Run Better with SAP and Ariba Road Map for Procurement Line of Business

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1 Run Better with SAP and Ariba Road Map for Procurement Line of Business

2 Legal disclaimer The information in this presentation is confidential and proprietary to SAP and may not be disclosed without the permission of SAP. This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other service or subscription agreement with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation and SAP's strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. This document is for informational purposes and may not be incorporated into a contract. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document, except if such damages were caused by SAP s willful misconduct or gross negligence. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forwardlooking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. 2

3 Global trends and their impact on LoB* Procurement The networked economy Big Data and business insight Productivity Innovation The Networked Economy Big Data and Business Insight Productivity Innovation Faster, more effective collaboration Lower costs SAP HANA Platform and in-memory computing Predictive analytics Cloud computing Consumer-grade user experience Faster, more effective supply chains Compliance and risk management Greater opportunities Network intelligence Mobility Globalization *Line of business 3

4 Strategic direction for procurement solutions Many customers are moving their procurement processes to the cloud wherever possible to achieve good ROI and the improved innovation velocity that a true cloud solution delivers. In response, SAP offers the following guidance: Ariba Network should always be incorporated to improve e-commerce, collaboration and business insights whether the solutions are on premise or cloud. For new procurement implementations, SAP recommends Ariba cloud procurement solutions as the primary option for our customers. SAP will continue to sell, support, and innovate the on-premise procurement solutions for customers who have requirements that are not currently addressed by the cloud solutions. SAP will also support hybrid scenarios, enabling customers to enhance and extend their existing investment in on-premise procurement solutions with Ariba cloud solutions. An SAP Company Cloud Solutions OnPremise Solutions 4

5 Effects on the SAP road map Cloud development will be accelerated: Functional enhancements across all solutions Expanded network scope to cover new areas such as supply chain and logistics Ability to address market demand for rapid innovation On-premise development will focus on: Targeted user interface improvements (SAP SRM, shopping cart, SAP Fiori) Improved performance and total cost of ownership Network integration Customer-driven innovations Common road map topics across cloud and on-premise: Integration between cloud and on-premise solutions in support of hybrid deployments Leveraging SAP technologies such as mobility, SAP HANA, and analytics Ariba and SAP s product and solution management organizations are aligned on road map and priorities 5

6 Flexible deployment options for our customers All On-Premise Spend analytics Sourcing Contract management Operational procurement Invoice management On-premise solutions Supplier management 6

7 Flexible deployment options for our customers All Cloud Spend analytics Sourcing Contract management Operational procurement Invoice management An SAP Company Cloud solutions Supplier management Buyers Suppliers 7

8 Flexible deployment options for our customers Hybrid Spend analytics Sourcing Contract management Operational procurement Invoice management An SAP Company Cloud solutions Supplier management Leveraging Ariba Network in both cases Buyers Suppliers Spend analytics Sourcing Contract management Operational procurement Invoice management On-premise solutions Supplier management 8

9 Hybrid deployment scenarios Single customer of SAP ECC with no other SAP procurement solutions or on an old release of SAP SRM (<=SAP SRM 5.0) Look to leverage and extend that investment with: All Ariba cloud solutions for procurement, including Ariba Network Customer of SAP SRM 7 with no other SAP procurement solutions Look to leverage and extend that investment with: Ariba cloud solutions for spend visibility, sourcing, and contract management Ariba Procurement Content and catalog management Ariba supplier portal and supplier management Ariba Network Customer of SAP SRM 7 with additional SAP on-premise procurement solutions (like SAP Sourcing and SAP Spend Performance Management) Look to leverage and extend that investment with: Ariba Procurement Content and catalog management Ariba supplier portal and supplier management Ariba Network 9

10 Overview of SAP road map for Procurement Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Buyers Suppliers Solution today Future direction 10

11 Overview of SAP road map for Procurement Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Buyers Suppliers Solution today Future direction 11

12 Cloud and on-premise solutions addressing all spend types On-Premise Solutions Cloud Solutions Spend analysis SAP Spend Performance Management Ariba Spend Visibility Sourcing SAP Sourcing and SAP SRM Ariba Sourcing and Ariba Discovery Contract management Operational procurement Invoice management Supplier information and performance management SAP Contract Lifecycle Management and SAP SRM Materials management in SAP ERP and SAP SRM; SAP Commodity Procurement SAP Invoice Management by OpenText SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Ariba Contract Management Ariba Procure-to-Pay, Ariba Services Procurement, and Ariba Procurement Content Ariba invoice management, payment management, and discount management Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management Mobile procurement SAP Fiori Native browser support for mobile device Supplier collaboration Ariba Network Solution today 12

13 The challenge: Too many ineffective approaches for business-to-business (B2B) collaboration Buyers Inefficiencies cost companies more than US$650 billion annually Suppliers Single-process solutions Manual, paper-based collaboration Wasted time and resources Higher operating and supply chain costs Fax server Mail, phone, and face-to-face Your company Limited visibility and elevated risk Delayed payments, overpayments, missed documents, and slow cash flows Missed sales opportunities EDI value-added networks (VAN) Dedicated direct connect Enterprise and supplier portals Poor compliance Solution today 13

14 Using your existing systems, what if you could... Collaborate immediately with all trading partners activate not implement? Automation with >400 suppliers and 300 catalogs in <8 weeks Turn paper into efficient electronic transactions? Cut 75% of processing costs Catch errors and correct them before they even happen? 98.8% touchless invoice rate Reduce the cost of goods beyond sourcing initiatives? >16% of suppliers offering early payment discounts See opportunities you re missing and have the ability to participate worldwide? Grew existing customer orders >65% Solution today 14

15 Ariba Network is the leading business network The proof: Over 1 million partners use Ariba Network for >$600 billion in spend An SAP Company Others Buyers An SAP Company Ariba Network >1.2 million trading partners across all industries >40 million purchase orders >60 million invoices >$600 billion in spend 142 countries 72 currencies 40 invoice-compliant countries Partner and ecosystem solutions AS2 HTML cxml Paper CSV EDI xcbl Smart PDF Suppliers Solution today 15

16 Together, SAP and Ariba deliver a comprehensive, integrated procurement portfolio for all categories of spend either cloud or on premise Procurement Excellence Discover and develop suppliers Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Source better and increase savings Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Reduce contractual risk Drive compliant spending Lower operating costs Collaborate for greater success Solution today 16

17 Develop the best suppliers and collaborate seamlessly Supplier Discovery and Lifecycle Management Supplier discovery Supplier information management Supplier performance & risk management Supplier Data Management Self-service registration and profile management minimizes cost and improves accuracy Single source of truth simplifies landscape Transactional Collaboration Network tools support one-time supplier onboarding and transaction routing Performance and Risk Management Evaluation and development optimize the supply base and innovation Risk tracking and management help ensure supply and protect the brand Enabled by Ariba Discovery, Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management, Ariba Network, SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management, and SAP Supplier InfoNet Solution today 17

18 Supplier discovery on Ariba Network Solution today 18

19 Supplier discovery on Ariba Network Solution today 19

20 Supplier discovery on Ariba Network Solution today 20

21 Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management Solution today 21

22 SAP Supplier InfoNet news alert Solution today 22

23 SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Solution today 23

24 Automation helps companies source more and better Strategic Sourcing and Contracting Spend analysis Strategic sourcing Operational sourcing Contract lifecycle management Operational contract management Identify Savings Opportunities Aggregate, classify, enrich, and analyze spend data from multiple sources Manage Projects and Programs Model best-practice processes and store and share category knowledge Run RFx and Auctions Use electronic RFx to save time and drive repeatability; speed best price with auctions Manage Contracts Author and manage contracts centrally for compliance Enabled by Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Data Enrichment, Ariba Sourcing/Contracts, SAP Spend Performance Management (SAP SPM), SAP Sourcing, SAP Contract Lifecycle Management (SAP CLM), and SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) Solution today 24

25 Ariba Spend Visibility identify supplier optimization opportunities Significant spend with three different companies based on enterprise resource planning (ERP) data Solution today 25

26 Ariba Sourcing event dashboard Solution today 26

27 Ariba Contract Management dashboard and contract view Solution today 27

28 Ariba Contract Management dashboard and contract view Solution today 28

29 SAP Spend Performance Management (SAP SPM) opportunity identification Solution today 29

30 SAP Sourcing auction monitor Solution today 30

31 SAP Contract Lifecycle Management contract authoring Solution today 31

32 Drive compliant spending while lowering operating costs Procurement and Order Collaboration Operational procurement direct Operational procurement indirect Catalog content management Services procurement Purchase order automation and order collaboration Enabled by Ariba Procurement On Demand, Ariba Services Procurement, Ariba Procurement Content, Ariba Network, materials management functionality in SAP ERP, SAP SRM, and master data management (MDM) catalog in SAP SRM. Requisitioning and Catalog Management Self-service requests remove cost Catalog-based purchasing drives supplier and price compliance Spot buying to take advantage of immediate inventory and capacity Cart approvals via mobile devices Order Management and Collaboration Collaborative order management to improve efficiency, reduce cost, and enable greater supplier self-service Ability to flip POs and contracts to invoice Services Procurement Ability to manage contingent labor and consulting for greater spend coverage Solution today 32

33 Ariba Procurement shopping and requisitioning Solution today 33

34 Ariba Services Procurement (today) Solution today 34

35 Ariba Services Procurement next release 35

36 Supplier collaboration enabled by Ariba Network Solution today 36

37 Supplier collaboration enabled by Ariba Network Solution today 37

38 SAP SRM shopping and requisitioning Solution today 38

39 SAP Fiori apps mobile procurement solutions for SAP ECC and SAP SRM Requisition and shopping cart approval Solution today 39

40 Turn accounts payable into a profit center Collaborative Invoice to Pay Document retention and archiving Collaborative invoicing Invoice exception & approval management Discount & payment term optimization Accounts payable Bank communication automation Eliminate Errors Intelligent compliance checking in Ariba Network captures errors and highlights them to suppliers before you receive the invoice Approvals and Routing Business rules manage invoice routing for approvals and exceptions Discount Management You can generate additional savings by taking advantage of early payment discounts buyer- and supplier-initiated Accounts Payable Management of all invoices, including paper and electronic, within a single environment Enabled by Ariba Procurement On Demand, Ariba Invoice Automation, Ariba Invoice Pro, Ariba Discount Pro, Ariba ICS, Ariba Network, financials functionality of SAP ERP, SAP SRM, and SAP Invoice Management by OpenText Solution today 40

41 Recent innovations for Procurement (1/2) Provide a consumer-grade user interface for employee self-service users of Ariba Procurement Content Provide an ability for suppliers to integrate their own ERP solutions more easily with Ariba Network to facilitate effective data and transactional integration at an affordable cost Enable more efficient processing of key transactions within Ariba Enhanced services procurement Ariba Enhanced ERP integration with Ariba Key innovations The latest release of Ariba Procurement Content provides a more simplified experience for users while providing all the functionality necessary to support the needs of more complex procurement A variety of integration connectors are delivered through Dell Boomi and by SAP and Ariba directly to provide more affordable options for suppliers, in particular suppliers using enterprise applications like SAP Business One, QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics, and Sage Improvements in invoicing flow for contract invoicing Ariba Procure-to-Pay and Ariba Invoice Professional buyers can now process invoice conversion service (ICS) exceptions New business controls for contract invoices Expanded temporary labor reporting and new timesheet features, including a redesigned user interface, timesheet upload, and support for accounting details on timesheet Enhanced features for network adapter with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform and Oracle Fusion middleware, capabilities including SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) 6 and PeopleSoft 9.1 support Solution today 41

