Self-service purchasing

By using SAP SRM, s.Oliver is pursuing the goal of accelerating and simplifying the procurement of non-production materials such as office supplies, software and hardware as well as marketing services.

The close integration of the new purchasing solution into the existing SAP systems is crucial. This means that employees do not need an additional password to work with SRM, but can access it directly after logging into their role-based SAP portal.

This saves time and increases the security of the entire SAP system environment. Changes in the personnel structure that affect the role of employees in the area of indirect purchasing can be automatically transferred from SAP HR to the SRM system.

Without additional manual work steps, the technical and financial approval authorizations, for example, are stored in an audit-proof manner and are always up to date.

Users can conveniently select the required materials and services with just a few mouse clicks in the connected catalog solution and load them into the shopping cart. As a result, fewer and fewer employees process their orders bypassing the purchasing department. Additional costs are prevented.

The technical and financial approval processes, which have been reduced to three approval stages for catalog orders, are also faster. The approval stages for free text orders have even been halved.

The user-friendliness helps to reduce the maverick buying rates in indirect purchasing at s.Oliver. Employees use the existing SAP purchasing system instead of ordering "wildly".

Apsolut supported the implementation of the SAP-based purchasing solution with a holistic project approach - from planning, project management and coordination to know-how transfer for the users.

First, blueprints were created for each of them and coordinated with the specialist departments, then implementation concepts were developed from these. The SRM introduction is part of an overall project with which s.Oliver intends to continue optimizing business processes in indirect procurement worldwide together with Apsolut.