Procurement expansion package for SAP Cloud ERP
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.
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
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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