VitrA is accelerating its growth in the e-commerce market with SAP Commerce Cloud implemented by Felece
Information Technologies Project Manager Gamze Şenkal Odabaşı, talking about the awards received by Eczacıbaşı:
"New products, materials, processes and technologies that will increase the competitiveness of all Eczacıbaşı Building Products brands are being researched and implemented. Since its establishment, it has been selected as the first in the Science, Industry and Technology Ministry's R&D Center Performance Index Evaluation in its own sector or category every year. VitrA approaches bathroom design with a holistic approach that includes aesthetics as well as human health, hygiene, ergonomics, safety, high performance and quality. In order to create a unique bathroom experience, VitrA has collaborated with world-renowned designers and design offices in addition to its in-house design team, bringing together their design, innovation and production capabilities with designers such as Tom Dixon, Arik Levy, Claudio Bellini, Terri Pecora, Sebastian Conran, Christophe Pillet, Matteo Thun and Ross Lovegrove, and design offices such as Indeed, NOA, Pentagon Design and Pilots Design. VitrA's collections have won many international awards, from iF to Good Design, Wallpaper* to Red Dot. Eczacıbaşı Building Products brands VitrA and Artema have been awarded the TPM Excellence Award by JIPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance), which operates to ensure high efficiency and quality in production for organizations."
Eczacıbaşı Building Products Information Technologies Manager, Zeynep Ece Ünal:
”We have decided to work with our supplier Felece, who will walk shoulder to shoulder with us in this project, whom we embraced success together in the Vitramax project. Felece is proficient in the architecture of our existing systems and has demostrated its strength in the project management by providing accurate timing and resource planning. They are flexible in terms of change management and we strongly beleive they can complete the project on time. We also trust that we can receive instant support from Felece 24/7, not only during the project but also after the live transition.”
Eczacıbaşı Building Products VitrA E-Commerce Manager, Begüm Canova:
”What sets Felece apart is not just 'getting the job done', but the perspective of bringing the approach oftheir approach of bringing a “'how can we develop together?' perspective by always thinking one step ahead?”. In this direction, I believe that with the development of the digital world, we can meet all our goals and processes with the same anthusiasm together with the same excitement.”
Eczacıbaşı Building Products Group E-Commerce Specialist Ali Can Tekintaş expresses this situation as follows:
”With the project going live, VitrA gained a new sales channel, as well as many contributions such as collecting primary customer data, becoming a point of contact between brand and customers in the digital world. In addition, during the project, the existing operations were automated, and flexible infrastructure suitable for the increased e-commerce volume was prepared. The prepared infrastructure serves as a cornerstone for VitrA's e-commerce vision in both Turkey and globally.”
Eczacıbaşı Building Products VitrA E-Commerce Manager, Begüm Canova emphasizes the importance of team spirit behind this success with the following words:
”I think it is very important for a project team to capture the team spirit around a single goal. Some projects can be multi-legged and process-oriented. However, being a team makes it easier to prograss towards the same goal and facilitate all processes. The best thing we did with the Felece team was to be able to act as a single team.”
Eczacıbaşı Building Products Group E-Commerce Specialist Ali Can Tekintaş:
”We successfully launched our website on the target date with Felece, and in the following period, we were able to add the planned improvements to our site on time, and even some before the targeted dates. Here, we saw the great benefits of both SAP Commerce Cloud’s strong structure and Felece team’s understanding of this structure and bringing us suitable solution proposals.”
At VitrA, many manual processes have been automated
Felece General Manager, Oğuz Kaya:
“Eczacıbaşı is one of the companies that has best integrated and implemented technology into its global and local structure and business objectives. As Felece, we support Eczacıbaşı's digital transformation journey as their closest business partner with the right technology solutions, roadmap, best practices, and our project management methodology. With our data-driven solutions that progress in parallel with the company's objectives, and directly impact business outcomes, and our team consisting of the most experienced experts in their fields, we provide the highest added value. This project has also been a source of pride for us with the dedicated and passionate management of teams working in complete harmony. As Felece, we are happy to contribute to turning Eczacıbaşı's business objectives into reality.”
Oğuz Kaya
Felece General Manager
Felece Group Manager of PMO & Service / CX, e-Commerce & non-SAP Applications, Erhan Kızıltoprak shares the following information about the project process:
”We approached the project process with the principle of emphasizing one team with Eczacıbaşı teams and internalizing the objectives and needs of the project as a whole team. In this way, when designing any process, we utilized the best solutions for the needs from SAP's best practices, with the expertise of our consulting teams and the solution-oriented approach of the Eczacıbaşı team. We applied Agile (Scrum) project management methodology in our project. Throughout the process, we operated transparent reporting, timely risk management, efficient use of resources, and top management support mechanisms flawlessly. We achieved the pride of bringing a new sales channel to VitrA by going live with our project as planned on March 31, 2022, in a short period of 6 months.”