NürnbergMesse Wins Vision Excellence Award

Stuttgart | Vienna, April 25, 2016 – NürnbergMesse is one of the largest exposition companies in the world, and last week the company was recognized for their outstanding achievements with the POOL4TOOL Vision Excellence Award 2015. Once a year, the solution specialist gives the award to an extraordinary client project. NürnbergMesse has been able to increase the company’s transparency and the consistency of their procurement of services with POOL4TOOL.

The solution specialist, POOL4TOOL, gave NürnbergMesse the 2015 Vision Excellence Award for their innovation in the procurement of services. The celebratory award ceremony for the successful exhibition company took place at an exclusive event for POOL4TOOL clients in the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. The prize was accepted by Rainer Großl, the Head of the Central Purchasing Department at NürnbergMesse, and Heiko Menn, the Senior Manager and Deputy Department Head. “Innovations are the result of vision and positive cooperation with our clients. For this, we would like to say ‘thank you,’” said Thomas Dieringer, CEO of POOL4TOOL AG as he explained the meaning of the award. The previous winners of the award were the world market leader Grohe and the automotive specialist, HELLA.

Transparency and Flexibility in Services Procurement

NürnbergMesse purchases many diverse products, including a wide range of services and construction services in particular. Procuring services is their core business. The demands are distinct and highly individualized, but Central Purchasing is still highly involved because the department handles all of the framework contracts. Planning, however, is still conducted by the buyers themselves. The services that were used did not always correspond with the purchase order. Other exposition companies are also working on optimization issues with the help of web-based solutions, but the holistic approach that NürnbergMesse has taken with POOL4TOOL is unique within this sector.

The POOL4TOOL solution will soon solve problems that may arise during the process of ordering services by offering flexibility and support for the specific demands of Services Procurement. Services will no longer be acquired using a paper purchase order and description of the services; this process will now take place in POOL4TOOL. The status of the order can be viewed in the system at any time. This automation and standardization accelerates ordering and invoice processing procedures. The release workflows result in expedited payment releases.

Ongoing Change Management

Before the implementation of the current tool, NürnbergMesse set up a standard process in the first phase of the project that was then reproduced in the second phase of the project. NürnbergMesse received support during the adjustment period at their organization from the Alengis Consultancy, which develops practice-approved methods and concepts for Procurement. Interdepartmental processes and procedures and concepts for the company-wide roll-out were established and successfully implemented in workshops, together with the project team. 220 employees were trained in a comprehensive program. The change management is ongoing. The processes, role concepts and approval workflows - including the value limit concept - that were theorized are now being put into practice to be evaluated. The challenge was to get the entire company to participate in the transformation process so that they would embrace these changes in the future. Central Purchasing played an important role in convincing the other departments and getting them on board.

POOL4TOOL AG is the global market leader for electronic process optimization in "direct procurement", with locations in America and Asia and over 300 clients. The only worldwide All-in-One Supply Collaboration Platform brings together all process from product development through strategic procurement (sourcing), supplier management (SRM), indirect procurement (procurement), Supply Chain Management (SCM) up to Quality Management in one workflow-based solution. POOL4TOOL offers best practices from successful projects with global market leaders from the automotive,engineering and equipment construction, serial production and medical technology branches, as well as a unique supplier network with over 300,000 connected companies. Learn more at www.pool4tool.com.

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Kathrin Kornfeld
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