42 Recent innovations for Procurement (2/2) Provide a common, single, unified supplier experience for sellers who log in to Ariba applications Support for common self-service activities and approvals within SAP ECC and SAP SRM over a mobile device Provide a consumer-grade user interface for employee self-service users of SAP SRM Leverage the SAP HANA database to benefit from in-memory processing Key innovations The seller collaboration console enables sellers to manage their user accounts and Ariba Commerce Cloud profile centrally across all Ariba seller-facing solutions. The seller collaboration console also allows sellers to navigate between all Ariba seller solutions and access relevant transaction details for existing or future trading partners. A new suite of mobile (and desktop capable) applications, SAP Fiori, delivers support for a number of common processes over a simplified user interface capable of running on a number of mobile devices The SAP SRM user interface add-on rapid-deployment solution is a new user interface developed in HTML5 to deliver a more simplified and enhanced shopping experience for users Materials management functionality of SAP ERP and SAP SRM are now available on the SAP HANA database Solution today 42

43 Overview of SAP road map for Procurement Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Buyers Suppliers Solution today Future direction 43

44 Selected planned innovations for Procurement Overview 1/5 Deliver a single, converged network that addresses collaboration needs across multiple spend categories and geographical business practices Increase the speed and enhancing the power to perform even more complex analysis across multiple sources of spend data to find new savings opportunities Extend network support for new collaboration types and processes outside of procurement Provide additional options for integration between SAP ECC and Ariba Network Key innovations Expansion of Ariba Network to incorporate 13 additional collaborations across, procurement and finance, converging the capabilities from other networks including Quadrem, bprocess, and SAP Information Interchange OnDemand Delivery of Ariba Spend Visibility on SAP HANA Platform to enhance the functions delivered by this solution substantially, enabling customers to run more complex analysis in much faster time frames Ariba Network will provide new transactions to support the collaborations and business processes of other business functions, initially focusing on supply chain and logistics operations Ariba Network Integration for SAP Business Suite will provide customers an additional integration option to SAP NetWeaver Process Integration technology to benefit from order collaboration See the detailed slides in the appendix for details of all planned innovations 44

45 Selected planned innovations for Procurement Overview 2/5 Enable collaboration and confirmation of complex, estimate-based spend services Leverage Ariba Network to find new sources of supply and collaborate with existing suppliers better when initiating an RFQ from another system, increasing opportunities for additional savings and more innovative suppliers Eliminate the need for paper checks and enable the supplier to identify clearly which invoices are being paid through linking supplier invoices to comprehensive remittance details Key innovations Ariba Network will incorporate field ticket and service entry sheet collaboration to support the submission and confirmation of complex services spend, which can then be cross-referenced to a contract and ensure invoice accuracy. Spot Buy will enable solutions other than Ariba Sourcing (materials management functionality in SAP ERP, for example) to initiate an RFQ and pass it to Ariba Network for a response from existing and new suppliers. The supplier responses are submitted over Ariba Network and are ultimately reflected in the originating software. Ariba Pay is a new solution being launched initially in North America to streamline the entire B2B payment and settlement process. It is new form of payment applicable to all suppliers and spend categories. See the detailed slides in the appendix for details of all planned innovations 45

46 Selected planned innovations for Procurement Overview 3/5 A simple yet powerful solution for addressing the process of procuring complex services including light industrial, consulting or statement of work, and contractor labor Ability to find new sources of supply more easily, in addition to gaining insight into a supplier s performance through ratings and preferences Ability to leverage market intelligence when making moreinformed purchasing decisions Key innovations New Ariba Services Procurement solution delivered through a consumer-grade user interface will provide new levels of functionality, extending opportunities to reduce costs further and support the process of onboarding and off-boarding temporary labor resources. Enhancements to Ariba Discovery will make it even easier to find the right suppliers to invite to an event or respond to spot buy requests. The ability to gain insight from aggregated transactional data within Ariba Network will deliver valuable support to customers who require additional market validation on certain topics such as services rates and resource availability. The new network intelligence will first be delivered as part of the new Ariba Services Procurement solution and will then be extended to other solutions in the portfolio. See the detailed slides in the appendix for details of all planned innovations 46

47 Selected planned innovations for Procurement Overview 4/5 Stronger performance and enhanced reporting capabilities. Increased governance and compliance for end-toprocurement processes. More transparency on supplier risk, performance and capabilities. Increased governance for system and data access Reduced requirements for additional hardware when running the authoring process supported by SAP Contract Lifecycle Management See the detailed slides in the appendix for details of all planned innovations Key innovations SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management will leverage the power of SAP HANA to increase performance and speed: Enhancing embedded reporting and business intelligence (BI) reporting integration Leveraging the strength of SAP software in integration for process orchestration and syndication as well as status management Enhancing supplier classification and scorecards with additional aggregation, automation, alerting, and integration capabilities Preventing unauthorized access to data and transactions of the SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management application SAP Contract Lifecycle Management will have a new contract-generation service for authoring legal contract documents in the repository of SAP CLM. Support for the process has been streamlined to reduce customer s total cost of ownership and support the DOCX format introduced with Microsoft Office 2007 and higher. 47

48 Selected planned innovations for Procurement Overview 5/5 Ability to leverage the Ariba Procurement Content catalog solution within environments of SAP SRM Functional enhancements to improve usability and increase the speed and performance of SAP SRM Monitoring key performance indicators (KPI) and alerts with corresponding actions to solve issues Powerful and high-speed cross-application search across procurement business objects. Key innovations The Ariba Procurement Content solution will support the OCI5 catalog standard so that customers can take advantage of the supplier self-service functionality of the Ariba solution in conjunction with the new SAP SRM user interface add-on rapid-deployment solution SAP SRM on SAP HANA enables performance improvements in retrieving and processing of purchasing documents and handling of large documents along with usability, process simplification, and new features in SAP SRM The SAP Smart Business cockpit for purchasing will run on SAP HANA Cross-entity search and contextual navigation with SAP HANA See the detailed slides in the appendix for details of all planned innovations 48

49 Overview of SAP road map for Procurement Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Supplier discovery and lifecycle management Strategic sourcing and contracting Procurement and order collaboration Collaborative invoice to pay Buyers Suppliers Solution today Future direction 49

50 Themes driving future innovations The Networked Economy Big Data and Business Insight Productivity Application Innovation Extend the business network across more business processes Increase collaborations across companies and user communities Enhance value for global trading partners Utilize SAP HANA for improved performance Leverage network intelligence at the point of decision Enable predictive and actionable analysis Integrate cloud solutions to onpremise solutions Enhance the user experience Expand functionality for mobile devices Expand catalog capabilities Enable supplier performance and risk management Use services procurement and invoicing Enjoy supply chain effectiveness Use a nextgeneration search Future direction 50

51 Key links for more information SAP customers and partners Road maps on SAP Service Marketplace Solution explorer SAP.com Ariba.com 51

52 Appendix Recent innovations

53 Ariba Procurement Content Summary of recent innovations Solution enhancements Consumer-grade user interface Advanced contract integration Advanced catalog load Simplified shopping experience for casual users and professional buyers Ability of customers to load the contracts to be visible in Ariba Procurement Content, so end users can buy contracted items Ability to automate loading of catalogs into Ariba Procurement Content from an external application Solution today 53

54 Cloud integration Ariba Network (supplier side) Prepackaged integration to main back-end systems Provide prepackaged and custom integration options for suppliers Scope Provide a prepackaged integration offering for suppliers with common backend systems Intuit QuickBooks, Sage Peachtree, and Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Provide suppliers with back-end software like SAP Business One solutions as a prepackaged solution Suppliers need a prepackaged offering that helps them integrate easily instead of working through a long custom integration project Suppliers with back-end software like SAP Business One want to start collaborating with their buyers using Ariba Network Helps suppliers with QuickBooks, Sage, and Great Plains back-end systems to integrate with the network Helps suppliers continue to leverage the ROI from their current back-end systems because Ariba helps connect them Helps the supplier by not requiring them to incur additional cost for technical resources by packaging services as part of the integration solution Solution today 54

55 Enable more efficient processing of key transactions Providing a variety of enhancements across Ariba cloud-based solutions to support better transaction processing Scope Enhanced quick enablement through carbon copy (CC) invoices Improved invoice conversion services exception handling Invoice compliance for contract-based invoices Additional business controls for contract invoicing Quicker enablement Exception handling support for users of Ariba Invoice Conversion Services Ability for suppliers to create contract-based invoices on Ariba Network Ability to enhance controls for managing contract invoices Buyers can now control quick enablement functionality at the supplier-location level Ariba Procure-to-Pay and Ariba Invoice Professional buyers can now process Ariba Invoice Conversion Service exceptions, which ensures that contract-based invoices are validated against the buyers invoicing rules before submittal and are digitally signed if required Improved invoicing flow for buyer created contract invoices and more business control Solution today 55

56 Enhanced services procurement Ariba Delivering enhancements to timesheet processing and reporting functionality Scope Expanded temporary labor reporting Timesheet user interface redesign Timesheet upload Accounting on timesheets Additional fields for improved reporting Timesheets to support for weekly, monthly, and flexible time-period entry Simpler timesheet upload processing Ability to capture accounting information Significantly improved tracking and reporting against measures and KPIs Further enhancement of timesheet usability and is more user-friendly Ability of buyers to automate and import timesheets over a new CSV upload function, which is extended to suppliers that can punch in and upload timesheets Ability of users to add accounting details directly on a timesheet Solution today 56

57 Enhanced ERP integration with Ariba Improving integration with SAP ERP and other ERP solutions Scope Adapter support for two-way match Supplier ID normalization across Ariba solutions Company code assignment in SAP software at line level for non-po invoices Split accounting by amount for invoices Enhanced monitoring for Ariba Network adapters Support for cluster environment in Ariba Network adapters Two-way match for nonreceipted items Simpler way to associate suppliers with ERP master data Ability to assign different company codes for non-po invoices Monitoring tool for identifying errors faster Adaptor now supports two-way match for items that will not be receipted Streamlined ERP integration, providing a uniform way to identify supplier sites across Ariba Network. Ariba Procure-to-Pay customers now have the ability to enter the company code in SAP software at the line level for non-po invoices. Reduced number of errors and faster resolution of errors Solution today 57

58 Unified seller experience (USE) Providing easier access for sellers to collaborate with their customers Scope Single-click navigation provides sellers with the ability to easily access and switch between the seller-facing Ariba ondemand solutions from a central and always visible navigation bar Ability of sellers to update their user account information, link user accounts, and switch between linked user accounts from the user account navigator The new Administration Navigator enables sellers to manage their Ariba Commerce Cloud profile (company account settings and configuration, company profile information, and users) across all potential and existing buyer relationships from one central location. Easy access to switch between all Ariba seller solutions from a central navigation bar. No requirement to remember multiple passwords and usernames Time saved navigating between solutions Reduced call volume on resetting password Time saved by not requiring sellers to enter the same profile data repeatedly Solution today 58

59 SAP SRM User Interface Add-On Overview Facts and Figures Key UI characteristics: Familiar consumer-like interface, HTML5 dynamic and customizable UI layer and search Customer engagement: >40 customers across multiple industries Live operations: September 2013 User Story Employees need to buy products and services for the company. Often these purchases are catalog -driven so users can quickly find the items they need and comply with the company's supplier agreements. The purchases can be routine or infrequent, but in either case, users now expect the same user-friendly interfaces that they experience in their personal online purchasing. User Benefits Ability of casual users can buy products and services that they need with little or no training. Improved compliance with company purchasing rules and contracts Reduced number of steps to get information, such as order tracking Ability to process multiple items efficiently Reduced errors and re-processing Key Capabilities and Challenges Familiar Web-shopping UI Cross-catalog search (internal and external catalogs) Customizable Ability to apply changes to process multiple cart items Solution today 59

60 SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) SAP SRM on SAP HANA SAP Supplier Relationship Management application powered by SAP HANA Scope SAP Supplier Relationship Management to run SAP HANA for optimized transactions and long-running batch jobs Faster response time and improved overall performance Improved execution of large business document handling Management of the increasing volume of purchasing documents Increased productivity Ability to respond quickly to market dynamics Elimination of nightly batch jobs Enablement of end users to perform their daily tasks without work-arounds Solution today 60

