Even though I’ve written at length about SAP’s procurement portfolio earlier this year, paying particular attention to recent developments in the P2P (i.e., SRM) and E-Sourcing arenas, I thought it worth spending a few posts providing an update on how SAP is positioning its broader suite of procurement capabilities, and how it is going to market with them. In this first post in this series, I’ll touch quickly on how SAP positions its overall procurement-solution portfolio. To kick this off — and before passing any judgment on the merits of SAP’s overall strategy and solutions in this area — it’s worth quoting SAP directly on how it views its solutions in this area.
To wit, SAP’s procurement portfolio is aimed at providing “a closed end-to-end process loop between sourcing and procurement [that] enables critical transparency from savings identification to the delivery of realized savings.”
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