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Procurement with S/4HANA.
Modernize procurement operations.
Enhance purchasing power and drive sustainable savings.
Deliver best-in-class procurement processes, leverage purchasing power, and drive sustainable savings.
>Digital procurement and the Intelligent Enterprise
By digitalizing procurement, businesses can address current challenges and stay future-proof. CPOs can expand their value proposition to include continuous improvement, becoming more agile and resilient, reducing global supplier footprint, and linking critical data and processes to external sources and third-party systems.
With SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), organizations can develop and deliver digital technologies to become Intelligent Enterprises. For CPOs to fully benefit from business intelligence, data in the source-to-pay IT landscape and business processes must be integrated. This comprehensive approach helps capture, manage, and govern data and provide integrated business processes to drive better business outcomes. Intelligent capabilities can then be used, such as machine learning and automation, to optimize processes and drive innovation. Also, new ways of consolidating, connecting, and accessing information can all be leveraged. Spend compliance can be built into every transaction.
More effective spend management can be delivered through technologies which transform procurement processes and make leading practices a reality at a practical level. SAP BTP can help fulfill the critical expectation among CPOs that the technology they adopt must be at least a 95% functional fit (SAP Benchmarking). Also, it uniquely provides a full suite of platform technologies to accelerate development and deployment with specialized capabilities. This is realized through data and analytics outcomes, integration enablement, and extensible and personalised application solutions:
> Enable profitable customer project delivery as part of your core finance transformation
> Tightly manage project resources as part of your total talent management strategy
> Deliver digital products and contract services through subscriptions, usage, and value-based contracts.
> Provide ongoing, efficient service management support
Operational procurement
Speed up the purchasing process.
Streamlined indirect material procurement:
Experience simple, smart, and elegant purchasing processes with SAP Ariba Buying across indirect material procurement areas.
Confident buying decision-making:
Inform insights with consolidated analytics, upcoming tasks, and relevant information in a personalised procurement overview.
Optimised approvals:
Streamline approval of purchase orders and requisitions with automatic reminders, notifications, and clear responsibilities.
Experience simple, smart, and elegant purchasing processes with SAP Ariba Buying across indirect material procurement areas.
Confident buying decision-making:
Inform insights with consolidated analytics, upcoming tasks, and relevant information in a personalised procurement overview.
Optimised approvals:
Streamline approval of purchase orders and requisitions with automatic reminders, notifications, and clear responsibilities.
Sourcing
Lower the risk of human error, reduce workload, and shrink administrative costs.
Controlled spending:
Get better prices with the assistance of early visibility into forecasted production and access to historical pricing.
Cognitive sourcing:
Compare bids and awards with one click by using predefined analytics and decision support.
Operations and contract compliance:
Gain visibility into the use of purchase contracts and acquire insights on legal contracts.
Get better prices with the assistance of early visibility into forecasted production and access to historical pricing.
Cognitive sourcing:
Compare bids and awards with one click by using predefined analytics and decision support.
Operations and contract compliance:
Gain visibility into the use of purchase contracts and acquire insights on legal contracts.
Supplier management
Simplify the maintenance of supplier relationships.
Real-time supplier evaluation:
Negotiate better terms with a powerful survey tool that quickly classifies, assesses, and calculates supplier performance.
Portfolio-level view of supplier relationships:
Determine the right mix of suppliers and reduce overall supply risk with supplier classification and segmentation.
Sustainability goal achievement:
Calculate a supply source’s carbon footprint by using existing data maintained in SAP Sustainability Footprint Management.
Negotiate better terms with a powerful survey tool that quickly classifies, assesses, and calculates supplier performance.
Portfolio-level view of supplier relationships:
Determine the right mix of suppliers and reduce overall supply risk with supplier classification and segmentation.
Sustainability goal achievement:
Calculate a supply source’s carbon footprint by using existing data maintained in SAP Sustainability Footprint Management.
Invoice management
Save cost, time, and effort with automated and centralised invoice management.
Less time and effort
Enable accounts payable teams to drive higher volumes of invoices through electronic channels.
Reduced error
Capture and process invoices digitally to eliminate errors before they reach the accounts payable department.
Automated invoice management
Free up your resources by using conversational AI and machine learning to perform repetitive, low-value tasks.
Enable accounts payable teams to drive higher volumes of invoices through electronic channels.
Reduced error
Capture and process invoices digitally to eliminate errors before they reach the accounts payable department.
Automated invoice management
Free up your resources by using conversational AI and machine learning to perform repetitive, low-value tasks.