61 SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA (SAP ERP)Ÿ Optimized purchase order history with SAP HANA Real-time access to high volumes of procurement documents Scope Performance improvements in retrieving purchasing documents for a selected vendor or material via standard reporting transactions purchase orders by vendor, material, account assignment or number; purchase requisitions: list display; collective release of purchase requisitions; assign and process requisitions Performance improvements for many operational reports and transactions dealing with purchase orders that have large history of goods receipts for instance, invoice received and goods received Based on intense and long-lasting business relations between purchasers and suppliers, a huge number of business documents could exist in SAP ERP Quick retrieval of all relevant assigned purchasing documents for a selected vendor, selected material, or specific document number via reporting High-performance creation of follow-on documents for purchase orders with a high magnitude of line items Accelerated, long-lasting processing of purchasing documents Real-time insight and quick access to information Solution today 61

62 SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA (SAP ERP) Virtual data model with most important operational procurement reporting Predefined content with SAP HANA Live for SAP Business Suite to help ensure quick use of SAP HANA for operational reporting Scope Reviewing and analyzing purchase order data using real-time transactional data along with large volume of historical data for example, purchase order value, purchase order average delivery time,and order value per vendor over time Integrated operational reporting with most modern reporting tools from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, which allows for more simplified access, processing, and presentation of data and enables quick decisions by business users Enhanced standard reporting to allow monitoring of large sets of data and increased possibility to review long-term purchase history Easy drill-down features and modern UI to change and adopt input parameters Accurate business decisions with better analytical reports Solution today 62

63 Materials management purchasing Purchase order average delivery time Solution today 63

64 Materials management purchasing Purchase order value Solution today 64

65 Materials management purchasing Vendor comparison via purchase value Solution today 65

66 Materials management purchasing Purchase order value delivery - invoice Solution today 66

67 SAP Fiori apps for use in procurement Summary of innovations Solution enhancements Employee self-service: Shopping cart creation Track shopping cart Manager self-service: Approve shopping cart Approve purchase requisition My spend Purchasing agent: Track purchase order Purchase order from purchase requisitions Approve purchase order Approve purchase contracts Improved user adoption with extended solution approval, creation, statuses, and reporting Common mobile user experience with consistent user interface Solution today 67

68 Appendix (summary per solution)

69 Cloud applications

70 Ariba Spend Visibility Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Custom fields added to spend visibility tables Ariba Spend Visibility Basic for the SAP Spend Performance Management (SAP SPM) analytic application Ariba Spend Visibility on SAP HANA Ability to take advantage of additional reporting features available for custom field data types (measures, dates, and dimensions) Optimized interoperability for Ariba Data Service and SAP SPM Quick access to enriched spend data to make better business decisions 70

71 Ariba Sourcing Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Improved event message-board functionality Original currency reporting for savings forms Additional message board improvement Event management improvements Event audit-log improvements Better usability of the event message board helps buyers handle event communications more efficiently Ability of global organizations to review and audit savings tracking programs better and more efficiently by not having to look up the actual projects Greater number of customers concerned with the auditability of their events and the message boards reveal key areas for improvements Ability of buyers to manage large events with a large number of suppliers more efficiently, requiring less time from the buyers, enabling them to conduct more events or perform other duties for the organization Greater number of customers who have more and more events challenged by participants when they are not awarded the business, so that access to the information being sought and providing it efficiently will help greatly 71

72 Ariba Sourcing Summary of planned innovations (continued) Solution enhancements Spot quote: Integration of Ariba Sourcing to networks and ERP solutions Award Web service Ability to allow events to be initiated from ERP solutions by functional buyers, allowing organizations to reach deeper into their spend to receive current quotes very efficiently Ability to request sourcing award information rather than having to rely on Ariba software to send the information periodically helps ensure that information is not sent due to errors 72

73 Ariba Contract Management Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Contract export Reduced level of effort for customers to retrieve all contract documents and associated data from Ariba software 73

74 Ariba Supplier Information and Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management (SIPM) Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Participant rules Automatically publish surveys Assigning participants at the template level saves performance managers time by removing the need to add participants at the project level Scheduling survey publishing saves performance managers time by removing the need to publish the surveys manually 74

75 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM* Summary of planned innovations cross-solution features Solution enhancements Reporting on active task approvers Mobile safari support on Apple ipad Increased number of reportable fields on supplier profile questionnaire Project search improvements Romanian language support Analysis data access control Cloud integration support of full and delta export of profile questionnaire and Web service for new organization export Improved casual user buying experience driving user adoption and compliance with company purchasing rules Improved user ability to manage sourcing events, contracts and purchasing activities on mobile devices Easier to identify suppliers out of compliance and analyze the supplier base Decreased time in in contract keyword searches for customer, reducing the amount of time needed to find projects and workspaces. Extended language support Ability to roll out analysis reporting throughout the organization and restrict access to sensitive reporting data. Faster deployment times due to better documentation and error messaging *Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management 75

76 Ariba Procurement Content and Ariba Procurement on demand Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Advanced catalog filtering Catalog data pull Shopping cart templates New catalog infrastructure Master data integration enhancements Support for catalog filtering based on extrinsics Lower supplier cost to update catalog; buyer gets current item pricing and details enabling perfect POs Ability to buy items that are bought together and often quickly Rearchitected catalog architecture to support scale, performance, availability, and future innovation needs Improved speed and simplicity of integrating Ariba Procurement On Demand with SAP ECC Planned Innovations 76

77 Ariba Services Procurement Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Light industrial Candidate and proposal comparison Ariba Buyer on premise integration to Ariba Services Procurement on demand Integration of SAP software with Ariba Services Procurement on demand Enhanced contractor management functionality Integration between Ariba Services Procurement and Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management No need for buyers to create single requisition line items for each light industrial contractor hired Ability of buyers to compare candidates and proposals more easily Tight integration of buyers who have Ariba Buyer on premise with Ariba Services Procurement Enhanced integration between SAP software and Ariba Services Procurement on demand Central repository of everything to do with the contractor Tight integration between solutions like Ariba Services Procurement and Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management primarily for statement of work and consulting spend 77

78 Ariba Services Procurement Summary of planned innovations (continued) Solution enhancements Enhanced notifications Next-generation user interface Integration with SuccessFactors on job descriptions and skills Ariba Services Procurement powered by network intelligence Ability of end users to know when their contractor end-date is approaching so that they can determine whether they want to extend the contractor Ability of buyers to have a best-of-breed, user-friendly UI for purchasing certain types of services Preconfigured catalog of job descriptions for buyers that they can select from and that encompasses all temporary labor types Ability of buyers to associate skills and their proficiency level with each job Ability of requestors to leverage the power of the network to make faster, smarter, and more efficient decisions when are creating a request 78

79 Ariba Network

80 Ariba Network Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Ariba Network 2.0 phase 2 single network platform Extend Ariba Network to include supply chain processes Extend Ariba Network to include logistics processes One global platform with all assets (Quadrem, Ariba, and bprocess) and all features with migration and adoption Enablement of collaborative supply chain functions for all partners across different supply chains Support for collaborative supply chain processes, beginning with order, shipping, and invoice collaboration for direct materials Support for industry-specific processes like retail, high tech, and discrete manufacturing Reduced freight invoice processing costs and automated dispute resolution Identification of invoice discrepancies automatically based on rules and more efficient resolution Enablement of collaborative freight tendering 80

81 Ariba Network Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Support for tax invoice in Brazil and Mexico Improvements in invoice transactions Invoice flip considering advance ship notice (ASN), goods receipt, or service entry Enhancements to PO automation business processes Enhanced network integration capabilities Suppliers in Brazil and Mexico will be able to create electronic invoices that contain required tax information and government electronic validation, sending them to the buyer s ERP software Invoice transactions will support invoice response, item grouping (parent and child), total landed cost, quantitybased pricing, and unit-conversion information Ariba Network suppliers will be able to flip invoices, considering multiple documents that align to their business processes which will enable process and submission without errors Balance tracking calculation to consider ASN and GRN transactions and extended buyer-supplier collaboration with new order status request and response functions Deliver improvements in existing adaptor for SAP NetWeaver PI technology to support latest version and new network transactions, including Ariba Services Procurement and supply chain transactions 81

82 Ariba Network Summary of planned innovations (continued) Solution enhancements Ariba Pay payment and reconciliation Service entry sheet (SES) for suppliers Better visibility into cash flow and rich remittance information that improves reconciliation processes for buyers and sellers Move from traditional check to innovative electronic payment Ability of Ariba Network suppliers to create SES that will be sent to their buyers ERP systems and allow suppliers to consume SES responses sent from the ERP; SES items may be selected from a catalog Extended reach into a vast area of field services and compliance 82

83 Ariba Network Summary of planned innovations (continued) Solution enhancements Buy-side network connectivity additional options including Ariba Network Integration for SAP Business Suite Extended connectivity options for buyers to Ariba Network, driving network adoption 83

84 Ariba Discovery Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Suppliers you may like Enhanced commodity tree and posting matching Intelligent recommendations based on a buyer user's buying history Easier posting creation for buyers 84

85 Ariba Discovery Summary of planned innovations (continued) Solution enhancements Search engine optimization Ratings and references Additional certification support Simplified supplier navigation Enablement of key pages in Ariba Discovery to become available in organic search results for targeted keywords Rating and reference information for buyers when deciding on whether to invite a supplier to a posting or event Additional marketing capabilities available in the form of certifications for suppliers Easier access to key lead information, viewing messages, and other activities on the site 85

86 On-premise applications

87 Ariba Network Integration for SAP Business Suite Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Buy-side network connectivity via add-on for SAP Business Suite for Ariba Network Integration The add-on is available for all releases of SAP ERP in maintenance (SAP ERP >= 6.0 with SAP enhancement package 0) Offered for all integration alternatives and works with and without middleware to support: Direct connectivity Mediated connectivity via SAP NetWeaver PI onpremise Mediated connectivity via SAP HANA Cloud Integration technology Secure connection from on-premise to on-demand means the customers with SAP ERP can take advantage of Ariba Network. Simple installation short time frame to set up based on proven Web service infrastructure of SAP NetWeaver Document routing and validation for purchase orders, change orders, order confirmations, advanced ship notices, invoices, and invoice status Message mappings in the back end of SAP Business Suite can be easily extended or adapted through customizing or with business add-ins (BAdI) 87

88 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Usability improvements: Favorites and recent items available to suppliers Add button provides a drop-down for users to select an RFx question type or agreement performance metric Edit button added to the attachments and discussion Image file associated with sourcing profile Number of records per page and number of records available to user ipad default workbench Support for a set of ERP item categories in integrated documents Platform enhancements: Saved searches can be shared with colleagues individually and globally Implementation of virus scan interface for SAP software Web services framework Improved user experience and promotion of user adoption (buy side and sell side) by providing a number of enhancements to simplify navigation and use of the solution ipad workbench that is configurable and designed to simplify navigation to tasks commonly done on an ipad; users can still navigate anywhere within SAP Sourcing. Creation of RFx and agreements with item types as needed in SAP ERP Improved procurement user adoption with expanded accessibility and common application framework Additional antivirus products supported based on product matrix of virus scan interface Adoption of RESTful architecture and Oauth authentication protocol 88

89 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Summary of planned innovations (Continued) Solution enhancements Sourcing enhancements RFx: Facilitate detailed offline analysis of RFx responses Gain clear visibility of alternate responses and offers Online report that can be exported to excel Control whether currency exchange rate information is exposed to the supplier to maximize response efficiency Support saving of auctions without commencing one New contract-generation service Contract generation section-break formatting Replace need for external workflow editor Help for the buyer to recognize alternate offers when analyzing RFX responses and award scenarios Awards may include acceptance of alternate responses and alternate offers from a supplier, but offers are now easily distinguished in the reports and exports Help for offline analysis Suppliers cannot infer which exchange rates will be used to evaluate responses Facility to save auctions without commencing one, based on high customer demand Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating a separate contract generation server Ability of users to have different headers and footers for each clause within the same contract document Reduced TCO by eliminating the need for an external visual workflow editor and elimination of customer misperception of XPDL standard supported distribution or recommendation to our customers 89

