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.
