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The beverage wholesale trade is considered to be a
“German invention”. It is the link between the beverage
manufacturers and the end customers and therefore
pure B2B business. End customers are the food trade, the
catering industry and the hotel industry. Direct deliveries
from breweries to consumers are rather an exception.
ZEUS® solution for 260 employees
At the close of 2015 Nordic searched for an all-encom-
passing Time Recording solution, as several different
systems were used at all four Nordic locations. „The
Nordic group consists of six companies at four different
locations. There was a coexistence of divergent techno-
logies and standards. Some of them used Time Recor-
ding of company X, others a second product of company
Y and another location none at all“, explains Marcus
Kuhnert, HR manager of the Nordic Getränke GmbH, the
unequal requirements of the six Nordic companies, when
he commenced work in 2015 and initially dealt with the
conversion of SAP HR‘s payroll system to P & I Loga.
The first contact was made with ISGUS in March 2016.
ISGUS was able to convince the customer with a realistic
offer, a feature-rich product and comprehensive project
management. ISGUS was therefore best suited to the
needs of Nordic Getränke GmbH, HR manager Marcus
Kuhnert reveals the reasons why ISGUS ultimately won
the project.
Go live at the beginning of 2017
„We started with Time & Attendance on January 1st, 2017
for 260 employees at two locations: Quandt-Schön in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as Göttsche and the
Nordic Holding in Hamburg. Both subsidiaries also went
for ZEUS® Access Control. The reason for the short-term
implementation was a defective server at Quandt-Schön.
With this, we were able to combine troubleshooting with
the introduction of the new Time Recording“, Marcus
Kuhnert outlines the project launch. The remaining loca-
tions, i.e. Esling in Grömitz and Quandt in Geesthacht,
were installed in a second phase on July 1st, 2017. With
this implementation there are more than 400 employees
clocking via ZEUS®.
Manageable daily shifts
The Nordic Group has more than 80 shift patterns on the
system. Marcus Kuhnert wanted to simplify these for
his Managers: „We do not really have that many shifts!
We have had to assure that the number of shifts remains
assessable and to not use the system capacities at the
full extent, also to make their lifes easier.“
Marcus Kuhnert states: “The real challenge within the
beverage wholesale trade is that you are not a produc-
tion company, therefore you cannot plan down to the
smallest detail of any/all working procedures. Instead
you are dependent on what the customer orders, what
Well-known in the north: Nordic Getränke GmbH is a network of beverage wholesalers in Northern Germany, based in
Hamburg. Last year, the collaboration with ISGUS was formed. This was their introduction to ZEUS® Time & Attendance
and Access Control encompassing all four locations of the Hanseatic specialist for beverage logistics.
GOOD RESULTS VERSUS DAILY RESOURCE
WITHIN BEVERAGE LOGISTICS INDUSTRY
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