IT&I Magazine No. 38 - Edition December 2024

The wholesale sector is caught between rising customer expectations and increasing competitive pressure. To be successful in this environment, continuous innovation and efficiency improvements are essential. One key area that harbours enormous potential here is the invoice receipt workflow. Our innovative solution, which has already been successfully implemented at a leading customer, not only optimises this process, but also enables seamless, user-friendly integration into the SAP^® system. Incoming invoices are now child’s play!

How can a company successfully reinvent itself in the digital era? Since the beginning of this year, Lena Karohs, together with Jörn von der Lieth and Dorit Brauns, has been leading the Protestant housing company Hilfswerk-Siedlung GmbH into an innovative future. Under their joint leadership, the company has made significant progress in digitalisation and process optimisation. In this interview, we ask Lena Karohs seven questions about her experiences with workflow-based solutions, the introduction of SAP^® and the industry-specific PROMOS.GT solution library, and about the long-term benefits of digital technologies. How is Hilfswerk-Siedlung GmbH using smart technologies and efficient workflows to set new standards in the modern housing industry? Find out this and more in the interview.

If your property could speak, what would it say? Perhaps it would whisper: “The lift will need servicing soon, and by the way, the rent in the neighbourhood is about to go up by 5 percent.” Sounds like magic? Not quite! Welcome to the era of predictive analytics, where buildings are developing clairvoyant abilities – well, almost. The property sector, just like the rest of the world, is in the midst of a digital revolution. Technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are no longer just dreams of the future. They are already changing the way property is managed, valued and marketed. And this is precisely where predictive analytics comes into play – one of the most exciting developments of our time.