"Benefits Realized" With SAPDAY Sourcing and Procurement

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SAPDAY assists Our Customer across various industries to define the journey of their digital transformation enabled by SAP Ariba and help Our Customers realize and sustain the value from the implementation and ongoing support. We have accelerators for value realization and KPI formulation frameworks in the industries of focus. A typical SAP Ariba landscape with SAPDAY delivers strategic benefits across these value drives.

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• Supply Chain Innovation

  • ​Use data as an insight generation engine for new products and services designed around Your Customers

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• Supply Chain Connection

  • Engage with external partners and collaborative platforms connecting assets, people and processes

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• Supply Chain Analysis

  • Leverage analytics and what if supply chain scenario modeling to enhance operations and add value for Your Customers

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• Supply Chain Configuration​

  • Build the capability to micro segment Your Customers, supporting multiple flexible and sustainable supply chains that leverage external partners​

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• Supply Chain Operation​

  • ​Engender a supply chain as a service mentality through a dynamic, intelligent operating model and data led adaptable workforce

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Deployment Options

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SAP Ariba source to pay solutions can handle all your sourcing and procurement activities, including indirect and direct spend. Historically, customers leverage SAP Ariba as a solution for indirect spend but that has changed with the SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Spend. Integrate seamlessly with your PLM, ERP, and SAP Integrated Business Planning systems.

From a procurement deployment perspective, customers have 3 options:

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SAPDAY has experience advising Our Customers on developing the right architecture for any combination of the above options. We also assist Our Larger Customers on how to successfully migrate Direct Spend to Ariba to optimize their overall spend as a part of their S/4HANA journey or to augment their existing SAP environments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Agile Implementation Methodology

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There has been a surge in the deployment of cloud based procurement solutions over the past decade. Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, many organizations began to look at technology in order to lower Total Cost of Ownership, produce a quicker Return On Investment, shorten organizational process cycles and much more. However, the technology will only provide these benefits if deployed successfully and be adopted by Your People. There are 3 simple rules to follow to ensure that the SAP Ariba solutions are deployed successfully:

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1. Establish clear and measurable goals

2. Define sourcing and procurement processes, KPIs & Operating Model that complement SAP Ariba

3. Identify the main Ariba users in the company from the various teams

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SAPDAY brings a proven and agile approach leveraging SAP Activate to help your organization achieve ongoing performance improvements.

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SAPDAY Agile and The Four Pillars of Success

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SAPDAY approaches digital sourcing and procurement transformation enabled with SAP Ariba in a holistic context using an Agile Methodology. With sourcing and procurement transformation there are four pillars for success. SAPDAY leverages industry best practices, experienced teams & agile approach to enhance adoption and "Benefits Realized". These pillars lead to a nimble, cost effective and organizational focused approach to your sourcing and procurement program with predictable outcome.

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• SAPDAY leverages industry specific experience gained in past projects to help our future sourcing and procurement customers. We help Our Customers increase adoption of the SAP Ariba solutions by designing simple processes and by developing comprehensive training guides

• SAPDAY's highly experienced process and industry experts help guide Our Customers to explore, adopt, use and realize value from digitization of their source to pay activities

• SAPDAY utilizes an Agile methodology for implementing the SAP Ariba solutions. Review and test configurations as they take place, planning and adjusting where necessary. Incremental Go Lives of each module to quickly begin value realization and Return On Investment

• SAPDAY provides stakeholder alignment and management with our decades of industry experience in enabling processes and technology to deliver on time, on budget and exceed source to pay program expectations

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Key Sourcing and Procurement Learnings

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SAPDAY work with Customers around the world and across all industries on successful transformations enabled by the SAP Ariba source to pay solutions. Some of our key learnings from our experiences include the following:

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Develop Your Sourcing and Procurement Strategy

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• Define the overall digital transformation strategy linked closely with your organizational strategy

• This is an Organizational Sourcing and Procurement transformation, more than a technology transformation

• Focus on simplifying the user experience from a process and end to end organizational source to pay perspective

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Funding Your Sourcing and Procurement Strategy

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• Digital enablement requires high level of collaboration between sourcing, procurement, technology and your project management office

• Return On Investment from digital enablement are mostly realized across organizational functions and requires source to pay user adoption

• Full business case includes Payback Period, NPV and IRR Analysis across organizational source to pay scenarios and deployment options

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Right Teams Across Sourcing and Procurement Processes

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• Assign full time sourcing and procurement process owners across your organization to establish standardized processes and to achieve continuous performance improvement

• KPI alignment across processes and roles are essential to achieving the targeted ROI from these initiatives

• Instill common sourcing and procurement processes across organizational segments and geographies to enhance value capture

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"Benefits Realized"

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• Develop an open, and transparent culture to defy status quo and develop a sourcing and procurement digital mindset to innovate

• Leverage power of data and insights to drive growth, efficiencies and make real time decisions across Your Organization

• Data Profiling and Conservative Spend Benchmarking across Spend categories is essential for initial and sustained value capture

 

How Do You Get The Journey Started With SAPDAY

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SAPDAY uses an Agile approach to align the transformation program with Our Customers organizational strategy to develop both a short term and longer term journey map to quantify value and align stakeholders towards that journey.

