Mechanical Engineering
With ecosio's EDI as a Service solution, the HENN Connector Group optimises its business processes, reduces manual effort and increases efficiency in order and invoice processing.
The HENN Connector Group develops innovative high-tech connection systems for fluids, air and gases. It offers intelligent coupling solutions for global customers as well as comprehensive support in product realisation – from prototype development to series production. Using state-of-the-art technologies and a wide range of materials, HENN creates customised solutions for a wide variety of industries.
Before introducing ecosio’s EDI as a Service solution, HENN was using an inexpensive but outdated EDI solution. Although this was easy to use, it caused a lot of administrative work. There were also challenges with certificate customisation and connection security.
“As the number of enquiries from customers and suppliers increased, it became increasingly difficult to fulfil the requirements,” says HENN Connector Group’s Martin Woitsche. “The existing solution was no longer ‘state of the art’, as the IT department was increasingly burdened with issues such as security, backup and connection handling.”
HENN opted for ecosio because it was looking for a fully managed solution that would be able to simplify and future-proof their EDI processes (a situation also shared by several of HENN’s sibling companies).
Another key deciding factor was the level of integration ecosio was able to offer with HENN’s existing ERP system. Plus, HENN had also heard many good things about ecosio from a neighbouring company.
"“The migration to ecosio was a very good decision for our company. The changeover went smoothly and the solution has been working stably ever since with minimal IT effort - as desired.”"
The main objective of the project was to migrate existing EDI processes to ecosio. This changeover was carried out in a structured and efficient manner, enabling customers to be onboarded to the new system quickly.
A particular area of success was the speed and efficiency with which ecosio’s solution was integrated into HENN’s ERP system.
As Woitsche notes, “The collaboration with ecosio was professional and solution-orientated right from the start. We were particularly impressed by the rapid implementation and competent support.”
The new solution has enabled HENN to achieve significant improvements in its processes:
HENN recognises that EDI should be a central component of corporate strategy. With this in mind, and following the success of HENN’s collaboration with ecosio so far, HENN intends to expand its collaboration with ecosio in the future by digitalising additional business processes.
As Martin Woitsche notes, “Thanks to ecosio, we have been able to optimise our processes and save valuable resources. The solution is stable, scalable and ideally suited to our future expansion.”
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