SCHULER AG
Customer & challenge
SCHULER AG is the global market and technological leader for forming technology. Its portfolio features compactors, automation solutions, tools, and process technology for the metalworking industry and lightweight automotive construction. Its clients include automotive manufacturers and suppliers as well as companies from the metal-forging, household appliance, and electronics industries. Minting presses supplied by the SCHULER group are used to mint coins in more than 180 countries. With around 6,600 employees at production sites in Europe, China, and the United States, as well as service companies in more than 40 countries, the corporate group is majority-owned by the Austria-based ANDRITZ Group.
The client, a manufacturer of presses and tools, sought to automate its approval process for purchase requisitions and labor leasing. Previously, purchase requisitions were recorded in Nintex Forms, then manually copied into SAP for the rest of the digital review and approval process – a system that was time-consuming and prone to error. It would take around 15 minutes to create a single purchase requisition.
“In the past, it took 15 minutes per purchase order to log data from Nintex in SAP; with ERPConnect Services, the entire purchase requisition process is completely digital, from the specialist departments to supervisors, the HR department and the works council, including the purchasing department who created the requisition in SAP.”
Elmar Reck, IT-Systems Management, SCHULER Pressen GmbH
Solution with ERPConnect Services
Having had an eye on automated SAP data transfer processes for quite some time, SCHULER already had the solution ERPConnect
Services (ECS) from Theobald Software in their mind. “We were already solidly convinced that this interface would suit us perfectly in terms of technology,” said Elmar Reck, who is responsible for IT systems management at SCHULER. “There are very few solutions on the market that can combine SAP and Nintex in an automatedmanner. And for us, Theobald Software was the obvious frontrunner. The purchase requisition use case from our production department was also a practical way for us to test the interface in general.” And ECS passed that test with flying colors: Within
the space of a single day, the solution was already being put to productive use. “Something that really impressed me was the fast, uncomplicated support offered by Theobald,” Reck emphasized. “When we first downloaded the solution and installed it in our test environment, the installation didn’t quite work. Just one phone call to Theobald was enough for us to come into work the next morning to find a fixed version ready and waiting.”
Challenge
Incorporate Nintex data for Microsoft SharePoint
into SAP
Advantages
No system interruptions; efficient data transfer;
accelerated process runtimes; improved process
security; fully digitized workflow
This smart interface ensures that data logged in Nintex is automatically transferred to the SAP system and made available for further release processes. Around 500 purchase requisition procedures can be implemented within 12 months. With an average of 15 minutes saved per requisition, the incorporation of ERPConnect Services has given SCHULER a total time savings of 125 staff hours.
