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VAT ID validation for SAP® systems

Management consultants iowell provide a routine for validating VAT ID numbers with SAP® systems. The tool offers an integrated validation solution for master data and for document data relating to accounts payable and receivables.

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Key features

  • Automatic and manual online validation of VAT ID numbers, along with the company name (including the legal form according to the commercial register), city, street and zip code
  • Verification by the Federal Central Tax Office (Bundeszentralamt für Steuern) in accordance with German VAT legislation
  • Integration of online validation as a background process during order processing and the creation of delivery notes and invoices
  • Recording of validation results in a dedicated audit log table in the SAP® system for audit purposes
  • MLog-table monitor and functionality for analyzing and editing log entries. Where required, a log entry can be manually linked to a document (order, delivery note or invoice). The monitor enables users to correct master data and resubmit a query.
  • Option of selecting only those receivables for which there are active documents. This prevents the routine from checking all master data every time a validation is performed.
  • Functionality for customizing the SAP add-on

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SAP® Variant Configuration

An increasing variant diversity, a flexible production process and transparent production costs are becoming key success factors in the manufacturing industry as well as in mechanical and plant engineering.

The increasing needs for individualized products in the consumer goods industry can be realized with variant configurators. Variant configuration applied in mechanical and plant engineering allows technical clarification of a project as early as in the stage of order acceptance.

An effective solution to manage variant diversity is the SAP integrated variant configurator. Both simple as well as complex products and plants can be compiled in the SAP variant configurator and passed on to the production process.

Advantages of SAP variant configuration are for instance:

  • Reduction of parts lists
  • Acceleration of order processing
  • Manageable and transparent control installation
  • Reduction of knowledge monopoly

Introducing the SAP configurator opens up a range of advantages for a company which we would like to develop jointly in the course of the workshop “SAP Variant configuration”.

The objective of the workshop is to develop an individually customized package of measures for the company to enable also a gradual introduction of the SAP variant configurator.

Give us a call to make an appointment.

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Controlling performance improvement

Controlling for us is a service as well as a business management tool.

It is comparable to a steering wheel and the instruments on the dashboard of a car. These tools are there to help the driver operate the vehicle safely and reach the desired destination.

In the same way this is exactly the task of management. Controlling supports management by the generation and interpretation of essential information and is available when needed to help in the navigation of the business. Controlling too has to improve its performance to guide a business in the dynamic environment of today.

We at iowell have, on the basis of our extensive experience, developed systematic procedures to substantially increase the performance of present controlling systems.

The iowell controlling system consists of four modules:

  • Design of controlling systems
  • Business guidance with controlling systems
  • Business planning and budgeting in controlling systems
  • New controlling procedures and their integration into controlling systems

We adapt these modules to the crucial aspects of your business.

Plan of action in controlling

Our systematic plan of action at iowell can been seen as a phased approach:

In the first phase we analyze the controlling system and benchmark it, to ascertain its current performance. In the following phase we design a new controlling system for the client. The realization of controlling concepts is one of our core competencies at iowell. We therefore prefer to work with you, the client in developing new controlling concepts.

During the ensuing learning process, we offer all necessary support.

While looking for new competitive advantages, controlling has an important task to fulfill. Controlling must be so positioned as to be able to influence the future of the company, rather than administering the past.

A road on which we, at iowell, would like to accompany you as our client.

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Media

Changes in the media industry have always been a fact. They have however never been as extreme as they are today. The present day challenges demand a radical change of direction in the traditional management of the media. Business driving factors are:

  • Strong Competition
  • New Technologies and New Competitors
  • The Trend to Consolidation

iowell draws on its long-standing media experience to guide you through the dizzying pace at which the industry is changing, providing a high level of technical expertise based on its decades of experience in the rollout and enhancement of SAP® processes within the media industry. iowell can look back on a large number of successful consultancy projects involving both rollout and optimisation of existing processes.

Here, we possess particular strengths in the intelligent use and expansion of the SAP® standard. We are not happy merely to bring business processes in line with the SAP® system: instead we apply a ‘keen eye’ to align the SAP® with our customers’ business processes.

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Services

The service industry enjoys increased growth and volume. The start-ups as well as the employment numbers are by far the most positive in this industry. Naturally these opportunities in the service industry facilitate the increase in the amount of start-ups and with this the competition for individual firms. Services are becoming more and more interchangeable.

iowell provides a high level of technical expertise based on its decades of experience in the rollout and enhancement of SAP® processes within the services sector. iowell can look back on a large number of successful consultancy projects involving both rollout and optimisation of existing processes.

