Henkel Modernizes Enterprise Content Management

Henkel recently made a move to modernize invoice processing throughout the company using an open, high-performance enterprise content management solution. SAPERION 6 will handle a yearly volume of 1.4 million invoices faster and with lower costs than before. In addition, Henkel's 52,000 employees around the world expect to benefit from new features, like e-invoicing, which will pay dividends long into the future.

 

Launching SAPERION 6 in Europe and North America will serve as the opening bell for a major platform conversion. Since the tool went live in June of 2009, more than 20 countries, including Germany, France, Great Britain and Poland, have begun using the new system. In the first few months, 40,000 invoices have been entered into the system and 16,700 users have been granted access. Henkel plans to expand use of the software to all national subsidiaries in several stages.

 

"E-invoicing will eventually allow us to achieve a fully electronic exchange of invoices with our vendors, which will greatly improve the efficiency of the invoice-receipt process," says Jaak van Wanseele, Financial Operations Europe at Henkel.. "Using and maintaining the system requires only a small amount of time, a benefit that will go straight to our bottom line."