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Strategic purchasing with SAP Ariba – Digital purchasing solutions for medium-sized businesses

A seamless purchasing process thanks to end-to-end digitalization

Our approach

The challenge

Shorter product life cycles, rising consumer expectations of transparency, global competitors, and e-commerce all demand efficient and flexible processes and a new way of thinking about business strategies. Legal regulations are becoming ever more restrictive and the demand for standardization, certification, and quality management is steadily increasing. You need an integrated network that brings purchasers and suppliers together. That's how to enable seamless business processes!

Our SAP solution for purchasing

By offering outstanding integration of the processes in SAP S/4HANA  and existing SAP ERP environments, SAP Ariba and SAP Ariba Network combine to create ideal purchasing processes through hybrid system usage.
SAP's integrated purchasing solutions enable you to comply with operational, contractual, and legal regulations to the letter. In addition, you'll be able to collaborate with your business partners based on increased trust and controlled expenditures. Precise forecasts will also improve your ability to conduct efficient price negotiations.

Ensuring the success of your transformation

    • We identify potential improvements in your processes while performing analyses of process costs and resource bottlenecks.
    • We use our individual methods and software to implement lean processes at your company.
    • As a medium-sized consulting company and SAP Gold Partner, we'll provide our consulting services to you on equal footing as you select the SAP solution that best suits your needs.
    • We guarantee attractive prices and up-to-date licensing models that are geared toward medium-sized businesses.
    • In addition to support from a dedicated service manager, you'll benefit from comprehensive license management.
    • Scheer performanceREADY gives you access to more than 5,000 best practices from a range of industries.
    • Use preconfigured SAP systems to define your own particular process landscape for the future.
    • The scope and content of your project will be transparent from the word go. Reduce risks and achieve a faster ROI through efficient projects.
    • Concentrate on your core business while we take care of your IT and we'll reach your goals together – whether it's on-premise, in the cloud, or a hybrid arrangement.
    • You'll benefit from our cloud services and can book extra resources as required at any time.
    • Our 24/7 support is here to answer all your technical questions and help you get the most out of your solutions

Scheer Boxes

Sourcing Roadmap Workshop

Current challenges

  1. Do you want to automate and digitalize your operational and strategic purchasing?
  2. Do you need an overview of SAP Ariba?
  3. Do you want to know your options in order to make the right decisions?

The solution

Workshops tailored to your specific situation, with documented results you can use

The benefits

  • Overview of SAP Ariba
  • Development of a roadmap for implementing SAP Ariba
  • Timeline
  • Cost estimate for the implementation effort and licenses
  • Determination of open items and definition/assignment of work packages
  • Sound foundation for carrying out additional planned project steps
  • Get to know Scheer's unique and proven methodology

Effort

2 days

Price

Starts at €5,000

Get your consulting package at an attractive price now.

Digital purchasing

Current challenges

  1. Increasing dynamism in purchasing
  2. Technological change
  3. High demands in terms of flexibility and speed

The solution

  • Collaboration with digital suppliers along your supply chain with SAP Digital Supplier Network
  • Simple, affordable access to the largest B2B supplier portal
  • Native integration with SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC

The benefits

  • Long-term concept for reducing costs in purchasing
  • Knowledge of digital potential in purchasing with regard to process costs and compliance transparency, which helps avoid “maverick buying”

 “The Digital Purchasing Scheer Box helps buyers continuously react to increasing market dynamism. Scheer delivers a package of measures that can be implemented quickly. As a result, you'll be able to assess the solution's added value in no time.”

– Sven Haustein, Head of Spend Management

Implementation time

5 weeks

Price

Starts at €14,000

Get your consulting package at an attractive price now.

SAP Digital Supplier Network

Current challenges

  1. Slow, error-prone, cost-intensive processes for exchanging business documents that suffer from media fragmentation
  2. Employees are involved in a typical invoice process, resulting in redundant invoice processing and delayed payments
  3. Uncertainty with regard to order confirmations, shipping notifications, and delivery status

The solution

  • Collaboration with digital suppliers along your supply chain with SAP Digital Supplier Network
  • Simple, affordable access to the largest B2B supplier portal
  • Native integration with SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC

The benefits

  • Shared use of business documents in real time, which reduces operating costs and the time required for administration
  • Transparency for suppliers and customers within a single network portal
  • Streamlined processes and configurable business rules result in greater productivity in your purchasing and financial accounting departments

 “SAP Digital Supplier Network is the world’s largest B2B trading platform. When you have Scheer handle your implementation, your solution will be ready to use quickly and deliver a high ROI in very little time. You’ll benefit from optimized processes and high productivity.”

– Sven Haustein, Head of Spend Management

Implementation time

Approx. 3-12 weeks

Price

Starts at €19,000

plus any necessary SAP licenses

Your expert

A profile of Scheer employee Ann-Julie Wasmer

Ann-Julie Wasmer

Expert for SAP Sales

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