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Heads x Sportson

Heads x Sportson

Helping Sweden’s leading bicycle chain shift gears

Helping Sweden’s leading bicycle chain shift gears

Helping Sweden’s leading bicycle chain shift gears

Founded in 1980, Sportson has earned a reputation as the premier expert in the Swedish cycling. In the face of an ever-challenging market, Sportson partnered with Heads to modernize and expand their offering. Through a series of cutting-edge solutions and high level automation, Sportson has fundamentally reimagined their business model and streamlined their workflows along the way.

Founded in 1980, Sportson has earned a reputation as the premier expert in the Swedish cycling. In the face of an ever-challenging market, Sportson partnered with Heads to modernize and expand their offering. Through a series of cutting-edge solutions and high level automation, Sportson has fundamentally reimagined their business model and streamlined their workflows along the way.

Flying bicycles on a soft colorful background
Flying bicycles on a soft colorful background
Sportson logo in black
Sportson logo in black

Challenges

  • Incorporating a group of 27+ stores into a franchise model across Sweden under the umbrella of one brand and IT landscape, where both local and central considerations are managed 

  • Supporting an IT infrastructure that is optimized for scalable efficiencies in digital infrastructure (and subsequent investments)

  • Creating one single data source for all orders, e-commerce, service orders & in-store orders.

  • Purchasing, warehouse/inventory, and logistics 

  • Webshop Integration

Solutions

Sportson takes advantage of Heads unique platform for flexibility and stability:

  • Point of Sale with strong order management capabilities

  • Integrated e-commerce  

  • Service management

  • ERP for purchasing, order management and product / stock management

Key benefits

  • Fully integrated service management system, accessible from the POS

  • Effective order management and pick-up-in-store flows directly from the POS

A close partnership

Since 2019, Heads has acted as Sportson’s partner and advisor, with both a strategic and technical focus on the company’s digital transformation and long term goals. Heads works closely with Sportson’s management team to improve their organizational processes through technical solutions designed to maximize sales and administrative efficiencies across their network of individual franchisees.

Challenges

  • Incorporating a group of 27+ stores into a franchise model across Sweden under the umbrella of one brand and IT landscape, where both local and central considerations are managed 

  • Supporting an IT infrastructure that is optimized for scalable efficiencies in digital infrastructure (and subsequent investments)

  • Creating one single data source for all orders, e-commerce, service orders & in-store orders.

  • Purchasing, warehouse/inventory, and logistics 

  • Webshop Integration

Solutions

Sportson takes advantage of Heads unique platform for flexibility and stability:

  • Point of Sale with strong order management capabilities

  • Integrated e-commerce  

  • Service management

  • ERP for purchasing, order management and product / stock management

Key benefits

  • Fully integrated service management system, accessible from the POS

  • Effective order management and pick-up-in-store flows directly from the POS

A close partnership

Since 2019, Heads has acted as Sportson’s partner and advisor, with both a strategic and technical focus on the company’s digital transformation and long term goals. Heads works closely with Sportson’s management team to improve their organizational processes through technical solutions designed to maximize sales and administrative efficiencies across their network of individual franchisees.

+27

+27

stores converted to franchises

stores converted to franchises

0 downtime

0 downtime

since launch

since launch

+27

stores converted to franchises

0 downtime

since launch

Get in touch

If you are ready to transform your business, or just want to say hi, feel free to shoot us a message!

Get in touch

If you are ready to transform your business, or just want to say hi, feel free to shoot us a message!

Get in touch

If you are ready to transform your business, or just want to say hi, feel free to shoot us a message!

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