SolidPepper is the result of 15 years of collaboration with SMEs and huge enterprises.

DIY Store Clothing Medical Humanitarian Construction industry Hygiene Decoration Agribusiness

RIPCURL is one of the world leader in Board Sport area.

RIPCURL designs and produces always more innovative products to enable to all riders to live fully theirs passion.

BRIEFLY

Worldwide group
200 employees in Europe
Provides 3,000 items
B2C

www.ripcurl.eu

Client's
issues

Preparation of the seasonal collection with a complete renewal of the products range.
Difficulty to control data coherence.
Accumulated delay in the recovery of resources due to certain complexities and lot of stakeholders: model maker, products manager, marketing managers, etc.
The launching date of the collection being fixed occured a lot of stress.
3 information systems.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Centralise products data with SolidPDM.
SolidCatalog enables to 3 marketing departments (USA, Australie, Hossegor France) to generate automatically a seasonal catalogue. Now it is only need to add the marketing pages and finish the printing.
SolidPepper reduce the « time-to-market » by optimizing the process, from the creation to the product communication step.

The marketing team is working with SolidPepper's tools to integrate their own corporate identity and style guide and template.

The International Committee of The Red Cross created in 1863 takes part in the entire world to offer a humanitarian assistance to all victims from military conflicts, natural disasters, etc.

The International Committee of The red Cross based in Geneva takes part in more than 80 countries and supplies fields operations with a big diversity of products : electric generators, to hospitals with 1,000 places, medicines, communication posts and chirurgical materials.

BRIEFLY

First international humanitarian organization
Performs in the whole world with 3 delivery platforms
12,000 employees
More than 10,000 items

Client's
issues

In 2005 the IFRC decided to create a product catalog in order to standardise the material demand and to help fields operators (technicians, doctors, logisticians, etc.) and to better communicate their needs.
It was necessary to create thousands of technical sheets with the more details as possible.
Quickly, these thousands of Word and Excel files became hard to manage.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

SolidProcess enabled to clarify the existing, structure thousands of product information sheets and to move forward in the creation of a centralised database.
Today, product information sheets are updated and completed with pictures and technical files directly from a web interface: the SolidPDM.
Result :
- Three catalogs of 1,200 pages are reachable from the web and form an international product referential used by all the international humanitarian companies.
- The e-catalogue website works in low speed or even without network in isolated places.
- The master and control of information..

Since more than 35 years, DELTA PLUS innovates, designs, manufactures, makes manufacture and distributes individual protection equipment.

Nowadays, DELTA PLUS group serves more than 90 countries with 22 subsidiaries of distribution and its export department. It enables to be close to its clients all around the world.

BRIEFLY

7 production sites.
1,500 products.
10,000 clients across the world.
1,900 collaborators.

Client's
issues

Two data sources (ERP, Marketing) combining in a single database.
Corporate identity and style guide of the catalog made by a communication agency.
Several external stakeholders.
The catalog is produced in 15 languages; some have an alphabet with special characters (e.g. Greek, Czech, and Polish).
The text size depends of the language, which creates a gap in the layout (many different charters).
Many images including product zoom.
A team of 20 people read and lay-out the catalog, collaboration in 15 countries.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Setting up of SolidPDM, product structuring datas including images and pictograms.
Translated into 15 languages, creation of copybook by chapter with their own railway.
The Replay module enables to the twenty international partners to correct each page in collaboration from their respective countries.
A complete generation of catalogs in French, layout is edited manually.
After validation of the catalog layout, other languages are put with SolidPDM tool.
Final result: 380 pages in 15 languages printed in 150,000 copies.

One of the leader of professional supply in France with 40 agencies.

Mabeo is a multi-specialist player in the industry market, construction industry, services and communities.

BRIEFLY

French SME
700 employees
40 agencies
Multi-specialist industrial supplies
B2B

Client's
issues

More than 400 pages of products data to be produced in a short delay.
A wide diversity of products such as tools, consumer goods, multi-products in different sizes.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

SolidCatalog generates automatically the layout and recalculates the space needed for optimum product layout.
Result: an airy, modern and colourful catalog, while minimizing the number of pages .

