Allianz Trade is a global leader in trade credit insurance and risk management that operates in over 50 countries, supporting businesses with solutions that secure cash flow and manage commercial risk in an increasingly complex international environment. As regulatory frameworks evolve, particularly with the acceleration of electronic invoicing mandates across Europe and beyond, the organisation sought a reliable, future-ready solution.
To stay ahead of these reforms, Allianz Trade selected Yooz as its registered Approved Platform, benefiting from a highly flexible onboarding and testing approach. Ultimately, Yooz stood out for its intuitive user interface, adaptable workflow management and seamless integration with SAP, the company’s primary ERP system.
The challenge: Overcoming complexity in a global environment
Before implementing Yooz, Allianz Trade faced the inherent challenges of operating across a highly complex, multi-country environment. The organisation had to manage a wide variety of processes, systems and local requirements, making invoice handling both time-consuming and difficult to standardise. This complexity limited visibility, reduced efficiency and made it harder to maintain consistent processes across regions, highlighting the need for a solution that could simplify operations while remaining scalable and easy to manage.
“Yooz supported us with a very flexible onboarding and testing approach. We decided for Yooz due to a friendly user interface, flexible workflow management, easy administration interface with SAP, which is our primary ERP system.“
Florian Bahlmann
Finance Program Manager
Driving compliance in a shifting landscape: Adapting to e-invoicing reforms around the world
In the context of rapidly evolving e-invoicing regulations, Allianz Trade undertook a thorough selection process to identify an automation solution capable of meeting both current and future compliance requirements. Beyond regulatory alignment, the organisation was looking for a solution that could adapt to its complex, multi-country environment while remaining simple to deploy and use.
Yooz stood out thanks to:
- Its flexible onboarding and testing approach, allowing teams to validate the solution progressively and with confidence
- Its intuitive interface
- Its configurable and customisable workflows
- Its seamless integration with SAP
Yooz therefore emerged as the ideal partner to support Allianz Trade in navigating e-invoicing reforms while maintaining operational efficiency and control.
“The tool is doing what it needs to do without unnecessary complexity. And beyond that, it is fully traceable and auditable. Yooz is user-friendly, easy to set up, easy also to search and find. The workflows set up are quite flexible to meet the different needs in the different regions. For us, it’s about simplicity, scalability, and cost control.“
Ulas Bektas
Group Head of Cost Accounting
The benefits: Traceability, scalability and compliance across regions
Following the implementation of Yooz, Allianz Trade has experienced a range of concrete benefits that support both operational efficiency and regulatory compliance:
- Simplicity at scale: The solution delivers what is needed without unnecessary complexity, making it easy for teams across multiple countries to adopt and use effectively.
- Full traceability and auditability: Every invoice is tracked from start to finish, ensuring complete transparency and strengthening compliance and internal controls.
- Flexible and adaptable workflows: Configurable processes allow different regions to tailor workflows to their specific needs while maintaining overall consistency.
- Centralised and standardised data: Yooz connects to various local platforms and consolidates invoices into a single structured format, simplifying processing across countries.
- Enhanced compliance support: With its expertise, Yooz helps navigate diverse legal requirements, reducing the burden on internal teams.
- Improved cost control and scalability: The platform supports growth while keeping operational costs under control, even in a highly complex international environment.
“As we are located in about fifty countries, we are dealing with a high level of complexity. Yooz really helps us to refine our own needs. That helps us to align and to simplify our requirements where possible and to reduce complexity as much as possible on a topic that is technically and legally very highly complex.”
Hans de Keijzer
Group Head of Organisation and Change
By choosing Yooz as its registered Approved Platform, Allianz Trade has successfully simplified its complex, international invoicing processes while staying fully aligned with evolving e-invoicing regulations. The solution’s intuitive interface, flexible workflows and seamless integration with SAP have enabled the company to gain greater control, ensure compliance and reduce operational complexity.
Allianz Trade’s story demonstrates how the right digital partner can transform regulatory challenges into opportunities for efficiency and growth.
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