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The supplier database, catalogue of preferential conditions, route planning, warehouse capacity planning, countless spreadsheets – data for procurement, materials management and logistics are located across a large number of different systems and data sources. There is often a lack of resources and possibilities to make use of them to develop the proper basis for decision-making. Be careful: these are opportunities going to waste!
Data Analysis for more Profit in Procurement and Logistics
You can support expertise and operational experience with dependable data and information using a software solution from Cubeware for procurement, materials management and logistics. You can ensure security of supply at the best price with business intelligence and performance management software. Make full use of procurement and logistics as a lever in your business. Complete control over your procurement management – from a general overview down to individual products. Create summaries of the entire supply chain at the press of a button, and also analyses, meaningful dashboards, reports and plans simply and easily. We will make sure that you can bring together all the data and information about your supply chain quickly and easily and make an overarching evaluation, for a clear view of your opportunities and leverage in procurement and logistics.
See at a glance how your costs are spread over several business units, product lines and production locations. Consolidate your points of sale and points of purchase. Understand trends and total expenditure in order to improve leverage with suppliers. Negotiate discounts with a uniform view of purchase orders across your entire supplier base.
The Purchasing Team from GRS Services B.V. Use BI Software from Cubeware
GRS Services B.V. supports over 200 garden centres in the Netherlands and Belgium with business management. Important baseline information is supplied by a Cubeware solution for the retail specialist’s financial and sales reporting.
- Powerful article database in ERP system
- Representation of point-of-selling groups from multi-layered sub-groups
- Transparency over sales development in the different segments
- Baseline data for contacts with new suppliers
OUR PROCUREMENT & LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS IN USE WITH CUSTOMERSBI & PM Solutions for Procurement and Logistics
Flexible purchasing and store planning
- Individual merchandise management planning
- Efficient planning process for branches
- Plan/actual comparisons of orders and limits at the touch of a button
Bründl Sports Gruppe, based in Kaprun, Austria, operates 30 sport & lifestyle shops in 10 top tourist destinations in Western Austria. The family business, founded in 1956, employs 550 people and stands for premium adventure sports shops with exceptional culture, architecture and consulting competence. Furthermore, the Bründl Sports Group is regarded as the largest rental company of winter sports equipment in the Alps - in an absolute top location directly at the cable car stations. A Cubeware solution for integrated retail planning supports the targeted management of the successful company.
Bründl Sports Gruppe grows and continuously opens new branches. The existing Excel reporting system was therefore no longer sufficient. Above all, a professional planning tool was needed for the assortment planning of the shops. In order to be able to map the company's specific processes, the responsible controlling department decided to set up an individual planning application using Cubeware's BI software. The aim was to implement an integrated platform for strategic and operative planning, with a special focus on purchasing and store planning. The big challenge was the desired closed planning cycle, in which adjustments by the sales department are reflected in the purchasing limit planning.
"With the flexible planning solution from Cubeware, we can live our best practice planning process and react quickly and effectively to constantly changing market conditions". Günter Wagenhofer, Controller Bründl Sports Gruppe
Application: integrated strategic and operational planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware CW1 Database
Industry: Wholesale and retail trade
Detailed Sales and Inventory Control
- BI platform for reporting, planning and analysis
- Detailed gross margins
- Current sales, warehouse and inventory analysis
The successful retailer and manufacturer of organic products Davert has replaced its spreadsheetbased reporting with a state-of-the-art BI solution. With the Cubeware Cockpit as BI front-end, the central reporting platform supports planning, reporting and analysis in an integrated way onto a single database. In addition to accelerated reporting processes, the management and the specialist departments benefit from reliable control fundamentals and detailed analyses such as contribution margins or inventory levels right down to the individual batch.
“The BI solution helps our specialist departments in day-to-day business and gives management an up-to-date overview of business development on a daily basis." Erk Schuchhardt, CEO of Davert GmbH
Application: Reporting, planning and analysis, contribution margins, sales, inventory and inventory analyzes
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit
Industry: Food/Beverages
Project: realised by HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Up-to-date retail controlling
- transparent controlling of wholesale and retail
- up-to-date purchasing and sales analyses
- scalable reporting platform for an expanding company
With the support of the Cubeware partner amball business-software, the organic trading house dennree has developed a reporting solution that has been in use for years and can easily grow with the successful company. The Cubeware Importer consolidates large amounts of data from several merchandise management systems in one data warehouse and prepares them for detailed analyses with the Cubeware Cockpit. This enables the retail company to optimally control its purchasing and sales and to plan its product range in a targeted manner.
