Digitalisation for businesses in Stuttgart

Stuttgart’s economy: vehicles, engineering and SMEs

The Stuttgart region is home to major vehicle manufacturers and suppliers and is one of the strongest industrial areas in Europe. Around the corporations there is a dense network of mid-sized engineering firms, suppliers, workshops and retailers, many of them family businesses in demand worldwide in their niche. Production is largely digital, but the office often still runs by hand: orders by email, records in folders, reports from five spreadsheets.

We bring the office up to the standard of the shop floor: data flows between your programs on its own, reports appear at the push of a button, and backups are tested regularly. We look after your IT on servers in Germany, with an contingency plan in case something does fail.

The shift to electric mobility hits the region particularly hard. Suppliers who made parts for combustion engines for decades are looking for new products, new customers and leaner processes. At the same time, costs are rising and prices are under pressure. Digitalisation is not an end in itself here, but a way to make administration leaner so that more money is left for development. We automate quotes, order confirmations, delivery documents and invoices and connect them to your ERP. That keeps your team focused on the tasks that bring in new orders.

Away from the large plants, the region is diverse too: strong trades, many engineering offices and service providers, plus vineyards in the middle of the city and in the Rems valley. These businesses do not need corporate IT, but solutions that work with five or fifty people. We set up cloud storage with clear permissions, connect online shop, till and accounting and develop apps for fitters and field staff that put hours, materials and photos straight into the order. Everything is operated on a phone, without lengthy training.