Simmeth System receives "BestPractice Award" at the purchasing and logistics trade fair e_procure & supply

The Burghauser consulting and software company Simmeth System GmbH has received the "BestPractice Award 2010" in bronze, which is renowned in the German-speaking IT, purchasing and logistics industry at the Nuremberg trade fair "e_procure & supply". The jury honored the key figure and valuation specialists from Salzachstadt for the successful supplier management of the Rheinland energy and drinking water supply company EWV Stolberg: "The culmination of a successful year 2009 and the proof that in 2010 we will continue with our product strategy are on the right track, "says Markus Simmeth, managing partner of the company.
Purchasing, supplier management and logistics are the topics of e_procure & supply in Nuremberg - a trade fair that focuses on the needs of the buying center, ie purchasers and their colleagues from IT and logistics, for around 3000 visitors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. is tailored. The Best Practice Award is given once a year by an independent jury of experts on the occasion of the outstanding performance in the field of electronic shopping. This year, the focus was on solutions for professional supplier management (SRM), and the BestPractice Award in bronze went to Simmeth System from Burghausen.
"Milestone for public sector"
Markus Simmeth (44), Managing Partner, is particularly proud of this: "We offer an uncomplicated solution that helps to optimize the supplier management of our customers. From supplier qualification through evaluation to supplier development, our tool supports supplier management in practice, ensuring monitoring of strategic purchasing objectives. The project at EWV, I see as a real milestone for such processes in the field of public utilities! "The implementation partner, EWV energy and water supply Stolberg near Aachen, sees the same. Hardy Creutz, Head of Purchasing and Materials Management ERA: "The software solution from Simmeth System facilitates communication with suppliers and creates an improved basis for the entire supplier management. At last, process developments can be measured at the touch of a button. "EWV Energie- und Wasserversorgung GmbH supplies more than 200,000 private households and companies in the districts of Aachen, Düren and Heinsberg with electricity, natural gas, heat and drinking water.
Economic crisis as an opportunity for process optimization

"We are very excited about the BestPractice Award 2010, which shows that we are still on the right path," says Simmeth. Especially in the crisis year of 2009, the business development of his company was characterized by strong demand from the currently 40 existing customers, "who were able to achieve significant process improvements and cost reductions through our software solutions in the area of ​​key figures and supplier evaluation". For enormous potential would still lie in purchasing, according to Simmeth. "While expensive complete solutions from major software providers were largely reserved for large companies to increase transparency in purchasing processes, since the beginning of 2010 we have been feeling a boom in demand from the public sector and medium-sized companies for our individual, flexible software solutions - we have had more since January New customers won than in the 18 months before! "
Web-based solutions for small business owners
In order to increasingly make the benefits of Burghauser software solutions available to smaller companies or local authorities, Simmeth System will increasingly rely on web-based "Software as a Service" in the future: "For example, you rent online access to the required complete system Software solution that can be used as a service, "explains Markus Simmeth. It is already possible to make use of proven Simmeth software solutions, which are currently used by around 40 existing customers with around 1,200 users, from the administrative staff to the management level, mainly in Germany and Switzerland.