Elmatec: Warehouse management under control with SAP Business ByDesign

More success in proccesses with Cloud ERP

ELMATEC Elektromaterial und Schaltschrankservice GmbH is headquartered in Quierschied-Camphausen, Germany. With over 40 employees, the wholesale company offers services for automation technology, control and mechanical engineering. With the use of the Cloud ERP platform SAP Business ByDesign supplemented by the warehouse app scan4cloud, the company has achieved notable successes:

• Acceleration of material supply by 50%
• 60% reduction in the lead time of goods
• Increase of transparency in the entire warehouse management by 100%.

Material supply is always guaranteed and employees support their customers more competently than ever.

Complex work flows demand new and dynamic technologies: ELMATEC relies on SAP Business ByDesign

Mount cooling units, break out side panels, wire switch cabinets: The 40 employees of the electrical retailer ELMATEC not only supply their customers with about 100,000 articles, they also customize the products individually. An organizational masterpiece for which the company relied on the latest technology: the Cloud ERP solution SAP Business ByDesign.

Goals

• Identify material requirements more quickly and ensure supply at all times
• Reduction of goods lead time
• Make inventory 100% transparent
• Replace isolated solutions with user-friendly, integrated IT systems
• Enabling Business Intelligence Analyses

SAP Business ByDesign & scan4cloud in action

• CRM System and Business Intelligence Functions
• Integration of the process from financial accounting and sales through to field service
• Warehouse management via mobile app
• Internal analytics and structured evaluation of all data for well-founded decisions

Elmatec is one of the first medium-sized companies to switch to an ERP solution from the Cloud. The system runs reliably and we were able to reduce the throughput time by 60 percent.

– Christian Mäs, Buyer, Elmatec Elektromaterial und Schaltschrankenservice GmbH –

Benefits

• Integrated processes: All applications are networked with each other
• Flexible field service: Employees can use their laptop, smartphone or tablet to view current stocks, create quotations and update the project status at the customer’s site.
• Transparent stocks: the number of all 100,000 articles are always ready to access
• Acceleration of material supply by 50%.
• 60% reduction in the lead time of goods
• Satisfied customers: The quality of consultations and deliveries has increased
• Updates are carried out automatically and smoothly
• Data better protected in the SAP cloud than on your own server
• Collaboration simplified: Most important business partner also uses an SAP system

Mount cooling units, break out side panels, wire switch cabinets: The 40 employees of the electrical retailer Elmatec not only supply their customers with around 100,000 articles, they also adapt the products individually. An organizational masterpiece for which the company relied on the latest technology: the SAP Bsuiness ByDesign solution.