Sourcing and Contracts
Reduce costs and mitigate risks while fully realizing negotiated savings
Standardize source-to-contract processes across the organization as you identify savings opportunities and find new sources of supply.
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Product Overview
Commodity classifications
Collect and combine spend data and classify it with taxonomies based on customized terms or industry standards unique to SAP.
Enriched supplier data
Gain insight into your supply base, find sourcing opportunities, and optimize negotiations based on Dun & Bradstreet data.
Built-in machine learning
Enable fast, accurate supplier enrichment and commodity classification with large data volumes, as well as ongoing refreshes.
Fast analysis and reporting
Achieve faster data loading and accelerate reporting without data-size barriers by using SAP HANA.
Integrated services
Maximize your ROI with application, project management, and adoption support and guidance from deployment strategists.
Guided sourcing
Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.
Process and workflow management
Use powerful management and savings-tracking technology to speed up sourcing cycles, boost productivity, and track savings.
Support for multiple RFX types
Create “request for” events and competitive bidding environments to save time, compare choices, and make informed decisions.
Savings pipeline and tracking
Use an optional, pre-integrated app for tracking and reporting savings for insight into what’s working and what’s not.
Two solution editions
Choose the standard or lower-cost base edition, a “lighter” version that can kick-start your digital transformation journey.
Collaborative negotiations
Make negotiations more efficient to accelerate contract cycles, identify revenue opportunities, and minimize revenue loss.
Centralized contract repository
Keep better track of your contracts with secure, electronic storage capabilities and search tools for on-demand access.
Contract processing workflows
Control contract authoring, negotiation, approval, and execution with automated workflows and a comprehensive audit trail.
Powerful search and reporting
Avoid missed deliverables and milestones while eliminating maverick and redundant contracts.
AI-driven contract intelligence
Maximize contract value using advanced insight and monitoring from Icertis to align contract performance with business goals.
Simplified category spend profile creation
Enable users to create comprehensive category 360 profiles quickly.
Guided strategy and plan development
Provide industry standards-based guided strategy frameworks and system recommended opportunities.
Outcome monitoring and execution
Cascade opportunities for effective execution while monitoring KPI performance.
Streamlined, automated processes
Free up resources to focus on value creation with automated category strategy creation and management.
Consistent category frameworks
Use a consolidated category taxonomy for purchasing that provides a uniform framework for classifying goods and services.
Guided sourcing
Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.
Process workflows
Drive efficiency with flexible project management tools, including integrated workflows, document management, and approvals.
Category management
Define the project processes, activities, and tasks you need, given the category, geography, and business units involved.
Integrated contract management
Improve control and compliance with capabilities for authoring and approving contracts, a clause library, and workflows.
Integrated supplier management
Employ capabilities to qualify suppliers, streamline onboarding, monitor performance, and mitigate risk on a single platform.
Project management tools
Use electronic, template-based tools to get bids and issue awards with integrated workflows, approvals, and documentation.
Materials dashboard
Monitor sourcing needs with innovative and configurable dashboards for materials and bills of materials (BOMs).
PLM and retail solution integration
Share data smoothly by uniting product lifecycle management (PLM), material and product information, and vendor management.
BOM and recipe collaboration
Collaborate with key suppliers to boost innovation, improve design for manufacturability, and control costs.
Integrated contract and supplier management
Create contracts automatically, qualify vendors, streamline onboarding, and manage supplier risk on a single platform.
Automated project initiation
Enable demand and sourcing projects to be triggered by purchase requisitions acquired from multiple back-end systems.
Sourcing project management
Facilitate project and event creation, management, and execution for materials that are part of available material masters.
Automated negotiation processes
Achieve greater efficiency with options for multiple rounds of renegotiation and support for flexible pricing conditions.
Access to material masters
Help ensure the automated creation of sourcing award documents, such as contracts and POs, complies with terms and conditions.
Supplier management and collaboration
Manage supplier lists to receive bids from the right suppliers and integrate with supplier portals to ease collaboration.
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What are analysts saying about spend management solutions from SAP?
Find out why industry analysts have repeatedly named SAP a Leader for our comprehensive procurement solution portfolio.
2023 IDC MarketScape on Sourcing Applications
This report, when taken together with IDC’s procurement report, identifies SAP as a solution leader in improving the entire source-to-pay process.
2023 IDC MarketScape on Procurement Applications
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