Celio is one of the largest French brands of ready-to-wear, with international dimension. Leader in France with more than 1,100 stores (of which half are outside France in over 60 countries).

BRIEFLY

35 million units sold each year.
Exports in 15 countries in Europe.
1,000 stores in 70 countries.
4 collections per year: 500 designs per collection in average.

Client's
issues

The collections are made gradually by product managers and designers / model makers/ fashion designers.
As with the development of the collection, product managers have to gather data by seasons, availability, colors, sizes and styles.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

The goal is to provide to each store with a Book for each seasonal update of the collection.
SolidCatalog enables to generate automatically from the central database and added drawings products, catalogs are dedicated to sellers of every store.

Since 1865 Delagrave designs, produces and distributes furniture and equipment for schools and communities.

Its expertise and dynamism enables to offer a wide range of colourful, innovative and safe products.

BRIEFLY

Industrial French SME
200 employees
Provides 3,500 items
B2B

www.delagrave.fr

Client's
issues

Waste of time in the preparation and creation of the annual product catalog.
Data comes from many sources.
A lot of communication linked to the collect and control of data.
Much time allocated before providing the data to the communication agency.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Centralise data in a single accessible database to all collaborators
SolidPDM allows establishing product information sheets with a quick overview of data and images.
After a selection of 3500 references, the paper catalog is automatically generated with SOLIDCatalog in few minutes and transmited to the agency for the last marketing modification.
The saved time is used to create more marketing actions or for the resourcing product repository.
The e-commerce customised platform SOLIDSTORE gets back the customers' orders.

Gunnebo has many years of experience in providing security systems.

Gunnebo offers access control systems that protect people, goods and activity spaces.
Four strategic areas :

Bank Security & Cash Handling
Secure Storage
Global Services
Entrance Control

Brands : Mayor, Hygiaphone, Fichet-Bauche, Chubb Safe, ...

BRIEFLY

World Group of 31 countries
World leader in security systems of goods and people
5,500 employees, €580 million of turnover
B2B
Stock exchange listed

Client's
issues

Resources and products data recovery.
Many stakeholders are involved in the creation and update of data.
Tedious updating of prices and catalogues.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Automation of the creation process.
Structuring of products data, files and medias.
Creation of the catalog with illustrated prices.
Catalog targeted by market.
Transfer of skills and training of teams.

Tang Frères is a French chain of Asian supermarkets located in Île-de-France(Paris) and Laos.

The company founded by brothers Rattanavan, Bou Bounmy and from the town of Thakhek, Laos.

BRIEFLY

500 employees
€ 140 million of turnover
B2B & B2C
10 supermarkets with their "brand name" and a distribution network everywhere in France.

Client's
issues

Basically, salesman know their products inside out and sell to retailers, small shops, catering, Asian food with no sales support.
The marketing department wanted to set up a paper catalog of 2,500 products with only a price file.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Support for the building and structure of the database.
The Tang Frères marketing team has done a huge work to collect and gather products data.
From these data and corporate identity and style guide done by Tang Frère, SolidPepper generates automatically the global catalog.

Forézienne MFLS is a major stakeholder in the international market and exports to over 100 countries across 5 continents. The company has two main trademarks FOREZIENNE® and FORESTILL® and it becomes the leader in cutting tools for the industry of primary wood processing.

BRIEFLY

More than 200 employees
Turnover of € 25k
Workshop of 150m². 4 industrial sites in France with a total area of 22,000m²

www.forezienne.com

Client's
issues

Producer of many saw with different features according to the product ranges.
Because of the huge amount of items and products' variation, difficulties to create the catalog like the current website.
6 languages, many features description and technical tables.
A lot of data sources.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

SolidPDM: support to the implementation of marketing and products database.
Standardisation and structuring of data for the paper and Internet catalog.The goal is to centralise products data to supply easier the web communication channel.
SolidPepper brought a global solution for collecting, transforming and publishing products data.

Parker Legris is specialised in the manufacturing of connectors and accessories for water and squeezed air.

The company supplies at international level to many food-processing and car industries.

