Category: SRM

Even with the increased emphasis on cost control that has come out of the recession, maverick or unauthorized spending is still a problem for most organizations, sometimes costing millions. This article shares six steps to help procurement organizations maximise savings and profits; including obtaining executive sponsorship and collaborating with key stakeholders

SAP has a new OnDemand Analytic Application that helps Procurement Organizations have reliable data for their Spend Analyses to better decide. The Business Objects Data Enrichment and Classification OnDemand is part of the Analytic Applications portfolio for SAP Procurement. The solution is a cloud-based, network application that combines spend data with global content and services to improve data reliability for strategic sourcing and spend analytics. The combination of robust information and powerful analytics allows businesses to be smarter about their procurement decisions, enabling them to anticipate supplier risks, assess actions and evaluate potential responses and outcomes.

You may be well-acquainted with SAP Business ByDesign and SAP StreamWork, but have you heard of Career OnDemand or Supplier Relationship OnDemand? We take a look at SAP's portfolio of on-demand software.

An overview of the new features and functions that will be coming soon to our on-premise Procurement customers in SRM 7.0 Enhancement Pack 1 and ECC 6.0 Enhancement Pack 5. In this Business Suite release, we strengthened our central purchasing hub to support the orchestration of local and central procurement, we further advanced the integration between SRM and ERP to expand ERP e-procurement functionality, and we improved supplier collaboration and procurement processes outside the company boundaries.

SAP is giving its ongoing push into mobile applications an extra shove with a series of new products aimed at verticals such as utilities, energy, retail and manufacturing, the company announced Tuesday during the Sapphire Now conference in Orlando.

SAP is rolling out 15 new Rapid Deployment applications as a follow-up to the original software for CRM, supply chain and manufacturing unveiled last fall. SAP is expanding its newly created line of SAP Rapid Deployment software, which it says gives customers the ability to buy cheaper, slimmed-down versions of its more complicated Business Suite applications and can be deployed in a few months. The new applications are designed to be “one slice or a chunk” of larger enterprise applications but address a certain function or specific need, according to Jeff Winter, vice president of Rapid Deployment Solutions marketing for SAP.