SAP Solution: Purchasing

The year 2022 presents purchasing with unprecedented challenges. Sustainability, innovation and the avoidance of procurement risks are replacing the topic of cost optimization. How can these requirements be mapped in an IT landscape?

Networking in the B2B sector: The B2B network Unite has expanded its partner portfolio with 2bits. For its customers, 2bits thus opens up flexible solutions based on its innovative purchasing solutions.

Electronic supplier connectivity in small and medium-sized businesses? Largely still missing, as recent studies show. A specially adapted and packaged SAP Ariba solution can help close the gaps.

Modern e-procurement solutions from the cloud create new opportunities for companies to

SAP Ariba cooperates with Mercateo in Europe for its Spot Buy feature and uses its B2B networking platform Unite as infrastructure. This enables a shopping-like experience for non-strategic purchasing.

Until the 1990s, "procurement" referred almost exclusively to transactional aspects and tactical/operational functions. The purchasing departments were executive organs for covering the requirements of the business units: The aim was and still is to process their orders in a legally secure manner and in compliance with guidelines.

Digital transformation is revolutionizing every aspect of business, from operational processes to customer engagement. Like so much else, purchasing is now digital. There is no way back.

Hirschmann Automotive standardized and unified the SAP printing processes with the output management solution PrinTaurus and UniSpool from AKI. A significant increase in transparency and high stability of the printing processes were achieved.

For over 100 years, Feller has been producing and developing switches, sockets and controls for lighting and communication. The Swiss electrical engineering supplier also wants to meet the quality standards for its control solutions in its procurement processes. In document processing, it therefore relied on an automated solution in SAP.

The SAP Fiori apps meet the growing demands of customers for ever greater mobility, flexibility and user-friendliness. Purchasing also benefits from this.

The wealth of information that a company has to process continues to increase today in the course of digital transformation.

What do you know about your procurement processes? Do you have everything in view and accessible? Are the compliance requirements in the company fulfilled? Answers are provided by an electronic transaction file solution with comprehensive integration of functions, releases and process-relevant documents.