Enhancing Supplier Relationship Management with SAP SRM

by Sachin Sethi

This book gives you a detailed and practical understanding of the essentials of SAP SRM, including its functionality, new product enhancements, and best practices for optimizing this key solution. The author examines how SAP SRM automates processes between sourcing and procurement within the enterprise and across the supply base, thus increasing supply chain visibility, while yielding close-loop insight into global spending.

By reading this book, packed with valuable implementation strategies and methodologies, you can drastically enhance your existing procurement and supply chain efficiency. In addition, you'll quickly develop a much deeper understanding of the most critical issues related to SAP SRM upgrades. Packed with exclusive tips and tricks, practical examples, and expert analysis on the changes in SAP SRM 5.0 and 6.0, this book also helps you better understand integration issues and SAP SRM interactions with core SAP R/3 components such as MM, FI and HR. You'll also get clarification on where and how SAP SRM fits into a corporate landscape and you'll learn the ins and outs of strategic purchasing, operational procurement, integration, implementation, and performance reporting with SAP NetWeaver BI, plus much more. This book is your comprehensive guide to understanding how you can use SAP SRM to enhance procurement in your company.

675 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007