To allow users to interact in real time with SAP Ariba, Acxias is setting up chatbots on Teams.
Historically positioned on the Procure-to-pay transactional process, most ERPs are not optimized for the management of indirect purchases. For these purchases, generally delegated to a very large population of prescribers and end users, with very varied profiles, a specialized solution provides more flexibility and latitude.
To complement Ariba's decision-making features (data collection, analysis, reporting), Acxias offers more advanced models designed using SAP Analytics Cloud, Qlik or Tableau.
After the successful stabilization of its SAP Ariba platform, following a longer and more complicated start-up than expected with another provider, Burger King Quick Service has just renewed its confidence in Acxias by entrusting it with its corrective and scalable TMA.
To address ETIs and SMEs, specialist publishers have chosen to move forward in stages. Their challenge: to propose quick and easy-to-implement solutions, at a controlled cost, that is, much less than projects carried out by the major accounts.
HomeBlogBriefSAP's digital purchasing market
23 September 2020
According to IDC, the global market for digital purchasing solutions increased by 6.6% in 2019, to $5.6 billion, down slightly after the +11.4% recorded a year earlier. Leading the seven publishers totaling half of the cumulative turnover.
HomeBlogBriefSAP Digital Supplier Network launch
10 September 2020
SAP announces the launch of Digital Supplier Network (DSN), a solution that allows ETIs and SMEs using SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA to digitize the supply chain and financial exchanges with their suppliers in a matter of weeks at a lower cost, including the ordering process, consumption forecasts, logistics monitoring, electronic invoice (tax dematerialization) and downstream payment tracking and optimization.
On the Procure-to-pay (P2P) process, the digitization of purchases guarantees medium-sized companies gains often amounting to millions of euros within 2 to 3 years, with action levers at several levels.