{"id":29129,"date":"2021-06-02T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/?p=29129"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:18:15","slug":"mestergruppen-as-finds-go-live-success-with-blue-ridge-integrated-supply-chain-planning-and-pricing-optimization-solution-sees-rapid-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/resources-press-releases\/mestergruppen-as-finds-go-live-success-with-blue-ridge-integrated-supply-chain-planning-and-pricing-optimization-solution-sees-rapid-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mestergruppen AS Finds Go-Live Success with Blue Ridge Integrated Supply Chain Planning and Pricing Optimization Solution, Sees Rapid Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>OSLO, NORWAY, June 2, 2021 \u2013<\/strong> Blue Ridge, the leading platform blending\u00a0supply chain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/solutions\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pr&amp;utm_campaign=prneumannbygg\">planning\u00a0and\u00a0pricing solutions<\/a> created for resiliency,\u00a0after initial implementation. Mestergruppen AS chose Blue Ridge and its LifeLine services to strengthen profitability, minimize cost and capital, and increase transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1970 as Mesterhus, Mestergruppen provides construction and building materials distribution for residential contractors, both owned by the chain and through independent dealers. Mestergruppen AS has grown in the last 40 years to the leading retailer and distributor for building materials in the Nordics.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Dyngeland, COO of Mestergruppen shared, \u201cMaking our supply chain super competitive and agile is a pillar in our overall strategy. With the wealth of functionality and adaptability of Blue Ridge\u2019s Supply Chain Planning capabilities, we have gone in-live state within a short timespan. To see the system coming live and playing the way we expected creates a lot of enthusiasm in the organization \u2013 and appetite for more. Which means that we will look to accelerate the pace of implementation even more to get the advantages generated, benefitting even more customers and our overall competitive edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maarten Baltussen, General Manager Europe of Blue Ridge shared, \u201cNow we are at the back end of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and as Europe opens up, I am sure Mestergruppen is more than ever prepared on the Planning side of their Supply Chain. With the demand-driven approach and a big focus on Service Levels, I am sure Mestergruppen will experience the advantage of Safety Stock reductions using Blue Ridge and their customers will experience less stock-out situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ridge\u2019s Supply Chain Planning solutions create highly efficient inventory allocation and replenishment across all locations and channels, both downstream to customers and upstream with suppliers, creating rapid value and business resiliency. These solutions integrate seamlessly with Blue Ridge\u2019s Pricing Optimization solutions, which thread the needle between forecasting, planning, sales and pricing to ensure that the demand fueled by pricing decisions can actually be met \u2013 as well as proactively shape demand and margins based on real-time inventory data.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ridge SCP solutions plan and manage billions in revenue sold in Europe across industries including Retail, Food, Wine &amp; Spirits and Durable Goods. In 2020, customers have accepted 99 percent of the planning recommendations provided by Blue Ridge SCP solutions. With these solutions, Blue Ridge customers are delivering superior in-stock rates consistently \u2013 alongside massive inventory cost reductions \u2013 with significantly less time and effort spent on planning.<\/p>\n<h3>About Blue Ridge<\/h3>\n<p>Achieving a resilient supply chain sits at the intersection of demand, price and inventory \u2013 where a company\u2019s customers, suppliers and their operations meet. Blue Ridge\u2019s cloud-native integrated planning and pricing platform gives Wholesale Distributors, Specialty Retailers and Discrete Manufacturers app simplicity that uniquely integrates data science-rich inventory forecasting capabilities with price optimization insights.\u00a0From modeling, right-sizing inventory and seamless collaboration, Blue Ridge bases success off increases in customer profitability and service levels. Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pr&amp;utm_campaign=prmestergruppengl\">https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/<\/a> or request a demo at <a href=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/request-demo\/?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pr&amp;utm_campaign=prmestergruppengl\">https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/request-demo\/<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Ridge, the breakthrough product that combines demand shaping for supply chain planning and pricing optimization, announced Mestergruppen AS sees benefits of Blue Ridge planning and pricing solutions after initial implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":29133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"scp_topic":[185],"sector":[180],"technology":[177],"class_list":{"0":"post-29129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-resources-press-releases","8":"industry-generic","9":"scp_topic-generic","10":"sector-generic","11":"technology-generic"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36017,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129\/revisions\/36017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29129"},{"taxonomy":"scp_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scp_topic?post=29129"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=29129"},{"taxonomy":"technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technology?post=29129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}