Strategic Supplier Management

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Procurement departments must face down new challenges as purchasing evolves from the humble ordering office of the past into a strategic interface between internal and external partners. Global procurement markets and increasingly interconnected supplier relationships necessitate a realignment of strategic purchasing.

System-based mapping of strategic process flows and their integration into operational process flows in purchasing currently tend to be implemented inadequately, if at all. The software solutions on the market today are only capable of mapping a subset of a company's functional requirements in an integrated solution for strategic supplier management. apsolut is closing these gaps with solution modules from our Strategic Supplier Management solution (SSM), which have been designed on the basis of the latest SAP technology (e.g. Web Dynpros and portal technology). Our solution can be seamlessly integrated into your ERP systems and other adjacent systems.

Based on our customers' individual functional requirements, we implement solutions that provide a central point of access to the apsolut SSM system to give purchasing departments a 360-view of the supplier management process.

The diagram below shows how the individual modules interact in Strategic Supplier Management:

The supplier selection solution module can be divided into three steps, depending on your requirements: general supplier scan, detailed supplier scan and supplier audit. Supplier selection is followed by continuous supplier evaluation. Suppliers are assessed and rated as A-, B- or C-class suppliers. These classifications can be used to derive development measures, which are combined in a separate solution module. apsolut can call on expert SAP developers and a wealth of technical knowledge to offer you an SAP-based solution for strategic supplier management. Based on SAP standard software, we implement a fully integrated process for strategic supplier management. Strategic buyers are given central access to all of the data required along the supplier life cycle.

The core content of the solution modules includes:

  • central solution access, easy and integrated operation
  • access to all relevant supplier data along the supplier life cycle
  • weighted hard and soft fact assessment
  • cross-functional assessments
  • supplier development based on defined standard strategies

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