TABS Reduces Unreconciled Transactions from €5.5M to €51K with Enable Rebate Management
99%
Reduction in unreconciled transactions
0.75%
Increase in total purchasing turnover from improved rebate optimization
Overview
By implementing Enable Rebate Management, TABS centralized supplier agreements and dramatically improved rebate transparency and financial reconciliation.
- Timber and Building Supplies Holland (TABS) is a holding company consisting of 15 building supply companies operating approximately 110 outlets across the Netherlands.
- With significant rebate income contributing to overall results, TABS relies on negotiated supplier agreements to protect margins and stabilize pricing.
- Prior to Enable, rebate agreements were stored across Word documents, PDFs, and Excel files, creating inconsistencies, inefficiencies, and limited traceability.
- Manual processes led to unreconciled transactions and reduced visibility into supplier earnings and rebate performance.
- By implementing Enable Rebate Management, TABS centralized agreements, improved supplier collaboration, and reduced unreconciled transactions from €5.5M to €51K.
TABS’ Challenge
As a major building materials distributor and member of the Ferney buying group, TABS manages rebate agreements across more than 200 suppliers and multiple business units. Rebates represent a substantial portion of the organization’s revenue and play a critical role in protecting margins and stabilizing pricing.
Prior to Enable, rebate agreements were stored in Word documents, PDFs, and Excel spreadsheets, leading to disorganization and limited traceability. Manual processes resulted in translation errors between departments, inconsistent reporting, and significant time spent searching for and verifying information.
The complexity of managing numerous suppliers further compounded these challenges. Smaller suppliers were often overlooked despite representing significant growth opportunities, while manual processes made it difficult to track rebate earnings accurately.
Without a centralized system of record, TABS struggled with missing rebate earnings, unreconciled transactions, and limited visibility into supplier performance and rebate opportunities.
With Collaborator, we now have a comprehensive overview of all rebate earnings we are entitled to. It’s a significant improvement over our previous methods.”
Timber and Building Supplies Holland (TABS)
John Groen | Central Purchasing Manager
“Everyone was working from different files, and translation errors became inevitable. Enable provided the transparency and consistency we needed.”
John Groen – Central Purchasing Manager
Solution
TABS implemented Enable Rebate Management to centralize rebate agreements, automate tracking, and provide a single source of truth for supplier income and contract documentation.
Enable replaced spreadsheet-driven workflows with structured deal management, enabling consistent agreement creation, approval, and collaboration with suppliers. Through the Collaborator feature, both TABS and its suppliers can access and validate agreement terms in real time, ensuring alignment and reducing disputes.
“Enable enhances our relationships with suppliers through transparency. Both parties know exactly where they stand.”
John Groen – Central Purchasing Manager
The platform’s Progress Tracker and forecasting capabilities provide real-time visibility into rebate tiers and purchasing thresholds, enabling proactive negotiation and strategic supplier engagement. Automated reporting and analytics deliver accurate insights into rebate performance and supplier contributions.
Enable also streamlined agreement creation and approval workflows, allowing contracts to be drafted, reviewed, and finalized within hours rather than weeks. Centralized digital storage ensures audit readiness and enhances transparency across departments and suppliers.
By consolidating rebate data and automating workflows, Enable transformed rebate management into a scalable, data-driven process that supports strategic procurement and supplier collaboration.
Results
TABS reduced unreconciled rebate transactions from €5.5 million to just €51,000, dramatically improving financial accuracy, reconciliation efficiency, and supplier income visibility. This transformation established a new benchmark for rebate transparency within the building materials distribution sector. Improved data visibility and automated workflows enabled TABS to identify overlooked suppliers and optimize rebate opportunities, resulting in a 0.75% increase in total purchasing turnover. By focusing on underutilized suppliers, the organization enhanced rebate performance and strengthened procurement strategy.
Enable gives us the transparency and insight needed to manage rebates effectively and strengthen our partnerships.”
John Groen – Central Purchasing Manager
Enable streamlined agreement creation and approval processes, reducing contract turnaround times from weeks to hours and improving audit readiness. Centralized, real-time data empowered stronger supplier collaboration and enabled proactive decision-making across TABS’ network of 110 outlets.
Enable has become a cornerstone of TABS’ digital transformation strategy, providing the transparency, accuracy, and operational efficiency required to support sustainable growth and margin protection across its European operations.
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