Written by Anne Schulze
A trailblazer emerges to redefine the enterprise technology industry. With over two decades of experience in SAP systems, Arnd Dixit, currently a key figure at ABOR-TECH LTD. acquired Nord-envation AB in 2024, has crafted a unique solution that meets the evolving needs of contemporary businesses.
Leading the Charge in ERP System Transformation
Dixit’s journey in the tech sector reflects his dedication to refining complex business processes to tackle prevalent hurdles in e-order capturing and e-invoicing, envisioning a transformative change. “My tenure with global corporations revealed major gaps in current systems,” recounts Dixit, an SAP Senior EDI Solutions Architect at Nord Envation AB. “A cohesive, integrated solution was imperative.”
The fruit of Dixit’s labor is a central dashboard with the latest feature empowered with AI, developed over nine years, aimed at transforming the SAP ecosystem. This innovation streamlines e-order and e-invoicing processes by focusing on integrating operations directly within the SAP backend, thus eliminating the need for costly external systems..“Our focus was centralising operations to the core backend, moving away from heavy and costly reliance on external systems,” Dixit clarifies. This strategy optimises operations, marking a significant advancement in ERP applications and groundbreaking a new strategy and approach away from decentralised policy.
Elevating Enterprise Efficiency with Cutting-Edge Technology
Recent market trends and forecasts highlight a growing demand for integrated, efficient ERP solutions. Dixit’s creation aligns perfectly with this shift, offering a novel solution in a market poised for change. “Our product changes the game by offering a backend solution that’s both agile and robust,” Dixit asserts.
For instance, the European ERP software market is driven by the increasing automation needed to streamline business operations and integrate ERP in SMEs for scalability. The surge in demand for cloud-based and mobile ERP solutions for real-time data access and the integration of advanced technologies like AI, blockchain, and ML catalyse this expansion.
Dixit’s innovation is crucial as businesses constantly seek ways to optimise their operations. He aimed to set a new industry standard with a product that addresses current demands and pioneers future ERP solutions. This vision is embodied in his copyright and patent-pending product, endorsed by SAP, which boasts a plug-and-play capability that dramatically reduces implementation time from months to weeks, challenging the status quo of solution providers.
The distinctiveness of Dixit’s SAP ERP ADDON product lies in its departure from conventional ERP solutions that necessitate intricate coding, leading to high initial and ongoing costs and requiring extensive IT support. By ensuring direct backend integration with SAP ERP systems, including SAP S/4HANA, the solution facilitates real-time data processing and negates the need for external middleware. This integration supports various formats and standards, aligning with global business practices and compliance requirements, offering a comprehensive e-order and e-invoicing solution.
Empowering Businesses with Flexible E-Invoicing Solution
As e-invoicing AI powered solutions become increasingly necessary and countries across the globe are required by new legislation to harmonise, standardise, and securely send invoices to their trading partners while reducing bureaucracy and ensuring security and protection against scams, this digital transformation holds significant importance for companies. However, these companies often have limited choices and are frequently compelled to make rapid decisions by hastily hiring a consultancy. This approach inevitably leads to a heavy dependence on an external party for designing, planning, developing, testing, and implementing the solution, which requires a minimum of 12 months for the full implementation, depending on its complexity.
Dixit was recently at an e-invoicing summit in Singapore, where he noted that consultancies typically need at least four months for implementation for einvoicing, with development coding being a major factor in costs. These costs are not one-time but recurring. Companies often do not anticipate the need and rely on consultancies and solution providers’ resources to undertake this job, resulting in significant maintenance on middleware systems and often sacrificing data logic mapping and maintenance on external systems, thus losing integrity.
Dixit’s solution addresses this issue by offering an alternative that reduces development costs and dependency through its smart, intelligent strategy and an integrated approach that manages all complexities. “The coding logic is not developed anew but adapted to the new system environment and resides on the backend core ERP system, saving significant costs, time, and dependency on satellite and external systems,” he said.
“Dependency on satellite systems can be significantly reduced, though not completely eliminated, due to the traditional existing infrastructural setup. The ADDON enables companies to adapt and scale within their existing landscape,” Dixit added.
This game-changing strategy is significant, helping companies retain their integral data and business logic without sharing it with external providers. The model moves companies away from traditional licensing, providing flexibility and enabling significant cost and time reductions. This approach allows companies to focus more on testing throughout the lifecycle implementation.
Envisioning the Future of Streamlined ERP Operations
Facing evolving challenges in ERP management, Dixit’s contributions are a move towards more seamless and approachable systems. His contributions are seen as the first step towards an ongoing evolution within the industry to innovate and continually push the boundaries of ERP. “Our achievement marks a stride towards enhancing ERP accessibility and efficacy for diverse businesses,” he observes.
This forward-thinking approach seeks to simplify the complexities of enterprise resource planning, enabling businesses to operate with unparalleled efficiency and insight. Dixit’s vision includes simplifying enterprise resource planning to enable businesses to operate with enhanced efficiency and deeper insights.
Moving away from traditional solution provider methodologies to utilising the right tools, such as the ADDON Tool “P-sales Interface Cockpit/Suite©,” Arnd Dixit’s solution addresses and replaces the challenges posed by conventional methods, establishing a new benchmark in the ERP industry. His innovations catalyse ongoing evolution in the industry, promising a future where ERP solutions are only more effective and universally accessible. Furthermore, the ADDON product is now accredited by the Australian Peppol Authority which is the Australian Taxation office and New Zealand under the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).
“The journey is ongoing, and I aim to provide businesses with tools that enable them to manage all activities in a single place, moving away from monotonous administrative involving scattered tasks and using diverse transactions. The tool is designed to play a strategic role in achieving company objectives. The ADDON Tool should be leveraged for business intelligence analysis, AI and automating error correction, positioning the end user as a pilot—this is the next level,” Dixit concludes.