Supplier Management in SAP

SiDM Vendors

Better data, better processes.

Creating vendors in SAP CAN BE EASY. If they participate directly, filling their data and documents in a portal, reducing transcription times and risk of errors. And then, for you, only validations, automatic filling of fields and approval flows

Main functions

Business rules

allow you to define the correct way to create vendors, keeping the know-how within the company.
It is possible to create rules for critical fields that can be determined automatically.
Create approval levels per participant along the process flow.
Define required and mandatory fields for requests, determine mandatory tax numbers for each country.
Define restrictions on duplicate fields by VAT number or name.

Requests from vendors

Users can register in SAP or in the Fiori App, their requests for supplier registration, modification or extension.
It is possible to configure all the types of request needed (e.g.: national, foreign, carriers, etc.).
Define fields (standard, non-standard, optional and mandatory) to be filled in by the user and the vendor in the request form.
Establish different creation/approval flows, levels and required fields for each level.
Attachments requested from the vendor with instructions.

Validation of duplicates by Tax ID and/or names

Reports

Essential reports for analyzing and querying the status of master data

Vendor detail:
To visualize any vendor master data grouped by organizational level, without the need for ABAP reports, queries or access to audit-sensitive transactions.
Summary of modifications:
considering the importance and sensitivity of the vendor master for any organization, it is possible to visualize all changes made to any field, indicating the date, user, previous value and new value, for any analysis or audit.
Analysis of requests:
Evaluate the number of requests, grouped by different criteria (company, month, user, reason, type and duration of processing of each request).

Benefits

Learn about the advantages of implementing our apps

For the IT department

Easy to implement

It only requires importing the installers and transporting each client, like any SAP change. In the case of the portal, it can be served as SaaS for ease and speed, or on a client’s FES (Front-end Server), if required.

Secure

With SAP standard authorization objects and some of the App’s own authorization objects, it ensures that control and segregation of duties is maintained through SAP standard user and role management.

Improves audit compliance

Organizations can demonstrate compliance with appropriate processes for managing sensitive and critical master data.

No maintenance or support

With the Warranty, Support and Upgrades service, Innova is responsible for maintaining compatibility with the latest versions of the system, as well as support and clarification of doubts with the end user.

Reduce development requests

Requests for development of reports, queries and queries are reduced or disappear.

For the entire company

Better data,
better processes

Master data is essential for any efficient business process, for adopting any technology and for decision making. In the case of vendors, it involves a commercial relationship, which implies greater sensitivity and it is necessary to ensure its consistency and accuracy.

Fewer hours of support and remediation, lower costs.

Vendors with errors can cause financial risks, costs for legal fees and support hours to fix the problem. With SiDM Vendors you secure vendor registration, saving valuable master data and support team hours, as well as reducing outsourced support costs.

Know-how in the application

Forget about manuals or documents that nobody reads. The correct way to create vendors is registered in the business rules, inside SAP, and to be adopted automatically.

Duplicate or outdated vendors, financial risk alert

Clean and optimize your data today! Reduce the risk of bank data errors, accounting misclassifications or data duplication.

Schedule your DEMO

Easy to know.

In 30 – 45 minutes we present you our solutions, online.
So you can see in detail how your processes will be optimized in SAP.

Architecture

The solution has an ABAP component within SAP (ECC or S/4HANA), and two front-end components that can be securely served from our VPC in Amazon web services:

SaaS Architecture

The easiest and fastest option. From Innova we take care of deploying and serving the front-end component from our private cloud in Amazon Web Services, and you are free of installation, updates and maintenance. Communication via VPN site to site or SAP webdispatcher is required.

Requirements:

SAP ECC version 6.0 or higher, up to the latest version of SAP S/4HANA.
Site to site VPN configuration or SAP Webdispatcher.
Possibility of web service publication from SAP ECC.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to your most common questions here.

English and Spanish. However, it can be translated into any language required by the client within approximately one week.

Yes, you can create all the fields used in your current forms that do not correspond to existing fields in SAP (e.g., country or industry-specific legal classifications).

No, with the purchase of the application, any SAP user can use it according to the assigned permissions. Vendors do not have access to SAP; therefore, they do not require a license, and there are no additional costs for the company.

Yes, confirmation, rejection, return for correction, and even SAP’s sensitive data approval functions are provided after the vendor’s creation.

Yes, users are notified via e-mail according to their level in the approval flow. All users, including the requester, can be notified when the supplier is created.

Yes, they can create requests for vendor registration, blocking, unblocking, extension and modification.

No, SiDM Vendors is designed to manage vendor master data within an instance in SAP ECC.

Innova has SiDM BP which would be the corresponding application to manage the new SAP concept of Business Partners where it merges customers and vendors in the same master data. If you already have the SiDM Vendors App, commercially you would only have to buy an additional year of GSA service (maintenance), which corresponds to 15% of the value of the App. Technically, it would be repeating the simple implementation steps, and you will have Innova’s support to migrate the business rules that apply to BP.