- With this acquisition, Hardis Group completes its portfolio of SaaS solutions dedicated to Supply Chain execution with OIL, a Cloud platform for order management, 360° inventory visibility and customer experience optimization.
- This acquisition marks a new stage in the Group’s ambition to become a global leader in the Supply Chain Software market with a Cloud platform that brings agility and resilience to both Supply Chain and Commerce.
Grenoble, Naarden, July 11, 2024 – Hardis Group, a leader in Supply Chain management solutions, has announced its acquisition of Dutch company Magnus Black from investment fund Holland Capital. Magnus Black notably publishes OIL, a cloud-native solution for order orchestration (Order Management System, OMS). This acquisition will enable Hardis Group to extend its offering for e-commerce and omnichannel distribution companies (BtoC and BtoB) with a platform capable of orchestrating order flows from shopping cart to delivery, regardless of the sales channel (store, e-commerce, marketplace, etc.).
Hardis Group publishes Reflex, a SaaS software suite that orchestrates, optimizes and supervises logistics networks and their sites (warehouses, factories, stores, drives, etc.). Its solutions are used by nearly 450 customers. The French company is one of Europe’s top three suppliers of Supply Chain Execution (SCE) software.
Magnus Black, a Dutch software company, serves nearly 40 clients in retail, including Hunkemöller, WE Fashion, Omoda, Beter Bed, Blokker, Petrol Industries, Prénatal, Welkoop and Zeeman. Its suite of cloud-native OIL solutions, available as SaaS, facilitate the management of complex omnichannel orders and processes, while enhancing the consumer experience through advanced and innovative capabilities encompassing unified inventory, ship-from-store, click & collect, returns management, drop shipment, delivery promises and more. OIL is recognized by Gartner in its market guides for Distributed Order Management and Retail Store Inventory Management.
Combined, the SaaS solutions from Hardis Group and Magnus Black provide a modular, flexible and robust response to the challenges of omnichannel commerce and supply chain performance.
“OIL is a natural extension of our software portfolio designed to meet the challenges of e-commerce and omnichannel distribution. With this acquisition, companies using Reflex will benefit from a new SaaS component that will enable them to orchestrate their orders and optimize the experience, whether in BtoC or BtoB,” says Florent Boizard, Director of the Supply Chain Solutions business unit of Hardis Group.
In terms of organization, Magnus Black’s teams of around thirty employees will join those of Hardis Group. “Since 2012, Magnus Black has been developing an OMS platform out of a passion for omnichannel retail. Designed as an out of-the-box solution, our platform optimizes complex digital commerce processes in best-of-breed and composable commerce architectures,” explains André Damsteegt, Managing Partner of Magnus Black. “Joining Hardis Group enables us to accelerate our international ambitions. The support and expertise of Hardis Group’s teams in Supply Chain management will contribute significantly to the further development of our solutions, enabling us to offer even more innovative solutions for the omnichannel commerce challenges of today and tomorrow.”
Hardis Group’s acquisition of Magnus Black is also part of a broader strategy to expand its international activities. “The integration of OIL into our solutions portfolio is a major step in our strategy of developing a global offering for the supply chain and commerce. Alongside the Magnus Black teams, who have made OIL a leader in the Benelux region, we will now focus on its expansion in Europe and worldwide,” adds Nicolas Odet, Chairman of Hardis Group.