Based in Bistritz, Romania, Comelf AG is one of the most important Romanian manufacturers of technical components, parts and machines for the environmental and construction sector. After the fall of the socialist system, the company was one of the founding members of the Bucharest Stock Exchange in 1995. Today, the company employs more than 800 people and sells its products worldwide.

Before the introduction of an electronic document management system (DMS), the company's purchasing, sales and technical departments were responsible for managing the majority of their documents. Every week, thousands of documents were created, copied, processed and then stored locally. For time-critical processes, email was also used.

The flood of documents had a particularly disruptive effect on their work processes. For example, if a department needed a certain product earlier than planned, this request would unleash a series of not always clear processes in purchasing. In order to find out which components were purchased last year by which supplier and at what conditions, a buyer had to search through documents page by page, before digging through old email. This analysis is enormously important and budget-critical. But the process was simply too lengthy and a time-waster for employees. The subsequent approval process wasn't much simpler: signatures were not easy to obtain, especially if colleagues were working outside the office. Small details could derail the entire process.

Country:
Romania
Industry:
Manufacturing
Department:
Purchasing
Deployment:
DocuWare Cloud