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The cooperative REWE Group is one of the leading retail and tourism groups in Germany and Europe. In 2023, the company achieved a total external turnover of over 92 billion euros. Founded in 1927, REWE Group has around 390,000 employees in 21 European countries. The sales lines include REWE, REWE CENTER, BILLA, BILLA PLUS and ADEG supermarkets, discounter PENNY, IKI, drugstores BIPA and toom DIY stores. There are also the convenience stores REWE To Go and the e-commerce activities REWE Delivery and Pickup Service as well as Zooroyal and Weinfreunde. The Lekkerland Group comprises the group's wholesale activities in the area of on-the-go supply. Under the DERTOUR Group umbrella, tourism includes over 2,100 travel agencies, tour operators, hotel brands and online travel portals.
Aeneis creates synergies and structure.
By creating specifications centrally with Aeneis, we expect to improve the networking of knowledge within the Group. Synergy effects arise when projects draw on existing content and simply adapt it to new requirements. Redundant functions within the Group can be identified or avoided from the outset. Uniform structures and transparent approval processes also ensure the high quality of the artifacts.
Benefits for REWE:
SmartEdit and SmartModel are features in the Aeneis BPM portal.
SmartEdit allows you to edit and create model content via the browser without using a modeling client.
SmartModel enables processes to be documented in a table in the browser with automatic creation of the BPMN diagram.
Data quality is increased and collaboration is facilitated.
IT follows processes
With this approach, new IT solutions can be derived directly from REWE Group's business processes. In terms of systems technology, it is obvious that process requirements of new IT solutions are recorded directly in the Aeneis BPM tool, which is used across the Group to define and model processes.
Data-technical enhancement of the specifications
Another advantage of the Aeneis solution compared to the Microsoft Word solution is that functional and non-functional boundary conditions and business rules can now be entered directly in the specifications and in the processes. However, these are not only recorded textually, but are also represented as such in terms of data technology. This allows queries such as “Show which processes the business rule X occurs in.” In addition, business rules can be refined with decision charts if required.
Working together on a specification
In future, business analysts will incorporate their process requirements directly into Aeneis. In contrast to the previous approach with Microsoft Word, this now allows you to edit a specification sheet by several analysts at the same time. Analysts can also access, edit, and generate print reports from anywhere.
Standardization and data quality
Aeneis has a detailed change history, which saves all changes to the specification sheet in a comprehensible manner — including the author and the exact time of the change. With the help of the extended approval workflow, a flexibly configurable approval process for the requirements specifications can be configured. Since there will only be a single data source in the future where the specifications are created, edited and archived, reliable data quality is guaranteed.
Intuitive operation
The complex data structure of specification sheets and their links to other technical documents was displayed very simply and intuitively in the Aeneis BPM portal using flexible configuration options. In this way, relevant documents, such as checklists, can be linked to the specification sheet with just a few clicks. Similar to Word, texts are edited with a WYSIWYG editor and enriched with images. A three-level chapter overview allows business analysts to quickly and clearly jump back and forth between chapters.