90 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Summary of planned innovations (continued) Solution enhancements New reference scripts to support script-based Web services integration New scripting supportability features to improve an ability to support custom scripts Ability for customers to use the new Web service framework to implement custom integrations Reduced support and development costs for our customers and for the support and center of excellence teams 90

91 SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements New shopping cart UI integration in SAP SRM with network (OCI 5 adoption) Ÿ Usability, process simplification and new features: Purchase order header conditions in SAP RM Handling of mandatory fields for free text shopping Central maintenance of substitution rules Sourcing cockpit: redistribution of workload Avoid horizontal scrolling in shopping cart application Automatic enlargement of long text boxes Full interoperability between Ariba Procurement Content and SAP SRM Improved user experience including: Automatic transfer of header conditions from sourcing events to purchase orders Process simplification by reducing screen transfers Simplified shopping cart creation and improved shopping cart processing 91

92 SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Stronger performance and reporting capabilities Porting of SAP HANA, including performance improvements Enhanced embedded reporting, including display of business intelligence (BI) reports Tighter integration with multiple back-ends as well as external data sources Process orchestration and back-end integration, including status management Standard integration with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Enhanced supplier classification and scorecards Enhanced classification scorecards flexible calculations, aggregation of data, alerting, and interfaces for external data Transfer of qualification data to supplier classification Increased governance for system and data access Enable authorization checks within SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Increased productivity due to improved response times and overall performance More transparency; single source of truth for all supplier and category information Suppliers status has a direct impact on connected systems Seamless leverage of D&B numbers, hierarchies, risk scores, and reports Flexible calculation of internal and external data for increased transparency and sophisticated information management Smooth use of data from qualification questionnaire for supplier classification and scorecards Protect supplier profile in SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management from unauthorized access and define what people may and may not do in the in the software 92

93 Materials management (MM) in SAP SRM on SAP HANA Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements SAP HANA: Procurement topics SAP HANA: Cross-entity search and contextual navigation SAP Smart Business cockpit for purchasing on SAP HANA User-friendly search features at in-memory speed Ability to explore the web of business entities efficiently Amazing improvements of the overall search experience Ability to get key information, business relationships, and links to actions at a glance Fast and complete search across all related business documents Real-time calculation of KPIs and simulations predictive analysis 93

94 Appendix (detailed slides per solution)

95 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Supplier full registration improvements Supplier full registration with supplier profile questionnaire (SPQ) usability flows Supplier full registration linking accounts Scope Suppliers can use their existing accounts to register with your company with a full registration process Add your company logo and company name throughout the full registration process The activation link takes the user directly to your company supplier profile questionnaire (SPQ) After submitting responses to the SPQ, the supplier is taken to the new dashboard page clearly showing the status of the registration Ariba customers are using full registration to register new sellers for their site Supplier has already created an account in the Ariba Cloud and wants to reuse it instead of having to create a new account while registering for a customer Reduced number of phone calls to buyers Improved usability for sellers Removed the frustration of having to create two accounts Focused attention on SPQ 95

96 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Reporting on active task approvers Ability to report on task approvers Scope Project task fact will now include who the active approvers are A document fact exists with links to the task and savings form facts Document fact includes: Document name, status and type Creation and update dates Project name It is end of the quarter and savings forms need to be approved but a few are not yet approved. The team will be able to review a report showing who is holding up approval for draft documents without having to go into each project Simpler and more efficient process of finding pending approval tasks and their approvers 96

97 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Mobile Safari support on Apple ipad Mobile Safari on Apple ipad compatibility for on-demand procurement applications Scope Users will now be able to use the mobile Safari browser that comes standard with the Apple ipad to access the entire Ariba On-Demand Spend Management Procurement Suite including Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management, Ariba Procurement On Demand, Ariba Network, and Ariba Discovery. Users are using ipads more and more to do every day business processes. Executives need to have the ability to run reports any time, sourcing managers need to be able monitor events on the fly, contract managers need to have the ability to find contracts remotely in real time, and procurement users need the ability to create purchase requisitions, purchase order, and invoices while at remote locations. Faster and easier access to reports Ability of end users to manage sourcing events, contracts, and purchasing activities while away from their desktops 97

98 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Increase the number of SPQ-reportable fields Increased number of supplier fact table fields for reportable questionnaire Scope Increase supplier fact table custom fields from 37 to 100 fields Create up to 45 string, 10 decimal, 10 date, 5 money, 10 number and 20 Boolean reportable fields in questionnaire GUI changes to make it easier to find what fields from the profile questionnaire are reportable and how many fields are available for reporting Ability to reclaim back a reportable field if a field is set reportable by mistake Identify supplier exceptions or out-of-compliance suppliers quickly by allowing you to have more supplier data on reporting Check on availability when new supplier data elements need to be reported on Setup of a field was set as reportable during profile questionnaire by mistake and we want to reclaim the space to use it in another field Removal or previous need to leverage search plus generate reports to get to the data needed to evaluate suppliers; now faster because all the data needed can be generated from analysis Much easier to identify suppliers out of compliance and analyze our supplier base Time savings More flexibility to manage supplier reportable fields 98

99 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Project search improvements Search improvements to improve performance Scope Users expect search times to be fast and therefore Ariba continues to improve times and will do so by reindexing search and splitting the search tables to improve performance Keyword searches while searching for: Contracts Sourcing projects Supplier performance management projects Decreased time in in contract keyword searches for customer, thereby reducing the amount of time spent trying to find projects and workspaces 99

100 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Additional language support Romanian Scope Adding language support for Romanian across our applications Ability of customers who speak and comprehend Romanian as their primary language to our products Customers who speak Romanian as their primary language will now be able to have a product in their native language 100

101 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Analysis data access control Additional data access control functionality Scope Data access control when reporting in Ariba Analysis (Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, Ariba Supplier Information Management, and Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management) Access to reporting data is restricted to data access control rules defined at the project level Data access control rules will be refreshed in Ariba Analysis during each Ariba Spend Management data load (every 6 hours) Ability to override data access control rules by administering new security group New reporting read-only security group Reporting on sourcing event data restricted to project team members Restricted access to contract s reporting data as defined within the project workspace; only team members defined to the project can report on the data Control visibility to sensitive reporting data Access to sourcing and contracts reporting data restricted to project team members Ability to roll out analysis reporting throughout the organization and restrict access to sensitive reporting data 101

102 Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and SIPM Cloud integration Improved cloud integration to increase functionality with ERP and Web services Scope Improved Web service error messaging and documentation SPQ export using integration tool kit or Web service will now support exporting only changed objects New export Web service for supplier organization information supporting full loads and delta loads (adds, delete, and update) on specified date ranges Customers will be able to collect information about the supplier from the public cloud profile and from the buyerrequested profile and all the information is sent over a Web service to the customers ERP software Suppliers can update the information in the public cloud profile and in the buyer-requested profile and just the changes can be sent over a Web service to the customers ERP software Faster deployment times due to better documentation and error messaging Reduced time of integration for postdeployment data processing Allowance of integration updates for SPQs and supplier organization information 102

103 Ariba Spend Visibility Custom fields added to tables in Ariba Spend Visibility Extend number of Ariba Spend Visibility custom fields from 6 to 34 (various field types) Scope 28 new custom fields 5 measures (3-SUM, 2-AVG) 5 dates (leverages time dimension) 8 dimensions (various hierarchy levels) 3 single level 3 four level 2 eight level 10 custom strings (line-level fields) 6 custom fields insufficient Generate custom formulas and manipulate and analyze as measure fields Attach product data associated to purchase orders to Ariba Spend Visibility data Report on cost center and asset information by leveraging custom dimension hierarchies Ability to attach custom data to existing purchase order and invoice data Richer reporting beyond enriched data and raw spend data Ability to take advantage of reporting features available for custom field data types (measures, dates, and dimensions) 103

104 Ariba Spend Visibility Adoption of SAP HANA New high performance database technology for Spend Visibility customers Scope SAP s new in-memory SAP HANA database combines transactional data processing, analytical data processing, and application logic processing functionality all in memory SAP HANA removes the limits of traditional database architecture that have severely constrained how business applications can be developed to support real-time business Fast-running ad hoc reports using any combination of reportable fields Improved performance for ad hoc detail reports Materialized views for aggregate reports no longer required Navigate quicker between analytical view and detailed view Generation of complex user-defined calculations Time saved with analysis and reporting on large volumes of data Reduced data load times Quick access to enriched spend data to make better business decisions Complex analysis Ability to unlock new insights 104

105 Ariba Spend Visibility Ariba Spend Visibility basic for Ariba Supplier Performance Management Data enrichment service for on-premise customers of Ariba Supplier Performance Management Scope Packaged offering for supplier enrichment and spend classification enabling a hybrid approach to spend analysis Companies often have a difficult time sorting through their supplier data because it is: Incomplete Incorrect due to input errors Not consolidated properly under a correct parent company, which can cause additional time for a user to sort through spend for suppliers. Unable to identify aggregate volume by category of spend Unable to optimize for common purchases across departments Supplier enrichment reduces duplicative suppliers and provides visibility to corporate ownership Supplier parentage helps identify the potential for consolidating to master contracts with parent companies Supplier diversity information aids in diversity management (if purchased) Reduced buyer and suppliers non-compliance Present a single view of spend across systems in Ariba Classification Taxonomy or UNSPSC or custom taxonomy Hierarchical commodity classification across source systems aggregates data in a meaningful way and can be leveraged to identify strategic sourcing opportunities Sourcing opportunities are presented company-wide cost savings through vendor and commodity consolidation 105

106 Ariba Sourcing Improved event message board functionality A collection of enhancements to the event message board that will improve its usability Scope More descriptive language in replied-to column Ability to export all messages in a format that is sortable in excel. Add a message filter for all messages from participants and buyers and related responses. Make it clear which suppliers received invitation messages Adding the company name to participant messages Add an option to allow user to turn off notifications for messages generated automatically in the software ( and online pop-up notification) Customers more often run significant events with a team managing the day to day interactions with the participants. The viewer of the message board needs see what messages have responses. Large events with large numbers of participants can lead to a message board filled with communications. Buyers need the ability to sort and organize them efficiently. Buyers sometimes want to reopen an event to allow a participant a chance to submit or correct a response without alerting other participants, avoiding the rush of inquiries that is triggered by such notifications. The size and complexities of events continue to increase, with that, the demands on the buyer managing the event grows. By making the event message board more usable, buyers are able to more efficiently handle the event communications and with fewer issues. 106

107 Ariba Sourcing Additional message board improvement A collection of enhancements to the event message board that will improve its usability and auditability Scope Hide the message detail in the notification requiring the viewer to access it online Restrict the ability to delete messages from the Project Message Board Add a to-column to allow for sorting and filtering on who the message was sent to Provide a view that lets the project owner see all the messages, not just the ones they sent or received Make it easier to enter the message text when responding and allow the previous message text to be protected from overwriting. Suppliers, and some buyers, tend to reply to a message notification when it is received from the solution. This leads to communications that are not tracked in the message boards. By hiding the message details in the notification, the viewer is forced to go online and view the message. Auditability is a significant issue for some customers, especially with the increase of participants challenging the events and how they were run. More and more customers are concerned with the auditability of their events, and the message boards are key areas for improvements. Events are larger and more complex, managing the message boards can be difficult. The more usable the message boards, the more effective our buyers will be in conducting their events. 107