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The deliverables of SAPDAY's Agile approach include:

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• Assessment of current state and the sourcing and procurement strategy

• Assist Our Customer to develop and prioritize an end to end sourcing and procurement value map and align them to their organizational strategy

• Establish the governance and stakeholder map for your "Benefits Realized" across Your Organization including roles and responsibilities

• Enable a program team of sourcing and procurement process owners and SAP Ariba Technology experts within Your Organization required for program success including a sustainable plan

• Detail and align roadmap of short term and long term implementation plans including costs, budgets and "Benefits Realized"

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SAPDAY Ariba Project Management Expertise

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From planning to completion our SAP Ariba Project Managers straighten the complexities of source to pay projects through proven project guidance. SAP Ariba projects can be complex and require intensive management. Our SAP Ariba Project Managers drive Your Project from beginning to end and helps you to accelerate their journey towards sourcing and procurement digitization. Our SAP Ariba Project Managers cover the development of extensive project plans and leads both your and our teams to both successful delivery and "Benefits Realized". Covering more than 30 Years experience SAPDAY Project Managers will define, develop, manage and deliver quality audits and testing into every project.

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SAPDAY Ariba Integration Experience

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Ariba integration allows customers to connect their Cloud and ERP systems (SAP or non SAP) with the SAP Ariba platform. This integration reduces the number of manual tasks and streamlines the loading of master data, as well as transactional data.

Customers with an SAP ERP system such as ECC or S4/HANA are provided with standard packages. In these cases, SAPDAY configures a cloud integrated gateway as middleware for the integration with SAP Ariba. Currently, there are no standard integration packages for non SAP ERP systems. For these customers, we design custom middleware solutions based on the needs of each organization. Your SAPDAY integration consultants have plenty of experience with both scenarios and can implement a seamless SAP Ariba integration for all organizations.

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Sourcing and Procurement Process Know How

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SAPDAY bridges organizations and SAP Ariba to maximize the strength in the business case for SAP Ariba. SAPDAY's Sourcing and Procurement Experts will be involved in the strategy, planning, design and oversight of the construction of your sourcing and procurement approach . During the process of defining the scope, SAPDAY's experts will determine the requirements based on the business case of your new SAP Ariba or enhancement of your existing SAP Ariba solution. These requirements are discussed during design workshops together with You.

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SAPDAY's Experts will design and document your sourcing and procurement processes according to the outcomes of the workshops. Our Experts often work as part of a team that may include sourcing and procurement experts, business analysts and functional experts. SAPDAY's Experts regular tasks are broken down to 4 core items:

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• Gain as much knowledge as possible on the sourcing and procurement processes and the design of current sourcing and procurement flows

• Work with Our Customer representatives to evaluate Their Customer demands, which they then turn into a logical and functional business model

• Build something reliable which will not impact Your Suppliers or Your Customers

• Bring the concepts of reusability and sustainability

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SAP Ariba Technical Ability

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SAPDAY's technical experts possess extensive SAP Ariba application and architecture experience focused on organizational sourcing and procurement outcomes. SAPDAY's technical experts are involved in implementing the design produced by our Sourcing and Procurement Experts after a detailed review with Our Customers.

SAPDAY's technical experts become heavily involved when there is scope for SAP Ariba configuration. Our SAP Ariba Experts  have the followings skill-set:

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• Knowing the end to end architecture of SAP Ariba

• Extensive knowledge of scripting, data services, mappings, and markup languages

• Logical skills and creative ideas always help in optimizing SAP Ariba and not to over complex the architecture

• Refined methodologies to always renew the current designs which increases system performance

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SAP Ariba Training from SAPDAY

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Level Up Your End to End Knowledge of SAP Ariba

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Our SAP Ariba Training is composed of theoretical and practical components. Your People will get advanced training in Source To Pay processes and receive the credentials for an actual SAP Ariba realm to practice their skills. The training sessions are focused on three target groups. Namely, recent graduates looking to increase job opportunities, professionals looking to uplift their SAP Ariba knowledge, and Your Experts from other areas looking for insights into advanced SAP Ariba expertise. The course will be led by SAPDAY consultants, who have extensive experience with SAP Ariba within the landscapes of small, medium and global organizations.

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How Does Our SAP Ariba Training Work

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SAPDAY offers the SAP Ariba Training in numerous formats:

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• Standardized course

  • Consists of an in depth course into Source To Pay. After this training, participants have an overall understanding about the end to end Source To Pay process within SAP Ariba, including system configurations. Participants will be able to configure Ariba buying, invoicing and guided buying. In addition, we introduce Ariba Procurement and a session on implementations and roll outs. On top of that, students get access to an actual SAP Ariba test realm to gain hands on experience.​

 

• Tailored training course 

  • Up skilling people in advanced and specific SAP Ariba modules or features. Training in advanced SAP Ariba skills such as supplier lifecycle management, SAP Ariba Sourcing advanced features, contract compliance, strategic sourcing etc.

 

SAPDAY is a global SAP consulting firm, with deep expertise in SAP Ariba solutions having assisted customers across multiple industries in their sourcing and procurement transformation journey. Armed with decades of sourcing and procurement consulting know how and SAP Ariba experience, SAPDAY's experts operate at the intersection of organizational process and technology. SAPDAY move nimbly to help organizations understand risks, refine processes and then put in place powerful sourcing and procurement approaches to help them reach their organizational objectives. SAPDAY's tested sourcing and procurement methodologies, playbooks, templates, assets and accelerators for delivering outstanding sourcing and procurement solutions that will help you get to results swiftly in any industry and in any market.

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