BeNeering’s MD and CRO dig into the company’s history with AI, and the necessity of seeing beyond the hype of new technologies

A privately-owned company with over 20 years of procurement digitalisation experience fueling it, BeNeering is at the forefront of the AI-powered revolution in its sector. BeNeering was founded in 2007. At the time, Christoph Moll, BeNeering founder and Managing Director, was busy implementing SAP SRM systems for large European multinationals. While this provided great experience, Moll could see the limitations – and he wanted to move beyond them. He wanted to do something more.

“That’s how BeNeering was founded,” he says. “We focused on consulting until 2013, at which point we transitioned to being a solutions provider. I cherry-picked a great development team, and I’m happy to say that the same strong team is with us still today. Stability is our value.”

Natalia Parmenova, Chief Revenue Officer, is an example of one such strong team member, who has enormous faith in the business. “From my perspective, BeNeering is a super special solution provider for a few reasons,” she states. “First of all, we believe in co-innovation. Everything we develop is built together with very large and advanced customers. We try to stay close to those customers, to people who are forward-thinking and developing their procurement functions, so we can develop solutions for them with them. We are not just inventing things we think are useful – we are basing our development on customer needs. That’s really important.”

Simplify and optimise

Many people fall into procurement accidentally. It’s a common story among procurement professionals, and a source of amusement considering how passionate many of them become about it. For Parmenova and Moll, however, it was a case of seeing the way the wind was blowing and following the scent of change.

“In 2001, when I was employed by SAP, I wanted to do things better to help users in procurement,” says Moll. “That was how it started for me. My vision was really to simplify and optimise steps and processes for both requestors and buyers.” 

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