Founded over 130 years ago in Hanover, the Bahlsen Group today is one of Europe’s most successful sweet biscuit companies and the number one manufacturer in Germany. In 2022 alone, the company baked and supplied more than 121,000 tons of sweet baked goods and exported their products to over 80 countries worldwide. Brands included in the Bahlsen Group portfolio are: BAHLSEN, LEIBNIZ, PiCK UP!, Brandt, KRAKUSKI, HIT, and RAWBITE.
In any thriving business environment, the back-office solutions in use undergo substantial updates and upgrades over the years, while additionally new systems are introduced. To ensure smooth connectivity processes and Treasury operations without disruptions, it’s essential to choose future-proof solutions right from the beginning. Bahlsen had this foresight in mind when selecting TIS – a Cloud-based service provider offering frequent updates without necessitating internal IT involvement.
Over the past few years, TIS’ Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution has proven to be an ideal fit for Bahlsen, as its implementation required only low IT effort and no remarkable changes to their existing back-office system landscape. Due to TIS’ extensive, system agnostic connectivity capabilities, back-office systems of different maturity stages can be seamlessly connected to the platform through the preferred connectivity channel, like SFTP or APIs. The flexibility of TIS and its ability to grow with a company’s system landscape became clearly visible, when Bahlsen made the decision to migrate their SAP R3 to S4/HANA.
Bahlsen treasury gains global transparency and control over international payments
Primary Challenges
- A decentralized organization with business units in numerous countries
- Manual effort, lack of transparency and overview
- Long vetting processes for new employees
Outcome: The TIS solution saves costs and reduces risks thanks to straight-through processing of payments, an enhanced master user feature, and seamless integration with their ERP and banking landscape
