PRO­CURE­MENT TRANSFORMATION

Strate­gic Assess­ment and Roadmap

The strate­gic assess­ment and roadmap gives your orga­ni­za­tion direc­tion and sup­ports your organization’s first steps to pro­cure­ment trans­for­ma­tion. It out­lines clear steps for the trans­for­ma­tion based on the cur­rent state of your organization’s pro­cure­ment – how and in which pro­cure­ment solu­tions and sys­tems the pro­cure­ment is man­aged at the moment, and what kind of goals your orga­ni­za­tion has for the future of your pro­cure­ment. With the roadmap, your orga­ni­za­tion gains clar­i­ty and trans­paren­cy on what the trans­for­ma­tion con­sists of, from both a tech­ni­cal per­spec­tive as well as busi­ness ben­e­fits point of view. The strate­gic assess­ment also includes com­par­i­son of dif­fer­ent tran­si­tion paths, sched­ule propo­si­tions, and a pre­lim­i­nary invest­ment plan.

Pro­cure­ment

SAP Ari­ba Pro­cure­ment solu­tion helps your orga­ni­za­tion to nego­ti­ate bet­ter deals, con­trol costs, man­age risks relat­ed to buy­ing, and increase prof­itabil­i­ty in the buy­ing processes.

The Pro­cure­ment solu­tion con­sists of the fol­low­ing applications:

• SAP Ari­ba Buying
• SAP Ari­ba Buy­ing & Invoicing
• SAP Ari­ba Catalog

Sup­ply Chain Management

The SAP Ari­ba Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment allows you to dig­i­tize your organization’s extend­ed sup­ply chain with an end-to-end, dig­i­tal pro­cure­ment solu­tion that sup­ports direct spend, includ­ing inte­gra­tion with prod­uct design and R&D process­es, man­u­fac­tur­ing exe­cu­tion and delivery.

The Sup­ply Chain Man­age­ment solu­tion port­fo­lio con­sist of fol­low­ing applications:

• SAP Ari­ba Direct Mate­r­i­al Sourcing
• SAP Ari­ba Sup­ply Chain Collaboration

Sup­pli­er Management

With SAP Ari­ba Sup­pli­er Man­age­ment, your orga­ni­za­tion can dri­ve spend to pre­ferred sup­pli­ers and reduce risks, from sup­pli­er onboard­ing and qual­i­fi­ca­tion to seg­men­ta­tion and per­for­mance management.

Sup­pli­er Man­age­ment solu­tion port­fo­lio con­sists of the fol­low­ing applications:

• SAP Ari­ba Sup­pli­er Risk
• SAP Ari­ba Sup­pli­er Life­cy­cle and Performance
• SAP Ari­ba Sup­pli­er Infor­ma­tion & Per­for­mance Management

Strate­gic Sourcing

The SAP Ari­ba Strate­gic Sourc­ing solu­tion port­fo­lio enables your orga­ni­za­tion to man­age your sourc­ing, con­tract­ing, and spend analy­sis process­es for all types of spend – direct and indi­rect materials.

Strate­gic Sourc­ing solu­tion port­fo­lio con­sists of the fol­low­ing applications:

• SAP Ari­ba Spend Analysis
• SAP Ari­ba Sourcing
• SAP Ari­ba Contracts

Finan­cial Sup­ply Chain

SAP Ari­ba Finan­cial Sup­ply Chain solu­tion merges par­tial­ly with the pro­cure­ment solu­tion, enabling the man­age­ment of invoic­es and pay­ments. It allows your orga­ni­za­tion to match pur­chase trans­ac­tions and invoic­es and track pay­ment sta­tus, by sup­port­ing elec­tron­ic pur­chase orders and invoicing.

