Rexel
Nederland B.V. – Electrical wholesaler with a sustainable vision
Nederland B.V. – Electrical wholesaler with a sustainable vision
With over 350,000 products for residential construction, industry and energy supply, Rexel Nederland B.V. is one of the leading electrical wholesalers in the Netherlands.
With its clear focus on sustainable innovation, Rexel is actively driving forward the energy transition: customers benefit from a broad portfolio of modern products and services that are specifically designed for environmental friendliness and energy efficiency.
The specially developed Sustainable Choice symbol provides guidance – and makes it particularly easy to identify sustainable products in the range and use them in a targeted manner.
E-mobility as a driver for sustainable change
Sustainability is not a trend, but a clear goal – and e-mobility plays a central role in this. With over 13 years of market experience, Rexel is well aware of the challenges and requirements involved in setting up a future-proof charging infrastructure.
The approach: ‘Guidance from A to Z’. From consulting, sales and engineering to configuration and CPO service, Rexel offers a comprehensive solution for installation companies. Smart features and helpful services form the stable foundation for professional charging infrastructure.
Systematic growth – thanks to
chargecloud
Since 2017, Rexel has relied on chargecloud to meet the growing demands in the field of smart charging infrastructure. The scalable solution – including customised white label options – forms the technological basis for Rexel's continuously growing e-mobility offering.
As a reliable technology and solution partner, chargecloud helps to centrally control thousands of charging points, ensure efficient operation and fully automate complex billing processes. This takes the pressure off installation companies, creates transparency for location partners and ensures that modern charging infrastructure runs smoothly.
From hurdles to solutions
The path to efficient charging infrastructure management
Before using chargecloud, setting up its own e-mobility offering presented Rexel with considerable hurdles:
- Contract design and billing were complex and time-consuming
- There was no suitable software solution for managing its own charging points
- Manual administration tied up valuable resources and made scaling difficult
In order to strategically develop its e-mobility portfolio, Rexel needed a flexible, powerful system – and a partner who understood the specific requirements of the energy market.
Rexel had a clear vision of how its own e-mobility offering should be developed: the focus was on building a strong solution that automates complex processes and significantly simplifies charging infrastructure management.
At the same time, the CPO offering needed to be professionalised in a targeted manner – with the aim of further strengthening Rexel's role as a trusted partner for installation companies in the future market of electric mobility. The motto: meet the highest standards!
chargecloud offered the ideal basis for this. A scalable software solution that covers all technical and operational requirements – and creates room for growth.
From goal to implementation:
the complete solution becomes reality
To achieve its goal of a holistic e-mobility solution, Rexel relied on a strong technical foundation – the chargecloud operating system. As a scalable, cloud-based operating system, it offers exactly the stability and flexibility required for a growing charging infrastructure offering.
The charging stations are delivered to installers preconfigured (including SIM card). This significantly simplifies the onboarding process, making it much more efficient: Electricians take over the installation directly at the location partners' premises – such as supermarkets, companies or car parks. The location partners then take care of the registration and tariff selection themselves.
Based on this infrastructure, Rexel now offers a comprehensive service package:
- Automated billing:
The chargecloud Partner Solution Management automatically invoices all charging sessions – including reimbursement to the respective location partners. - Technical support:
Installers benefit from their own backend access, remote access for monitoring, configuration and fault diagnosis, and reliable first-level support. - Transparency for location partners:
Via an individually branded Fleet & Partner Portal (app and web) in Rexel design, location partners maintain a central overview of charging points, charging sessions and revenue. - Effortless roaming:
Thanks to the integration with chargecloud's Inbound eRoaming product, even non-provider e-motorists have access to the charging points – without any additional roaming contracts.
A model of success
German-Dutch partnership
The solution at a glance
Rexel supplies preconfigured charging points (including SIM cards) to installers. These are already prepared so that they can be quickly and easily integrated into the chargecloud operating system.
chargecloud provides the scalable operating system for centralised management of the charging points – including remote monitoring, billing, roaming and hardware management. Rexel, installers and location partners are directly integrated via the backend, Fleet & Partner Portal, or app.
Location partners register via the app or web portal, select tariffs and gain insight into charging sessions and revenues. Billing is automated: Rexel takes over the billing of charging sessions and the reimbursement to location partners.
Installers install the charging points on site at the customer's premises and connect them to the chargecloud system. They are given access to a dedicated backend where they can monitor charging points, diagnose errors and make configurations.
Efficiently networked: each role clearly defined
Thanks to the clear distribution of roles between Rexel, installers and location partners, a system has been created that delivers impressive results in practice: installers benefit from technical support, remote access and a straightforward connection process. At the same time, they can share in the revenue generated by the charging points they install – automated billing and revenue sharing are handled directly by chargecloud.
Location partners, in turn, can keep track of charging sessions, tariffs and revenues via an app or web portal. As the central operator, Rexel not only takes over billing and technical management, but also ensures smooth processes in the background.
The result:
A networked, scalable model that simplifies complex processes – and makes e-mobility economically attractive for all involved.
QUOTE
In own words
“Through close cooperation, trust and the will to improve in order to master new challenges, we are proud of what we have built together with chargecloud.”
– Raimond Looye, charging network manager, Rexel Nederland B. V.
Projects that make a difference
From individual stations to charging parks
In recent years, Rexel has worked with installation companies in the Netherlands to implement numerous charging infrastructure projects for commercial and private customers – from individual charging points in hotel underground car parks to company-wide charging parks.
The technological basis for this is provided by chargecloud: the operating system ensures stable operation, easy scaling and reliable support in the background. This allows new locations to be developed quickly and existing infrastructures to be expanded in a future-proof manner.
With each project, Rexel not only contributes to strengthening electromobility, but also actively promotes sustainable energy and mobility solutions. After all, every charging station installed is another step towards climate-friendly transport – and a tangible contribution to the energy transition in Europe.
The goal remains clear:
Rexel wants to establish itself as a leading partner to the installation industry in the field of e-mobility: with solutions that are technically impressive and environmentally friendly.
A LOOK AHEAD
The future? Ambition and integration
Rexel is pursuing an ambitious path in the e-mobility sector: to become one of the top five CPOs in the Dutch market. To achieve this, additional charging points are to be integrated into the system and new location partnerships developed.
Ambitious plans require flexibility and technological security: chargecloud will remain an indispensable part of Rexel Nederland B.V.'s goals in the future.
Here's to many more successful years of cooperation for a sustainable future.