Delivering tomorrow’s solutions today!
Copyright © 2008 by Simplifying-IT
About Us
• We provide business and technical SAP consulting services & “add-on” products in the following
areas:
 Requisition to Pay – Enhancing SAP’s SRM & MM functionality
 Catalog Management – Enhancing SAP’s MDM Catalog and converting from other catalog tools
(e.g., Requisite, CCM)
 User Interface – Enhancing the user experience with our new Adobe Flex based UI for SAP
• Each core team member has 15+ years business and technical experience with 10+ years SAP
experience.
• We have added significant functionality to SAP’s MM module and SAP’s SRM system.
• We developed an SRM implementation that is being used as a BPO offering for a Fortune 100
company.
• We have been working with SAP’s MDM Catalog since Release 1.0 and worked directly with SAP on
MDM2.0 development.
• We completed one of the largest Requisite to MDM conversion projects.
• We have completed 20+ Flex applications and have been working with Flex since its first release.
• We offer creative “out of the box” thinking… Our goal is to save you time & money by leveraging your
existing investment whenever possible.
Requisition to Pay
Requisition to Pay – The Problem
Companies continue to face many issues in the Req to Pay space.
Problem
Result
Tool usability issues
 Frustrated users
 Additional time to process a request
 Unnecessary burden placed on purchasing organizations
 Increased training costs
Lack of functionality
 Manual, error prone workarounds
 Fragmented process (different systems to process different types
of requests)
Manual communication with Suppliers
 Time delays
 Inaccurate & outdated information
 Time wasted communicating via phone or email
 Manual re-keying of information
Multiple procurement tools (front-end vs. back-end)
 Additional support costs
 Increased software licenses
 Increased maintenance fees
No on-line catalogs
 Manual methods (e.g., phone, email) to obtain pricing information
 Purchasing departments having to review/complete requests
 Orders being rejected due to inaccurate information
 “Maverick” spending
Requisition to Pay – The Solution
We provide a complete end-to-end Req to Pay solution!
We provide the following:
• Best in Class business “know how.”
• Direction on what tools (e.g., SRM, ECC, MDM, non-SAP) and processes make the most sense for
your organization.
• Answers to your questions.
For example, we have evaluated the following questions countless times:
 Should you use SRM, ECC, Ariba, or Ketera?
 When should you use punch-out vs. internally host a catalog?
 Should you use SRM’s Classic, Extended Classic, or Standalone scenario?
 What will SRM provide you over R/3 or ECC
 How do you best use the strengths of SRM and ECC?
 How should you use a standard classification (e.g., UNSPSC)?
• Enhanced SAP SRM functionality
• Enhanced SAP MDM Catalog functionality
• New Adobe Flex Shopping UI
Requisition to Pay – Enhanced SAP SRM
While SAP’s SRM is robust, we have significantly enhanced it to meet additional customer needs.
Functionality
Simplifying-IT
Native SAP
Enhanced General Ledger determination
Yes
No
Complex question/answer functionality
Yes
No
Enhanced PO splitting rules
Yes
No
Auto receiving
Yes
No
PO based recurring payment functionality
Yes
No
Tax calculations based on the current asset
location
Yes
No
Enhanced Returns functionality
Yes
No
Transaction based scenarios (e.g., lease,
maintenance, software, standard) driven flow
Yes
No
Enhanced Kitting functionality
Yes
No
Requisition to Pay – Enhanced SAP MDM Catalog
While SAP’s MDM Catalog is robust, we have significantly enhanced it to meet additional
customer needs.
Functionality
Simplifying-IT
Native SAP
Enhanced kit grouping functionality
Yes
No
Automated lead time determination
Yes
No
Automated creation of Material Masters &
Purchasing Information Records
Yes
No
Pre-defined Work Flows
Yes
No
Pre-defined Validations
Yes
No
Automated mapping to internal categories
Yes
No
Duplicate data checking
Yes
No
Standard inbound/outbound catalog interfaces
Yes
No
Requisition to Pay – Enhanced Shopping UI
While SAP’s SRM UI is much better than ECC, many users still complain… we have enhanced the
UI to allow Self Serve requesting.
UI Functionality
Simplifying-IT
Native SAP
On-line retail shopping type User Interface
(Web 2.0)
Yes
No
Presentation UI that can include enhanced
MDM Catalog functions
Yes
No
Drag/drop functionality
Yes
No
In-house Catalog is directly embedded into the
shopping application (no punch-out required )
Yes
No
Immediate screen refreshing vs. typical server
calls
Yes
No
Requisition to Pay – A UI Comparison
Simplified-IT UI
Demo Link: http://simplifying-it.net/demos.html
•
Uses MDM content (or other catalog sources) and presents in an
“Amazon-type” user interface
•
Easily customized to meet your needs
•
Can interact with SRM, R/3, MDM, or ECC
•
•
Uses Service Orientated Architecture
Allows shopping from catalog, non-catalog, and punch-out within a
single UI
SRM Shopping UI
Requisition to Pay – Is SRM Right for You?
We can help you decide if SRM is right for you.
• Each company has different business drivers and we can help determine if SRM is the right decision
for you.
• For example, most customers look to SRM for the following reasons:
 An easy to use self serve system.
 Buy-on-behalf of functionality.
 Ability to shop from supplier hosted catalogs.
 Ability to shop from internally hosted catalogs.
• The above items definitely sound like good reasons to go with SRM, but what if you could get all of the
above using your existing R/3 or ECC system? We can show you how!
Requisition to Pay – Shopping in R/3 or ECC
The same UI we provide for SRM, can also be used directly within your R/3 or ECC system.
