Leroy Merlin digital

History

2025: IT Brand Launch

Lemana PRO launches its own IT digital products, the introduction of AI solutions and the modernization of the IT infrastructure in order to create a multi-channel seamless client experience and increase operational efficiency. Lemana Pro announced this on July 3, 2025.

Lemana Tech brings together about 1,200 IT professionals across 130 product teams that develop, test and support IT solutions for the retailer's entire ecosystem. These technologies manage processes ranging from sales and logistics - to personalized client services and space design tools for customers. As early as July 2025, Lehman Tech's infrastructure processes hundreds of terabytes of data and performs thousands of analytical processes daily, helping to forecast demand, optimize supply chains and speed up order fulfillment.

Among the focus tasks of Lehman Tech are the creation of a reliable, flexible and scalable platform for business needs, the introduction of a standardized approach to product development, as well as measurable and effective SDLC processes. In the near future, the company will focus on the development of digital services and AI solutions, ensuring business development and opening up new opportunities for customers and partners. It is also planned to pay great attention to expanding and accelerating data processing, introducing generative models, and developing robotization.

The key areas of the IT company's development strategy are efficiency and innovation. We want to create an end-to-end developer experience that is based on an internal platform that combines a set of tools to solve all business problems. The purpose of such a platform is to increase the efficiency of engineers by 30-50% and free up their resources to solve business problems. Also in the focus of our transformation is the balance of internal and outsource development. All key, competitive plus solutions are developed internally. We plan to move towards a 60/40 ratio, where 60% is in-house and 40% is outsource. This approach will allow us to maintain technological autonomy and internal expertise and occupy a high position among IT companies in retail, - said Nikolai Knysh, technological director of Lehman Tech.

Thanks to the introduction of innovative solutions, in the next 2-3 years the company expects to increase the frequency of customer interaction with Leman Missile Defense by 3.5 times. Omnichannel, object-design approach and unification on one platform of partners and clients (retail and professional) will create a special client experience.

As of July 2025, Lehman Tech is already implementing large-scale IT projects for the entire infrastructure of Lehman Missile Defense. Among the latest developments is the WMS warehouse management system, which allows you to optimize warehouse and logistics operations, as well as increase their efficiency several times; A product for inventory management that significantly improves demand forecasting, reduces storage costs, and prevents losses due to spoilage or aging of goods. About 95% of orders to the supplier are automated. Year by year, the company's logistics direction increases productivity by 15% through its own IT products and processes hundreds of thousands of goods in stores, darkstors and sorting centers.

To interact with customers, the WeCare platform was created, the launch of which made it possible to reduce the processing time of customer requests and reduce system maintenance costs by more than 50 million rubles annually. The company's specialists have developed and implemented a contract management system that speeds up negotiations with suppliers by more than half, as well as a self-service tool for launching advertising, available to commodity suppliers and merchants.

2022: Establishing a company

On October 11, 2022, it became known about the creation of Leroy Merlin Digital Technologies. This "daughter" of the chain of stores for repair, according to the SPARK-Interfax system, is engaged in software development, and its head is Viktor Kisilenko, who holds the positions of general director in companies in Moscow, Kaliningrad and the Kemerovo region.

According to Vedomosti, retailers have intensified the registration of IT subsidiaries. If such subsidiaries receive accreditation Ministry of Digital Development as IT companies, their employees will be able to receive a deferral from mobilization in accordance with the decision of the Ministry of Defense. On September 23, 2022, the military department announced that certain categories of citizens, including employees of IT companies, were not involved in partial mobilization. As later specified in the Ministry of Digital Development, employees with specialized education working in companies accredited in the register of the ministry can apply for a deferral.

Creation of Leroy Merlin Digital Technologies

After the start of the special operation, there was the first surge in accreditation of IT companies - in April-March 2022, the number of companies registered in the register of the Ministry of Digital Development more than doubled. At the end of summer, accreditation was temporarily closed. The agency has introduced new accreditation rules: for example, now it can be received by companies whose revenue from IT activities is at least 30%, the publication reports.

Earlier, IT companies created supermarket chains O'key"" and "ABC of Taste," as well as Всеинструменты.ру"," a network of shoe stores Kari and L'Etoile"."

The new accreditation procedure Ministry of Digital Development RUSSIAN FEDERATION was presented in October 2022. At the same time, the head of the department Maksut Shadayev clarified that large firms can allocate subsidiaries to IT in order to meet new revenue requirements.^[1]

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