The Finan­cial Sup­ply Chain solu­tion con­sists of the fol­low­ing applications:

• SAP Ari­ba Invoice Management
• SAP Ari­ba Buy­ing & Invoicing
• SAP Ari­ba Payables

Finan­cial Sup­ply Chain solu­tion is the last appli­ca­tion port­fo­lio of the SAP Ari­ba solu­tion port­fo­lio. Togeth­er, these five port­fo­lios form an inno­v­a­tive, cloud-based, seam­less­ly inte­grat­ed SAP Ari­ba source to pay solution.

SAP Busi­ness Net­work – Dig­i­tal B2B marketplace

SAP Busi­ness Net­work is the largest B2B mar­ket­place where sup­pli­ers and buy­ers can trade, build up their coop­er­a­tion, and find new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties. In the net­work, buy­ers can man­age their whole pro­cure­ment process, con­trol their costs, find new ways to make sav­ings, and build a healthy, eth­i­cal­ly func­tion­ing sup­ply chain. In turn, sup­pli­ers are able to sup­port their cus­tomers to accom­plish their pro­cure­ment goals, and at the same time raise their own cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion, stream­line their sales cycle and improve their cash flow.

SAP Ari­ba SNAP for the SME sector

Islet deliv­ers SNAP imple­men­ta­tions to the SME sec­tor. SAP Ari­ba SNAP is a deliv­ery mod­el by SAP that imple­ments the SAP Ari­ba sourc­ing solu­tion in a 12-week inter­ac­tive, agile-based project. With SNAP project deliv­ery mod­el, typ­i­cal time and resource chal­lenges in an imple­men­ta­tion project can be dimin­ished, and ben­e­fits of the solu­tion can be real­ized faster. Scope of the deliv­ery typ­i­cal­ly includes pro­cure­ment, guid­ed pur­chas­ing, con­tracts, and sup­pli­er man­age­ment — every­thing need­ed for tac­ti­cal sourcing.

Solu­tion Optimization

We offer sup­port and ser­vices in every phase of pro­cure­ment trans­for­ma­tion, also to orga­ni­za­tions that may already use one or sev­er­al SAP Ari­ba appli­ca­tions. We con­duct sys­tems eval­u­a­tions to help your orga­ni­za­tion deter­mine how to opti­mize exist­ing solu­tions to bet­ter meet your orga­ni­za­tion’s needs and require­ments. We help your orga­ni­za­tion to reach the full poten­tial of your pro­cure­ment solu­tions. As our main­te­nance cus­tomer, your orga­ni­za­tion has direct con­tact with a wide range of pro­fes­sion­als, to whom we offer mon­i­tor­ing, sys­tems main­te­nance, devel­op­ment, opti­miza­tion, and sys­tem updates.

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty in Procurement

Sus­tain­abil­i­ty is not only a trendy term, but also with the ever-evolv­ing leg­is­la­tion and glob­al stan­dards, some­thing every orga­ni­za­tion needs to con­sid­er. When it comes to sus­tain­able busi­ness, pro­cure­ment is one of the most crit­i­cal areas where your orga­ni­za­tion can suc­ceed and advance impor­tant sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals. By man­ag­ing your orga­ni­za­tion’s pro­cure­ment with dig­i­tal, inte­grable solu­tions and sys­tems, you can sup­port the ful­fill­ment of both your orga­ni­za­tion’s inter­nal sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals as well as exter­nal require­ments and oblig­a­tions. SAP is at the fore­front of tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ment in pro­mot­ing and inno­vat­ing solu­tions that enable more thor­ough and effec­tive mon­i­tor­ing and report­ing of sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals. At its’ present state, SAP Ari­ba solu­tions have the abil­i­ty to include sus­tain­abil­i­ty as a part of sup­pli­er selec­tion and this devel­op­ment is con­tin­u­ous. With SAP Ari­ba Pro­cure­ment solu­tions, your orga­ni­za­tion has access to a net­work of com­pa­nies, where you can find i.e. minor­i­ty and female-owned busi­ness­es, as well as envi­ron­men­tal­ly cer­ti­fied suppliers.