The SAP Supplier Relationship Management application automate, simplify, and centralize yours procure-to-pay process flow.
The SAP Supplier Relationship Management application automate, simplify, and centralize yours procure-to-pay process flow.
The SAP Supplier Relationship Management application automate, simplify, and centralize yours procure-to-pay process flow. SAP Supplier Relationship Management supports the full e-procurement cycle, from source and purchase-to-pay to spend and supplier performance management. It can help you streamline operations, enforce compliance with contracts and purchasing policies, and improve overall spend management. The procure-to-pay best practices that can help reduce procurement costs by enabling supplier communications, streamlining operations, and improving cost management.
Why SAP Supplier Relationship Management?
Streamline and standardize the purchase of goods and services
Shrink procurement costs by closing the loop from source to pay
Automate operational processes to increase efficiencies and avoid maverick buying
Drive user adoption with consumer-grade shopping interfaces
Gain greater visibility into supplier relationships and performance
Accelerate procurement processing and cycle times
Functional Capabilities
Procure-to-Pay Optimization: Enforce procure-to-pay best practices that streamline operations, facilitate supplier communications, and improve overall cost management.
Catalog Management: Give suppliers an easy way to manage catalog data – and integrate the data into your business processes through Ariba Procurement Content.
Self-Service Procurement: Help end users find and purchase policy-compliant products and services. Let them search across multiple catalogs using a familiar, consumer-like shopping cart experience.
Plan-Driven Procurement: Source external demands from planning, project, and plant maintenance systems. Purchase direct materials and goods for maintenance, repair, and operations using local pricing and terms.
Services Procurement for Large, Complex Services: Manage resources and monitor costs for time- and deliverable-based service categories throughout the requisition, sourcing, contracting, ordering, confirmation, and invoicing processes.
Operational and Centralized Sourcing: Gain visibility into organization-wide demands – and take advantage of automated, integrated sourcing processes.
Centralized Contract Management: Monitor and access contracts in a secure, centralized repository – to reduce maverick buying, drive spend with preferred suppliers, and leverage your global buying power.
Operational Reporting: Use out-of-the box reports to monitor purchasing activities, measure contract compliance, and gain insights into organization-wide spending and sourcing.
Technical Capabilities
SAP Supplier Relationship Management: Server Based on SAP NetWeaver Application Server, SAP SRM is an application and database installation that is released on several database and operating system platforms.
SAP Bidding Engine: Purchasers can use SAP Bidding Engine to create and process requests for quotations – and bidders can use it to submit bids in response to these requests.
Online Transaction Processing System: Easily exchange data between the SAP Supplier Relationship Management system and a connected online transaction processing system (OLTP).
SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence: Harness a solid infrastructure for data warehousing, analytics, and Web-based reporting. Analyze and broadcast BI content via open analysis interfaces and a Web Design Application Programming Interface (API).
SAP NetWeaver Portal: Access your applications, services, and organizational information from one entry point – or use SAP SRM in NetWeaver Business Cl
Predefined and extensible Virtual Data Models
SAP Smart Business cockpit applications
Workforce Mobility: Use SAP Fiori for procurement to give your workforce a consistent user experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones – throughout the full procure-to-pay lifecycle.