EUROPE by software giant SAP . “ We now have , with SAP , a supplier and procurement platform to cover all countries . SAP enables us to create call-off orders automatically , which we call ‘ no touch procurement ’. All contracts with all details are entered and stored within the system , so people in the business can now call off without even involving procurement . This takes most of the transactional work out of your organisation and pushes this capacity into the more strategical , value-creating procurement work . We also have a lot of processes in our organisation which is tough to subtract the data out of , so we have implemented Celonis process mining , which utilises big data to help us see where our processing is not according to standard . This tool made us even better in streamlining processes and becoming leaner , faster and more agile .”
Tradeshift ’ s platform has also filled gaps in innogy ’ s purchase-to-pay process , freeing up time and skills . “ We do a lot of self-billing where possible , but found out that we still receive a lot of invoices which aren ’ t up to standard for us to process . Tradeshift is an effective , fast-growing tool , which helps us to automate complex paper invoices . The software automatically reads all invoices and reduces transactional work significantly .”
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“ When you want to create such a successful organisation , you can ’ t do it alone . We have ideas , but need partners to follow these through with ”
— Ulrich Piepel CPO , Innogy www . supplychaindigital . com