User Testimonial

SIMILIA AI in Use at sema Systemtechnik

Company Profile

For nearly 35 years, sema Systemtechnik has been an internationally leading manufacturer of machines and systems for the semi-finished products and packaging industries. The company develops, produces, and distributes technologies for straightening, testing, and processing metal parts and tubes, as well as for packaging, conveying, palletizing, erecting, and processing primarily packaged products — mainly for the dairy industry.

sema Systemtechnik is an owner-managed, medium-sized company based in North Rhine-Westphalia, operating globally for its customers. A lean, flexible organization combined with in-house design and manufacturing results in innovative and cost-effective solutions tailored to individual customer requirements.

Industry:
Special-purpose machinery manufacturing, packaging technology

Employees:
Approx. 150

Application of SIMILIA AI:
Procurement, design, and development

Benefits and Advantages of SIMILIA AI

As a manufacturer of special-purpose machines, the company sources most of its parts and components externally. With the growing variety of customer-specific systems, the number of parts increases rapidly.

Procurement therefore plays a key role and faces the challenge of managing a rising number of items that must be requested, evaluated, and ordered. With SIMILIA, the purchasing department is equipped with an easy-to-use yet highly efficient software solution that enables quick comparison of similar items with supplier data and pricing information.

This approach allows procurement to achieve cost savings that ultimately strengthen the company’s competitiveness in the market.

  • Comparison of purchase prices for identical and similar parts across suppliers
  • Cost optimization in procurement and production
  • Reduction of part diversity
  • Avoidance of duplicates in the item database
  • Support for procurement through the integration of technical and commercial data
  • Creation of comparability and transparency within the item database

Directly from practice

How SIMILIA AI supports sema Systemtechnik in daily operations

“We are very satisfied with both the use of SIMILIA and the installation process. Purchasing has already achieved measurable results through a higher share of target prices. We gain price certainty and reduced costs.”

Volker Wörmann, Commercial Managing Director

sema Systemtechnik