BRIEFLY

World group of 51 countries
World leader in the liquid fluid and pneumatic systems
B2B

Client's
issues

An existing catalog with more than 25,000 items.
Huge products diversity.
Specialised technicals data, illustrated with images, pictograms and technical drawings.
Research unit, marketing and sales department, factory step in the creation of product information sheets.
A single mistake in presentation of technical information can have a disastrous consequence for the industrial who will use this product in its manufacturing process.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Solid Process: After the audit and analyse of the existing in this company, a product database was extracted from the information system and completed by technical date, images, etc.
The IT Director reorganised the structure and from a central database, the catalog is generated. SolidCatalog generates all pages automatically taking into account different technical tables. Each layout is defined to create an optimal page.
Consistency between known information at the research unit and their catalog presentations which it reassures the relationship with an industrial client.

Devenu l’un des leaders mondiaux dans les secteurs de la bijouterie-joaillerie et de l’horlogerie. Christian Bernard est un synonyme de savoir-faire, de qualité, d’innovation et de performance pour ses clients. Christian Bernard est le seul acteur international à être totalement intégré : R&D, Design, fabrication (5 sites), et distribution en étant le wholesaler de référence en France comme en Asie, et un retailer de renommée avec l’acquisition d’une enseigne Européenne Oro Vivo.

BRIEFLY

1,4 tonnes d’or fin
Chiffre d’affaires de plus de 160 millions d’euros
15 millions de pierres serties
3 millions de bijoux
2 600 employés
8 000 prototypes
65 000 carats de diamant

Client's
issues

Production d’un grand nombre de catalogues pour leurs marques qu’ils distribuent.
ils font aussi des mini-catalogues pour présenter la collection.
seulement 4 personnes pour mettre en page les catalogues (travail journalier) de 16 pages à 300 pages.
la collection change très souvent pages.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

SoliCatalog generates the catalog of 300 pages in less than an hour.
SolidPepper facilitates the mini-catalog creation by collection.

This wholesaler is specialised in household product and consumer goods for the cleaning on hygiene and cleanliness markets. The offer is adapted for the need of cleanliness companies, hotels, childcare centre, etc.

BRIEFLY

Turnover of €4 million
10 employees
SME in B2B

www.hygienyl.fr

Client's
issues

The company does not have a physical catalog to introduce products to their clients.
The wish to have a paper catalog in order to spread a more professional brand awareness and to introduce product range.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Creation of a paper catalog for prospect and client.
Website with a private access for clients’ accounts integrating the specific terms of sales.
System of private catalogs to respond to call to tender and clients' grouping like syndicates(central purchasing or conglomeration).

Item International is a distributor of original consumers goods for printers, such as inks, toners and storage media. Their offer extends to the product lines in the field of computer and peripheral equipment.

Marketing and engineering of modern lighting technology complete their portfolio of services.

BRIEFLY

The range of consumer goods for printers covers more than 100 brands
75 collaborators
B2B

Client's
issues

The company did not have any paper document for their salesmen after the purchase of a manufacturing light branch.
Because of many contributors in different countries and a lack of products information, the project was hard to achieve without the right tools.
Excel files are scattered between many department and are communicated by emails. Conclusion: waste of time and data, mistake in updating of data.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Setting up of SolidPDM to structure product offer and centralise data collection: 400 technical features (standards etc).
Product manager in Australia has a better monitoring of products data coming from chinese factories, completed by R&D department in Germany and sales service in Belgium and France.
Now, marketing department generates automatically technical sheets of every light.

On the initiative of the French Ministry of Agriculture, the Société du Canal de Provence et d'Aménagement de la Région Provençale (SCP) was established in 1957 by three local authorities: the administrative districts of the Var, Bouches-du-Rhône and City of Marseille.

BRIEFLY

400 companies
110 municipalities
6,000 farms
45,000 private individuals
470 collaborators and some of them are working regularly outside France
Annual turnover of €90 million

Client's
issues

The company wants to develop sales of watering and irrigation materials.
Hard to introduce the variety of products within the range without a paper medium.
Many items variety

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Training of the marketing department to SolidCatalog.
Training to ease the mastering of our software and the integration of many important technical frames and items.
Training of the team to create catalogs.

