Issue

The purpose of this Key Decision Document (KDD) is to elaborate on the solution recommended to manage indirect procurement process on the new S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition SAP ERP system.

Recommendation

Background & Context

Currently, all indirect purchases for both goods and services are handled in SAP SRM7 that works with both ERP systems. EZBuy platform that is built on top of SRM7 offers an “Amazon like” experience and serves as the gateway to Ariba Catalogs. Here, shopping carts for non-stock catalog items are assembled and then sent back to SRM7 for the approval and ordering processes to proceed.

Ariba Catalogs are utilized by 14 countries, encompassing a total of 200 internal non-stock material catalogs and 140 punchout catalogs.

However, the SRM7 application is reaching the end of its lifecycle and is not included in SAP S/4 HANA. Its Shopping Cart functionality was replaced with the S/4HANA Self-Service Procurement functionality based on the Purchase Requisition document.

Assumptions

Constraints

Impacts

Business Rules

Options considered

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Evaluation

	Option A	Option B	Option C	Option D
Criterion 1	Pro Con	Pro Pro	Pro Con	Pro Con
Criterion 2	Pro Con	Con	Pro Pro	Con Con
Criterion 3	Pro	Con	Con	Pro

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