Procurement Solutions from SAP Enabling Excellence for Procurement Organizations

Procurement Solutions from SAP A New Era for Procurement Creating Leaders How SAP Solutions Enable Procurement Excellence Spend Analysis Sourcing Contract Management Operational Procurement Invoice Management Supplier Management 9 Flexible Solutions with Quick Time to Value Choose On Premise, Hosted, Outsourced, or On Demand Leverage Upgrade and Deployment Services Maximize Integration Support Workforce Mobility Leverage the SAP Partner Ecosystem 10 Evaluating Procurement Solutions Find Out More

Moving from a Decentralized to a Centralized Procurement Model A New Era for Procurement The role of procurement is entering a new era. Organizations are shifting from a decentralized to a centralized model that gives procurement tighter controls, standardized processes, and power to negotiate with vendors and achieve new efficiencies and savings. What tools are needed to achieve centralized procurement excellence? And what best practices have proven to maximize growth and profits? Given the global trends driving changes in procurement practices, this shift toward centralization is occurring...

Increase Spend Under Management Best-in-class companies leverage another essential best practice: maximizing the number of spend categories under management. As you increase the number of spend categories managed by procurement, you increase savings realized by the business. That’s because unapproved “maverick” spending is kept to a minimum, and everyone makes full use of approved suppliers with whom you have prenegotiated, lower rates. Reduce Cycle Times Best-in-class organizations also leverage technology-enabled best practices (for example, via automation) to reduce cycle times for transactions....

A Comprehensive Set of Integrated Procurement Applications How SAP® Solutions Enable Procurement Excellence Comprising a comprehensive array of source-to-pay products, SAP® procurement solutions help you drive efficiencies and infuse the best practices described previously across the entire procurement lifecycle. Our applications work together to help ensure that your company is meeting its savings targets across all categories of spend, effectively managing and collaborating with suppliers, enforcing contract compliance, and streamlining operations. We deliver this value through a unique combination...

you need to ensure that suppliers are delivering on promised service levels. Leakage can be the result of cumbersome contract creation, approval, and management processes, as well as a lack of visibility into already-negotiated supplier contracts. SAP provides you with the tools to enable standardized contract creation; transfer negotiated terms and conditions to operational contracts; and provide portfolio visibility, systemic governance, and compliance management. These tools help increase the amount and percentage of captured cost savings in contracts, increase the percentage of compliant...

•• Classify, route, and sort invoices automatically; systematically detect invoice exceptions and duplications; and help ensure that the right invoice reaches the right person at the right time •• Receive both provisional and differential invoices for fluctuating commodities •• Automate taxation and reporting to support everything from corporate financial requirements to trade regulations to continuous improvement programs •• Support a rigorous process to help ensure compliance based on integrated, consolidated information and enhanced reporting features Supplier Management Effective supplier...

Maximizing Your Return on Investment Flexible Solutions with Quick Time to Value SAP offers integrated solutions, flexible deployment options, and value-added services and support for best practices to help you achieve procurement transformation – and do so in a way that maximizes your return on investment. Our solutions are: •• Available in the cloud as on-demand solutions •• Available hosted or on premise with SAP Rapid Deployment solutions •• Designed to continually meet your business needs through enhancement packages and our application enhancement approach that allows you to leverage the...

Evaluating Procurement Solutions When evaluating procurement solutions, there are many factors to take into consideration. In our work with customers around the world, we’ve seen that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Depending on the unique situation of your procurement organization, a number of options could be right for you. Through our value engineering group, we work with you to define the right strategy and develop the right business case required by your organization. Find Out More With the set of procurement applications from SAP, you can transform your organization to drive sourcing...

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