2 (LC Billund)

KPMG-IT revision 2025 and actions from 2024 report

▶Database Cloning 2025 (Prod to Test)

Moving of ERP and WMS test environment and operation

▶Migration to Cordel Cloud (NO)

Antvision operational review for Retail

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Baymard UX audit 2025

Supplier cross country harmonization

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M&A Digital Assist of Skånebeslag (SE)

▶M&A Digital Assist of B-Max Svets (SE)

▶Return process and portal improvements (Nordic)

▶Nordic A-Club 2.x loyalty journey/engagement

Always Open (DK)

English Web (DK)

Customerspecific assortment (web)

Offer/product conversion

Net Working Capital (NwC - DK)

▶Shared Services - Core service layer and API catalog

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M&A Digital Integration assist of Bacher Workware (DK)

Quotations (DK)

▶Search with AI: Discovery

Vivaldirelease Q4 2025

Nets terminal change due to legal requirements (Sweden & Finland)

▶SAP S/4 Hana upgrade PoC

▶Improved Customer Quotes

▶Vivaldirelease Q3 2025

Productization of light tower pilot (self-checkout)

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Unlocking Data for Superior Sales and Services

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Offer / webshop

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▶Unified wayfinder

Portal for handling customer assortments effectively

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Howspace - proof of value

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Build custom chatbots

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M&A Digital Assist of Nätverksgrossisten (SE)

M&A Digital Assist of RW Trading (SE)

▶PC - Product Manager Cockpit

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M&A Digital Assist of integration of Verktøy & Maskin (NO)

M&A Digital Assist of T O Slettebøe (NO)

FI loyalty migration

▶Shifting network in DK

Supplier Onboarding (Automated flow)

Product Lifecycle Management System (Private Label)

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CGI new Agreement 2026

Infrastructure BCP

Establishing DK Network in group environment

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Collett Svetsmaskinservice (SE)

▶Initiation and Planning for CMS Transition

M&A Digital Assist of integration of JK Belysning (SE)

Calclulate freight cost to customer based on highest value of scale weight and volume weight

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Initiation and Planning for Invoice Source Transition and Development of New Interfaces for Invoice Search and Reminders

AI-Ready: Information Classification & Compliance

▶Marketing Automation AW25/26

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New Returnproces and Fees

Vulnerability Management Platform

Vivaldi release Q1 2026

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▶Unified Package structure for articles

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Implement EUDR (EU Deforestation Regulation) Compliance Framework

▶Treasury Cash Flow Forecast with Nomentia

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Skogheim Profil & Yrkeskläder AS (NO)

Automized communication to sales/customer when packages are left on DC

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M&A Digital Assist of integration of Sørmaskin SWT AS (NO)

Compliance with Updated CLP Regulation – Transparent Online Hazard Labelling

Project Sales Calculation and Quotation Tool (Broker)

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Price Files SE - closing of Katalog PCn

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PriceFX Phase 2

Electric Category

Awardit -loyalty program

BTP Integtationplatform

RFID installation to support the product flow

Contact universe - Allignment between systems

▶M&A Digital Assist of integration of Weels (NO)

Drop-optimized distribution/energy surcharge

M&A Digital Assist of Protektiv (NO)

Supplier Organisation Hierarchies Ivalua

M&A Digital Assist of integration of Scandinox AB (SE)

One Assortment - Logistical flow

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ServiceNow - Ivalua Integration

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▶Collection of purchase data from stand-alone companies

Database Cloning 2026 (Prod to Test)

KPMG-IT revision 2026 and actions from 2025 report

Setting up testing groups and process

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▶Leave Outsourcing partner

▶End of Life Windows Server 2016

Initiative Testing Jira / Confluence Development

M&A Digital Assist of Alf i Larsen (NO)

Hosting move for SAP platform

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Utveckling av befintligt Scorecard verktyg

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M&A Digital Assist of Pojo Infra AB (SE)

M&A Secure Landing Zone for Automated Unstructured Data Migration (NO, FI, SE, DK)

M&A Digital Assist of Intec Pumper (NO)

M&A Centralized HTTPS & Redirect Management for Acquired Domains ((NO, FI, SE, DK)

▶Sourcing - Supplier journey and relations

M&A Digital Assist of KH Service (NO)

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M&A Digital Assist of Kontram (NO)

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M&A Digital Assist of Lindqvist (NO)

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M&A Digital Assist of Grønvold maskinservice (NO)

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M&A Digital Assist of Varmecomfort (NO)

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M&A Digital Assist of Midt-Norsk Rør (NO)

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M&A Digital Assist of Industrivarer (NO)

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M&A Standardized Data Extraction & Migration Framework for Acquired Companies (NO, FI, SE, DK)

Missing Data Availability - Power BI

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