108 Ariba Sourcing Event management improvements A collection of enhancements to the event message board that will improve its usability and auditability Scope Clearer and more defined supplier statuses in events Ability for an event editor to provide additional information on what was edited to participants Filters in the event history table to display only supplier bid updates or event updates. Large events with many suppliers can be a challenge to manage. A buyer would like to be able to identify which suppliers have completed what steps in the event quickly and efficiently. When running an event, buyers have to edit the event many times. They need an efficient way to share what was changed with participants and what is important for them to do with the changes. The event history table includes entries for supplier bids and event updates. In events where there have been a large number of event edits, it can be difficult to identify the supplier bids. Buyers can manage large events with a large number of suppliers more efficiently, requiring less time of the buyers, enabling them to conduct more events or perform other duties for the organization. 108

109 Ariba Sourcing Spot quote sourcing integration to Ariba Network and ERP ERP integration with Ariba Sourcing to support spot quote (part of Ariba Network 2.0) Scope This feature will introduce the ability to initiate an RFQ and send the request to be built and executed in Ariba Sourcing. The event will publish, suppliers will respond, and responses will be sent across the network, updating the source system. All of this would be accomplished with little or no buyer interactions in the Ariba Sourcing solution. Suppliers will be able to be included in the RFQ by directly specifying whom to invite or opening it to approved suppliers that match the commodity being sought. It can also enable the event to be public and made available to all matching suppliers on Ariba Discovery, letting the suppliers invite themselves to the event. Large organizations have needs to get quick and easy quotes on goods without requiring buyers to manage events in Ariba solutions A buyer often wants additional quotes from suppliers that are not currently providing the product, so opening it to additional suppliers is valuable Organizations can reach deeper into their spend to receive current quotes very efficiently by allowing events to be initiated from the ERP solutions by functional buyers 109

110 Ariba Sourcing Original currency reporting for savings forms Ability to display currency measures in reporting and original currency Scope Adding the ability for viewers of reports based upon savings form and savings allocation detail facts to display measures in the reporting, original, or submitted currency A global organization has savings forms created by users in 10 different countries or currencies. When viewing reports, the numbers are shown in the reporting currency. Managers reviewing the values want to see them in the original currency to confirm that they are accurate. Ability of global organizations to review and audit savingstracking programs efficiently, without having to look up the actual projects. 110

111 Ariba Sourcing Event audit log improvements A collection of enhancements to the event message board that will improve its usability and auditability Scope Additional audit entries when a user views a message and when participants save a bid but don t submit it Easier way to display the date and time when suppliers were invited to an event When buyers send out important event messages to participants, they want to know if the recipients actually viewed the messages. Participants often save a bid but don t submit it. Sometimes they do so intentionally and sometimes by mistake. Having the ability to view the event, buyers can follow up with participants to ensure the they acted with intent. Buyers need to know when particular participants were invited to events, especially in case of disputes. Providing an efficient way to gather and present this information would be valuable. Access and efficient provision of the information being sought helps customers who have more and more events challenged by participants when they are not awarded the business. 111

112 Ariba Sourcing Award Web service Allows third-party systems to request award Information Scope Today, customers can have push information from Ariba software, but this new Web service will allow third-party systems to request award information. With the current system s push awards, there are times the receiving system is unable to collect the data. Using the new Web service allows the receiving system to request the award information when it is ready to receive the data. Ability to request sourcing award information rather than having to rely on Ariba software to send the information periodically to ensure that information is not sent due to errors. Ability of customers to pull bid and award data to a thirdparty data warehouse. 112

113 Ariba Contract Management Contract export Ability to export all contract workspace data and documents Scope Allows customers to export all contract documents and associated data from the Ariba software Allows customers to export contracts with different parameters, such as export all, export by date, and export by status Allows customers to export contract request, contract workspaces, procurement requests, procurement workspaces, and internal contract workspaces Excludes sourcing and projects in SAP SPM Export all contracts for a particular company because of a lawsuit Export all active contracts to store on another internal system Reduced effort for customers to retrieve all contract documents and associated data from Ariba software 113

114 Ariba Supplier Information and Ariba Supplier Performance Management Participant rules Ability to assign participants automatically at a survey template level Scope A new participant rules template available that can be downloaded from the project templates Creation of a participant rule at the template level means that surveys created from the template will add the participants from the participant rules file Ability to add any number of participant rules to a single rules file Ability to add users, groups or project groups as participants Ability to assign participants at the template level and every project created from the template will inherit the participants from the participant rules, instead of manually adding survey participants for every survey Time savings for performance managers by removing the need to add participants at the survey level 114

115 Ariba Supplier Information and Ariba Supplier Performance Management Automatically publish surveys Schedule survey publishing through a publish document task Scope A new publish document task for the survey document allows users to define a schedule for publishing the survey. Automatic publishing of the survey and transmission of notifications to participants of the scheduled dates Ability to schedule publishing of the survey via the publish document task removes the requirement to publish the survey manually for all suppliers and every period in which the supplier is evaluated Time savings for performance managers by removing the need to publish the surveys 115

116 Ariba Procurement Content New catalog architecture Rearchitected catalog architecture to support scale, performance, availability and future innovation needs Scope Rearchitected catalog architecture: Moved from existing database and Lucene architecture to newer technology stack Scalable: Thousands of customers Billions of catalog lines Performance: Near-real-time publishing Subsecond search performance Availability: 99% of searches within service-level agreement (SLA) Redundancy and fail-over at all levels with no single point of failure Scalable, high-performance, and always available catalog architecture Scalable, high-performance, and always available catalog architecture 116

117 Ariba Procurement Content Advanced catalog filtering Support for catalog filtering based on extrinsic Scope Extensible model for catalog filtering within Ariba Procurement Content based on extrinsics received from source system (defined + additional configurable attributes) Source system (Ariba Buyer, SAP SRM, and ERP software) transmits a user s organizational or accounting elements to Ariba Procurement Content as part of the punch-out request Ariba Procurement Content supports filtering based on a user s organizational or accounting elements: Purchasing unit (All) Cost center (Oracle, SAP, and CSV) Operating unit (Oracle) Company code (SAP) Purchase organization (SAP) Support for catalog filtering based on extrinsics Provides support for catalog filtering based on extrinsics 117

118 Ariba Procurement Content Catalog data pull Support for pulling catalogs into buyer realm directly from supplier systems (system to system) Scope Support for pulling catalogs into buyer realm directly from supplier systems (system to system) Support triggering of catalog pull from either buyer or supplier end Resolution of the issue by pulling catalog data directly from the supplier system Suppliers needs: Correct content and price that ensures they can execute on order and invoice accurately Limited cancelled orders and screening customers Buyers needs: Need their users to find the items they are looking to increase adoption Need to increase the velocity of operations at their end without worrying about risks of cancelled order or unavailability of items Suppliers benefits: Correct content and price ensures that they can execute on order and invoice accurately Limited cancelled orders and screening customers Buyers benefits: Allows their users to find the items they are looking for increasing adoption. Increases the velocity of operations at their end without worrying about risks of cancelled order or unavailability of items 118

119 Ariba Procurement Content Shopping cart templates Support for creating and managing shopping cart templates in Ariba Procurement Content Scope Support for creating and managing shopping cart templates in Ariba Procurement Content Ability of users to define shopping templates, which are basically lists of items bought together and frequently Use case: School restaurant orders Definition of number of students and type of menu; adding both to cart The individual elements within it are blown up when added to cart (user-defined) Ability to quickly buy items quickly that are bought together and often Ability to quickly buy items quickly that are bought together and often 119

120 Ariba Cloud Integration procurement and finance Improved master data integration Improved master data integration Improved error handling Scope Reduced deployment time and cost Improved master data upload Standard interfaces to key middleware solutions Support for latest versions of middleware Support for services procurement and services invoicing business processes Enhanced transport in SAP software to create the required transport files for the main integration events supplier, accounts, user, and remittance Reduced number of master data files that are needed by consolidating them Ability to do incremental loads of master data Improved error-handling functions Improved documentation Services procurement and services invoicing are integrated with back-end systems Quicker deployments due to optimization of master data integration Better documentation and error-handling functions 120

121 Ariba Services Procurement Light industrial This is the ability to mass hire certain types of temp labor resources. Scope Hire multiple contractors from multiple suppliers on a single line Issue a PO for selected contractors while collaboration is ongoing Support daily rates and shifts Issue one PO per contractor or one PO for all contractors for a supplier (separate line items per contractor) Ability to create line item requisitions that can have multiple contractors associated with them No requirement for buyers to create separate line items for each contractor No requirement for buyers to on-board and off-board contractors individually; they will be able to mass on-board and off-board Buyers will not have to create single requisition line items for each light industrial contractor hired Buyers will be able to mass on-board and off-board contractors Suppliers can mass-upload candidates for proposals 121

122 Ariba Services Procurement Candidate and proposal comparison Better comparison of proposed candidates or proposals Scope More intuitive UI Better presentation of candidates and proposals Evaluation of candidates based on skills Additional statuses Interview data Short-listing of candidates and proposals Some modifications to reporting Ability to compare candidates and proposals easily Ability to schedule interviews and record interview feedback Better statuses of candidates and proposals as they move through the process Ability to short-list candidates Ability to compare candidates and proposals easily Ability to schedule interviews and record interview feedback Significant increase of candidate and proposal statuses as they are evaluated (buyers and suppliers) Ability to short-list candidates and proposals 122

123 Ariba Services Procurement Ariba Buyer on premise integration to Ariba Services Procurement on demand Integration between Ariba Buyer on premise and Ariba Services Procurement on demand Scope Tight integration between Ariba Buyer on premise and Ariba Services Procurement on demand Ability of on-premise buyers to initiate the requisition creation process in Ariba Buyer Execution of financial approvals in Ariba Buyer on premise Updating of Ariba Buyer on premise with statuses during the collaboration process Pushing of invoices to Ariba Buyer on premise for approval Customers of Ariba Buyer on premise have been looking for increased functionality for services procurement and can now leverage all the new functionality that is coming in Ariba Services Procurement on demand Buyers who have Ariba Buyer on premise will be tightly integrated with Ariba Services Procurement Customers of Ariba Buyer on premise will be able to leverage all the new functionality that is being built in Ariba Services Procurement on demand 123

124 Ariba Services Procurement Integration of SAP software with Ariba Services Procurement on demand Enhanced integration between SAP software and Ariba Services Procurement on demand Scope Tight integration between materials management (MM) and financials (FI) in SAP ERP and Ariba Services Procurement on demand: Native integration will be built Purchase order data pushed to MM Invoice data pushed to FI SAP customers are looking for a solution for certain services spend like temporary labor and statement of work or consulting spend. Ariba will have a very robust solution after the 13s2 release that will help SAP customers here Enhanced integration between SAP software and Ariba On Demand Services Procurement Ability of SAP customers to leverage Ariba Services Procurement for certain types of services spend while using SAP software as their main procurement tool 124

125 Ariba Services Procurement Enhanced contractor management functionality Enhanced contractor management functionality that tracks the contractor during the lifecycle at the buyer Scope Contractor workspace, a central repository of everything g to do with the contractor Engagement workspace, a space for everything to do with the project or engagement that the contractor is working on Ability to on-board and off-board contractors Ability to mass on-board and off-board contractors Enhanced contractor survey functionality Ability to on-board and off-board contractors Ability to mass on-board and off-board contractors, especially light industrial workers Ability of buyers to do contractor surveys Central repertory of everything to do with the contractor Ability of hiring managers to review the repository if they are going to hire a past contractor Ability to on-board and off-board contractors; different onboarding and off-boarding tasks and assets lists can be defined for different items and work locations Ability of buyers to mass on-board and off-board contractors, especially useful for light industrial workers Enhanced contractor survey functionality; surveys can be configured for X amount of days after the contractor starts 30 days, 90 days, exit, and so on 125

