“ On the IT side we had to rebrand all our systems and forms down to the logos on the laptops ”

— Sean Kramer , CIO

businesses . Over four years , the company has made 27 acquisitions , from single location businesses to groups with up to 33 branches , expanding product lines , for example in nursery and hardscape products , and enhancing each branch with access to the full SiteOne product range .

THE PRIOR STATE CHALLENGE

That level of expansion would not have been possible using the IT infrastructure Sean Kramer found in place when he arrived : “ We took over a business that had a lot of operational instability . Basic IT services such as email and point-of-sale ( POS ) were very unreliable : we were

AUGUST 2018