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The Solution Processes for Sourcing and Procurement in SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud are strong end-to-end processes. Many industries can use them. These include Industrial Manufacturing, High Tech, Chemicals, Mill Products, Agribusiness, Automotive, and Wholesale Distribution.
Best practices that work well in different industries come from SAP’s 50 years of ERP and industry experience. We help many medium and small companies work better and faster. We use advanced technology to make SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud the best ERP solution on the market.
The ready-to-use Best Practices for Sourcing and Procurement include key processes. These processes are direct procurement, consumable purchasing, requisitioning, and contracts. They also cover requests for quotations and special processes like subcontracting and supplier consignment. Other processes include intercompany transfers and automated invoice settlement.
There are 83 solution processes available in the UK as per the 2502 release. All these processes are integrated with important areas like Finance, Sales, and Supply.
The processes are run through the delightful and friendly role-based Fiori apps, providing access to the applications to the user(s) that require to perform tasks for their specific function.
Users can save their favorite apps. They can also set up spaces and pages on the home screen in the SAP Fiori Launchpad. This makes it easy to access the apps they use most often, based on their assigned roles. Most apps are supported in both desktop and mobile formats.
SAP provides local versions for 59 countries and regions. These versions support 33 different languages for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. By offering these local versions, SAP helps businesses operate smoothly. This also ensures they stay compliant with local standards, no matter where they are located.
As part of release 2208, the 3-system landscape (3SL) became available. 3SL includes a Development, Test and Production system. Developers can create more complex on-stack extensions using stable SAP objects. This is done in the development tenant (client 80) of the development system. Testing activities are separated into a dedicated test system.
Seamless Integration with other SAP cloud applications like Guided buying, Business Network or Central Invoice Management.
By connecting SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition with SAP Business Network for Procurement, organizations can link with suppliers. This integration helps automate purchase orders and payment processing. This helps in getting direct and indirect materials or services. It also allows electronic purchase orders or payment advice to be sent to suppliers. In addition, electronic order confirmations, advance shipping notices, and invoices from the suppliers can be received through SAP Business Network for Procurement.
The digital collaboration with suppliers in SAP Business Network for Procurement speeds up the procurement to payment process. It also cuts down on manual steps, which lowers transaction costs.
SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management on SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) provides a solution for receiving and managing supplier invoices, connecting to multiple systems, such as SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud. This solution contains relevant applications used to import supplier invoices with specific parameters and supports the display of invoice attachments in a split screen with seamless navigation to SAP Fiori apps for invoices. The SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management, inbound processing module provides embedded invoice inbound processing services, including OCR. This additional module allows users to upload invoice files, edit draft invoices, and save supplier invoices directly to the connected backend system.
Real-time reporting and monitoring for Procurement in S/4HANA Public Cloud
Some of the predefined apps available that can be used out of the box, include:
Procurement Overview – this app displays the most important information and tasks relevant for the purchaser. All this information is displayed on one page. It is shown clearly and nicely on cards for different types of content. The user-friendly experience makes viewing, filtering, and acting upon data simple, faster and smarter – even on mobile devices. Also, analytical list pages are provided to monitor purchase contract items, supplier confirmation, and purchase order items.
The Overdue Purchase Order Items app helps you check the delivery dates of purchase orders sent to the supplier. The KPI compares the actual date with the delivery date on item level. We calculate all purchase order items for which the delivery date has passed and that have not yet been delivered.
Also included as part of the solution are:
- Flexible workflows – these can be used to define specific business processes. This could be a simple release or approval procedure, or a more complex business process.
- Situation handling – this helps customers run their business smoothly. It automatically informs users about issues that need their attention and a solution. For example, a shipping delay, billing documents that haven’t posted, expiring contracts. The end user gets notifications in different ways. They can receive them in the SAP Fiori Launchpad. Notifications can also come via email. Users can see them in the My Situations app. Additionally, notifications appear in the app where the situation happened.
In summary, SAP S/4HAHA Public Cloud for Sourcing and Procurement offers a wide range of procurement processes. It covers everything from simple to complex needs. This helps businesses run smoothly with the latest technology. By implementing SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, organisations benefit from faster deployment, lowest SaaS- based TCO (total cost of ownership), continuous future delivery, market-leading localisation. Therefore, when deciding which system to choose from in this day and age, the answer is clear: for Procurement, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is by far the best option.