126 Ariba Services Procurement Integration between Ariba Services Procurement and Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and Ariba Supplier Performance Management Integration between Ariba Services Procurement and other Ariba solutions primarily for statement of work and consulting spend Scope Integration between Ariba Services Procurement and Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, and Ariba Supplier Information Performance Management primarily for statement of work and consulting spend Introduction of a new procurement workspace that acts as a central repository of everything to do with the project sourcing events, contractors, requisitions, POs, receipts, time sheets, contractor expense sheets, and invoices Ability to create a sourcing event or contract from a requisition Ability to on-board and off-board consultants for project-based work Tighter integration between Ariba solutions primarily for statement of work and consulting spend Ability to view all components of a project from the creation of sourcing event to the invoice in one location Ability to on-board and off-board consultants for projectbased work Enhanced user experience Ability to create sourcing events and contracts directly from a requisition Ability to view all components of a project from the creation of sourcing event to the invoice in one location Ability to on-board and off-board consultants for projectbased work 126

127 Ariba Services Procurement Enhanced notifications Enhanced notifications on PO spend and timesheet approvals Scope Ability to send notifications to end users saying that their contractor s end date is approaching Ability to send notifications to end users saying that their PO has nearly been fully invoiced against Ability of approvers to see more timesheet details on the time sheet approval notifications Buyers need to know when their contractor s end date is approaching to determine if they need to extend the contractor Buyers need to know when their PO spend has nearly been fully invoiced against to determine if they should increase the PO amount Buyers need to the ability to see more time sheet detail before they decide to approve the time sheet from a smart phone. They don t want to have to login to Ariba software to approve the time sheet. End users will know when their contractor end date is approaching so that they can determine whether they want to extend the contractor or not End users will know when their POs are approaching being fully invoiced so that they can determine whether they want increase the PO amount Approvers will be able to approve time sheets from smart phones without having to login to Atria software to see all the details; the bulk of details will now be available in the approval 127

128 Ariba Services Procurement Next-generation user interface A brand new user interface for Ariba Services Procurement, incorporating market intelligence and social media Scope Brand new UI for Ariba Services Procurement Splitting out the Ariba Services Procurement requisition creation process for purchase to pay User-friendlier requisition creation process Embedded market intelligence as part of the requisition creation process New dashboard with key KPI and user-friendlier to-do features Links to Ariba Discovery Buyers have asked for the ability to procure services more easily. The UI needs to be more services-focused than goods-focused The UI needs to be more intuitive for end users. The UI needs to contain market intelligence on bill rates and so on Buyers have asked for the ability for the end user UI to be clear on what actions need to be taken: Example: How many time sheets does the end user need to approve Buyers will now have a best-of-breed UI that will be user friendly for purchasing certain types of services Market intelligence will be embedded in the UI ad well as community information End users will have a specific UI for Ariba Services Procurement that should contain key KPIs and a segmented to-do list of what they need to work on, approve, and so on 128

129 Ariba Services Procurement Integration with SuccessFactors on job descriptions The ability to leverage SuccessFactors content for job descriptions Scope This will allow the Ariba solution to leverage the SuccessFactors job description catalog. SuccessFactors has invested heavily in this as part of its May 2013 release and has bought content from other third parties The job descriptions go a level deeper and contain content like Interview questions that are associated with certain job descriptions Buyers spend a significant amount of time determining what their job descriptions will be Some interviewers are unfamiliar with what they should be asking candidates Preconfigured catalog of job descriptions for buyers that encompasses all temporary labor types Predefined list of questions specific to the job that interviews are asking candidates about 129

130 Ariba Services Procurement Integration with SuccessFactors on skills The ability to associate skills with requisitions and candidates leveraging SuccessFactors content Scope Skills will be associated with each job End users will be able to select the skills they want to associate with each job position and define the level of proficiency Suppliers will be able to enter the proficiency of their candidates Buyers have asked for the ability to associate skills with jobs and define the level of proficiency Buyers have asked for the ability of suppliers to ranks the candidates they propose based on certain skills proficiency Buyers can associate skills and their proficiency level with each job Suppliers can respond with the skill level and proficiency of each of their candidates 130

131 Ariba Network Phase 2 (Network 2.0) Single network platform Delivering a single network platform that maximizes collaboration and community from existing network assets Scope All Ariba Network assets (Quadrem, Ariba, and bprocess) and all features. Includes migration and adoption. Deliver a single network for all customers Leverage geographical and industry process features and functions in one network Provide a mechanism to migrate existing customers to a single platform One global platform to maximize community for all participants Significantly grow the existing network collaboration capability with RFQ, order status, goods receipt, and ASN extensions Focused innovation capacity 131

132 Ariba Services Procurement Service procurement powered by network intelligence When requestors are creating a request, they will now leverage the power of the network to make faster, smarter, and more efficient decisions Scope Real time KPIs for suppliers Preferred candidate based on past hiring patterns Ability for requestor to see the market rates for temporary labor positions that they are hiring for based on third-party data or Ariba Network data Buyers have asked for market intelligence on bill rates when their end users are creating requisitions When requestors are creating a request they will now have market intelligence on what they should be paying for a certain job type based on skills and location Managed Service Provider or recruiter can recommend a supplier or candidate likely to be hired by hiring manager 132

133 Ariba Services Procurement dashboard 133

134 Ariba Network Extend the Ariba Network to include supply chain processes Adding supply chain functions to Ariba Network Scope Compliment and extend existing supply chain management process of buyers and sellers. Initial focus on supply collaboration scenarios such as order, ASN, invoice collaboration, and supplier on-boarding. Enable a single access point and collaboration platform for all partners across different supply chains Reduce time to on board or enable suppliers to collaborate on critical direct material supply chain processes regardless of solution landscape Support collaborative supply chain processes like order collaboration, forecast collaboration, inventory collaboration, and quality collaboration Provide support for industry-specific processes Single collaboration platform for all parties, improving speed of doing business and reducing complexities Faster on-boarding of business partners, accelerating return on investment Easy access to industry-standard supply chain processes for decreased planning and product cycles, improved order accuracy, reduced inventory levels, increased customer responsiveness, and improved cash flow Support for real-time, integrated, and end-to-end business processes for reduced supply chain risk Multitier supply chain functions, offering extended visibility into the supply chain for additional supply chain performance improvements 134

135 Ariba Network Extend Ariba Network to include logistics processes Adding logistics and transportation management functions to Ariba Network Scope Compliment and extend existing logistics and transportation management processes of shippers and carriers. Initial focus on freight tendering and invoice management. Reduce freight invoice processing costs and automate dispute resolution Increase visibility into cash flow carriers have no idea when and how much they will be paid because of disputes and paper-based invoices and payments Identify invoice discrepancies automatically based on rules and resolve them more efficiently. Support freight-related information and documents (bill of lading, manifest, origin and destination location, and demurrage and detention) Manage freight tendering and booking electronically Lower freight invoice processing costs Eliminate phone calls, s, and faxes with collaborative dispute resolution solution Faster reconciliation and dispute resolution Early payment discount option for shippers and faster payment for carriers Single carrier portal to manage tendering and invoice processes for all shippers 135

136 Ariba Network Integration for SAP Business Suite Summary of planned innovations Solution enhancements Buy-side network connectivity via add-on for SAP Business Suite for Ariba Network Integration The add-on is available for all releases of SAP ERP in maintenance (SAP ERP >= 6.0 with SAP enhancement package 0) Offered for all integration alternatives and works with and without middleware to support: Direct connectivity Mediated connectivity via SAP NetWeaver PI onpremise Mediated connectivity via SAP HANA Cloud Integration technology Secure connection from on-premise to on-demand means the customers with SAP ERP can take advantage of Ariba Network. Simple installation short time frame to set up based on proven Web service infrastructure of SAP NetWeaver Document routing and validation for purchase orders, change orders, order confirmations, advanced ship notices, invoices, and invoice status Message mappings in the back end of SAP Business Suite can be easily extended or adapted through customizing or with business add-ins (BAdI) 136

137 Ariba Network Ariba Pay payment and reconciliation management Ariba Pay is a fully integrated, cloud-based solution for buying goods and services within Ariba Network. It provides a direct automated link from PO to invoice payment and settlement, therefore reducing reconciliation inquiries and conflicts Scope For buyers and sellers connected to Ariba Network, AribaPay will deliver data that shows what payments represent at the invoice and line-item level, fueling faster, more accurate reconciliation on both sides Providing better visibility into cash flow and producing rich remittance information that improves reconciliation processes for buyers and sellers Less paper for buyers to sift through Sellers have no idea when or how much they will be paid Lower processing costs Richer remittance advice Reduced fraud risk Elimination of paper checks and invoices Ability to track and trace transactions Faster reconciliation and dispute resolution 137

138 Ariba Network Global invoice support Support tax invoice in Brazil and Mexico Scope Suppliers in Brazil and Mexico will be able to create electronic invoices (e-invoice) that contain required tax information and government electronic validation, sending them to the buyer s ERP software Use case: All Brazilian suppliers are required to validate and obtain an electronic certificate for their goods related invoices against the Federal Government (SEFAZ) Mexican suppliers must validate and obtain an electronic certificate from their tax authority Buyers (in both countries) must check if the received invoices are valid and current before processing payments Create invoices complaint with Brazilian and Mexican tax regulations both in content and format Support receiving from suppliers and sending to buyers electronic invoices with appropriate government certification Validate electronic invoices against Brazilian and Mexican government for authenticity and correctness, throughout the invoicing process Support electronic archiving (e-archiving) for Brazilian e- invoices Support Brazilian and Mexican tax electronic invoice regulations Enable error-free payments through valid electronic invoices Support for end-to-end e-invoice automation processes in Brazil and Mexico Ability of integrated and Ariba Network portal-based suppliers to take advantage of this new feature 138

139 Ariba Network Improvements in invoice transactions Improvements ion invoice transactions Scope Invoice transactions will start supporting invoice response, item grouping (parent and child), total landed cost, quantitybased pricing, and unit-conversion information Use case: Large buyer corporations in Australia, Brazil, Chile, and South Africa, among others, require the ability to confirm the Invoice from their suppliers, and to receive detailed structured information from the items being delivered or services being provided Suppliers have to support their countries complex taxes, allowances, and charges and require the ability to precisely discriminate each component Extend invoice document to support parent and child relationships at line item (for instance kits and bundles, maintenance services, complex services, and so on) Ability to indicate different unit of measure in the invoice from that defined in the purchase order, including the conversion factor between the two Extend invoice document at header and item level (parent or child) to support multiple entries of taxes, allowances, and charges Improved closed-loop invoice automation process Enablement of error-free payments through detailed electronic invoices Ability of both integrated and Ariba Network portal-based suppliers to take advantage of the new features 139

140 Ariba Network Improved usability and collaboration Invoice flip considering advance ship notice (ASN), goods receipt, or service entry Scope Ariba Network suppliers will be able to flip invoices considering multiple documents that align to their business processes which will enable process and submission without errors Use case: Large buyer corporations in Australia, Brazil, Chile, and South Africa, among others, have implemented invoiceautomation processes based on business rules such as an e-invoice cannot be issued unless a goods receipt notice has been sent, or the amount invoiced must be the same of the amount in the ASN Support the flip into an Invoice of the buyer approval (response) of a Services Invoice created by the new Ariba Network solution for complex services Consider advance ship notice (ASN), goods receipt notice (GRN), and service entry sheet (SES), or service invoice when creating an invoice Ability to flip a service entry sheet response (SESR) or service invoice response) sent from the buyer s ERP Support for buyer s business rules for invoice creation Support for end-to-end complex services business processes Alignment with buyer business processes and blockage of invoice creation that does not meet the applicable rules Enablement of process and submission without errors Ability of both integrated and Ariba Network portal-based suppliers to take advantage of the new features 140

141 Ariba Network Improved usability and collaboration Enhancements to PO Automation business processes Scope Adding balance-tracking calculation that considers ASN and GRN transactions Extended buyer-supplier collaboration with new order status request and response functions Use case: Large corporations in Brazil and Australia extensively use ASN and GRN to manage and plan their receiving and logistic processes Large corporations in Australia use order status request (OSR) and response (OSRr) to collaborate with their suppliers and receive accurate information of the status of their orders Meet buyers expectation to receive invoices that are correct and accurately consider all items already shipped and received Plan receiving, transportation, and logistics Send and receive current status of orders Accuracy of order automation processes Support of logistics processes Enhanced collaboration between buyers and suppliers Ability of both integrated and Ariba Network portal-based suppliers to take advantage of the new features 141

