Through the SAP E-Sourcing application, SAP helps you accelerate your time-to-benefit while providing a seamless migration path to the proven and robust SAP SRM application.

As your procurement department evolves, each transformation phase increases your need to enhance your end-to-end sourcing capabilities. SAP E-Sourcing helps you meet that need – enabling you to deliver rapid results by offering you the right functionality, at the right time, using the right delivery model.

SAP E-Sourcing maximizes savings through fast, flexible, and sustainable sourcing. The application includes functionality that enables:

• Spend and compliance management
  • Achieve comprehensive reporting and analysis.
  • Realize effective spend data cleansing and comprehensive reporting and analysis.
• Flexible and adaptable configuration
  • Create templates, reports, page views, user-access rights and roles, and new data fields to capture information and processes specific to your organization.
• Category and project management
  • Link all sourcing activities to specific projects to track results and decisions during each project's duration.
  • Monitor project status, manage employee workload, and track opportunities for savings.
• Configurable RFP, auction, and bid optimization management
  • Conduct simple or complex sourcing activities in direct, indirect, and service categories by automating the creation of requests for information, proposals, quotations, and reverse auctions.
  • Analyze bids using collaborative scoring, weighted scoring for multiple attributes, total cost calculations, side-by-side comparisons, and pricing and savings reports.
• Contract life-cycle management
  • Generate, negotiate, and manage contracts with a single, searchable contract repository.
  • Create a library of standard contracts and contract clauses to promote and enforce your organization's legal standards during the contract-generation process.
  • Configure an approval process using such factors as a contract's monetary value and spend category.
  • Automate all contract activity, such as rebidding, auditing, renewing, and renegotiating prior to expiration.
• Supplier management
  • Employ a single, searchable repository to support a supplier portal in which suppliers can register themselves, maintain and modify their own profiles and category records, send updated files, participate in collaborative discussions, respond to bid requests and auctions, view scorecard performance, and view active contracts and sourcing events.
  • Define metrics for supplier performance scorecards.