Programmer and producer of systems and solutions for the outside locking buildings.

ZURFLÜH-FELLER is the French leader of roller blind component..

BRIEFLY

Industrial French SME
400 employees
Design and produce closing systems
B2B

http://www.zurfluh-feller.fr/

Client's
issues

Wholesale to manufacturers and integrators of roller blind only.
8 technical catalogs targeted by market with many technical drawings, exploded view and study plan.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Structuration and setting up of an editorial database for SolidCatalog.
Automatic creation of the paper catalog targeted by sales area and edited in the language of the country.
Setting up of the eCatalog base on the SolidStore motor and secured by login.

The specialist of the distribution of groceries' product, maintenance, hygiene and materials for catering and communities.

BRIEFLY

French SME
250 employees
275,000 deliveries per year
21,000 items
A park with 80 trucks

Client's
issues

Create a catalog in less than 15 days with more than 5,000 items, targeted for different profession.
Introduce to professional clients, data who are stored in ERP AS400
Manage different prices according to sectors.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

After the extraction of AS400's data and pre-defined sizes in InDesign, SolidCatalog creates a catalog by sector with selected products.
The marketing department retrieves the catalog with the lay out and add the final touch. SolidCatalog can manage late updates. Therefore, price are put at last minute.
Catalog is ready to be print in High-definition digital.

Maison de la Porcelaine is the French leader in porcelain tableware market.

The company designs, produces and distributes a wide range of crockeries and accessories, which are constantly renewed over new collections.

BRIEFLY

French handmade SME
30 employees
Distributes 12.000 items
B2C
B2B

www.maisonporcelaine.com

Client's
issues

Time allocated to products referencing became hard to manage because of the constant growing of the product range.
The presentation of the offer is specific. It is linked to the display position, which must show the different possible combination in tableware.
The factory located in Limoges, manufactures « Made in France » and focuses on the quality and customisation of porcelain. Many VIP order these top of the range product.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

SolidPDM enables the product updates directly from the ERP without manual operation.
The offer is presented with products of the same collection. Internet user can build their orders.
The technical platform is essential because of more than 12,000 items, a thousand visitors and expanded content
Result: in second position on Google after Wikipedia with the word « porcelain », increase of turnover and a complete automation with SAGE Line 100.

Baby Room Service is an online store, specialised in top of the range furniture for baby and children rooms.

Baby Room offers colored, original and customised products. Possibility to return the product once.

BRIEFLY

French SME
Specialised distribution « Pure Player », it means their businesses are only on Internet.
3,000 items
B2C

www.babyroomService.fr

Client's
issues

Huge trade experience, without shop, brand, product range or logistic platform.
The company starts from zero. It's such a challenge!

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Guide the company throughout the beginning process.
With the use of SoldStore and SolidPDM, Baby Room Service increases the turnover month by month. An unhoped for victory who turns into a great success.
Nowadays, Baby Room Service is a serious and original concept who deals with important orders from internet users (they did not know the website few months ago).

LISAPL offers a wide range of products, items, materials and equipment for general public required to gardening, plants, do-it-yourself, animal food and outdoor activities.
The company owns 52 stores, composed of 49 ESPACE JARDIN (trademark) and 3 GAMM VERT in Carpentras, CHATEAURENARD and TARASCON.

BRIEFLY

52 stores

More than 10,000 items

50 employees in central purchasing

www.e-jardin.com

Client's
issues

10,000 items in the ERP AS400 with missing data such as product presentations, product descriptions and features.
LISAPL did not have any website and paper catalog. Everything has to be built.
The catalog is extremely long to create « by hand » and dull considering of products varieties.

SOLIDPEPPER'S
solution

Full solution: team training, project support and creation of the paper catalog.
Structuring data from multiple sources.
E-shop and paper catalog are created differently. Each support has its own marketing content, corporate identity and style guide and a different range of products.
Link made with ERP AS400 and completed by Excel files with marketing information such as images, pictograms and texts ...
Marketing actions for the launching of the website and catalog.
Transfer of skills.