What matters to management
For you, it's less about individual process steps and more about whether your corporate group remains capable of performing as a whole. Therefore, structures that support growth, relieve the organisation operationally, and at the same time offer reliable processes for suppliers, downstream companies, and internal departments are crucial. Centralised regulation and centralised invoicing create precisely this framework: they bundle central accounting, payment control, and invoicing logic in such a way that complexity becomes manageable and processes remain stable, even with increasing demands.
Our solutions for the
management
Centralised settlement
Stable composite processes instead of growing operational complexity
Central settlement is the organisational and financial core model for many cooperative groups. It bundles supplier invoicing, central payment processing, and defined parts of receivables management into a structured process. For you, this primarily means: fewer operational friction losses, more transparency regarding payment and billing flows, and a structure that remains robust, even in challenging market phases.
With del credere-like cover and professionally organised payment transactions, central regulation thus becomes not just a settlement logic, but a lever for stability and entrepreneurial scope for action.
E-invoicing as a component of modern central regulation
Future viability arises in the process, not in the individual system.
As a cooperative group or central settlement agency, you not only process your own documents but also receive supplier invoices to process them through the central settlement process and pass them on to affiliated companies. These invoices are increasingly arriving as e-invoices or in EDI-based formats. Therefore, management must understand e-invoicing not as an isolated IT issue, but as an integral part of modern cooperative processes.
Those who can receive, validate, and process e-invoices in a structured manner not only strengthen process security and compliance, but also position your association as a reliable market partner towards suppliers and affiliated companies.
Central invoicing
When growth requires precise billing logic
Where precise, item-specific recalculation is the focus, central invoicing is often the more suitable solution. Supplier invoices are centrally recorded, itemised, and re-invoiced to member companies. For you, this creates standardised billing paths, less manual rework, and a structure that grows with increasing document and item volumes.
This is crucial, especially during growth phases: processes remain traceable, transparent, and scalable, instead of becoming harder to control with each additional complexity.
Consulting Services
Thinking about processes, organisation and digital roadmap together
With our consulting services, we support you in further developing existing billing and process structures, sensibly prioritising digitalisation, and defining clear next steps. This is particularly valuable for you when organisational development, system integration, and process modernisation are to be considered not as separate entities, but as a connected transformation.
This not only creates a better individual solution but also a robust target image for the entire group.
Supplementary process and service building blocks
More than just billing
Depending on the structure of your corporate group, a viable solution encompasses more than just central settlement or central invoicing alone. This also includes document management, invoice workflows, invoice archiving, reporting, and supplementary services alongside central billing. For you, this means: fewer media disruptions, clearer responsibilities, and an organisation that not only functions operationally but can also be actively developed further.
Your benefit as management
With SGH, you create a model for your consortium that combines operational stability and strategic development:
- Greater scalability for growing employee, supplier, and member structures
- Less complexity through standardised billing and payment processes
- More future viability through the connection of central regulation and e-invoicing
- Greater relief for organisation and management through clear processes and responsibilities
- More stability in market phases where transparency, security, and process quality are crucial
Why SGH for management in purchasing groups?
SGH combines many years of experience in central settlement with a broad understanding of process, data, and organisational structures in cooperative groups. This allows us to support not only the operational processing but also the further development of your cooperative group as a robust platform for invoicing, payment control, and digital collaboration.
This is crucial, especially for management: it's not individual processes being optimised, but rather the interplay of organisation, market requirements, and operational implementation becoming more sustainable overall.
Do you want to position your association in a scalable, stable, and future-proof way?
With SGH, you connect central regulation, central invoicing, e-invoicing, document management and consulting services into a comprehensive model that enables growth and reduces complexity.
