Purchasing 4.0 - the operational
and strategic purchasing
efficiently - with SIMUFORM.
Do a first duplicate check now
for a quick purchasing optimization:
Get more information and practical examples
in our free information brochure.
Purchasing 4.0 is not an approach to completely recreate your proven and established processes. Our solution to Digitization of operational & strategic purchasing supports you in focusing on your core tasks and implementing the tried and tested even better and more efficiently. Purchasing 4.0 is thus a very effective tool for optimizing your procurement processes.
Reduction of complexity is in the foreground. Simple and effective is the top motto here.
We bring together the technical and commercial information in an automated way. This enables us to optimize purchasing efficiently in cross-functional cooperation - ERP compliant.
- Sustainable reduction of material costs and inventory costs.
- Automatic avoidance of duplicates and multiple entries as early as the product creation stage.
- Early keying of articles into commodity groups.
- Target cost referencing through clean keying.
- Sustainable containment of redundant data.
- Master Data Cleanup & Consolidation.
Step 1 - Rapid success
Capture duplicates in inventory, eliminate multiple assets and cost hogs.
Finding duplicates and identifying multiple installations is child's play for our solution. We work primarily graphically based, so that all multiple assets and duplicates can be reliably identified. In this way, we efficiently optimize the inventory data and jointly follow the path of the Digitalization in purchasing.
Your benefits:
This fast yet highly effective process is ideal for optimizing inventory, reducing warehousing costs and saving on unnecessary material costs.
You can find out more in our free information brochure "Purchasing 4.0"
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Step 2 - Significantly easier
Optimization through keying according to commodity groups.
Often not all products, articles, drawings and parts are classified into commodity groups. Reason: The effort is too great and the work is very tedious. One uses the 80-20 rule, the Pareto analysis and applies the material group management only to 20% of the parts. Of course, it is better to record 100% of the materials - isn't it?
We provide:
- Better and faster decision making through transparent view of all data.
- Target cost referencing and cost transparency.
- Better bundling of demand.
Step 3 - Sustainably secured
Permanent and automated.
All previously performed steps are worthless if the data stock and the processes do not sustainably meet the requirements. Our solution makes it possible to include guardian functions in the entire process chain. The optimization steps, once initialized, are automated and permanently applied - cross-functionally.
The fast way to success thanks to purchasing optimization with duplicate check.
Convince yourself. Do a duplicate check of your drawing parts.
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Example: Mechanical engineering company
For a well-organized machine builder with about 100,000 drawing items, the number of duplicates and triplets amounts to about 2,500 drawing parts. What is the possible equivalent value that could have been saved? Now, one can calculate oneself poor or rich on the basis of published estimates. Using a very conservative calculation, one assumes €300 per master data record. This results in a total savings potential of €750,000 over the past years. If one assumes that the data stock was created in a period of about 10 years, it means that one has a savings potential of 75,000.- € per year. Data consolidation is demonstrably effective and can be activated quickly.
Example: Special machine manufacturer
In special machine construction, a very large number of drawing articles are created annually for customer-specific developments. After all, every customer requirement is different. For a company with about 20 to 25 designers, this amounts to over 15,000 drawing articles per year. For each of these new 15,000 drawing articles, a make-or-buy decision must be made. Each drawing article must be created in the ERP system with a master data record, checked and, if necessary, inquired about with possible suppliers. With 5 employees in purchasing, this results in about 15 administrative, checking and processing operations per employee every day, which take up the usual daily workload. A considerable part of this work can be avoided and automated. The automated coding of the drawing articles according to material groups, the data consolidation and the continuous cleaning of the data set from duplicates and multiple entries can contain this effort by more than 20%.