"In the organic food business, purchasing and sales figures must be 100% up-to-date. The Cubeware solution provided us with an overview of our wholesale and retail data at the push of a button." Reiner Porzel, CIO dennree Gruppe
Project: realised by amball business-software (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & Analysis, Retail Controlling, Merchandise Management, Purchasing
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Wholesale and retail trade, foodstuffs
Reliable management of all business areas
- Division controlling for heterogenous product portfolio
- Daily updated reportings for different departments
- Considerably discharge of the it department
Eder GmbH has developed a BI solution for the controlling department using Cubeware Importer and Cubeware Cockpit. The planning and reporting system processes data from various sources systems, all running on an IBM iSeries platform. This gives the business unit managers at Eder GmbH an up-to-date-overview of the indicators for their area, enabling Eder GmbH to manage heterogeneous lines of business reliably under one umbrella.
“Our business unit managers have access to the latest figures at all times thanks to Cubeware Cockpit. This given them a great deal more certainty in their decision-making.” Thomas Hugo, Commercial Manager / Controlling at Eder GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Wholesale trade, agricultural machinery
Reporting with SAP Data
- BI platform for all planning and reporting processes
- Quick and flexible evaluation of SAP-MM-data
- Scalable system with uniform database
Essener Verkehrs-AG (EVAG) moves 300,000 passengers daily, making it one of the largest providers of local transportation in the western Ruhr region. True to the motto "Wir bewegen Essen" (We get Essen moving), around 1,800 employees ensure that passengers have access to friendly, cost-efficient mobility. EVAG manages their operational business processes with SAP R/3. However, the transaction-oriented platform is not adequate for handling the analytical controlling tasks. An OLAP solution that was originally used, a combination of the TM1 database and Microsoft Excel, was no longer able to handle the increasing demands of reporting. As a result, the existing solution was to be replaced with a controlling platform that is also capable e.g. of handling growing data volumes and presenting qualitative information.
“Importing the data to the SQL-Server created a uniform data source that we can analyse in a flexible manner with the Cubeware Cockpit and present in a standardised manner.” Michael Feller, Head of Business Management at Ruhrbahn GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Transport services
Faster, leaner reporting processes
- Automated standard reporting.
- Single source of group information.
- Five man-days saved each month.
FATH is a fast-growing company in the field of plastics and steel engineering with global business connections. One of the group's success factors is its ability to respond quickly to changing requirements of customers and markets. FATH took a BI solution from Cubeware as the basis for global, dynamic sales and procurement controlling, thus laying the foundations for further growth.
“Our finance team saves five person-days a month with the BI solution, which can now be used for strategic tasks – better-prepared controlling for management or the introduction of a lean concept.” Viktor Agárdi, Deputy CFO, FATH Group
Application: Reporting & analysis
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: plastics and steel engineering
Project: Realised by DENZHORN Business Intelligence GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Reporting for 200 retail stores
- Consistent reporting on heterogeneous source systems.
- Scalable BI platform for dynamic company.
- Drill-down on complex POS groups.
GRS Services B.V. supports over 200 garden centres in the Netherlands and Belgium with business management. Important baseline information for this is supplied by a Cubeware solution for financial and sales reporting that the retail specialist implemented within a few short months. The BI platform integrates various source systems and generates consistent reports and analyses. BI functionality like drill-down and roll-up bring transparency to the sales development of huge quantities of articles and multi-layer POS groups.
“Cubeware enables us to achieve our goal of establishing consistent reporting for our 200 garden centres.” Menno de Vreede, Head of Information Management at GRS Services B.V.
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, product line management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Services, retail management for garden centre chain
Flexibel Sales Planning
- Group-wide Bi platform for decentralised sales planning
- Integration of operational planning and financial planning
- Rapid system adaptation to new planning structures
HOERBIGER is a global leader in the areas of compressor technology, automation and drive technology. In 2012, its 6,700 employees generated sales in the amount of EUR 1.06 billion. HOERBIGER developed a best-of-breed solution with products from various manufacturers for the international reporting of the company’s compressor technology division. Cubeware supports the Group’s complex planning process on the IT platform.
“The Cubeware solutions simultaneously and consistently provides all group companies with planning data. It supports intercompany coordination and creates an efficient planning process with a high level of information quality and company-wide acceptance.” Peter Wonisch, Senior Vice President, Head of accounting and controlling at HOERBIGER Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH
Project: realised byFWI Information Technology (Cubeware Premium Partner)
Application: Planning, sales and financial planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Manufacturer of Compressors
IntegRated COntROl OF SaleS, MaRketIng and Supply ChaIn
- Reporting for trendconscious brand trading.
