Allign the words to the specified column in vim using commands

Question

How I can move or shift the words in the entire file to the specified column? For example like below: Before :

123 ABC
112 XYZS
15925 asdf
1111 25asd
1 qwer

After :

123    ABC
112    XYZS
15925  asdf
1111   25asd
1      qwer

How it can be done using command mode? Here the thing is we need to shift the 2nd word to the specified column Here the specified column is 8

Answer 1

except for vim-plugins mentioned by others, if you were working on a linux box with column command available, you could just :

%!column -t

% could be vim ranges, e.g. visual selections etc..