Success Stories
Openbravo has been successfully implemented in a wide range of companies across numerous sectors. Our clients are companies of varying sizes that needed an integrated management system and realized that a standard solution wouldn't be enough to meet their unique requirements. Because Openbravo is an open source solution, our clients are able to implement a complete ERP system, adapted to their specific needs and budget, choosing to be the owners of their ERP solution and to only pay for the services they really need them.
Success Stories by Industry
To minimize unwelcome solicitation of our loyal customers, we've removed their names from the success stories. If you are interested on getting in contact with any particular customer, please let us know at partners@openbravo.com. We take the opportunity as well to thank all our current customers for their loyalty and help on disseminating our product worldwide. Following, you will find some examples of companies that have implemented Openbravo and the benefits obtained.
This company distributes and commercializes frozen and cooled products. It manages more than 100.000 order references every month. It needed, therefore, a system of high flexibility and agility of handling that allowed it to efficiently manage a high volume of operations and information. Openbravo ERP was implemented back in 2002. The increase of sales directly attributable to the new facilities that the system offers has been 32%.
This company, a subsidiary in Spain of one of the most important manufacturers at world-wide level of geo-synthetic materials of high technical value for the construction and civil work industries, needed to reduce the time required to track sales and minimize the effort to properly control management. Openbravo ERP provided a system that integrates the management of projects, supplying, warehouse management and finances and that allows a complete tracking of products by serial code.
A special logistics business unit, belonging to a multi-billion € Spanish retail chain. They prepare Christmas baskets and bundles for corporate customers.
A business committed to the design, sourcing, production and supply of quality home & garden lifestyle decoration products through targeted retail and commercial sales channels
This young company is a specialist on sourcing of active principles and other raw materials for the European pharmaceutical industry. It could not maintain any longer the fast growth it had been experimenting with no integrated management system that supported its processes. After beating other proprietary solutions during the evaluation and selection phase, Openbravo ERP was implemented in only 2 months. After that, the company obtained a complete visibility on the profitability of its international operations, as well as of their projects of co-development with other laboratories.
A special logistics business unit, belonging to a multi-billion € Spanish retail chain. Sales of food products and logistics to professional clients like hotels, restaurants, and the like.
The main activity for this company is the home-delivery of frozen nutritional products. It needed an agile tool for the capture of orders and their later preparation, as well as for the management of the highly distributed home-to-home delivery network. They had to take care of more than 5,000 clients either weekly or biweekly. These customers were organized in terms of order collection as well as in terms of order delivery. Openbravo ERP has been in production since year 2004 and it has allowed the company to optimize the logistic routes as well as the calculation of profitability by client and many other KPIs which are critical to its business.
This company's main area of work is focused on the distribution of products for cleaning and labour security. Its main challenge was to be able to analyze its business margins properly and be able to manage colours, sizes and reference numbers for the different products without the need to create thousands of references based only on these characteristics. Additionally, working with several sales representatives made it necessary to be able to create reports in a very flexible way so these could later be used to analyze data from different points of view (sales representative, product groups, third-party categories, etc.). Openbravo ERP made it possible for the client to calculate the cost of the product based on the purchasing price and its rotation in the warehouse, as well as to avoid having to register numerous products and be able to carry on a complete control of the warehouse based on the characteristics of such. The decision making around the purchase of products with the main goal of having an optimized warehouse, as well as the vision of sales from different analysis perspectives were the main benefits that new system contributed with.
This importer and distributor of materials for the construction sector, with warehouses distributed across all country's geography, needed a system that was accessible from any location with a simple web browser. The implementation project lasted just 9 weeks. Openbravo ERP made it possible for the company to drastically improve the control and valuation of own stock and materials on consignment.
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A Spanish consulting company focused on implementing open-source software solutions and outsourcing to final customers.
By means of its 2 centres and 34,000 m3 of warehouse space, this operator provides integral logistic services around the ability to control temperature including storage, transport, distribution, picking and packing. Openbravo ERP is in production since 2003 and managing all its operations, including the management of warehouses and the invoicing of services delivered. The system provides a complete visibility of the transactions made on certain merchandise for any given manufacturer, as well as of the instantaneous occupation of the different cameras and warehouses.
This diocese needed to centralize all the information on priests, parishes and seculares, besides integrating all the day-to-day processes that such a complex organization demands. Management of the patrimony, appointments, parishes or works, as well as to be able to preserve a history of all it, along with integration with the financial-economic area, were the main challenges at the time of approaching the project. Openbravo ERP was selected by its extreme flexibility to adapt itself to the specific necessities of the client. After a short period of development, this religious organization experienced the derived advantages of being able to access the information online, as well as possibilities to make available to all dioceses the information via Web.
This young company, a leading international open source software developer, needed a management system that provided an exhaustive control of the costs of its development projects and an exact measure of the profitability of its professional services and consulting projects. Accompanied by an ambitious plan of growth, since then the company has multiplied by 5 the number of its employees and anticipates multiplying by 8 its income.
