Case Study: Swedish retailer Procurator achieves 97% in-stock and 25% inventory reduction with Blue Ridge

Procurator Improves In-Stock Performance from 89% to 97%, While Elevating Inventory Turns from 2.9 to 6.5

Procurator, a Swedish retailer of industrial safety supplies operating across five countries with more than 19,000 SKUs, was struggling with low product availability (89% in-stock), slow inventory turns (2.9) and high inventory (127M SEK). Their ERP produced inaccurate forecasts, couldn’t manage replenishment across four distribution centers and 17 stores, and failed to handle erratic supplier lead times, forcing manual interventions. Procurator selected Blue Ridge to address these challenges.

Blue Ridge deployed its demand forecasting, replenishment and analytics solution—implemented in weeks and fully live in four months—giving Procurator accurate forecasts and coordinated replenishment. Within nine months in-stock climbed to 97% (approaching 98% in just over a year), turns rose to 6.5, inventory declined to 102M SEK, and Procurator later achieved a 25% inventory reduction and cut 12M SEK, outcomes that also earned a Retail TouchPoints Customer Engagement Award.

Procurator

Anders Armandt

Director of Purchasing