This includes amongst others Guided Buying, digital communication with suppliers via the Ariba Network, Sourcing and Contract Management. The operational purchasing in SAP S/4HANA can also be optimized by adding SAP Ariba solutions. This actually replaces the SAP SRM positioning, where SAP SRM provides this functionality. SAP S/4HANA also contains the Central Procurement functionality, whereby SAP S/4HANA can be centrally positioned above multiple back-end systems. Catalog content can be loaded directly into SAP S/4HANA. SAP S/4HANA also supports cross catalog search, whereby all catalogs can be searched simultaneously. However, our landscape consist just of one S/4HANA system.The user experience of operational purchasing within SAP S/4HANA is fully supported by SAP Fiori apps (see picture below), so that everyone can independently search for and request goods or services or even order directly. In the case of the Product Sourcing, the standard scenario would mean to have Central Contracts in the Central Procurement S/4 system as the results of the sourcing and to distribute these contracts as local contracts to connected backend systems. This is necessity based on the fact, that the S4 Product Sourcing Suite operates on Central Contracts, being the target follow-on document of the sourcing process.Īs per the stands landscape scenario, an S/4 HANA System with an activated Central Procurement is supposed to be connected to other S/4 or ERP systems. We are exploring the possibility to deploy the new S/4HANA Product Sourcing Suite solution for direct material sourcing in the future.Īs per SAP Standard scenario, the S/4HANA Product Sourcing Suite needs the S/4HANA Central Procurement functionality to be running the S4 system where it is to be deployed.

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