- Flexible reporting platform for all internal company divisions.
- Optimisation of inventories and increase in the delivery rate.
As a distributor of exquisite perfume brands, the NOBILIS GROUP has been successfully operating in a highly trend-oriented market since 1993. A flexible Cubeware solution supports the agile corporate management. The scalable BI solution continues to grow with the business, adapting easily to new requirements, and providing more and more specialist departments and users with accurate control information and forecasts. The Cubeware partner Syscon, which accompanied the project from the beginning, is NOBILIS's ideal partner for system integration and adaptation.
“Thanks to the high level of automation of the Cubeware solution, our reporting is able to quickly and flexibly meet the constant changes in our market." Matthias Graf, Manager Controlling, Nobilis Group GmbH
Application: Reporting, inventory and controlling of delivery quotas
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Cosmetics
Projekt: Realised by syscon (Cubeware Premium Partner)
Bi Platform set to grow
- Flexible BI platform for an expanding company
- The first sales analyses after just two days
- Up-to-date analyses for field staff on the iPhone
In 2008, PHOENIX Dichtungstechnik was split off of the Continental Group as the result of a management buy-out. With 300 employees and annual sales of 72 million euro, the company operates in the areas of elastomer profiles and roof waterproofing. The production sites and offices are located in Hamburg and Waltershausen with sales offices in England, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. With respect to the manufacturing of its high-quality special products, the newly created company draws on the decades of experience of its predecessor Phoenix AG and Contitech AG. With respect to the internal structures, however, PHOENIX Dichtungstechnik planned to re-establish itself with a modern organisation and an ultra-modern IT landscape. On 1 January 2009, the young company began to replace, from the ground up, the SAP environment of the Continental Group and re-establish the entire IT landscape: hardware, servers, ERP and BI solution etc. should be selected in their entirety within six months and re-implimented.
“Cubeware is the right product for crafting the perfect solution on the basis of internal expertise and consistently excellent external consulting.” Bernd Macziey, IT Management at PHOENIX Dichtungstechnik GmbH
Application: Reporting, Budget, Forecast
Cubeware products: Cubeware Cockpit V6pro, Cubeware Importer, Microsoft SQL Server
Industry: Sealings for roofs, construction industry
Comprehensive customer transparency in the mail-order business
- Universal sales system for franchise organisation
- Detailed customer segmenting
- Lead-time for decision-making and cost reduce by more than 50%
With its twelve independent companies that sell packaging materials as franchise partners and regional vendors, the ratioform Group is market leader in the German packaging shipping business. Outside of Germany, the Group has locations in Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. Its European headquarters are located in Pliening byMunich; the connected logistics centre is considered by the packaging industry to be the most modern of its kind in Europe. With more than 250,000 customers, ratioform is Germany's leading mail-order distributor of packaging. Customer management is of central importance to the company's sales strategy. The regional franchisees, theextensive catalogue with over 4,500 articles, an increasingly dense field service network and the ratioform webshop form the backbone of the multi-channel shipper.
“The Cubeware Cockpit provides detailed information on customer behaviour – which is of strategic importance to us. We know our customers much better than in the past and, as a result, are able to implement campaigns and measures in a more target manner with the goal of increasing turnover.” Stefan Schörghuber, Commercial Director at ratioform Verpackungen GmbH
Application: Sales and financial controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit V6pro, Microsoft SQL Server
Industry: Wholesale and retail trade
ComPany Control over Key InDICatorS
- BI solution for the entire group of companies.
- Sophisticated dashboard with control-relevant KPI.
- Detail analysis and simulation of business scenarios.
The STAR COOPERATION Group implemented a consistent Cubeware solution it uses for planning, reporting and analysis. This scalable BI solution generates control-relevant key indicators from various sources of data. Managers, employees responsible for cost centres and topics retrieve their individual reports through the Cubeware Cockpit and perform analyses as needed. This provides company-wide transparency down to the profit centre and project level and it supports the decision-makers at all levels in their daily business.
“With the BI solution, we were able to make entrepreneurial relationships transparent. We can use numerous options to analyse and simulate dedicated business scenarios. We generate reliable key indicators from various data sources for this purpose.“ Wolfgang Kraiss, General Manager STAR SYSTEMS GmbH
Anwendung: Planning, reporting and analysis, simulation of business scenarios.
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP Solutions
Industry: Services
PreciSe ProcureMent
- Quick and easy evaluation of SAP MM data.
- Materials, inventory, orders and suppliers in an overview.
- Price benefits in procurement through transparent supplier evaluations.
