Onventis again awarded BMEnet seal of approval
Stuttgart, June 17, 2020 – BMEnet GmbH has awarded the “Supplier Relationship Management” seal of approval to the all-in-one procurement network for SMEs for the third time in a row. The coveted certification confirms the very high quality of Onventis GmbH’s e-procurement solutions. According to BME, the solution impresses with its high integration capability and innovative functionalities for both strategic and operational procurement in the areas of supplier management, source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, analytics and mobile procurement. With the acquisition of WorkFlowWise in 2020, the Onventis product portfolio was also expanded to include invoice and expense management solutions.
Overall, the cloud provider was able to convince in all test criteria. The holistic procurement app “Onventis Mobile”, which was revised in 2019 in design and function and covers the entire procurement process mobile, also received the seal of approval again in the category “Mobile Procurement”.
“With the Onventis All-in-One procurement network, we offer medium-sized purchasing organizations a fully comprehensive and innovative complete solution for strategic and operational procurement,” explains Heiko Rumpl, Director Products & Services at Onventis GmbH. “The regular certification process and the associated seal of approval from the BME trade association support purchasing decision-makers in their choice of provider and create confidence in our intuitive e-procurement solutions.”
Award for business software and platforms.
Since its founding in 1954, the German Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME) has established itself as a trade association for buyers and logistics professionals in Germany. With more than 9,600 members, it is Europe’s leading non-profit trade association for purchasing, logistics and supply chain. The BME awards seals of approval in various categories for business software and platforms that offer integrative solutions for optimizing purchasing and logistics processes. “To be awarded the BME seal of approval, procurement solutions must meet the requirements defined in demanding catalogs of criteria,” explains Andreas Richter, testing officer at BMEnet GmbH. “IT solution providers such as Onventis can prove the quality of their products to purchasing decision-makers and users in this way, tested by a neutral expert body.” Heiko Rumpl, Director Products & Services at Onventis, continues: “At Onventis, quality and security are top priorities. That is why we are constantly developing our solution portfolio to guarantee the highest level of consistency, performance and transparency. These strict quality requirements are also regularly confirmed by independent sources. In addition to the BME seal of approval, which distinguishes the functionality of Onventis solutions, we also hold the ISO/IEC 270001 certification for our information security management systems as well as the BITMi seals of approval “Software Made in Germany” and “Software Hosted in Germany.”
Provider with high innovative strength and solution expertise.
“In order to be able to offer our 850 purchasing organizations an integrated procurement suite, we rely on strategic add-on acquisitions in addition to our own development,” reports Frank Schmidt, CEO at Onventis. WorkFlowWise, a Dutch workflow automation specialist, recently joined the Onventis group of companies. Customers benefit from additional, fully cloud-based invoice and expense management solutions in the “Procure-to-Pay” sub-segment “Pay”. WorkFlowWise was founded in 1997 and has quickly become one of the leading cloud-based workflow automation companies in the Netherlands.