
A global product catalogue that finally works like one.
How a precision cutting-tool manufacturer unified 500,000+ products across 13 markets into one searchable catalogue — succeeding where two attempts had failed.
What changed for Vargus
Vargus manufactures precision cutting tools — threading, grooving and deburring — for customers around the world, with regional subsidiaries across thirteen countries.
Where they started
Product knowledge trapped in static PDF catalogues
500,000+ products across 13 regional markets
Five separate ERPs and disconnected systems
Two previous platform attempts had already failed
Vargus's deepest asset — its product knowledge — was locked in PDFs and regional silos, impossible to present as one global brand. With more than half a million products, finding the right tool was a job in itself, and Vargus needed discovery that could scale to every market and, this time, actually ship.
The implementation was cost-efficient and allowed Vargus to meet their long-term digital goals.
— Vargus
The solution
Slize built Vargus a flexible, multi-market digital catalogue — not a checkout, but a sophisticated product-experience tool. A guided, selector-driven interface matches what a customer is machining to the exact units and tooling they need, turning decades of product expertise into self-service.
Getting there took serious data preparation. Slize unified five ERP systems and a PIM into one centralized, scalable platform, with content, units and languages localized for each market while staying under a single, consistent global brand.
The results
Vargus moved from static documents to a living catalogue: product data and specifications are now fast to find, internal teams work more efficiently, and subsidiaries collaborate on shared infrastructure. Where two previous attempts had stalled, this one shipped — cost-efficiently, and positioned well ahead of competitors still working from PDFs.
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