How Wonderland turned an 800-item day into less than an hour
Wonderland's item master data tripled almost overnight. What used to take a full working day now takes less than sixty minutes.
Wonderland has been making beds in Åndalsnes, on the west coast of Norway, since 1969. The company is built around understanding what the human body actually needs to recover well, with a simple goal behind everything they do: contribute to a world that sleeps better.
Surrounded by mountains and fjords, Wonderland works closely with local subcontractors, keeping production efficient and locally sourced, and has grown into one of the leading bed manufacturers in Scandinavia.
When 40,000 items became three times that
Wonderland started out managing 40,000 items in Infor M3. Even at that volume, keeping item master data updated already took a lot of time and manual work. Then the need to capture every data variation in M3 caused that number to triple.
What had been a manageable, if heavy, workload turned into something close to unworkable, and it became clear that Wonderland needed a proper tool built for maintaining large volumes of data efficiently, not more manual hours thrown at the problem.
Hear from Wonderland
Wonderland first saw the Excel Add-In at an Infor meeting in Norway, and invested in it in 2017, shortly after the demo period. The results showed up immediately. Tasks that used to take Wonderland a full day now take a fraction of that, most notably item creation, where the same volume that once meant making 800 items in a day now takes less than an hour.
Ivar Oldervik, Director of IT Division, Wonderland says:
– We wouldn't be able to handle all the master data without Vince's Excel Add-In
From a full day to under an hour
Excel Add-In has become part of how Wonderland runs its daily operations, from item corrections to building out pricelists. The configuration is straightforward, giving the team flexibility and independence without relying on outside help for every change. Being able to build custom APIs to M3, for tasks like retractions, has made the Excel Add-In a genuinely powerful tool for the kind of data-driven work Wonderland does every day, faster, easier, and considerably more cost-efficient than the manual process it replaced.
That speed matters beyond the IT department too. Being able to maintain data at this pace is what lets Wonderland keep up with demands from both its supply chain and its customers, at a volume that would have been out of reach without it.
From a day to an hour
Item creation that once took a full working day now takes less than sixty minutes.
Triple the data, same team
Item master data tripled, but the workload didn't scale with it.
Built-in flexibility
Custom APIs to M3 give Wonderland independence for tasks like retractions, without outside help.
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