142 Ariba Network Services invoicing and service entry sheets New support for complex and estimate-based spend categories Scope Add service entry sheet and response functions, including invoice flip from service confirmation Extend PO and Invoice to support hierarchies Use case: Field service contractor (supplier) and engineer (buyer) must align on the work completed via service sheet prior to the creation of an invoice Difficulty in managing project-based spend Suppliers know the details about what services have been performed. Unfamiliarity of supplier users who execute and track the service with the details of the agreement and related pricing Inability of buyers to anticipate all the steps a supplier may need to perform Operational cost reduction and efficiency Elimination of paper processing Improved supplier collaboration Reduced clerical administration Reduced exceptions Strategic spend and contract savings Increased contract-based purchasing with controls Increased pricing compliance capture Improved spend management with more item details Exception-free invoices with fewer late payments 142

143 Ariba Network (network connection) Network connectivity buy side Extending connectivity options for buyers to Ariba Network Scope The Ariba Network is an open platform for collaboration. Adding more formats and protocols for core industry standards, including XML standards such as xcbl and PIDX. Support industry standards Reduce barriers to adoption Accelerate ROI and adoption Focus on process and collaboration, not file formats Use a back-end system agnostic connection to Ariba Network 143

144 Ariba Network (network connection) Network connectivity sell side Extending connectivity options for sellers to Ariba Network Scope Ariba Network is an open platform for collaboration. Adding more formats and protocols for core industry standards, including software like SAP Business One and new formats such as PDF (for invoices). Additional mapping and connectivity through the SAP Information Interchange OnDemand solution. Maximize touch less transactions between buyer and seller Simplify adoption Level the playing field for all sellers, regardless of system Reduced errors Better customer (buyer) responsiveness and intimacy Faster adoption Reduced change management 144

145 Ariba Cloud Integration Ariba Network buy side Enhancements to existing Network adapters Enhance existing network adapters Increase the breadth of integration touch points with Ariba Network Scope Enhance the existing adapter for SAP PI to support the latest versions of SAP PI Support network integration for services invoicing, services procurement, AribaPay, supply chain management, Network 2.0, and Network RFQ Enhance the Oracle Fusion middleware adapter to support latest versions and new business processes Customers with non-sap back-end systems need to continue collaborating with their trading partners Support for the latest versions of customer s back-end systems Desire of buyers to leverage Ariba Network for additional business collaboration (direct material or spot buy) with their trading partners as well as leverage it for new spend types (services spend) Ariba continues to remain an open network and customers can continue leveraging it for collaborating with their trading partners regardless of their back-end systems and middleware Customers can now increase the breadth and depth of collaboration as we support the new business processes and spend types As customers upgrade their back-end systems and middleware, they can continue transacting through Ariba Network without disruption 145

146 Ariba Discovery Suppliers you may like Suppliers you may like is a list of suppliers that Ariba recommends to a buyer, based on that buyer's buying history. Scope Buyers may view Ariba-recommended suppliers, generated based on their buying history Buyers can choose to contact suppliers or import suppliers in to their databases for current or future events Integrated in key flows in Ariba Sourcing, including event creation, event monitoring, and global menu Buyers invite suppliers to current events to obtain proposals, bids for work desired. Buyers perform supplier market research to identify key suppliers for future events. Access to over 1.2 million global and diverse suppliers to satisfy a variety of buying needs Easier access to suppliers via tight integration with Ariba sourcing for sourcing buyers Intelligent recommendations based on a buyer user's buying history 146

147 Ariba Discovery Enhanced commodity tree and posting matching Enrich commodity tree with additional products and services. Allow suppliers and sellers to propose custom products and services. Improve matching relevance. Scope Add new products and services to the commodity tree Allow buyers and sellers to recommend new products and services Improve posting matching relevance Buyers need to select a commodity describing their needs and don't always find a good descriptor in the current tree Sellers need to select a commodity to describe what they offer and don't always find a good descriptor in the current tree Sellers receive leads based on their commodity selection Easier posting creation for buyers Better experience for sellers to create their profile More accuracy in commodity selection for buyers and sellers More relevant leads for sellers generated 147

148 Ariba Discovery Search engine optimization Infrastructure changes to make Ariba Discovery SEO aware Scope Improve infrastructure to enable search engines (Google.com, for example) to index the site Associate key pages in Ariba Discovery with targeted keywords Walk-up functional buyers may discover Ariba Discovery through a search engine's organic results. Enablement of key pages in Ariba Discovery to become available in organic search results for targeted keywords 148

149 Ariba Discovery Ratings and references Send notifications requesting ratings from buyers and include ratings from outside Ariba Discovery. Scope Allow sourcing users to rate suppliers invited to an event Improve user experience for rating suppliers Enhance notifications sent to buyers for supplier ratings Buyers leverage ratings and references to qualify suppliers in Ariba Discovery Buyers benefit from rating and reference information when making a decision on whether to invite a supplier to a posting or event 149

150 Ariba Discovery Additional certification support Provide support for adding other certificate types as custom certificates on a supplier profile. Scope Certifications not supported explicitly in Ariba Discovery may be added directly by suppliers Suppliers add certifications to their profile to market their capabilities to prospective buyers. Suppliers have additional marketing functions available in the form of certifications. 150

151 Ariba Discovery Simplified supplier navigation Simplify seller navigation. Create seller lead dashboard. Implement notifications center for new activity. Scope Simplify supplier navigation in Ariba Discovery with new navigation hierarchy Introduce supplier dashboard for lead monitoring Provide a notifications center to monitor relevant activity Suppliers need increased capability to log in to Ariba Discovery to monitor leads and respond to leads they're interested in. Improved supplier engagement Easier access to key lead information, viewing messages, and other activities on the site 151

152 SAP Spend Performance Management (SAP SPM) Ariba Spend Visibility basic for SAP SPM Data enrichment Service for on-premise customers of SAP SPM Scope Packaged offering for supplier enrichment and spend classification Companies often have a difficult time sorting through their supplier data because it is: Incomplete Incorrect due to input errors Not consolidated properly under a correct parent company which can cause additional time for a user to sort through spend for suppliers. Unable to aggregate volume by category of spend Unable to optimize common purchases across departments Supplier enrichment reduces duplicative suppliers and provides visibility to corporate ownership Supplier parentage helps identify potentials for consolidating to master contracts with parent companies Supplier diversity information aids in diversity management (if purchased) Reduced buyer and supplier noncompliance Present a single view of spend across systems in Ariba Classification Taxonomy or UNSPSC or custom taxonomy Hierarchical commodity classification across source systems aggregates data in a meaningful way and can be leveraged to identify strategic sourcing opportunities Sourcing opportunities are presented company-wide cost savings through vendor and commodity consolidation 152

153 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Usability improvements (1/2) Within version 10, we concentrated on delivering usability enhancements that would make existing windows easier to use. Scope Adding the favorites and recent items menu to the supplier side provides suppliers an easier way to navigate to their documents The add button now provides a drop-down for users to select an RFx question type or agreement performance metric as they add a new record Adding the edit button to the attachments and discussion windows saves the user from having to close these windows, clicking edit, and returning. The sourcing back button has been moved from the far right-hand side of the window to the left of the breadcrumbs on the left-hand side of the window Similar to buyer users, supplier users need easier navigation with fewer clicks to find what they need Users need easier navigation with fewer clicks Users need to retrieve document discussion information directly from the currently viewed document rather than having to filter the discussion data accordingly Users need easier navigation; when the back button was not easy to find, users clicked the browser s back button instead, which kicked them out of the software Favorites and recent items feature provide a cleaner workflow, removing clicks and a more intuitive navigation. The add button drop-down is easier to use and more intuitive. Previously users had to choose from a drop-down before they clicked the add button. If users forget to click edit before they navigate to either the attachments window or the discussions window after opening any document, they can just click edit on the windows. Removes clicks from the workflow. The sourcing back button is more likely to be seen by our users and they will be less likely to click their browser s back button. The new position is easier to see and it is more consistent to have it closer to the other buttons on the right-hand side. 153

154 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Usability improvements (2/2) Within version 10, we concentrated on delivering usability enhancements that would make existing windows easier to use. Scope Users can now store an image file associated with their sourcing profile The discussion topics and messages report is now available directly from within documents We now provide the number of records displaying per page and the number of records available to the user In anticipation of future mobile apps,users need to share their image file for easier identification when collaborating Users need to understand the amount of data rows they are looking at. Users had to count the records manually in the past. The image file has potential use cases for mobile apps currently in the prototype stage. Having the discussion report available from within documents makes it easier for users with access rights to see and export all of the topics and messages associated with one document. Additional filter capabilities make it even more useful to find specific messages, dates, and authors. Providing the number of records displayed provides information that wasn t available before. It helps buyers and suppliers maintain their records whether they are a list page, query page, collection, report, or picker window. 154

155 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management ipad default workbench ipad compatibility Scope ipad compatibility is now available for buy-side and sell-side access. Users can now login to SAP Sourcing from their ipads. On the buy side only, a new ipad user workbench automatically renders when users log in with their standard user profile. Users need mobile access Many advantages to being able to review approvals, run reports, or refer to specific documents via the ipad, which improves user accessibility Users are not expected to use the ipad exclusively because of its innate limitations. Sell-side users, for example, should not respond to auctions or buy-side users should not create new documents using the ipad. The buy-side ipad workbench is configurable just like any other workbench and is designed to make it easier for users to navigate to those tasks that will be most likely be done on an ipad. Users can still navigate anywhere within SAP Sourcing. 155

156 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Support set of item categories (item type) in SAP ERP in integrated documents Support set of item categories (item type) in SAP ERP in integrated documents. Scope The interface between SAP Sourcing and SAP ERP must support item categories available in SAP ERP application (item types in SAP Sourcing) Create RFx and agreements with item types as needed in SAP ERP Import RFx from SAP ERP with explicit item categories in SAP ERP Note that material group items do not require price and quantity (supported in agreements only) Automatically update and create consignment info record during publish agreement (requires SAP ERP with EHP4 and custom enhancements) Control visibility of item type to minimize changes on supplier side and be able to change item type during award phase New standard item types available in RFx: Consignment, subcontracting, and material unknown New standard item types available in agreements: Consignment, subcontracting, material unknown, and material group Custom item types allow consistent usage of item type Attribute also for non-standard business scenarios Ability to control visibility of item type for suppliers Ability to change item type during award phase 156

157 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Platform enhancements Ability to share a saved search with other colleagues Scope Saved searches for advanced list pages can now be shared with all your colleagues and passed on to others as well Saved searches for advanced list pages can also be shared with all the users by allowing the administrator to make a saved search available globally Share a saved search with other colleagues to bring their attention to a specific or interesting artifact on an advanced list page Make a particularly poignant saved search available globally throughout the organization to increase efficiency Ability to share saved searches on list pages that are really reports is tantamount to sharing a report User-friendly mode of sharing interesting data points allowing refinement of a saved search collaboratively so that the results provide very precise actionable data points 157

158 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Implementation of virus scan interface (VSI) Implementation of virus scan interface (VSI) that provides integration with McAfee, Clam AV, Bowbridge, and others Scope Implementation of the virus scan interface for implementations of SAP Sourcing and SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Feature can be activated using system properties and setting up integration with a wide range of antivirus products SAP standards that allow smoother use of antivirus software across a customer s landscape and customer corporate security standard Only one antivirus product, Symantec Endpoint (5.1 and 5.2) was supported, and there have been demands to support newer versions and additional antivirus products Additional antivirus products will now be supported, based on the VSI-supported product matrix, which is constantly updated. The products currently supported are: McAfee Clam AV Bowbridge 158