STAR ELECTRONICS is an automotive supplier who develops sophisticated hardware and software for control modules, test benches and the complete vehicle analysis. The development service provider produces electronics as well as special cable harnesses and builds prototype vehicles in its own workshop in Sindelfingen. A flexible Business Intelligence (BI) solution based on Cubeware brings transparency to the complex materials management of a company.
„The specialist users in purchasing can carry out detailed supplier analyses themselves at any time and thus have a much better basis for negotiation for procurement.“ Wolfgang Kraiss, General Manager STAR SYSTEMS GmbH
Application: Evaluation of SAP MM data, overview over materials, inventory, orders and suppliers, price benefits in procurement.
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP Solutions
Industry: Services
SuppLy ChAin MoniToRing with DATA AnALyTiCS
- Reporting- and analytics solution for logistics provider.
- Transparency of business processes through aggregation of daily updated data.
- Data quality reporting and data maintenance with write-back function.
STAR PUBLISHING serves demanding just-in-time and just-in-sequence supply chains in the automotive industry. The inventory planning with Excel was no longer sufficient for the agile logistics service provider and was replaced by a modern control system from Cubeware. The powerful BI solution supports detailed reporting and brings comprehensive transparency to business processes by aggregating daily updated data. Integrated predictive analytics ensure flexible and predictive inventory planning.
“The Cubeware solution supports our JiS and JiT delivery through sophisticated automotive Supply Chain Monitoring with predictive analytics.“ Wolfgang Kraiss, General Manager STAR SYSTEMS GmbH
Application: Reporting and analysis, aggregation of data, data management and maintenance.
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Services
OUR SOLUTION EXPERTS FOR PROCUREMENT AND LOGISTICS Strong partners for your success in procurement and logistics
Since 1994, DENZHORN Geschäftsführungs-Systeme GmbH has developed into a leading specialist in software systems for integrated corporate planning, corporate consolidation, business intelligence and strategic corporate management for medium-sized and large companies. It currently supports over 2,100 customers from a number of offices.
Its core business competence is the implementation of and advice on business planning software BPS-ONE® with its integrated income statement, cashflow, balance sheet and liquidity planning features together with extensive reporting functions. Forecasts, simulations, business unit earnings statements and consolidation round off the portfolio. Cubeware Cockpit is used in BPS-BI to visualise earnings and financial data in management dashboards and reports.
An additional focus of activity is DENZHORN-BI: the planning, implementation of and continuous support for corporate-wide BI projects using Cubeware solutions. DENZHORN uses Cubeware Importer, Teamserver, Cockpit and SAP connectivity to realise sector-independent, customer-specific BI solutions from all source systems. This process merges sales, production, logistics and personnel data into highly efficient, consistent analysis and information systems.
DENZHORN BI consultants always attach great importance to their customers’ specialist departments becoming familiar with the corporate BI solutions so that they can configure and develop them largely independently.
HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE. GmbH improves the decision-making capacity of its customers over the long term and thus sustainably increases their business success. Decisively better. Decide better.
Core sectors: pharmaceuticals, wholesale and retail trade, services
Star Systems GmbH is a part of the Star Cooperation Group, which was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG in 1997. Today, the Star Group is an independent, international company with more than 650 employees. Our principal areas of focus are business intelligence, SAP, requirements engineering and e-commerce.
Our solutions play an active role in shaping our customers’ success since we implement business intelligence in virtually all areas of a business. We assume responsibility for conceptual planning, process analysis, implementation and rollout as well as for training and coaching. Our customers appreciate the experience we have in complex corporate structures that we can contribute to the pragmatic requirements of SMEs. This results in transparent projects with clear added value.
Core sectors: services, publishing, wholesale and retail trade
syscon is your interdisciplinary partner when it comes to the holistic optimisation of processes, organisational structures and information systems. We combine business and technical competence in equal measure in our consulting fields of process management, ERP and business performance management. syscon is Germany's leading specialist in business performance in combination with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and AX as well as IFS. More than 300 extremely satisfied customers in Germany and internationally over the last 16 years provide impressive confirmation of this. As a product developer for Microsoft and cooperation partner for leading business intelligence vendors, syscon can fully exploit its strengths, in particular in combination with Cubeware products. It is here that our customers benefit from our in-depth ERP and process knowledge, which offers a solid foundation for developing a business intelligence strategy that is closely aligned with their corporate goals. BI solutions based on this enable our customers to translate even heterogeneous information into appropriate decision-making building blocks. Distributed and redundant data pools can be amalgamated, cleaned and standardised in one database.
Core sectors: pharmaceuticals, publishing, sciences