Requisition to Pay – Benefits We Provide
Our Solutions saves time, money, and help ensure satisfied users.
• More timely & accurate data.
• Using our Accelerators significantly reduce implementation time, resources, and provide structure to
the project.
• Our added functionality meets additional customer requirements and eliminates many manual
activities.
• Our easy to use interface ensures rapid deployment, saves time creating transactions, and helps
ensure adoption.
• Additional benefits using our SAP MM based solution include:
 Eliminates the need for a different (e.g., SRM, Ariba) Shopping tool
 Leverages back-end code and business logic
 Leverages back-end system’s master data without synching
 Leverages back-end system’s transaction data without synching
 Leverages one source system for reporting
 Uses the back-end hardware and database
Catalog Management
Catalog Management – A Companywide Problem
Companies are experiencing catalog problems and this is not just in the Procurement space.
Problem
Result
Paper based catalogs
 Prone to error
 Time wasted re-keying information
Multiple Catalog Tools
 Multiple systems to maintain
 Multiple systems to pay for
 Multiple systems to enter the same data into
No Central Catalog Tool
 No “system of truth”
 Same information being entered multiple times
Inflexible Authorizations
 Inability to segregate data by role
 Inability to segregate data by organizational unit
 Inability to segregate data by business function
Varying Business Rules
 Transactions fail when being sent to other systems
 Edits are performed post entry instead of immediately
during the transaction
Duplicate Data
 Confusion as to which product to select
 Inferior performance
No Audit Trail
 Potential audit concerns when verifying information
 Difficult to troubleshoot issues resulting from changes
SAP MDM Catalog – The Solution
A cross-organization catalog solution.
• While it is true that SAP provides their MDM Catalog solution with SRM for Purchasing, we have
thought “out of the box” and enhanced MDM to support other areas.
• Our Catalog solution allows the same Catalog tool to be used across the entire organization (e.g.,
Purchasing, Sales, Help Desk, E-Commerce).
In addition, we provide the following…
• Requisite to MDM Conversion Accelerators – Accelerators used to quickly convert from Requisite to
the SAP MDM catalog.
• New Implementation Accelerators – Pre-defined Templates used to quickly implement the SAP MDM
catalog.
• Additional Catalog Functionality – New functionality eliminates time consuming and error prone
manual intervention.
• A World Class User Interface – Self Serve, intuitive UI using Adobe Flex that can be used for any
catalog needs.
• Single UI Across All Catalogs – Our solution presents catalog information in a single UI across all
catalogs including both internally hosted and supplier hosted (punch-out) catalogs.
Catalog Management – The Complete Picture
Different options available based on System capabilities & type of user.
User
Supplier 2
Catalog Feed
Catalog Feed
Supplier Network
Supplier 1
Publish/Subscribe or
Other Systems
Real-time call
SAP MDM Catalog
(Central Repository)
Supplier Hosted
(Punch-out)
Catalogs
• Automated validation
• On-line business rules
• WF approval for exceptions
Supplier 3
Direct Catalog Feed
Auto Create (e.g.,
Sales Order, Purch
Req)
Real-time call
Catalog Admin
Auto Create Mat’l
Master & Info
Record
User
Enhanced UI
• Single UI across all catalogs
• Uses back-end business logic
• Drag/Drop
• Browser independent
• Touch screen
• Instant screen refresh
Catalog Management – Why SAP’s MDM?
MDM is a robust tool that can be used across the entire organization and provides the following...
• Single “Source of Truth” across the entire
organization
• Ability to use the same MDM platform for other
areas (e.g., customers, vendors)
• Business rules that can be established to catch
problems in the process
• A single repository that can be used to store all
catalog attributes and data
• Provides a services architecture providing easy
integration and eliminates data replication
• Native “out of the box” integration with SAP
tools
• Flexible on-line approval rules
• Automated Publish/Subscribe (including deltas)
• Ability to easily define slices of data without
• Support punch-out from a customer’s request
duplicating catalog data
• Role-Based Authorization
• Easily customize (e.g., turn fields on/off, add
new fields)
system into the MDM catalog
• Global - 20+ languages supported
Catalog Management – MDM Comparison
How MDM stacks up against other catalog tools.
SAP’s CCM
Requisite
SAP’s MDM
Content Collection
39%
67%
100%
Content Transformation
56%
44%
100%
Content Approval
90%
50%
100%
100%
100%
100%
Publication
67%
83%
100%
Search Experience
87%
63%
100%
0%
86%
100%
Views
Administration
Additional details comparing MDM to CCM and Requisite are included in the Excel File.
New SAP User Interface
New SAP User Interface
Engaging UI for SAP.
• Procurement is not the only area in which users struggle to complete a transaction in SAP due to
usability issues.
• We have the answer.
Our UI solution….
 Provides an engaging world class UI that provides a workflow to support the way users work.
 Can be used to support virtually any area within SAP.
 Is easily changed to meet your specific needs.
 Provides additional functionality not natively supported within the SAP environment.
 Provides cross-system integration (“mash-up” functionality); taking information from many
disparate systems and presenting to a user in a single common UI.
 Provides ready to use templates that can be easily changed to meet your specific business
needs.
Improved SAP User Interface – Example
A Second UI Example… EH&S Incident Management.
EH&S App.
•
Incident Mgt Application that
can run on SAP R/3, ECC,
or a non-SAP system.
•
Hard to believe this UI is
sitting on top of an SAP R/3
4.7 system.
Demo Link: http://simplifying-it.net/demos.html
Customer List
Partial list of customers our team has worked with.
Copyright © 2008 by Simplifying-IT
Contact Information:
Mark Kenney
[email protected]
214.552.4511
www.simplifying-IT.net