Home improvement and gardening chain Bauhaus, which already uses Reflex WMS to manage its warehouses, is gradually rolling out Reflex In-Store Logistics across its major retail outlets as it looks to speed up the e-commerce order-picking process and offer a wider range items for sale through its online store.

Reflex, a Hardis Group business unit and a leading provider of supply chain software, and A2B Solutions, its integrator partner for the Nordic countries, announce that Bauhaus has rolled out Reflex In-Store Logistics to manage e-commerce order picking at two retail outlets in Norway and Sweden, with plans to deploy the application at other stores in Iceland, Finland, and Estonia.

Transforming retail outlets into order-picking hubs

Bauhaus, founded in Mannheim, Germany, in 1960, pioneered the concept of large, specialist retail in the home improvement and gardening sector. Since 2022, it has used Reflex WMS to manage its warehouses in the Nordic countries. Now, the company has decided to shift some order-picking operations to its largest physical retail outlets as it looks to shorten delivery lead times, offer a wider range of items for sale through its online store, and cut logistics costs.

In Norway, Bauhaus closed a dedicated e-commerce warehouse and transferred all logistics operations to its Vestby store. In Sweden, meanwhile, the focus is on offering a wider range of items to online customers while avoiding the need to store certain products at its Sickla warehouse, which is attached to a retail outlet.

“After considering using SAP, our existing ERP system, to manage in-store e-commerce logistics, we ultimately opted for Reflex In-Store Logistics because it was quicker to deploy, easy to integrate, and specifically designed for managing logistics operations at retail outlets,” said Håkan Asp, Logistics Development Manager at Bauhaus.

Rapid rollout and end-to-end support

Reflex In-Store Logistics went live at the Vestby store in November 2024. The deployment took just three months to complete thanks to the end-to-end support provided by Reflex integrator A2B Solutions, which handled configuration, SAP integration, and optimization of the order picking, packaging, and carrier information-sharing processes. In Sweden, the rollout was finalized at the Sickla retail outlet in April 2025, where the application manages a catalog of 15,000 different items, including 5,000 construction-material products. Bauhaus is aiming to deploy Reflex In-Store Logistics in at least one store in each country by the end of 2026.

“The next rollouts will happen in Iceland in September 2025, followed by Finland and Estonia in December 2025,” said Asp. “By early 2026, we expect to have around 40 employees using the application on a daily basis—and we’ll have achieved our goal of harmonizing our processes across all the Nordic countries.”

Toward unified logistics across warehouses and stores

Currently, SAP assigns preparation orders to warehouses or stores depending on the items ordered, and maintains a consolidated view of in-progress and picked orders. But Bauhaus is not ruling out a change in approach—one that would support more granular management of picking operations according to customer orders and items stored at the two types of sites.

For Bauhaus, deploying Reflex In-Store Logistics has led to fewer stock errors and automated two-way data exchanges between SAP and Reflex WMS, offering a broader, more reliable overview of inventory. The rollout has also allowed the company to expand the range of items sold through its e-commerce website—especially construction materials in Sweden—without taking up precious warehouse space.

“A2B Solutions bring to the table logistics expertise coupled with tool-specific knowledge,” said Asp. “Their ongoing support is vital to the success of our projects and a key factor in optimizing our processes.”

Press release: Hardis Group