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The main business for this company is design, production and maintenance for all kind of traffic signs and urban furniture. They needed a integrated system in order to minimize costs, improve time to market and customer satisfaction as well as the control of the whole productive processes. Since February'08 with Openbravo ERP implementation finished they have reduced significantly time to market and production costs.
This family-run company is more than a century old and is dedicated to the design and manufacturing of rubber and latex derived products. It needed to renew its obsolete management applications. The implementation of Openbravo ERP has allowed for a more efficient management of the product references by means of the identification of corresponding attributes such as colour or measurements. Additionally, thanks to the automatization and integration of banking transactions and the option of being able to track any transaction on the system, the company has been able to reduce the volume of manual work to more reasonable levels.
After a meticulous process of evaluation in which other six solutions of recognized prestige participated, Openbravo ERP was selected by this organization as its new integrated management system. This client is dedicated to the industrial outsourcing for large companies. On a first stage, Openbravo was implemented at the headquarters and other 3 of the most important centres of production out of more than 14 that the company has, covering the following processes: supplying, production and commercial and economic-financial management of the organization. The solution provided centralized, updated and trustworthy information; homogenization of the operational model of the different work centres; optimization of the financial area, with complete visibility on all the operations and capacity to react fast and flexibly to end-clients requirements.
This bread-and-pies manufacturing and distributing company leverages on a very powerful sales force that is used to visit on a daily basis tenths of establishments with the purpose of selling and replacing its fresh products. It was very important for the company to keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) at low levels, identifying a management system of high value added at a competitive cost. The observed immediate benefit after the implantation has been a reality on different areas: absolute control of all the transactions generated in the management, complete information with respect to the state of end-clients, agile answer upon end-clients related information and finally, the establishment of more effective and rational working processes.
This company manufactures high quality flashlights for the diving, rescue and tactical market. They design, assembly and sell different types of flash lights and complements. They outsource most of the intermediate manufacturing processes.
This company is directly related to the primary sector and dedicated to the purchase, sacrifice, quartering and sale of meat products. Openbravo ERP has become the ideal information system for the management of its administrative peculiarities, production and tracking information. Integration with special mobile devices able to support humid and aggressive surroundings, has allowed the company to control the production in real time. The implementation took place at a time where the sanitary exigencies are very strict and the information that needs to be managed is very detailed.
This food product manufacturer has very quickly obtained a leading positioning in the market thanks to the tortilla elaboration following different compositions and presentations for the mass-market consumption. The implementation of Openbravo ERP in all the areas of the company has allowed the client to gather detailed information about the manufacturing process and the management of quality while fulfilling the demanding tracking requirements that the present European legislation imposes on food products.
This leading and innovating biotechnology company is dedicated to the manufacturing and commercialization of plasmids (gene vectors). It uses Openbravo ERP to manage the relationship with its clients (CRM), the definition of products and services and the preparation of commercial offers.
This company is focused on the construction industry. It manufactures and distributes a wide range of mortars and plasters and counts with 4 factories and 2 own quarries. It also offers services for the work execution. After a process of evaluation of different tools available in the market, it realized that the only way to have a solution adapted to its overall peculiarities was to implement Openbravo ERP and expand the functionalities of the product. After 1 year in production, the management of end-client service has improved. On the other hand, the company can handle now a greater business volume using the same resources it had in the past.
This producer and distributor of coffee is now able to track all its productive processes thanks to the implantation of Openbravo ERP and its integration with different mobile devices. It also is able to manage more effectively and in a more detailed way administrative tasks. On the other hand, the preparation of visits assigned to the sales representatives is more agile. Last, but not least, now all the relevant information required for any decision-making process is available.
This company's main activity is the treatment of pieces for its hardening. Its main challenge was to be able to measure and keep all processes-related parameters (those for successful processes as well as those for unsuccessful processes) in such a way that when similar pieces were processed in the future, the system could propose the parameters for the machine configuration with the goal of optimizing the processes and obtain the best possible result. By means of Openbravo ERP, the pieces were identified and grouped by types, categories and zones; being able this way to actively manage the historical information relative to the most suitable parameters according to the process that was carried on. Additionally, Openbravo ERP allowed to manage the maintenance of machines and inducers as well as to keep all the information of activities being carried out.
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Research and Development Group belonging to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, focused in areas such as applied acoustics and advanced instrumentation systems. They also deliver commercial services around legal metrology and accredited laboratories.
Public fundation promoted by the Industry and Turism Ministery. It started its work the 20th of november of 2006. It's a Spanish project to promote the open source software.
City Hall of a known city in the Basque Country. Among other services, they manage the daily actuations -public works and maintenance tasks- that the town requires and are also in charge of the three cemeteries of the town
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A group of four companies who rent, sell, and maintain hydraulic torque wrenches and hydraulic tooling equipment in the oil, offshore and heavy equipment industry.
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A media company in economic and market information about companies and industries in Spain. Is the leading company in sectorial information in Spain since 1982.
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Midsize construction company, with multiple information systems.
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