Leading the Retail Integration Race: Up to 70% Time Savings

dodenhof sets the pace in IT modernisation with Scheer PAS

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Transform, migrate, and scale – without the risks of a “big bang” migration

dodenhof, a leading North German retailer, faced a fragmented and under-documented IT landscape with a need for agile, step-by-step modernisation. Scheer PAS provided an agile integration platform, enabling legacy and new systems to run in parallel without disrupting day-to-day business.

Migration now happens incrementally, with every step fully tested and documented, delivering up to 70% time savings on each new integration. The result: faster innovation, reduced costs, and a robust digital backbone for all current and future retail services.

70%

Time saved on integration projects

0%

Downtime in migrations and upgrades

5x

Legacy ERP and retail systems unified under one core platform

The challenge

Legacy spaghetti: Heterogeneous systems, no transparency

Multiple, poorly documented point-to-point integrations linked dodenhof’s POS to five different ERP systems, leaving IT with a fragile web of dependencies. Modernising this landscape, while also supporting new digital services across growing sites, required a platform that could enable interoperability, clear documentation, and the phased replacement of legacy systems without introducing risk or downtime.

The solution

Controlled modernisation: Parallel operation, full transparency

Scheer PAS enabled a step-by-step migration strategy, allowing both legacy and new systems to run in parallel. All integrations and system transitions are fully documented and monitored through visual dashboards. “Double transactions” ensured that every business process worked before any legacy application was retired. Scheer PAS’ modular architecture supports microservices and rapid interface delivery, making the system future-proof and responsive to ongoing retail innovation.

The result

Integration excellence: Agility, sustainability, and scale

dodenhof now executes integrations and migrations up to 70% faster, with less maintenance and improved system monitoring. Ongoing modernisation is risk-free – meaning no “big bang” disruption, and all functional migrations are fully tested before launch. This approach yields higher productivity for both IT and store teams, ensures minimal downtime, and positions dodenhof at the frontier of retail digitalisation. dodenhof is now ready for any future market evolution.

What's next

More agility, more partnerships – future-proof by design

With Scheer PAS, dodenhof is well positioned to integrate future partner systems, online channels, event services, and emerging retail technologies, and all of this without costly migrations or IT bottlenecks. The platform’s flexibility and reusable integration patterns enable rapid innovation, sustainable growth, and reinforce dodenhof’s continued leadership in customer experience.