Procurement expansion package for SAP Cloud ERP

Make policy-compliant business buying easy to adopt—so you can improve cost control and proactively manage risk and compliance wherever business gets done.
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What is the procurement expansion package for Cloud ERP?

This integrated SAP Business Suite package bundles purchasing and fulfillment, catalog management, and supplier collaboration capabilities to streamline the procure-to-pay process.

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By embedding intelligent processes, you can:

  • Guide users to the products and services they need

  • Reduce approval cycles and errors

  • Free your procurement and accounts payable teams to focus on the bigger picture

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Key benefits

Increase savings per purchase

Optimize procurement processes for employees and maximize spend under management so you can lower procurement costs.

Drive better compliance

Embedded intelligent processes ensure adherence to negotiated terms and business practices across spend categories and buying channels.

Simplify supplier collaboration

Empower your trading partners to manage their transaction processes digitally, from order fulfillment to invoicing and payment.

Key features

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Catalog content capabilities

  • Comprehensive procurement catalog content collection

  • Connectivity to Amazon Business Marketplace to ensure policy-compliant purchasing across spend categories

  • Multi-catalog search capability, automated verification, and validation rules for faster updates and higher accuracy

Comprehensive rules framework

  • Configurable processes for organizational and regulatory consistency

  • Automated workflows to reduce cycle times, related costs, and errors

  • Approval workflow configuration and management for buyer-created requests

  • Responsibility framework for approving or rejecting requests

Guided experience

  • Intelligent item recommendations, in-context user assistance, and carbon footprint information that direct users through the company catalog

  • Persona-based user experience and buying channel setups

Materials and services shopping

  • Consumer-grade shopping experience

  • Single requisition for unified ordering and fulfillment of materials and services

  • Real-time visibility of service entry sheets, goods receipts, invoices, and approvals

Supplier collaboration

  • SAP Business Network Supplier Portal for digital collaboration and visibility into purchase order processing, invoices, and payments

  • Over 120 pre-configured business rules to ensure exception-free and regulatory consistency

  • Flexible onboarding programs for suppliers

Spend transparency

  • Real-time, end-to-end visibility of requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, service entry sheets, invoices, approvals, and remittances among buyers and suppliers.

  • Visibility and insights into real-time status, benchmarks, invoice payment rates, and more for suppliers through SAP Business Network

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SAP named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites

Find out why SAP has been recognized as a Leader for our ability to execute and completeness of vision in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites.

The Hackett Group’s 2025 Procurement Agenda and Key Issues Study Results

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Disclaimer

1. With AI-powered item recommendations in procurement platforms, there can be an up to 60% faster shopping cart submission time through algorithmic comparisons to the organization’s recent purchasing history. Source: Internal SAP performance benchmarking.

 

2. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites, Micky Keck, Kaitlynn Sommers, Balaji Abbabatulla, Cian Curtin, Lynne Phelan, Chaithanya Paradarami, Martin Shreffler, 24 March 2025.

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