159 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management ŸWeb services framework Release 10.0 concentrated on delivering the first set of the new Web service framework features. Scope Support for the RESTful architecture style of Web services Runtime enablement of Web services Support for the OAuth authentication and authorization protocol Customers and consultants need easy to use tools for developing custom integrations Customers and consultants need to be able to deploy and test new custom web services without having to shut down the application Customers need a more secure authentication protocol than basic authentication. The RESTful architectural style is a much simpler style of web services than SOAP-based Web services Enablement of Web services can be done through simple configuration, without a need to deploy custom jar files or shut down the sourcing application OAuth is an open standard protocol that is secure, flexible, extensible, and is designed to work with both mobile devices and desktop applications 159

160 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Enhancements to SAP Sourcing RFx RFx line item offers report for export Buyer option to hide currency exchange rates from suppliers Scope Facilitate detailed off-line analysis of RFx responses Gain clear visibility of alternate responses and offers Online report that can be exported to Microsoft Excel Control whether currency exchange rate information is exposed to the supplier in order to better maximize response efficiency Although awards may include acceptance of alternate responses and alternate offers from a supplier, these offers are not easily distinguished in the currently available reports. A number of customers have requested a report that can be made available in Excel to allow buyers recognize alternate offers when analyzing RFX responses and award scenarios. Buyers have an option not to disclose currency exchange rates to suppliers during multicurrency RFx and auction events. To protect against currency fluctuations, the buyer may negotiate exchange rates that are fixed for a period. The internal exchange rates can be sensitive because they represent contract content, rather than public exchange rate information, and need to be kept confidential. Help for the buyer to recognize alternate offers when analyzing RFX responses and award scenarios. Although awards may include acceptance of alternate responses and alternate offers from a supplier, the offers are now easily distinguished in the reports and exports. Help for offline analysis Confidential negotiated exchange rates for the buyer are taken out of consideration when a supplier places responses and bids. Suppliers cannot infer the exchange rates that will be used to evaluate the responses. 160

161 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Enhancements to SAP Sourcing RFx and auctions Enhanced information for suppliers of existence of line item groups Ability to save auctions without commencing it automatically Scope Customizable through the use of system properties Clear indicating of the existence of more line item groups Usability improved by providing the total count of total line item groups in a prominent location on the header Customizable ability to save auction without invoking full set of validation in draft status, and hence commencing the auction Information about the existence of more line item groups is displayed Previously, supplier might have missed additional line item groups, and therefore miss bidding on all line items Ability for a buyer to be able to make interim saves without inadvertently commencing the auction on required start dates Custom setting for the activation of draft status mode Improve user experience by ensuring that the supplier is aware of line items that may be hidden in other line item groups Allow a buyer to experiment with an auction creation without being concerned that the auction will be kicked off inadvertently Allow a buyer to collaborate on the auction with other team members before activating the auction Allow a buyer to make interim save for an auction with limited validation in draft status and be able to resume editing when convenient 161

162 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management New contract-generation service New contract-generation service (DOCX service) Scope Contract authoring or (also known as contract generation) is a key functionality of SAP Contract Lifecycle Management to create legal contract documents in the repository automatically through the use of precreated clauses, sections, and templates. This process has been streamlined to reduce TCO and support the DOCX format introduced with Microsoft Office 2007 and higher. Desire not to maintain a separate Word server to generate contract documents Reduction in total cost of ownership by eliminating the need for a separate contract generation server New service runs as a part of SAP Sourcing, and separate configuration and installation is not required, providing better performance in generating the contracts New service is not affected by frequent security updates from Microsoft. 162

163 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Contract generation section-break formatting Section-break clause formatting Scope A new section-break checkbox in the clause library maintenance in setup gives users the flexibility to introduce a Microsoft Word section break at the beginning of any clause in the generated contract document. Then as part of the contractgeneration feature, if it is turned on for a clause, its header and footer formatting will be retained as it is defined within the clause document itself for that section. This feature allows users to have different headers and footers for each clause within the same contract document. During contract generation, the section formatting within a clause document was not taken into consideration during contract generation. Contracts will often require different headers and footers on different pages within the contract based on the clauses on the specific pages. If the section-break feature is turned for a clause during contract generation, a new section break is automatically added so that the clause s header and footer formats can be retained when generating the clause within the contract document. The flexible formatting means that the generated contract document is more compliant and easier to read. 163

164 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Introduction of wizard-driven visual workflow editor Introduction of a wizard driven visual workflow editor to reduce customer TCO, and reliance on the use of external visual workflow editor to define approval workflows Scope SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management supports the workflow definition industry standard XPDL, but only 1.0, while current specification is XPDL 2.2. Very few options for workflow editors supporting XPDL1.0 specification in the marketplace The workflow editors available are either open source or community editions which come with either LGPL 2 or GPL 2 licensing. Neither of these type of licenses or other open source type licenses are allowed by SAP for distribution or as a recommendation to our customers Implementation of a wizard-driven workflow editor to simplify the design and modeling of an approval workflow A custom workflow process editor that allows the creation of constructs supported by SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management only, thereby reducing complexity and eliminating a complex setup that needed to be followed using an external editor. Reduced TCO of purchasing and customizing external visual workflow editor Wizard-driven visual workflow editor self-contained in the application, reduces complexity, enhances usability, and makes the solution self-contained User-friendly and transportable workflow definition that is XML driven, and optimized for the needs of SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management 164

165 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Reference scripts for Web service integration support New reference and sample scripts to support script-based Web services integration Scope The ability for customers to develop custom script-based Web services is a major feature of the new Web services framework. In addition, we will also deliver new scripting interactive application programming interfaces, best-practice documentation, and sample reference scripts to support the development of custom script-based Web services to enable integration with external systems. Ability to Web services for the development of custom integration Sample reference scripts help customers jump-start the development of custom integration New interactive application programming interfaces and best-practice documentation help customers standardize development of custom script-based Web services to benefit our customers and our support and center of excellence teams. 165

166 SAP Sourcing and SAP Contract Lifecycle Management Scripting supportability improvements New scripting supportability features to improve our ability to support custom scripts Scope Standard logging will be enhanced to log a script s execution start time, end time, and script execution duration. A new report will be provided that, for a given class ID, will show details about each active script on the class, including the scripting hook type (context), display name, instance type, document type, and target. It will also indicate the sequence of script execution relative to the document lifecycle. Customers and our support and center of excellence teams need better tools for debugging and troubleshooting custom scripts Better scripting support tools will reduce the development and support costs for our customers and our support and center of excellence teams Enhanced logging information will help our customers determine performance problem scripts before they are used in production and will help our support and center of excellence teams troubleshoot performance problems in production 166

167 SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) New chopping cart UI integration for SAP SRM with Ariba Network (OCI 5/CXML interoperability) Customers can display the Ariba Procurement Content in the new UI add-on cross-catalog search results Scope Suppliers can upload content in their current supported formats. OCI5 adaptor converts the catalog content to OCI5 format Ariba Procurement Content will be displayed in new UI add-on cross-catalog search results Improved usability User adoption Catalog content in OCI5 format for cross catalog search Ability of add-on customers to take advantage of usability improvements with the new UI add-on and overcome the hurdle of content providers adopting OCI5 167

168 SAP Supplier Relationship Management Usability, process simplification, and new features Enhanced usability, process simplification, and new features Scope Purchase order header conditions in SAP SRM Handling of mandatory fields for free-text shopping Avoidance of horizontal scrolling in shopping cart application One central point for maintaining substitution rules Sourcing cockpit: Redistribution of workload Automatic enlargement of long text boxes Improved usability in processing of shopping carts Reduced amount of manual steps while creating shopping carts (scrolling and mandatory fields) Central access to maintain substitutions Purchasers need to transfer header conditions from sourcing events in SAP SRM to purchase orders in SAP SRM and to maintain header conditions directly in in purchase orders in SAP SRM Increased process efficiency Improved usability Simplified creation of shopping carts Consistent handling of header conditions in SAP SRM 168

169 SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Performance and reporting Leveraging the power of SAP HANA to increase performance and speed. Enhancing embedded reporting and business intelligence (BI) reporting integration. Scope Porting of SAP HANA, including performance improvements: Upgrade to SAP NetWeaver 7.40 Port and test SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management on SAP HANA Improve performance and response times Enhanced embedded reporting incl. display of BI reports: Add additional embedded reports in the area of qualification and classification Build additional extractors to the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse application Enable display of reports generated in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse in SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Better performance and enhanced reporting functions Increased productivity due to improved response times and overall performance More transparency, single source of truth for all suppliers, and category information 169

170 SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Integration and external data Leveraging SAP s strength in integration for process orchestration and syndication as well as status management Scope Process orchestration and back-end integration, including status management: Transfer of supplier status and relevant attributes per classification profile to SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP Master Data Governance Enablement of respective behaviors in connected systems Enhance extractors to transfer respective data to SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse for reporting Standard integration with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B): Enable search of D&B number for supplier registration Integrate D&B scores into scorecard Enable direct access to D&B reports in supplier master Increased governance and compliance for end-toprocurement processes Suppliers status has a direct impact on connected systems Seamless leverage of D&B numbers, hierarchies, risk scores, and reports 170

171 SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Classification and scorecards Enhancing supplier classification and scorecards with additional aggregation, automation, alerting, and integration functions Scope Enhance classification scorecards flexible calculations, aggregation of data, alerting, and interfaces for external data: Enable calculation, weighting, and aggregation of data within the supplier scorecard Build flexible alerting functionality based on data and attributes in several areas within SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management (scorecard and evaluation) Enable integration of external attributes and data into scorecard (spend, evaluation, and hard facts) Transfer qualification data to supplier classification: Smooth integration of attributes and data from supplier qualification into the scorecard Update of scorecard data based on new qualification response More transparency on supplier risk, performance, and capabilities Flexible calculation of internal and external data for increased transparency and sophisticated information management Smooth use of data from qualification questionnaire for supplier classification and scorecards 171

172 SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management Authorizations Enhancing supplier classification and scorecards with additional aggregation, automation, alerting, and integration functions Scope Enable authorization checks within SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management: Enable authorization checks for transactions and data access Enable field-level authorizations within supplier profile Increased governance for system and data access Protect supplier profile in SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management from unauthorized access and define what people can and cannot do in the in the software 172

173 SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA Cross-entity search and contextual navigation in SAP HANA Increased efficiency by finding the right things quickly and in context Scope Powerful cross-application search Contextual navigation capabilities across all SAP Business Suite applications Advanced search features, such as full text, freestyle, and fuzzy search Comprehensive 360-degree view of business entities, enriching transactional data with related information such as analytics based on SAP HANA and further state-of-the-art services Powerful and high-speed cross-application search Freestyle search to find structured and unstructured data across the company Individual search layout adaption Direct navigation to related business entities to complete business process User-friendly search features at in-memory speed Ability to explore the Web of business entities efficiently Amazing improvements of the overall search experience Ability to get key information, business relationships, and links to actions at a glance 173

174 Cross-entity search and contextual navigation in SAP HANA Increased efficiency by finding the right things quickly and in context 174

175 SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA SAP Smart Business cockpit for purchasing on SAP HANA Increased efficiency by finding the right things quickly and in context Scope Access to real-time information and simulations for control and analysis of operational procurement data Insight-to-action navigation to resolve the issues or to optimize the procurement process by proposing alternatives Leveraging SAP HANA to build KPIs from transactional data Flexible compilation of cockpit content Monitoring KPIs and alerts with corresponding actions to solve issues Increased spend under management Ability to react to off-contract spend proactively Stock and goods movement information together in one screen Graphical visualization of goods movements to efficiently spot deviations Interactive correlation between stock and movement information Real-time access to high volumes of purchasing data Fast and complete search across all related business documents Real-time calculation of KPIs and simulations predictive analysis Integration of analysis and operational activities via insightto-action functions No contradiction between OLTP and OLAP reporting due to different data sources or levels of information 175

176 Materials management SAP Smart Business cockpit for purchasing on SAP HANA 176