Riegele Brewery Streamlines Operations with DocuWare
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- DocuWare Document Management System
- Mowis mobile merchandise management system
- SAP ERP
Tech Stack
- Document Management System
- ERP
- Mobile Merchandise Management System
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Procurement
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Inventory Management
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Riegele is a family-owned brewery based in Augsburg, Germany. The company has been in operation since 1884, making it one of the oldest breweries in the world. Riegele is a regular recipient of international awards for its products. In addition to traditional beer specialities, the brewery also creates modern craft beer, sells mineral water from its own spring, and produces various soft drinks. The company’s administration organizes all this activity at Riegele with the help of transparent processes and modern IT, including a document management system.
The Challenge
Riegele, a family-owned brewery based in Augsburg, Germany, was facing a challenge of managing a flood of paper documents. The company wanted to reduce the time and effort required for compliant, tamper-free archiving of around 80,000 delivery slips and 12,500 incoming invoices annually. The company was looking for a solution that could offer a good price/performance ratio and ease of use and setup. The solution also needed to seamlessly integrate with their existing SAP ERP system.
The Solution
Riegele implemented DocuWare's Document Management System (DMS) to manage their paper documents. The DMS was first introduced in the Purchasing and Financial Accounting departments, where around 50 employees from all departments now work with DocuWare. Both field staff and a nearby logistics center have access to the central document pool across all locations. The certified Connect to SAP interface ensures a seamless connection between DMS and ERP solutions. This was implemented by a consulting company specializing in DocuWare SAP integrations. Today, DocuWare is used both for delivery slips and for verifying incoming invoices. In total, the digital archive contains around 840,000 documents, most of which are multi-page documents. Approximately 300 daily delivery slips are created by the drivers in the Mowis mobile merchandise management system and sent to SAP via a docking station at the end of a delivery. The DocuWare interface indexes and archives all documents electronically and stores them in a way that is tamper-free and guarantees compliance.
Operational Impact
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