Energy Supply Chain Management
Connecting the energy supply chain
As producers, suppliers and service providers invest in modern infrastructure and more sustainable resources, they must also modernise how they manage complex energy supply chains. Operating in a highly regulated and fast-evolving market, energy organisations need reliable, automated ways to connect trading partners, manage transactions and maintain visibility across their supply networks.
Energy Supply Chain Challenges
Challenge 01
New Markets
The energy sector is always undergoing changes with the advent of green energy to achieve greater renewability and further sustainability. Green energy is virtually leading to the creation of new, spontaneous supply chains as its use becomes more widespread. This means building new systems and processes around them become imperative.
Challenge 02
Complex Buying
The energy supply chain has complex buying requirements as many purchases involve complicated and highly specialised physical assets such semiconductors and heavy goods. This can mean long delivery times and complex regulations to navigate, introducing more risks along the supply chain.
Challenge 03
Maintenance and Service
In the energy sector, infrastructure needs to be maintained and repaired after purchase to ensure optimal efficiency and continued operations. This means purchases of goods, services and consultancy as well as legal requirements are controlled and auditable to ensure maintainence process meet the standards.
Challenge 04
Remote Infrastructure
Much of the infrastructure used to produce and distribute energy is located in remote environments, making supply chain delays particularly critical. Poorly managed delays can impact essential maintenance and drive significantly higher costs.
What Good Looks Like On The Ground
Equipment, materials, and services arrive where they are needed without delaying maintenance schedules or production timelines.
Suppliers, contractors, and service providers can respond quickly to requests, regardless of location or document format.
Regulatory records, approvals, and transactional data remain consistent, traceable, and accessible across projects and sites.
Teams are not waiting on paperwork, reconciling supplier invoices, or chasing updates from remote operations. They are focused on maintaining uptime, managing risk, and keeping essential infrastructure running safely and efficiently.
- Supply commitments are visible and dependable.
- Compliance and audit readiness are built into everyday operations.
- The business can respond to change without losing control.
Supply Chain Connections
Solutions For The Energy Industry
EDI
Connect more easily with customers and suppliers by sending and receiving documents in any format electronically, making integration an easy and smooth process. Manage customer and supplier onboarding to optimise operational efficiency and speed up electronic trading.
Kreditorenbuchhaltung Automatisierung
The three-way matching solution provides a fully managed invoice matching process that increases match rates, automates approvals and speeds up invoice processing. Invoices without purchase orders or goods receipts can also be routed for GL coding and approval, ensuring invoices are captured correctly and paid on time.
E-invoicing Mandates
Designed to integrate seamlessly with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable solutions while streamlining invoice processes and increase throughput. Supports end-to-end invoicing for both suppliers and buyers.
Web EDI
Ensure full supply chain visibility of the moving parts by accessing data electronically as well as multiple workflows and tools to help Procure to Pay and Order to Cash supply chain processes.
How It Works
Helping Your Energy Supply Chain Thrive
Enhanced Efficiency
Increase efficiency, output, and throughput across the energy supply chain. Automate document exchange, improve visibility, and streamline processes to manage complex supplier networks, respond to demand fluctuations, and optimise operations.
Increased Sustainability
Digitise and automate document processes across the supply chain to reduce paper documents and meet the standards for a more sustainable business.
Streamlined Operations
Keep track of multiple suppliers, wholesalers, processors and manufacturers all on one platform while maintaining visibility on all moving parts within the supply network.