Catalogs as the Center of Procurement Compliance
Contracts are often depicted as the linchpin between Strategic Sourcing, the processes that generate value and competitive advantage for companies, and Operational Procurement, the execution phase...
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Real Life Customer Story: Mobile Shopper Scenario
Think of your younger days when Mom left a blank shopping list on the refrigerator door. If you opened the fridge and saw the milk was running low or you opened a cabinet and something was missing,...
View ArticleWhat's the difference between internal and external catalogs?
Catalogs will drive compliance to your company’s contracted and approved suppliers, but what type of catalog is best, internal or external catalogs? Although the question seems basic on the outset,...
View ArticleWhat is Level 2 punch out and how is it used?
Do you want to give your employees a familiar and intuitive online shopping experience, but don’t want to manage catalogs? In my last blog I talked about internal versus external content and a best...
View ArticlePrivate and Public Marketplaces - How does my Catalog Work for Me?
How does a marketplace benefit my company? Not only does a marketplace drive compliance to existing supplier relationships, but also it is an opportunity to benchmark those relationships and...
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Guiding Users to the Right Services Processes Using the Catalog
Services processes in tactical purchasing is a challenge because not all services are alike. Services require flexibility to deal with the unknowns, but control to manage spend for what accounts for...
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Shopping Cart transfer using BAPI_PR_CREATE
PurposeSRM calls the BAPI - BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE for creating Purchase Requisition from Shopping Cart in classic scenario. CL_BBP_BS_ADAPTER_RQ_CRT_470 is the adapter class used to make this BAPI...
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Minding the Internal Store – Catalog Practice
If you have been around procurement long enough, you know the catalog’s role for buying from external suppliers. I have discussed in past blogs how the catalog is used in most companies for employees...
View ArticleReal-time Analytics is Great if you have Great Data - It Starts with Catalog...
Like most, you probably get very excited seeing slick dashboards that visibly present your procurement activities, process metrics, and alerts. One of the key value propositions for a transactional...
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SRM and POWLs (Scenario: Shopping Carts POWL for Team Shopping Carts)
How to: hide / show a previously hidden POWL query?This can be done either through a straight forward set of screen shots without understanding anything or by going through a little bit of everything...
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