Book tips - Procurement and SCM
Procurement and SCM
At the latest with the acquisition of Ariba, the topics of purchasing, procurement and supply chain management have increasingly become the focus of the SAP manager. With the increasing automation of operational purchasing in the course of digitalization, strategic purchasing has gained in importance as a management discipline. SAP has recognized the need to offer a holistic solution for procurement. This is also demonstrated by the cooperation between Ariba and Mercateo concluded in June. In the future, Ariba will use the B2B networking platform Mercateo Unite as the infrastructure for the Spot Buy solution in Europe (see also the B2B2C column, page 76). Digitalization increases transparency in the supply chain. This also reduces business risks. On the one hand, it allows delivery failures to be identified earlier. On the other hand, it can also meet the demands of stakeholders who are calling for more sustainability in corporate activities in the sense of corporate social responsibility.
Purchasing with SAP® Ariba
This book shows step by step how to implement and use Ariba for strategic and operational procurement. Whether tenders, supplier management, contract management or catalog management - the authors present all Ariba solutions for your business processes in detail. Integration with ERP, SAP and S/4 Hana is also explained in detail.
Purchasing 4.0
In view of new technologies of an "Industry 4.0", the exact effects of the on purchasing are hardly foreseeable yet. Traditional working tools and conventional solutions are no longer sufficient to cope with this task. In the book, the digital transformation of procurement is described in a structured manner and translated into implementation scenarios.
Sustainability in the corporate supply chain
Sustainability has become a trend in corporate communications in recent years. The sustainability-minded consumer is increasingly seen as a growth driver in an economy that is in crisis overall. Companies are taking advantage of this and are increasingly taking sustainable aspects into account in the corporate supply chain in order to be able to offer more sustainable products as a result.
Designing supply chains instead of managing them
The guidebook describes solutions for required changes at the interfaces between production, logistics and customs. Numerous field reports provide examples of successes and failures. Disastrous causes for very expensive mistakes are revealed. In addition, beneficial effects of various change measures are explained.
Strategic procurement management
The strategic procurement is a relatively recent enterprise and creation of value function, which in the recent time strongly in meaning gained. The potentials associated with it are transferred in the book into a practical, and comprehensive organization beginning, which orients itself at the core processes of co-operation of a manufacturer with its suppliers.
