How RENOLIT Uses SAP Signavio to Find €880K in Procurement Savings

RENOLIT SE competes in demanding industrial markets where efficiency and compliance are tightly linked to profitability. As the company undertook a major transition to SAP S/4HANA, leadership recognized that ERP migrations often deliver their value too slowly—measured in years rather than months. The question was whether RENOLIT could compress that timeline through better process intelligence.

The challenge prior to SAP Signavio was familiar: bridging the gap between business strategy and operational IT reality. RENOLIT’s procurement cycle contained inefficiencies that weren’t visible through traditional reporting. Departments ran on inconsistent practices, and there was no reliable mechanism for validating that processes aligned with business goals or for prioritizing where to focus improvement efforts across multiple locations.

REMOLIT engaged SAP Signavio’s accelerated process discovery service, applying the Process Transformation Suite to surface real-time performance data across its procure-to-pay process. The tool provided cycle time visibility, process variant analysis, and benchmark comparisons that made improvement opportunities quantifiable rather than anecdotal. The SAP Signavio Value Accelerators package allowed the team to score and prioritize value drivers—including spend reduction, labor productivity, compliance, and working capital—so the transformation roadmap reflected actual risk and return.

The most striking result was the speed of impact. Where ERP transformations typically require years to demonstrate value, RENOLIT established validated process transformation in weeks. The team identified €880,000 in value within the procure-to-pay process and reduced 64,000 manual clicks per year in order-to-fulfill workflows to a single automated task. “Using the accelerated process discovery service with SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, we established process transformation in weeks, not years,” said Sofia Bachmann, Head of Business Process Management at RENOLIT SE.

Beyond the numbers, RENOLIT built a continuous improvement culture across its locations. Process validation became a daily practice rather than a periodic audit, and the company now has a data-driven model for tracking compliance globally. Looking forward, RENOLIT’s approach—connecting SAP process data directly to business KPIs—positions it to sustain improvement momentum as the S/4HANA rollout matures and to make future transformation decisions on the basis of evidence rather than assumption.