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Service ticketing, rethought end-to-end

How a food company uncovered five-figure annual losses and fully automated its entire service process — from the customer report all the way to supplier settlement.

FoodMid-sizedDACH
Web app + ERP integrationService ticketing
Staff reviewing a service case together on screen

Three ERP systems, a network of sites, no shared process. One platform changed that.

The starting point: requests came in, transparency did not

Every service request passed through several stations. Customer service, internal sales, engineering, scheduling and billing all worked on the same case — but not in the same system.

Information was handed over by email, spreadsheets and phone. Responsibilities were scattered, progress was hard to trace, and handovers were error-prone.

Overview of a service case moving across several stations

The more people were involved, the harder it became to keep an overview — for employees and customers alike. The result: delays, unnecessary coordination, and economic potential lost in day-to-day operations.

The challenge

The company worked with several legacy ERP systems, each holding important information but none working together as a shared process:

  • Three ERP systems, no shared process
  • Every handover cost time
  • Transparency only by asking around

What was needed was not another ticketing tool, but a central solution that connects the existing systems and maps the entire service process end-to-end.

About the project: understanding before building

The customer put a complex problem on the table. vensas convinced through fast, concrete understanding of the situation — not only technically, but above all in terms of process.

What stood out was the transparency throughout the project. In the first phase little was visible, even though the decisive foundations were already being laid in the background. vensas communicated this openly and built the trust such a project needs.

In the second phase the change became visible: out of several systems, departments and handovers grew a single, end-to-end digital service process — one that made silent losses both visible and avoidable.

I have been through several ERP rollouts. This one was a highlight project. I was impressed by how quickly vensas understood and delivered exactly what we needed.
Managing DirectorManaging DirectorMid-sized food company · DACH
Service-ticketing dashboard with open tickets
Dashboard
Ticket detail view with process timeline
Ticket detail
Supplier tracking with open recoveries
Supplier tracking
Uncomfortable recommendation:A standalone tool would have been faster — we advised against it. Only real ERP integration turns a ticketing system into an end-to-end service process.

Our solution

How we solved it

Digital capture instead of media breaks

Service requests are captured in a structured way and are immediately available to everyone involved.

Clear process steps instead of shouting across desks

Every station sees which tasks are open and who is responsible.

ERP integration instead of double entry

Relevant data is available directly in the process and no longer has to be maintained multiple times.

Automatic communication instead of chasing updates

Status changes and important events are passed on automatically.

The result in numbers

five-figure
Annual losses resolved
Silent costs that were previously impossible to measure are now eliminated entirely.
3 ERPs
In one process
Three legacy ERP systems brought together into one end-to-end workflow.
< 1 day
Handling per ticket
What used to sit for days now runs through largely automated.
100 %
Knowledge in the process
Instead of buried in the heads of a few individuals.

A similar situation in your company?

A lot of potential is lost not through poor work, but through a lack of end-to-end processes. We find it in the first conversation.

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