Lightning-Fast Inventory Instead of Paper Chaos.

What happens if one of Europe's largest food manufacturers still manages its plants with pen and paper? He loses time that he would need for quality. Here you can find out how Original Wagner Pizza (Nestlé) eliminated the media gap between production and accounting.

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The fact check:

• 100% SAP synchrony: No more manual data transfer between inventory and finance.
• Hygiene compliant: Special labels that defy cleaning cycles and cleanroom conditions.
• Zero search time: Documents such as maintenance reports are immediately available at the plant location via scan.

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The challenge:

1,800 employees and an invisible inventory

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Despite the latest production lines, the management of physical assets — from kneading machines to IT — was reaching its limits.

• The risk: Manual lists led to errors in the balance sheet.
• The load: Significant personnel capacities were tied up as a result of the search for guarantee documents and audit reports.
• The hurdle: Traditional inventory labels did not stand up to industrial cleaning in food production.

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The solution:

A digital twin for every asset

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Original Wagner opted for Seventhingsto close the gap between the physical plant and the SAP system.

1. Automated data flow: Instead of retyping attachments, existing SAP data sets were mirrored directly into the cloud-based platform.
2. Hardware for extreme conditions: Robust industrial scanners and heat/chemical-resistant labels were used.
3. The “Single Source of Truth”: Each machine was given a digital twin. Whether it's insurance value, last maintenance date or manual — a scan with a smartphone is all it takes.

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“Optical reading means that nothing needs to be touched — all information is available within seconds. It's so easy to maintain that our teams accepted it straight away.”
— Project responsibility, Original Wagner Pizza

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The measurable business impact

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• Audit security at the push of a button: Audits and inventories no longer take weeks, but days. The error rate dropped to zero due to the elimination of manual lists.
• Capital release: The exact overview of inventory prevents duplicate purchases.
• Focus on the core product: IT and operations recover hundreds of working hours per year, which now flow directly into production optimization.

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What you can learn from this for your company:

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This case study proves three things:

1. End silos: Your inventory system must talk to your ERP (SAP), otherwise you'll double your work.
2. Physical reality beats software: In production, the quality of the label determines the success of digitization.
3. Speed is a competitive advantage: Knowledge instead of searching: Asset intelligence replaces time-consuming Excel lists and immediately reduces your costs.

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Bring your investment management up to Wagner's level and actively manage your assets.

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