Date: 12.11.2025 (2025-11-12)
Clemens Grawe (12.11.2025) Context: • https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-clemens-grawe-4a5644137/ • Friend of Carla • Austrian, studied in Innsbruck • Controller at: • ACP bietet herstellerunabhängig Consulting, Beschaffung und Integration, Managed Services, Datacenter Services sowie IT-Finanzierung für das gesamte IT-Sortiment und betreut Unternehmen, Behörden und Organisationen jeder Größe. Zudem erweitert ACP kontinuierlich sein strategisches Digitalisierungsportfolio, um Kunden dabei zu unterstützen, Optimierungspotentiale auszuloten und neue Geschäftsansätze zu finden. Gegründet 1993, beschäftigt der IT-Provider in Deutschland und Österreich heute 2.600+ Mitarbeiter:innen an mehr als 50 Standorten. Im Geschäftsjahr 2024/2025 erzielte die ACP Gruppe einen Umsatz von 1,05 Milliarden Euro. • Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.acp-gruppe.com/
Notes: • Typical week • He joined ACP in May • Only very few controlling • He tries to build a database for finance • Until now: Clicksense • There are two types of controllers: • Isolated: FIBU is egal • Umfangreiche Controller -> include FIBU as well • He wants to go to Beleg level • Challenges building the data base • Systems: • Clicksense was built on Corporate Planner • Does a monthly sum based on invoices -> CEO wants to have more granular overview on a daily base • Belegjournal -> RS2 is their ERP • Data Formats are different • RS2 has deleted Buchungszeilen • Difficult to find out how to get all • Gewinnforderung is a popular topic -> always booked at the end of a year - don’t understand completely • Challenges: • • Power BI vs. Excel? • Excel: he uses it a lot -> always a short term analysis; often Rechtethema (e.g. when he wants to add a column but does not have Recht to add a column in PowerBI) • Via PowerQuery or flat file • Power BI: -> more complex • Group controlling berechnet Umlagen -> keine Belege -> grob Gießkanne -> difficult to greifen • When he transfers employees from one Kostenstelle to another -> which employees • Could be interesting to try to build the Palantir style data models with him • Check PowerBI -> how do we differentiate from that • When do people use PowerBI and Excel • Datenbasis • In SAP everything is one system -> Einkauf • Verbinden Sales und Buchhaltung -> you need to understand data -> what is the primary key that should be used? • Example: in CRM you have every position of an invoice - in accounting only the sum of an invoice • Sometimes you give one price to the customer but internally you want to split it • Having a data model is perfect • Currently no merged data model • Monthly closing process - it takes very long -> until end of the coming month • They did not really have compliance Themen • Rechnungsfreigabe • ACP Hardware -> Lieferung direkt an Kunden -> ACP nur Mittelsmann -> no need to check everything • WMF • Wurde von Multi Milliarden Prozess gekauft • Guter Closing Process -> 2. Werktag; at the end Capex • Budgetierung über 3 Etappen • Workflow via SAP -> worked best • Bauer: • A lot of physical invoices etc. • Group controlling -> consolidation of subsidiaries -> you try to fix stuff at the beginning • DIWA • Datev sehr stur mit Workflow • Not possible Fachliche Prüfung und dann Freigabe • Thresholds for approval are not possible • Very diverse experience • SAP is very expensive • Automation: • • Biggest objections / challenges in his daily life? • • Most valuable flows for him? • • Context: team setup? internal and external? • • Which tasks are the biggest pain? With magic wand -> what would he solve? • • Which tasks would he focus on? • • Do they already have automations? Which ones? How well do they work? • • Which companies would he target? • • General feedback to pitch? •