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Turn Purchasing Into Your Competitive Advantage

Process Mining delivers a lot of value for P2P processes specifically. This technology is already transforming thousands of purchasing departments around the world by maximizing productivity, cutting down on maverick buying, improving supplier performance, optimizing working capital and most importantly, reducing costs. Processand ensures that you make value driven decisions and become the market leaders.

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Process Mining Use Cases

Purchase to Pay

Maverick Buying

inefficiency / challenge

Definition: POs with invoice receipt before PO or Invoices without POs.
Purchasing outside of the procurement process is not compliant.
These purchases often have worse purchasing conditions.

solution and targeted outcome

Identify suppliers and materials for frequent maverick buying.
Educate the related departments.
Automated alerting for cases with Maverick Buying.

business objectives

Spend Reduction
Compliance

core KPIs

#/% Affected Invoices
Affected Invoice Value

Three-Way Match

inefficiency / challenge

Price and quantity should be identical in POs, invoices and goods receipts.
Lack of transparency on POs that show deviations in the relevant documents.
Additional manual effort derives from these mismatches.

solution and targeted outcome

Get transparency on mismatches.
Implement an analysis that displays root cause and impact of mismatches.
Build alerting for cases with mismatches.

business objectives

Supply Reliability
Compliance

core KPIs

Match Ratios
# Not Matching Cases

On-Time In-Full Delivery (OTIF)

inefficiency / challenge

Lack of transparency on POs that are not delivered on-time and in-full.
Late deliveries lead to downstream bottlenecks, e.g., in production.

solution and targeted outcome

Make OTIF rate transparent.
Investigate root causes based on process and process attributes, e.g., compare the OTIF rate among different domains, customers etc.
Measure vendor performance effectively and report back to vendors.
Build automated reporting for supply performance.

business objectives

Supply Reliability

core KPIs

#/% OTIF Orders
Related Purchase Value

On-Time Delivery Process Mining Use Case

Material Master Data Management

inefficiency / challenge

Lack of master data management causes unnecessary manual efforts, e.g., making the same change over and over again.
Negative impact on business planning due to misrecognition or non-recognition of data in purchase planning.

solution and targeted outcome

Display where data is missing or potentially incorrectly stored.
Send automated notifications to employees to maintain data correctly.
Ensure clean maintenance with little effort and high efficiency.

business objectives

Supply Reliability
Labor Productivity

core KPIs

% Affected PO’s
Related Purchase Volume

Material Master Data Management Process Mining

Replenishment Times

inefficiency / challenge

Keeping track of planned and actual delivery times of POs is challenging.
Evaluate material replenishment times to assure a smooth production.

solution and targeted outcome

Replenishment times analysis compares actual vs. planned delivery dates.
Root cause analysis based on various dimensions.
Detect bottlenecks and act on time.

business objectives

Supply Reliability
Compliance

core KPIs

# POs
Planned delivery times
Actual delivery times

Replenishment Times Process Mining Use Case

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Process Mining Use Cases