About us
What we do and our history
Our offer
Better information empowers better decisions
Astrada develops and delivers data-driven decision-making applications and systems solutions. We help with capacity and production planning, product costing and profitability information, quotation and pricing calculations, and carbon footprint calculations. The results are presented in an easily understandable way in our in-house software, customized to meet your needs. This gives you continuously updated decision-making information, both for the daily operations and for long-term planning.
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With our team of developers, project managers, consultants, support staff and partners, we cover all aspects of successful implementation projects, as well as ongoing operations, support and development.
Our solution
Web based
Our web-based software makes it accessible for those within your organization. Users and permissions make it easy and secure to control the workflow. You have full control over which data Astrada retrieves and which data you want Astrada to send to your other systems.
Multifunctional
Regardless of what you use Astrada for, everything takes place on the same platform. The flexible user interface provides the opportunity to build models, follow trends, and validate results. Alternatively, Astrada can only calculate and deliver results. How Astrada is used in your business is entirely based on your needs.
Intuitive workflows
To keep the solution alive and relevant, our applications are easy to maintain and use. We help you get started and work iteratively to customize the application to meet your specific needs.
Our story
Astrada was founded in 2002 with the idea that product calculations and profitability tracking could be done in a better way, with the goal of producing much better decision-making information. The founders of Astrada had a background as management consultants and several years of experience in profitability analysis projects in large international companies such as Ericsson, Scania and Alfa Laval. The methodology used then was ABC (Activity-Based Costing) and the results were often interesting, detailed and useful. At the moment. Because they were consultant projects, they were also difficult to maintain, and updates for new periods were often inconvenient and time-consuming. Astrada instead developed system solutions to make faster, more continuous updates with the possibility of maintaining the model and logic over time.
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The company got off to a flying start with a few large industrial customers. Together with them, Astrada was able to develop both its concept and its own software. The result was system solutions for product calculation, cost and profitability analysis for ongoing monitoring and forecasting in several business dimensions (customer, market, product, segment), with an important difference from what customers were used to: they could now administer, update and further develop their own systems. Something that is a prerequisite for continuously learning from the data that is produced, making decisions, and refining their processes.
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Since then, Astrada has further developed its software platform with more features. Today, there are proven and configurable applications in several areas: production and capacity planning, product calculation and profitability information, pricing and offering, and carbon footprint. From initially only working with a few industrial customers, Astrada now operates in several different industries. Clients are found in such diverse businesses as healthcare, manufacturing and process industry, logistics and transportation, municipalities and regions, and banking and insurance.
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Over the years, Astrada has also built a strong corporate culture. The employees - developers, project managers, implementation consultants, customer responsible and support staff - in addition to a bachelor's, master's or PhD degree in engineering, economics or computer science have a solid interest in what can make a real difference for the client: to be attuned to the actual process as it actually looks. And to work "in the boundary where operational data meets operational understanding," as Tomas Bandmann, CEO and one of the founders, explains it. "It is important for us to quickly understand our customers' operations, organization and processes and also understand how their ERP systems and system environments work. Our experience is that this leads to really good solutions."