Whitepapers & Essays

Purchasing: manual processes are a thing of the past

Purchasing: manual processes are a thing of the past

Digitalising purchasing helps companies rise above the competition – and yet, many small and mediumsized businesses are still trapped in a world of manual processes. They risk missing out on a bright future as a result. It’s high time for them to consider implementing a modern platform for procurement and supplier management.

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Master data: fuelling a new logistics concept

Master data: fuelling a new logistics concept

High-quality master data is the foundation of all processes – a fact that has not escaped the managers at Bell Schweiz AG, the Swiss meat industry’s market leader. Their logistics processes are being centralised, and they took this as an opportunity to optimise the management of their material master data throughout the Group with SAP Master Data Governance (MDG).  

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Article in|pact media: Good procurement is half the battle

How manufacturing companies can benefit from the SAP Product Sourcing Suite

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Article: Supply Chain and Human Rights

Article: Supply Chain and Human Rights

The new German Supply Chain Act is putting companies on notice. What do they have to do to comply with human rights due diligence obligations within their supply chains? Matthias Schneider and Marc Osswald from the apsolut Group clear up misunderstandings.

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Essay: How Procurement and Finance Can Benefit from Each Other

Essay: How Procurement and Finance Can Benefit from Each Other

Financial reporting is always at the end of a company's process chain. Most of the time, it analyzes and helps to understand what has happened — in some cases, unfortunately, much too late. The new digitalization trend of procurement creates unimagined opportunities to strengthen financial processes as an added goodie and brings the two worlds closer than ever, if done right.

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Whitepaper with IBsolution: Supplier Performance Dashboard

Whitepaper with IBsolution: Supplier Performance Dashboard

How you as a buyer are able to display performance, spend and risks of your suppliers on one interface, you can read in our whitepaper created together with IBSolution.

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External Workforce Management Roundtable

Service procurement is still too slow, too manual, and too hard to see. See how SAP Fieldglass and SAP Joule change that, from the first request to project close. Watch AI guide users into the right buying process, draft precise statements of work, and suggest suppliers and payment terms. Then hear from customers who have already done it, and what they’d do differently.

2026-11-03 Flughafen Zürich, The Circle

External Workforce Management Roundtable

apsolut Procurement & Finance Summit Dubai
Procurement and finance are evolving rapidly, with organisations looking for greater efficiency, stronger collaboration and more connected ways of working across the business. The apsolut Procurement & Finance Summit brings together business and procurement leaders for a day of insights, practical experiences and discussions around the future of procurement, finance and supply chain collaboration.
2026-11-24 JW Marriott Marquis Hotel, Dubai – United Arab Emirates

apsolut Procurement & Finance Summit Dubai

Supply Chain Roundtable by SAP Business Network
From ensuring product quality to managing complex supplier networks, companies need real-time collaboration, complete traceability and end-to-end transparency. This roundtable will demonstrate how you can achieve end-to-end orchestration and harness the power of an autonomous supply chain.
 
Language: German
2026-11-25 Garching near Munich, Germany

Supply Chain Roundtable by SAP Business Network

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apsolut Procurement Convention 2027

16 February 2027 Pyramide Mainz, Germany

Intelligent Today, Autonomous Tomorrow.

Meet leading decision-makers from the fields of procurement and digital transformation, and discover innovative approaches to the future of procurement.

Join us free of charge