What IT managers care about
In your corporate group, simply receiving individual invoices digitally isn't enough. A seamless process chain is crucial: from invoice receipt through validation, workflow, and archiving to the provision of booking information and integration into existing system landscapes. Corporate groups coordinate a multi-sided ecosystem of suppliers, headquarters, and member companies. Therefore, interfaces, data quality, processing security, archiving, and scalable process logic are your primary focus.
Our solutions for
IT managers
Centralised settlement
Digital invoicing with stable process and data logic
The central settlement system is not just a billing model, but also a technical process model. Invoice flow, payment deadlines, clearing, roles, and reporting requirements must be defined in such a way that data can be processed and provided consistently. SGH supports associated groups in setting up this structure resiliently – from the document right through to the booking information.
For you, this means fewer media breaks, clearer handover points, structured data flows, and a model that remains stable even with growing volume.
E-invoicing in central billing
Reception, validation and further processing as an integrated building block
With e-invoicing, the requirements for your incoming channels, data validation, and technical processing will increase. This is particularly relevant in central settlement, as supplier invoices are not only received but also processed in the central process and forwarded to network companies, depending on the procedure.
SGH supports the processing of electronic supplier invoices, tax-compliant processing of electronic documents, supplier integration, and the structured provision of all booking information. This makes e-invoicing a scalable component of central regulation rather than an additional system landscape alongside the core process itself.
Document management, invoice workflow and archiving
Less paper, more process security
Robust document management is the foundation for stable digital processes in consortium groups. This includes automated capture of paper-based supplier invoices, reception and processing of electronic invoices, invoice workflow, invoice archiving with online access, and traceable documentation.
This is particularly important for you, as technical quality directly translates into process quality here: the more seamlessly data capture, validation, workflow, and archiving work together, the fewer exceptional cases, media breaks, and manual corrections there will be.
Central invoicing
When article-specific data and process logic are the focus
Where precise, position-accurate recalculation is crucial for you, central invoicing offers a suitable technical structure. Supplier invoices are centrally recorded, checked, structured, and distributed to member companies on an item-by-item basis.
For you, consistent data and process logic are paramount: rules, master data, item data and assignments make billing processable and create a stable foundation for booking, reporting and analysis. Especially with high item and document volumes, this transforms complex invoice processing into a scalable overall process.
Consulting Services
System integration, process architecture and implementation
With our consulting services, we support you in further developing existing process and system landscapes. This includes analysis, structuring, ERP-related optimisation, system integration and implementation support.
This is particularly relevant for you when new requirements are not just to be technically integrated, but meaningfully embedded into the overall architecture of the joint group.
Your benefit as IT manager
With SGH, you create a technical foundation that combines operational safety and scalability:
- Stable digital invoice flows for central regulation and consolidated billing
- Improved data quality through structured capture, validation, and assignment
- Fewer media breaks through integrated document management and a clear invoice workflow
- Clean interfaces for booking information, reporting, and onward transmission to partner companies.
- More process security through archiving, documentation and tax-compliant processing of electronic receipts
Why SGH for IT managers in purchasing groups?
SGH doesn't just think about integrated processes from an accounting perspective but as an interplay of process logic, data quality, interfaces, and technical feasibility. This results not in isolated tools, but in robust workflows that work in practice and grow with the requirements of the integrated group.
For you in particular, this is crucial: central regulation and central invoicing must not only be functionally correct but also technically impeccably integrated, documented, and implemented in a scalable way.
Do you want to set up the digital invoicing processes for your group of companies in a technically sound and scalable way?
With SGH, you connect central settlement, e-invoicing, document management, invoice workflow, archiving, and, if required, central invoicing into a robust process and data architecture for consortiums.
