The beer business also needs good IT-solutions

BERLIN, 31.01.2006.

Beer, bottle, crown cap and clip top: For the average consumer that's all you need as far as beer is concerned. The buyers of the breweries have a different perspective. To make everything from production to marketing flow smoothly the collaboration of many departments and their services is necessary. This involves considerable operating expense(s).

InBev, the world's largest brewery corporation with trademarks such as Becks, Hasseröder and Diebels works with the ERP system SAP R/3. Yet, the connection with the suppliers is not continuously paperless. This takes up valuable time and is a major source of errors.

In search of a possibility to organize the whole procurement process without any media discontinuity several solutions were analysed. InBev finally opted for SICO corporate with its message: "EDI for Everyone".

"Our processes of purchasing remain unchanged", says Sabine Castor from the purchasing department of InBev Germany and responsible for eProcurement in the current Whitepaper The beer business also needs good IT-solutions.