The Vienna City Administration hosts one of the largest computer networks in Europe, which connects more than 30,000 employees to serve 1.7 million residents. The department will use SAP NetWeaver Process Integration as the foundation for the city’s electronic billing system.
After introducing SAP software for its controlling, materials management, and sales and distribution operations in 1999, the Vienna City Administration decided to utilize SAP ERP Financials for the introduction of a citywide paperless financial management system that provides superior asset management and a centralized overview of its partners’ receivables and payments.
Vienna’s financial management system is estimated to currently process more than 1.6 milliohn invoices per year. Vienna plans to gradually transition the majority of the city’s supplier billings to this SAP installation.
After a thorough evaluation, we selected SAP as it provides us with the tools to move full-steam into the digital age by replacing our labor-intensive batch processing towards an automated accounting system, said Bernd Wunschek, SAP development strategist for the City of Vienna. Processes that historically take a whole day being handled by two people are orchestrated by a centralized web-based system which determines and posts updates automatically.
This accounting modernization project is the latest in the Vienna City Administration’s relationship with SAP, which goes back to 1999.
