Buy smarter across plants with real-time shortage and pricing visibility
Buyers lose hours moving between Material Requirements Planning (MRP), stock, and pricing transactions, and still miss shortages, breach supplier minimums, or reorder material already held in another plant. Procurement Cockpit Simplified (PCS) unifies MRP, inventory, and purchasing data in one SAP Fiori application, validates requisitions against supplier Restriction Profiles (RP), and converts them into SAP S/4HANA purchase orders in bulk.
Overview
Simplify procurement decisions
Extends SAP S/4HANA procurement by consolidating Material Requirements Planning results, product master data, and purchasing info records into one SAP Fiori application running on SAP Business Technology Platform. Buyers identify shortages, prioritize materials, and act without switching transactions, so they spend less time gathering data and more time on sourcing decisions that protect service levels and margin.
Optimize purchase order creation
Help purchasing teams comply with supplier agreements while reducing manual effort. Improve procurement efficiency with a solution that converts purchase requisitions into purchase orders using supplier-specific restriction profiles and real-time procurement data.
Improve supply visibility
Gain a real-time view into stock availability, replenishment lead times, shortage of quantities, open purchase orders, and sales demand, allowing procurement teams to proactively manage supply risks and minimize material shortages.
Details
Solution type
Extensions and Add-ons
Industry
Wholesale Distribution, Cross-Industry
Compatibility
Works with
Features
Combine procurement and MRP insights
Display purchasing information, inventory status, shortage indicators, replenishment lead time, and stock days' supply in a unified SAP Fiori interface, enabling buyers to evaluate material requirements from a single screen.
Validate supplier restrictions
Apply configurable supplier restriction profiles during purchase order creation, and validate procurement quantities against predefined business rules before allowing purchase order generation.
Analyze procurement and stock data
Access integrated functions for pricing history, cross-plant Available to Promise (ATP), stock overview, open purchase orders, sales order history, and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to support data-driven procurement planning and decision-making.
Plans and pricing
Standard edition
Unified Procurement Dashboard - Includes the PCS Buyer application, a single SAP Fiori screen that combines MRP, inventory, and purchasing data for material analysis and procurement planning.
Purchase Requisition to Purchase Order Conversion - Includes mass purchase requisition-to-purchase order conversion, with quantity adjustment and item text/notes maintenance before orders are created.
Supplier Restriction Profile Validation - Includes the RP setup app and validation engine that checks order quantity and net value against supplier rules before purchase order creation.
Material Shortage Visibility - Includes shortage quantity, shortage duration, stock days' supply, replenishment lead time, and unrestricted stock fields with configurable stock indicators.
Cross-Plant Stock Availability - Includes an embedded cross-plant available to promise check and stock overview so buyers can confirm availability across plants without leaving the application.
Procurement Analytics - Includes pricing details (last and 30-day average price), open purchase order, open sales order, and sales order history reports, plus three embedded procurement KPI tiles.
Configurable User Layouts - Includes user-level layout personalization across 41 available columns, plus sorting, filtering, and unlimited saved display variants per user.
- Minimum contract 3 years
Unified Procurement Dashboard - Includes the PCS Buyer application, a single SAP Fiori screen that combines MRP, inventory, and purchasing data for material analysis and procurement planning.
Purchase Requisition to Purchase Order Conversion - Includes mass purchase requisition-to-purchase order conversion, with quantity adjustment and item text/notes maintenance before orders are created.
Supplier Restriction Profile Validation - Includes the RP setup app and validation engine that checks order quantity and net value against supplier rules before purchase order creation.
Material Shortage Visibility - Includes shortage quantity, shortage duration, stock days' supply, replenishment lead time, and unrestricted stock fields with configurable stock indicators.
Cross-Plant Stock Availability - Includes an embedded cross-plant available to promise check and stock overview so buyers can confirm availability across plants without leaving the application.
Procurement Analytics - Includes pricing details (last and 30-day average price), open purchase order, open sales order, and sales order history reports, plus three embedded procurement KPI tiles.
Configurable User Layouts - Includes user-level layout personalization across 41 available columns, plus sorting, filtering, and unlimited saved display variants per user.
