Freudenberg IT SE & Co. KG was an IT company specializing in SAP consulting, outsourcing, manufacturing execution system & managed hosting. It was part of the

Freudenberg Group The Freudenberg Group is a German family-owned diversified group of companies whose products include housewares and cleaning products, automobile parts, textiles, building materials, and telecommunications. Its headquarters are in Weinheim, Bade ...

. Freudenberg IT was operating out of 18 locations in

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, North America, China and

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with over 600 associates. Freudenberg IT was headquartered at

Weinheim Weinheim (; pfl, Woinem) is a town with about 43,000 inhabitants in northwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, approximately north of Heidelberg and northeast of Mannheim. Weinheim is known as the "Zwei ...

, Germany. An association with SAP started when Freudenberg became number seven customer of SAP and SAP R1 was installed on Freudenberg systems.

History

In 1996, Freudenberg IT started as an IT spinoff, being part of

of companies. In Germany, Freudenberg IT was located at Weinheim, Balingen, Düsseldorf, Munich and Hamburg. Their first office outside

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was in

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. Later they established offices at Budapest, Hungary and Kiev, Ukraine. In North America, Freudenberg IT was present in

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– Durham, Los Angeles,

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and Halifax,

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. In China were are present in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guangzhou. In 2009, Freudenberg IT established an office in Singapore to act as a hub for customers in South East Asia. In November 2001, Freudenberg IT purchased 75% stake in Adicom, the systems enterprise provider based in Balingen, Germany. With this acquisition Freudenberg IT was able to complement its SAP service suite with a

manufacturing execution system Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that helps manufacturing decision-makers understand how curr ...

product. As a MES system, Adicom is able to operate as a standalone system or in conjunction with any ERP system. In 2009, Freudenberg IT crossed US$100 million in annual revenue. Syntax, a Montreal-based provider of cloud and managed IT services to businesses, officially acquired SAP cloud specialist firm Freudenberg IT (FIT) on March 1, 2019 (after 6 weeks of customary approvals).

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