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SAP Supply Chain Execution Solutions: IM, WM AND EWM - Which Solution is Right for You?
There are currently three options available for the SAP user who wants to optimize warehouse processes, including inventory management (IM), warehouse management (WM) and the latest development, extended warehouse management (EWM). This white paper describes those three options to help you determine which option best meets your organization needs.

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Norway’s Leading Furniture Chain Selects CIBER to Implement ERP Solution
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OmnitransCIBER has completed the $7 million Phase II implementation of software solutions and services for Omnitrans, a San Bernardino transit agency. The two-and-a-half-year project included the implementation of SAP ERP 6.0 application and SAP BusinessObjects™.

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Supplier Relationship Management

In today’s highly competitive world, managing your sourcing, procurement and supplier relationships isn’t just important. It’s essential. Strong procurement management directly affects your bottom line: reducing the cost of purchased goods and services increases profitability even without increasing sales. The Aberdeen Group recently reported that it takes an increase in $5 in sales to equal the same impact as a $1 reduction in procurement costs.

SAP™ Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) offers a broad range of tools to manage all aspects of your purchasing and your relationships with suppliers, vendors and other trading partners.

Managing Spending, Managing Success

As the world’s leading Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) system, SAP SRM gives you the tools to automate and manage every facet of supplier relationships within your entire enterprise. You’ll be able to achieve sustainable, repeatable savings; generate value through enterprise-wide supply management; simplify and automate procurement; collaborate more effectively with vendors and suppliers; and integrate strategic practices for supplier qualification, negotiation, and contract management through a single analytical framework.

A well implemented installation of SAP SRM will allow you to:

  • Monitor and manage spending throughout your organization
  • Compare vendor prices
  • Evaluate supplier performance
  • Identify duplicate contracts
  • Collaborate with suppliers
  • Measure compliance with your organization’s procurement policies
  • Manage and reduce costs

SAP SRM also offers the convenience and simplicity of being web-based, making it universally available for use within your organization and by your suppliers. SAP SRM can be used as a standalone application or combined with any back end Enterprise Resource Planning system to create a powerful environment to control every aspect of procurement – purchase orders, receipts, invoices, compliance monitoring, spending analysis, vendor-relationship management and more.

Closing the Loop for Better Management

Included in SAP SRM’s broad span of purchasing activities, is the support and management all tactical and operational purchasing activities. SAP SRM closes the loop between sourcing and procurement so you can realize negotiated benefits. An outline of the key capabilities of SAP SRM includes:

Supply Strategy Development

  • Demand aggregation & planning
  • Portfolio analysis
  • Purchasing strategy planning
  • Category and program management
  • Online auctions
  • Catalog creation and management
  • Supplier access for integrated purchasing processes

Purchasing Control

  • Who are my top vendors?
  • How much maverick buying do I have for specific products?
  • From which suppliers did I buy specific products?
  • For which product categories did I spend most?

Spend Analysis

  • Global spend
  • Compare vendor prices
  • Identify duplicate contracts
  • Evaluate supplier performance
  • Compliance monitoring

Gaining Financial Visibility

SAP SRM is designed for companies to gain more control of their purchasing and procurement organization because it provides company-wide visibility across all financial activities. With SAP SRM, our clients have been able to achieve substantial results not only from financial benefits such as lower cost of capital management and standardized purchasing processes, but also from operational improvements such as procurement automation, and supplier collaboration.

Additional benefits of SAP SRM include:

  • One-stop shopping throughout your enterprise
  • Measurable ROI improvement
  • Improved sourcing strategy
  • Compressed cycle times
  • Reduced processing costs
  • Lower unit prices
  • Improved communication with suppliers
  • Maverick buying is eliminated
  • Easy access at all levels within your enterprise and among suppliers

Why CIBER for SAP SRM?

CIBER offers true business consulting services to analyze and optimize your procurement processes and data. The Purchasing Evaluation Program (PEP) was designed to be an application and system independent analysis of the processes and data sets used by the purchasing organization. By concentrating on the process and data, and not the application, a truly objective evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities is developed. Using experienced purchasing analysts that have a deep understanding of procurement issues and methods, the outcome of the PEP is a detailed analysis highlighting the areas of excellence and identifying solutions to help improve areas of deficiency. The PEP analysis has not only enabled organizations to better understand their purchasing processes, but also to reduce the amount of time and effort required during the blueprint phase of a future SRM implementation.

Once you’ve decided to use SAP SRM to manage your procurement activities, CIBER is the ideal implementation and integration partner. We provide end-to-end project implementation, including end user training, solution-set documentation (process maps, specifications and test documentation), and post go live system support. We’ll convert your data to work within SAP SRM and, if you choose, install the tools and processes to automate the communication of your purchasing data sets with your supply base.

Our highly professional staff has experience with all SRM scenarios (standalone, classic, extended classic) and SRM components [catalogs, contracts, supplier self-service (SUS) and auctions], and ECC systems. We also can provide SAP SRM Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to meet your SRM reporting needs.

System Integration Beyond SAP

Our integration and implementation expertise is not limited to SAP systems. CIBER is experienced with interfacing and connecting non-SAP systems and technologies. Our past projects include integration with multiple non-SAP backend systems and B2B processing with third party B2B providers. Whether your backend system is SAP ECC or a non-SAP system, CIBER is your partner with the knowledge and experience with complete end-to-end system integration and implementation solutions.



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