EVH GmbH provides electricity, gas, and district heating services in Halle, the largest city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. EVH is part of Stadtwerke Halle (SWH), a public utility group with more than 40 subsidiary companies that provides a diverse range of services.
EVH is always striving to make business processes more efficient and effective. Following the introduction of a new ERP system, the company launched a pilot to monitor the development of a new standard procure-to-pay process.
By piloting this new process, EVH hopes to encourage holistic standardization across the SWH Group. Marcus Graichen, Head of SAP ERP Management at EVH GmbH, notes: “By introducing process mining, we are making the handling of our commercial business processes quantifiable. Our goal is to help standardize processes within the SWH Group.”
Gaining Valuable Insights for Business Process Optimization with SAP Signavio Solutions
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
- Compare target processes with actual processes
- Achieve process excellence; standardize processes across the entire SWH group in the future
- Optimize resources and reduce costs
- Gain synergies through uniform process standards
Why SAP
- Ideal integration of SAP Signavio® solutions with existing SAP solution landscape
- Long-term user of SAP Signavio Process Manager, which predates the company’s move to SAP S/4HANA®
- Expected synergies with the integration between SAP Signavio and other SAP business units
After: Value-Driven Results
- Enabled data-driven process monitoring in the procure-to-pay process
- Identified significantly more process variants than expected, including avoidable process loops
- Empowered EVH to determine a roadmap for process optimization
- Clarified rules for dealing with procurement process issues, such as maverick buying
- Mapped the most important key figures in a monthly comparison report for the relevant departments
- Improved data quality
- Quantitatively validated the effect of existing process optimization
- Laid the foundation for further improvements to achieve process excellence
“Process mining shows us qualitatively what level of process excellence we have already achieved, as well as what we need to focus on in the future.”
Torsten Horn, Head of Business Management / Commercial Service, EVH GmbH