Miba has been relying on SoftconCIS for around 17 years. Today, WebCIS helps the purchasing organization spend less time collecting data and focus more on analyses, priorities and effective measures.
The Company
Miba AG is an internationally active technology company headquartered in Laakirchen, Upper Austria. Since its founding in 1927, the company has developed and produced components along the entire energy value chain. Its solutions are used worldwide in vehicles, ships, aircraft, construction and agricultural machinery, wind turbines and power grids. Under the mission “Technologies for a cleaner planet”, Miba contributes to generating, transmitting, storing and using energy more efficiently and sustainably.
As a globally positioned industrial company, Miba needs a powerful and reliable data foundation in order to manage complex purchasing structures transparently. For many years, WebCIS has supported the purchasing team with fast analyses, traceable price developments and well-founded decision-making bases.
The Challenge Before WebCIS
One of the central challenges in Miba’s purchasing was to create a clear and consistent view of price and material cost developments. Without a specialized solution, it is laborious to quickly identify changes compared with the previous year, analyze their causes and initiate suitable measures in good time.
Especially with large purchasing volumes and a large number of materials, suppliers and commodity groups, the manual preparation of data can tie up considerable resources. At the same time, the risk of recognizing relevant developments only late increases.
„Based on my experience so far, WebCIS is for me the most practical and user-friendly tool for daily purchasing analysis and reporting.“
Darko Kesegi – Controlling Procurement and Supplier Management, Miba AG
It was therefore decisive for Miba to create a robust analytical foundation for purchasing controlling. Price changes should not merely be documented, but recognized promptly, presented clearly and translated into concrete decisions.
The Solution with WebCIS
WebCIS has already been in use at Miba for around 17 years. From the very beginning, the central reason for its introduction was to track the development of prices and material costs more transparently and to put purchasing decisions on a sounder data basis. Darko Kesegi, Controlling Procurement and Supplier Manager at Miba, has himself been working with SoftconCIS for almost two years.
Thanks to his experience with various reporting solutions and service providers, he has a broad basis of comparison and particularly appreciates the everyday usability of the system.
„Instead of spending a lot of time manually collecting and validating data, we can concentrate more on interpreting results, recognizing priorities and initiating the right measures.“
Darko Kesegi – Controlling Procurement and Supplier Management, Miba AG
Rather, the system is an established instrument for continuously analyzing purchasing performance, recognizing developments early and actively managing purchasing.
The Most Important Areas of Application
Miba uses WebCIS in particular for measure management, the analysis of price developments and procurement spend analysis. This is complemented by flexible ad-hoc evaluations, with which the purchasing team can both keep long-term developments in view and react at short notice to new questions.
A particular added value lies in the early detection of relevant changes. For example, material cost deviations compared with the previous year can be identified quickly and analyzed in a targeted way. WebCIS helps to trace causes transparently and derive concrete need for action from them. At the same time, the reporting effort is reduced significantly. Instead of manually consolidating and checking data from different sources, the relevant information is available in a structured and central form. This gives the purchasing team more time for actual value creation: interpreting the results and deriving suitable measures.
A Shared Fact Base Improves Collaboration
At Miba, WebCIS creates a uniform data foundation for purchasing. As a result, discussions can be conducted more fact-based and differing data states avoided. This reduces coordination effort and makes it possible to focus more quickly on the decisive questions: Where is action needed? Which developments are economically relevant? And which measures should be prioritized? The integrated measure management helps to translate insights from analyses directly into concrete activities and to control their implementation transparently.
For Darko Kesegi, exactly this combination is an essential feature of the collaboration: a powerful tool on the one hand and a competent, helpful team on the other.
Long-Standing and Reliable Collaboration
Beyond the performance of the software, Miba particularly values the personal and reliable collaboration with the SoftconCIS team. Questions are clarified quickly, requirements are considered together and the use of WebCIS is continuously adapted to the needs of the purchasing organization.
The combination of practice-oriented software and competent support thus forms the basis for a long-term partnership.
The Result
By using WebCIS, Miba AG benefits from greater transparency over price and cost developments, faster analyses and significant time savings in reporting.
Relevant changes can be recognized early, their causes better understood and necessary measures initiated in good time. At the same time, the shared data foundation creates the prerequisite for decisions and more efficient collaboration in purchasing.
WebCIS is therefore far more than a reporting tool for Miba: the solution helps the company manage purchasing in a data-driven, forward-looking and strategic way.
„In my opinion, WebCIS offers considerable added value by making procurement data more transparent, easier to analyze and easier to act on. It enables faster reactions to market and cost developments, improves the quality of reporting and ensures better decision-making.“
Darko Kesegi – Controlling Procurement and Supplier Management, Miba AG
