Supplier Analyses

Create transparency and optimize your purchasing processes

Today's purchasing organizations are expected to stay focused on results, while also demonstrating flexibility in response to the steadily mounting challenges encountered by enterprises on a daily basis. In many cases, predefined purchasing processes prove inadequate for the procurement of certain goods and services. In addition, heterogeneous and uncoordinated purchasing systems and financial accounting systems present obstacles to transparency in purchasing and therefore also to an efficient achievement of objectives.

Accordingly, the requirements for Spend Management solutions have become more complex in recent years and there is now a clear need for functions capable of analyzing all activities that form part of the purchasing process. The integration of a controlling solution supports strategic purchasing in terms of management functionality and enables effective decision-making based on real, prioritized and aggregated data. It also allows for a sustainable optimization of the purchasing process.

The following graphic provides an example of the high-level process of Spend Management:

apsolut GmbH helps customers design, implement and enhance their strategic procurement and analysis processes and to integrate these into existing operational system solutions. Depending on our customers' individual business requirements, we can implement Spend Management solutions that allow strategic purchasing to take full account of cost structures along the entire value chain of the enterprise as a whole. In order to provide our customers with tailor-made reports, the first step is to create a harmonized pool of data. Various data records from operational systems are standardized, classified and, if necessary, enriched for this purpose.

The Spend Analysis solution from apsolut GmbH comprises the consolidation of master data and transaction data across all (heterogeneous) systems in an enterprise, followed by a strategic purchase analysis. The information about TOP suppliers and TOP cost categories that can be retrieved in this way provides our customers with a new level of transparency in relation to cost and performance. The apsolut team includes experienced SAP consultants (SAP FI/CO, MM, SRM and BW), who are capable of pinpointing the distinguishing features of your particular processes and designing technical solutions for implementing these without any need for modification. We can provide a range of analyses and reports to provide you with information about your processes and help ensure efficient controlling of purchasing in your enterprise.

Here's a selection of five top reports from our portfolio:

  • Procurement volume by category and supplier (with or without reference to orders)
  • Deviations in invoice values/purchase order values/dates
  • Purchase order volume in excess of/without contracts
  • Purchase order values per purchaser
  • Analysis of price development per product
  • Costs of the ordering process

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