For details about the benefits, features, and functions of the SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) application, check out the following information.

Overview

• "SAP Supplier Relationship Management – At a Glance" (PDF, 175 KB) – Discover how to build collaborative relationships with your suppliers and reduce costs throughout your supply chain with a powerful SAP solution that manages the complete supply cycle and leverages the capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver platform.

Solution Briefs

• "Achieving Excellence in Business Process Outsourcing" (PDF, 2 MB) – Consider how business process outsourcing (BPO) providers with procurement services powered by SAP solutions generate sustainable business value for their customers – and, compared with other providers, dramatically lower costs and BPO risk.
• "Meeting the Procurement Challenges of the Public Sector" (PDF, 175 KB) – Examine how organizations responsible for maintaining public funds and public trust can control costs, automate processes, improve collaboration, and adhere to regulations and structured guidelines – with the SAP Government Procurement application.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the Automotive Industry" (PDF, 91 KB) – Learn how automotive companies can use SAP SRM to automate, integrate, and streamline purchasing processes across the company – and manage spending from a central perspective.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the Banking Industry" (PDF, 91 KB) – Learn about how SAP SRM – with its support for strategic purchasing and sourcing, operational procurement, and supplier collaboration – enables banks to optimize supplier selection and close the loop between sourcing and purchasing.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the Consumer Products Industry" (PDF, 196 KB) – Read about how SAP Supplier Relationship Management helps you optimize global spend, qualify and evaluate suppliers, negotiate favorable terms, enforce contract compliance, and drive supplier collaboration in a cost-effective manner.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the High Tech Industry" (PDF, 79 KB) – Explore how SAP SRM draws on SAP and non-SAP resources to enable the kind of visibility and processes that improve relationships and business across the supply chain.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the Oil & Gas Industry" (PDF, 77 KB) – Learn how SAP Supplier Relationship Management gives oil and gas companies greater control over spending – for improved profitability and a quick, measurable ROI.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the Retail Industry" (PDF, 390 KB) – Learn how SAP Supplier Relationship Management gives you the tools you need to qualify and evaluate suppliers, negotiate favorable terms, and drive supplier collaboration.
• "Supplier Relationship Management for the Utilities Industry" (PDF, 170 KB) – Discover how you make better strategic sourcing decisions, reduce spending, consolidate your supplier base, and reduce risk with SAP Supplier Relationship Management.

Solution in Detail

• "Analytics with SAP Supplier Relationship Management" (PDF, 878 KB) – Discover how the analytics functionality of SAP SRM supports your decision-making process, by helping you develop and implement a sound supply strategy with sourcing functions for requests for quotations (RFQs), auctioning, and contract management.
• "Enabling Supplier Collaboration with SAP Business Suite" (PDF, 190 KB) – See how to connect with diverse suppliers using supplier collaboration solutions in the SAP Business Suite – including a scalable portal providing secure, single point of entry access to supply-side transactions and relevant information.
• "Plan-Driven Procurement with SAP SRM" (PDF, 114 KB) – Learn how the plan-driven procurement function of SAP SRM ensures that your production units run smoothly – at reduced costs – by combining maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) procurement and plan-driven/production-relevant procurement into one system.
• "SAP Catalog Content Management" (PDF, 699 KB) – See how the SAP Catalog Content Management application provides effective content management for catalogs of products and services – making strategic purchasing quicker, more secure, and more flexible.
• "Self-Service Procurement: Slashing Costs and Saving Time" (PDF, 275 KB) – Read how to streamline procurement processes for employees through features in SAP SRM that support self-service procurement – making the procurement process faster, and more cost-effective, efficient, and responsive. Log-in required.
• "Service Procurement with SAP Supplier Relationship Management" (PDF, 126 KB) – Find out how various components of the SAP SRM application can help improve your service procurement processes by closing the gap between the strategic needs of your service purchasers and the operational needs of your requesters.

Analyst Reports and Related Information

• "Center-Led Procurement" (PDF, 481 KB) – Examine the results of an Aberdeen research study. As a result of the study, the firm predicts that the center-led organizational model will emerge as a competitive differentiator – and indicates that technology is a key enabler for the model. Aberdeen Group (November 2005) Log-in required.