WMD - List of some of our Articles and Case Studies

In the beginning of 2010, WMD Ahrensburg installed a unified ECM system at Carglass GmbH, a national-wide service provider for the automobile industry, which is located in Cologne. At the heart of the installation is an electronic invoice processing system based on software components EASY DOCUMENTS and IRISXtract™ for Documents. WMD (Workflow Management & Document Consulting) integrated the invoice workflow with EASY DOCUMENTS into the ERP Platform Oracle Financials. The option of invoice release per mobile device is an aspect that is especially comfortable for the employees connected to the workflow. WMD also converted server-based e-mail archiving with the software solution EASY xBASE. It has clearly lightened the load of the exchange server. more...

HAVI moves through many streets of Europe. And within the walls of the internationally successful Duisberg-based logistics provider, a lot is being moved as well. Since 2009, both HAVI Logistics GmbH in Germany and the local HAVI companies in other European countries have switched to a unified SAP ERP infrastructure. For this, the organization is introducing of electronic invoice processing with WMD xFlow Invoice and along with other solutions from the WMD product family. more...

Hansgrohe AG from Schiltach, Germany (www.hansgrohe.com) has long been recognized as an international leader in innovation in the sanitary sector. Founded in 1901 in the Black Forest by Hans Grohe, the mixer and shower specialist is represented today with ten produc-tion facilities on three different continents and branches in 37 countries, making it one of the few global players in the sanitary industry. Hansgrohe AG is not listed on the stock exchange. The shareholders are the Masco Corporation in Taylor, Michigan (68%) and the family of Klaus Grohe, Schiltach, Germany (32%). The company’s key to success: innovation to be seen in its products and processes, the sustainability of its business concept, and its passion for the element water.The sanitary specialist has achieved an IT system that is highly standardized and works to ensure a consistent international software landscape. The ERP system used by Hansgrohe relies on SAP (ECC 6.0). The system is run in 25 countries and in 20 languages, from Atlanta to Shanghai, from Malmö to Cape Town. more...

Be it through digital files for patients or through electronic processes in financial accounting, present-day clinics, just as institutions in other sectors, are increasingly seeking to do away with the floods of paper common still prevalent in their day-to-day accounting. Changing billing models involving insurance providers are forcing clinics to make exact analysis of incidental costs and revenues. When faced with installing an effective controlling system for costs and revenues, clinics are well served in taking advantage of the benefits of electronic invoice processing. In addition to effective controlling of costs and revenues, an electronic invoice processing system delivers greater transparency in a decentralized organization and clearly optimizes revenues resulting from early payment. Furthermore, the of excess payment in accounts payable - a problem prevalent in the health-care sector primarily resulting from errors in manual cost control and the process of payment transactions - can thus be avoided. more...

"For these reasons," says Ralf Weidenbach, Manager of Strategic Initiatives at Ball Packaging Europe, "we were looking for an IT solution that would allow us to set up the processes around management of incoming invoices with more transparency and to improve reporting - especially considering the constant increase in compliance requirements. The fact that the sites were spread across Europe posed a challenge." more...

Sven Rossbach, CEO of Allianz Business Services s.r.o. explains, "We chose WMD technology because xFlow Invoice offers a Best Practice solution for standardizing processes.It was important for us to work with a system within SAP with process control as its key software component." more...

CWS-boco, the hygiene specialist, has been using a combined system since 2009. This brings together the benefits of IRISXtractTM, WMD xFlow Invoice and SAPERION’s ECM suite for SAP-integrated extraction, processing and archiving of incoming invoices. It is an ambitious IT project with a very wide-ranging perspective, because the long-term plan is for all European CWS-boco subsidiaries to use this system. more...

Since 2008/2009 Panasonic Europe Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of electronic consumer products, has been using an SAP-based workflow, developed by WMD (Workflow Management & Document Consulting), at its locations throughout Europe. WMD xFlow Invoice is used for electronic processing of previously paper-based incoming invoices and credit notes. More than 800 users now validate easily and quickly about 75,000 invoices a year. more...

To optimize and increase transparency of internal and external business processes, Beschützende Werkstätte Heilbronn (BWH - Sheltered Workshop Heilbronn) selected to implement the efficient and powerful ECM solution EASY ENTERPRISE. The project was implemented in close collaboration of the cooperation partners DOBRICK + WAGNER SOFTWAREHOUSE GMBH and WMD (Workflow Management & Documents Consulting) Vertrieb GmbH. more...

Schwartauer Werke GmbH & Co. KgaA, a company based in Bad Schwartau, receives approximately 400 payment advices per year from four central purchasing associations and is therefore faced with the task of entering, verifying, posting and archiving the payments for more than 27,000 invoice line items. Since November 2006 the DMS systems house WMD (Workflow Management & Document Consulting) and Docutec AG, manufacturer of recognition software, have been providing Schwartauer Werke with support in the form of a standard solution for automated payment advice processing. more...

With the innovative software solution xFlow® from WMD, EASY sets a new standard in generic workflow creation for SAP business processes. EASY SOFTWARE is working more closely with its longtime partner Workflow Management & Document Consulting (WMD) of Ahrensburg, Germany. The Mülheim-based company will deploy the generic software solution xFlow® in all future projects on optimizing and automating SAP business processes. more...