Implementation of the Buyer’s Cockpit at Bitburger Braugruppe for Better Handling of Supplier Price Adjustments

Due to the significantly increased inflation and the resulting faster price increases by suppliers, Bitburger hoped to achieve significant time savings in uploading the new supplier price lists into SAP through the introduction of the new SAP add-on “Buyer’s Cockpit.” For this purpose, PIKON created a special Excel sheet for the Buyer’s Cockpit, which can be filled out by the suppliers with the new prices or very user-friendly operated by employees themselves. In addition to this saving, as the manual entry of new prices by internal employees is eliminated, the significant reduction of input errors was also a decisive argument for the acquisition of the tool. Another major benefit for Bitburger is the reporting capabilities of the Buyer’s Cockpit, which not only relate purchasing info records and conditions but also graphically represent order quantities and prices. In addition to the graphical display of price developments of different items on the timeline, there are also options to display purchasing quantities and the total order values resulting from the price adjustments over a custom period. This allows for an immediate overview of how any price increases in individual positions affect the total costs of the item. Price increases can be quickly classified and are immediately visible through the threshold display.

The implementation of the tool is very straightforward through the deployment of transports in the PIKON namespace and a brief introduction including setting the initial parameters. Thus, the add-on could be used by Bitburger just a few days after ordering it.