Here, we possess particular strengths in the intelligent use and expansion of the SAP® standard. We are not happy merely to bring business processes in line with the SAP® system: instead we apply a ‘keen eye’ to align the SAP® with our customers’ business processes.

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Automotive Supplier

The automotive supplier industry faces a dizzying pace of innovation and permanent cost pressure from the downstream automotive industry. The increasingly networked structures within the automotive industry merely heightens this development.SAP® Software helps companies within the automotive supply industry to streamline and integrate these complex business processes between customers, manufacturers, suppliers and dealers.

Based on its decades of experience, iowell provides a high level of technical expertise in the implementation and enhancement of SAP® processes for the automotive supplier industry. iowell can look back on a large number of successful consultancy projects involving both rollout and optimisation of existing processes.

Here, we possess particular strengths in the intelligent use and expansion of the SAP® standard. We are not happy merely to bring business processes in line with the SAP® system: instead we apply a ‘keen eye’ to align the SAP® with our customers’ business processes.

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Public Services

Public service providers are increasingly keen to bring greater efficiency and simplicity to their business processes in order to meet the tasks with which they are entrusted and to accommodate the ever-tightening purse strings of public coffers. This is particularly true if one considers that the quality of public services must not suffer. Seeking to satisfy these requirements, many public administrations, public sector institutions, councils, government agencies and utilities companies successfully use SAP® standard software to underpin their administrative and technical processes.

iowell possesses decades of experience in the implementation and development of SAP® processes for services in the public sector, allowing the company to draw on a wealth of technical expertise to rollout and streamline existing processes in financial accounting and logistics within the public sector.

Here, iowell can look back on a substantial number of successful consultancy projects in cost and process optimisation, specifically in combination with streamlined software processes in SAP® systems and in the rollout of SAP® systems.

Here, we possess particular strengths in the intelligent use and expansion of the SAP® standard. We are not happy merely to bring business processes in line with the SAP® system: instead we apply a ‘keen eye’ to align the SAP® with our customers’ business processes.

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High Tech

The times are over in the high tech sector when the demand was larger than the supply. With general decline in client loyalty, a professional, up-to-date customer relation management (CRM) becomes even more important. Today´s speed of innovation creates immense time-to-market and cost pressures.

The only answer to these challenges is a proper combination of efficiency improvements and an aggressive growth strategy.

Our focus:

  • Development of a growth strategy and efficient sales strategy.
  • Optimizing Product Life Cycle Management.
  • Inventory Management and On-Time-Deliveries by optimizing the supply chain.
  • Lasting cost reduction program – next generation cost reduction.
  • Lasting improvement in IT-efficiency and IT-effectiveness.

iowell possesses extensive expertise in the provision of consulting services to large and medium-sized enterprises within the high-tech industry, where it draws on extensive project experience with a broad variety of hardware, software and peripheral device vendors, with the semiconductor and electronics industries and with network equipment vendors. Here, iowell can look back on a substantial number of successful consultancy projects in cost and process optimisation, specifically in combination with streamlined software processes in SAP® systems and in the rollout of SAP® systems.

Here, we possess particular strengths in the intelligent use and expansion of the SAP® standard. We are not happy merely to bring business processes in line with the SAP® system: instead we apply a ‘keen eye’ to align the SAP® with our customers’ business processes.

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Engineering & Construction

Engineering and construction being active in the capital equipment industry sector are often subject to market volatility. Increased international competition has put extreme pressure on margins, which in some markets has led to consolidation in that industry.

In spite of this, it is possible for strong companies who position and specialise themselves in niche markets to attain and maintain attractive results and to realize their growth strategy. In other cases cost advantages can be realized through standardization and/or automation.

iowell possesses extensive expertise in the provision of consulting services to large and medium-sized enterprises within the plant and mechanical engineering industries, and can look back on a substantial number of successful consultancy projects in cost and process optimisation, specifically in combination with streamlined software processes in SAP® systems and in the rollout of SAP® systems.

Here, we possess particular strengths in the intelligent use and expansion of the SAP® standard. We are not happy merely to bring business processes in line with the SAP® system: instead we apply a ‘keen eye’ to align the SAP® with our customers’ business processes.

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