SWU Energie GmbH (Stadtwerke Ulm (municipal works of Ulm))

Realisation of an SAP-Scanner-Integration for the document capture

Company size: around 1 100 employees

Branch: energy and water supply

Country: Germany (Ulm, Neu-Ulm)

Challenge: a scanning solution to capture and save documents quickly and easily

Used modules for the realisation of the solution: biz²Scanner

Project description: Since 2001 the energy and water supplying company has been using the SAP-Scanner-Integration biz²Scanner to scan applications, site plans and other documents with Twain-able scanner in the SAP R/3-System and drop them in the right place in the SAP-DVS. Before, the document first had to be saved, named and dropped after being scanned.
By using Multipage-TIF, documents can be edited later.

Usage: quick scanning and direct saving of documents, short training period, easy integration into the SAP system

Company description: In 1853 the first gas plant was built in Ulm. Twenty-nine years later, in 1982, the company Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm GmbH was found as a municipal utility company. Besides supplying the region with electricity, gas, water and heat, the company also offers communication services and the local public transport in different areas in Baden-Württemberg.

Here you can read the reference story “Digital document capture with the aid of the SAP scanner integration: SWU” as PDF.