Bondi Sands Powers a UK Launch with Cin7 Core
Background
Bondi Sands launched in Australia in 2012 and quickly became the world’s leading self-tanning brand. The company expanded internationally, launching in the UK in 2015. With stock held across Australia, the UK and the USA, and ambitions to work with multiple retailers, the business needed robust systems to match its growth.
The challenge
When Bondi Sands entered the UK market, its operations team relied on Microsoft Excel, Word and Xero. There was no live data visibility, no real-time stock tracking, and no way to manage inventory efficiently across multiple countries and currencies.
The brand had previously implemented the Cin7 Core inventory management system in Australia but the project had taken far longer than expected.
“We had rolled out Cin7 Core to a lesser level in Australia,” said Jacob Muraco, CFO and COO at Bondi Sands. “But the project dragged on, and our learnings from that were to engage a company on the ground in the UK.”
Bondi Sands needed an inventory management system that could handle global stock across multiple currencies, streamline the sales process, and give the team real-time visibility of their data. They also needed bespoke integrations to automate existing business processes, end to end.
The solution
Bondi Sands turned to supply chain systems integration experts, BlueHub, to implement Cin7 Core for their UK operation. Every BlueHub engagement begins with a Discovery Design and Plan Process. This gave the team a clear picture of Bondi Sands’ requirements and confirmed that Cin7 Core was the right fit, as it had been in Australia.
BlueHub collated data from Bondi Sands including sales orders, purchase orders and inventory records to demonstrate exactly how Cin7 Core would work for the UK team. This meant the system could be fully tested and validated before the project began.
Working across multiple time zones to meet agreed deadlines, BlueHub implemented a fully integrated Cin7 Core solution. The team configured and set up the system, migrated existing data, built bespoke integrations to automate Bondi Sands’ processes, and led online training sessions with the internal team.
