

negotiated payment terms, entities the supplier will transact with). address, bank information, tax information) but also internal information defined by the buyer (i.e. Leverage data collected through on-boarding: Supplier on-boarding consists of multiple questionnaires collecting not only information from the supplier (i.e.

Let’s explore 2 key requirements we are seeing continuously across the market:

Throughout the market we are now seeing a primary need whereby organisations want to enable suppliers in their enterprise systems and have them ready to source and transact, automating the process where possible. In our first blog we explained how SAP Ariba SLP can be leveraged by organisations to onboard suppliers and how it can be used to facilitate supplier relationship management and align to an organisations overall business partnering strategy. Importance and benefits of enabling suppliers in operational systems: We will deep dive into some of the common architectural options when integrating SAP Ariba SLP and also share our experiences of common challenges, recommendations and Deloitte accelerators. In this second blog of the series about effective Business Partnering we will explore how SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Performance (SLP) can be utilised to enable the supplier master data creation process.
