Case Study: Baustoff Union achieves 300% efficiency gains and guaranteed 3-hour deliveries with LANSA

Reliability and innovation for Baustoff Union

Baustoff Union, a leading German provider of building materials and services, faced the challenge of improving customer service and innovating its ERP without risking the disruption and errors of a full overhaul. The company needed a low‑risk way to modernize legacy RPG systems while supporting rapid growth and stricter operational demands.

SMH, using LANSA tools (Visual LANSA, LANSA Composer, LANSA Integrator and LongRange), progressively replaced and extended the ERP to deliver a modern UI, TomTom WEBFLEET integration, EDI/XML/PDF processing, dashboards with Excel export and native mobile apps. The result: over 300% efficiency gains in six years, guaranteed stock delivery within three hours, a sixfold increase in stock turnover, automated processing of more than 80% of orders and invoices, and noticeably improved customer service and growth.

Baustoff Union

Otto Förtsch

Managing Director