Foreword . 21 . Preface . 23 . Target Audience . 24 . Objective . 24 .
Structure of This Book . 24 . Acknowledgments . 29 1 . Introduction to Sourcing and Procurement . 31 1.1 . Sourcing and Procurement: From Basic to Strategic .
31 1.2 . Sourcing and Procurement from End to End . 35 1.3 . Procurement with SAP S/4HANA . 40 1.4 .
Summary . 49 2 . Implementation Options . 51 2.1 . Implementation Overview . 51 2.2 .
On-Premise SAP S/4HANA . 60 2.3 . SAP S/4HANA Cloud . 69 2.4 . SAP Ariba Central Procurement, Private Cloud Edition . 71 2.
5 . Quick Start Approaches and Materials for SAP S/4HANA . 74 2.6 . Summary . 82 3 . Organizational Structure . 83 3.
1 . SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management Organization Objects . 83 3.2 . SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement-Specific Organization Structure Objects . 86 3.3 . Company Code .
87 3.4 . Plants . 90 3.5 . Storage Locations and Warehouses . 92 3.6 .
Purchasing Organizations . 96 3.7 . Purchasing Group Creation . 100 3.8 . Summary . 100 4 .
Master Data . 103 4.1 . Material Masters and Material Groups . 104 4.2 . Batch Management and Serialization . 115 4.
3 . SAP S/4HANA Business Partner Model . 118 4.4 . Summary . 137 5 . Operational Procurement . 139 5.
1 . What Is Operational Procurement? . 139 5.2 . Self-Service Procurement . 143 5.3 . Requirements Processing in SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement .
156 5.4 . Purchase Order Processing . 159 5.5 . Service Purchasing and Service Confirmation . 161 5.6 .
Purchase Order Collaboration . 162 5.7 . Configuring Operational Procurement . 163 5.8 . Summary . 186 6 .
Automated and Direct Procurement . 187 6.1 . What Is Automated and Direct Procurement? . 187 6.2 . Materials Requirements Planning . 190 6.
3 . Forecasting and Planning . 200 6.4 . Contract and Source Determination . 207 6.5 . Configuring Automated and Direct Procurement .
225 6.6 . Industry-Focused Solutions for Direct Procurement . 231 6.7 . Integration with SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network . 234 6.8 .
Summary . 235 7 . Inventory Management . 237 7.1 . What Is Inventory Management? . 238 7.2 .
Stock Management in SAP S/4HANA . 241 7.3 . Goods Movements . 244 7.4 . Physical Inventory . 274 7.
5 . Reporting in Inventory Management . 283 7.6 . Configuring Inventory Management . 307 7.7 . Summary .
326 8 . Contract and Scheduling Agreement Management . 327 8.1 . What Is Contract and Scheduling Agreement Management? . 328 8.2 . Contract Consumption .
335 8.3 . Contract Reporting and Analytics . 338 8.4 . Configuration . 343 8.5 .
Scheduling Agreement . 349 8.6 . Customizing Scheduling Agreements . 355 8.7 . Integrating with SAP Ariba Contracts . 359 8.
8 . Summary . 360 9 . Enterprise Contract Management and Assembly . 361 9.1 . What Is Enterprise Contract Management and Assembly? . 361 9.
2 . SAP Fiori Apps for Enterprise Contract Management Overview . 363 9.3 . Customizing Enterprise Contract Management . 374 9.4 . Summary .
389 10 . External Sourcing . 391 10.1 . Sourcing Strategies . 391 10.2 . Request for Quotation .
393 10.3 . SAP Fiori Apps for External Sourcing . 395 10.4 . Configuring Request for Quotation . 404 10.5 .
Configuring Flexible Workflow . 411 10.6 . Integration with SAP Ariba . 418 10.7 . Summary . 418 11 .
Product Sourcing . 419 11.1 . What Is Product Sourcing? . 420 11.2 . Product Sourcing . 423 11.
3 . Procurement Planning . 433 11.4 . Product Sourcing with Enterprise Contract Management . 437 11.5 . Product Sourcing and Commodity Pricing Engine .
439 11.6 . Quotation Management and Supplier Quotations . 440 11.7 . Mass Price Update . 441 11.8 .
External Collaboration with Suppliers . 442 11.9 . Configuration Product Sourcing . 445 11.10 . Summary . 450 12 .
Invoice and Payables Management . 451 12.1 . What Are Invoice and Payables Management? . 451 12.2 . Invoice Processing . 452 12.
3 . Accounts Payable . 477 12.4 . Invoice and Payables Management Analytics and Reporting . 491 12.5 . Configuring Invoice and Payables Management .
504 12.6 . Integrating SAP S/4HANA with SAP Invoice Management by OpenText . 520 12.7 . SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management for SAP S/4HANA Cloud . 521 12.8 .
Taulia: Working Capital Management . 522 12.9 . Summary . 524 13 . Supplier Management . 525 13.1 .
What Is Supplier Management? . 525 13.2 . Classification and Segmentation . 530 13.3 . Supplier Evaluation . 534 13.
4 . Configuration . 542 13.5 . Summary . 546 14 . Centralized Procurement . 547 14.
1 . What Is Centralized Procurement? . 547 14.2 . Central Requisitioning . 552 14.3 . Central Purchasing .
554 14.4 . Central Sourcing . 558 14.5 . Central Purchase Contracts . 559 14.6 .
Central Analytics . 561 14.7 . Integration with SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network . 566 14.8 . Configuring SAP Ariba Central Procurement, Private Cloud Edition . 568 14.
9 . Summary . 592 15 . Sourcing and Procurement Analytics . 593 15.1 . Spend Visibility . 593 15.
2 . Contract Expiration . 596 15.3 . Sourcing . 597 15.4 . Supplier Performance .
599 15.5 . Reporting . 602 15.6 . Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence . 604 15.7 .
SAP Ariba Category Management . 606 15.8 . Configuration . 607 15.9 . Summary . 614 16 .
Integrating SAP S/4HANA with SAP Signavio, SAP Ariba, SAP Business Network, and SAP Fieldglass . 617 16.1 . SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network Integration Projects and Connectivity Options . 618 16.2 . SAP Integration Suite, Managed Gateway for Spend Management and SAP Business Network . 620 16.
3 . SAP Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration . 640 16.4 . SAP Business Network for Logistics . 647 16.5 . SAP Business Network for Asset Management .
650 16.6 . SAP Fieldglass . 651 16.7 . SAP SuccessFactors . 656 16.8 .
SAP Signavio . 658 16.9 . Summary . 660 17 . Customizing the User Interface . 661 17.1 .
User Interface Options in SAP S/4HANA . 661 17.2 . Configuring SAP Fiori . 673 17.3 . Customizing SAP Fiori . 679 17.
4 . Summary . 683 18 . Conclusion . 685 18.1 . Future State of Procurement Solutions . 688 18.
2 . Future State of the Procurement Supply Chain . 689 . The Author . 691 . Contributors . 691 . Index .
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