Manager - Bank Payments & Continuous Improvement, RWE AG Essen/Germany

"As an internationally operating company, we place extremely high demands on the automation of our SAP bank statement processing.

Our goal was to automate as many postings as possible while ensuring the quality, traceability, and auditability of the resulting accounting entries.

With EBS Workbench, we achieve an automation rate of more than 90% in certain areas of our business.

However, for us, success is not defined by automation alone. Equally important are the reliability, transparency, and consistency of the posting decisions.

Automated postings must be based on clearly defined business rules.

Decisions driven by probabilities have no place in our Accounting processes.

We need to be able to understand and explain exactly why a posting was made at any time, ensuring that results are fully reproducible and aligned 100% with our business requirements.

What particularly impressed us about EBS Workbench is its flexibility.

Even complex business scenarios, such as our collateral and margin business, can be accurately modeled and continuously refined through rule-based posting logic. These rules also form the foundation of the integrated reporting capabilities, particularly when investigating discrepancies caused by unexpected value date differences.

At the same time, we retain full control over the posting logic and can systematically expand the scope of automation.

Initially, we were uncertain whether any solution could fully satisfy our demanding business requirements.

Today, EBS Workbench has established itself as a key enabler of our automation strategy, consistently delivering results that meet and often exceed our expectations."

Manager - Bank Payments & Continuous Improvement, RWE AG Essen/Germany