Digitalisation – e.g. P2P
Challenges
- Electronic handling of invoices (P2P) for years on the agenda of many companies (esp. automotive)
- Digitalisation of business processes also in parts of the real estate industry an obvious trend (CAFM, DMS, …)
- Organisation of numerous companies not prepared for requirements of digitalisation:
- De-centralised purchase/order system
- De-centralised invoice entry
- Manual internal transfer and processing of invoices
- High range of various accounting units/suppliers
- High number of invoices to be handled
- In the next years P2P will become market standard
- Requirement to adapt company organisations to P2P
Project approach
- Status quo analysis in specific companies:
- Volume/types of orders
- Order process
- Invoice amount
- Invoicing process
- IT systems applied (own IT systems, client systems, interfaces)
- Research:
- P2P experience in the group/the branch of industry
- P2P provider/system
- Business case: development and assessment of alternatives and scenarios
- Determination of company specific saving potentials
Results
- Professionalisation of offer and invoice handling process as well as filing/archiving
- Reduced handling times
- Quality increase of invoice handling (e.g. e-invoicing: data exchange improved data quality)
- Leaning of processes as well as process acceleration via avoidance of manual tasks and improved interfaces
- Using of FTE savings potential