Author: Jan Lipka, Apsolut
Jan Lipka is a Senior Manager and Solution Architect for Direct Material Procurement. Over the course of more than twelve years, he has gained insight into strategic procurement from both perspectives that are critical to the project: the technical and the procedural. That’s exactly where he thrives, with in-depth functional and technical expertise. His standards leave little room for compromise: source-to-contract solutions that are highly automated and fully integrated—not just loosely connected.
August 31, 2026
Multimatic, a global automotive supplier, is implementing SAP Direct Material Sourcing for Discrete Manufacturing in production. What the standard solution could do, where it reached its limits, and which requirements from the project were incorporated into an SAP release.
January 8, 2021
Innovative Enterprise Assistants (EA) mean central access points for SAP-based procurement, making information from various applications available and automating routine tasks.



