Client: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers
Website: rbauction.com
Company Size: 110 offices worldwide in more than 25 countries
Location: Richmond BC
Status: public, NYSE, TSE (RBA)



Client Profile:
Ritchie Bros. is the world's largest auctioneer of industrial equipment. The company conducts over 180 auctions a year throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and Middle East. www.rbauction.com



Ritchie Brothers moves to New Worldwide Planning Tool with Action Plan

"Evident Point has been able to deliver a very feature rich application on a very tight deadline, in time for our 2008 action plan campaign. The system has proven itself during this campaign."
Karl Werner,
Vice President of Auction Operations,
Richie Brothers Auctioneers

The Challenge

Ritchie Bros. had a need to consolidate its annual planning process across its 110 offices in 25 countries and walk away from their spreadsheet-based intermediate planning “tool”. The new tool was supposed to provide iterative plan reconciliation - top-down and bottom-up. The first release of the system had to be analyzed, designed and developed and promoted to production in under 6 months in order to be ready for the next annual planning period.

The Solution

Evident Point's team decided to use the "Seam" platform in order to provide reach application fast that would accommodate complex and iterative workflow where reconciliation path can change direction at will.

The Benefits

Ritchie Bros. managed to use the first release of the system for its 2008 annual planning campaign, which allowed the company to save.

"We are impressed with the way Evident Point performs. We are very pleased that the Evident Point team continues to provide excellent service and product development for us as we continue development and deployment of our M07 initiates."
Karl Werner,
Vice President of Auction Operations,
Richie Brothers Auctioneers