SAP S4/HANA
SAP S4/HANA Sourcing and Procurement
SAP S4/HANA Sourcing and Procurement
Organize and maintain real-time status of indirect goods, direct materials, services, and contingent labor from the SAP S4/HANA platform. You can rely on SAP for:
Inventory and basic inventory management
SAP S/4HANA provides support for manufacturing, sales and purchasing processes along with basic applications for inventory and warehouse management. Analytics tools also offer the possibility to optimize your warehouse and achieve benefits including:
• Certainty that goods are available at the right time
• Use automation to process orders and deliver sales orders faster and more efficiently
• Use MRP planning to reduce the need for manual operations.
Supplier management
With S/4HANA Supplier Management, your business can reduce costs, increase savings opportunities, and improve sourcing efficiency, leading to:
• Lower risk of missed customer deliveries due to continuous monitoring of supplier relationships and the goods or services they deliver
• The ability to classify suppliers better and to define or monitor sourcing strategies
• Better identification and management of suppliers because you can now thoroughly analyze supplier data.
Sourcing and contract management
With SAP S4/HANA, your business can operate better sourcing and contract management processes from one central platform through:
• Automated supplier allocation
• Decision support for manual supplier allocation
• Improved management of contracts, purchase history, quotes, sourcing lists, etc.
• Active monitoring of contracts for consumption and validity.
Invoice and payables management
Integrate management of invoice processing and accounts payable across collecting, checking, and verifying invoices and handling exceptions using SAP S4/HANA. The platform includes tools to:
• Streamline the invoice management process using superior automated data extraction
• Use automation to eliminate data entry errors and duplicate invoices
• Achieve better overall cash management –from invoice data to liquidity planning.
Procurement analytics
Leveraging the power of HANA, SAP S/4HANA analytics deliver real-time calculations of KPIs to analyse managed and non-managed spend, contracts, and suppliers. You can also grant purchasers role-based and quick access to procurement information.