Integrating SAP to legacy systems for large Fortune 100 consumer goods company
Client Profile
The client is a Fortune 500 enterprise software company that provides design software for semiconductor companies all over the world. The company uses the SAP SRM suite of products to harmonize and manage the indirect procurement of goods across multiple vendors, covering a number of categories.
Business Situation
The client uses SAP SRM to manage its indirect procurement process for a number of categories. However, there are a lot of manual processes involved in integrating the catalogs from external vendors to host within the SRM solution and managing the flow of orders and approvals between SAP SRM and the external vendor, causing errors and manual rework.
Solution
Radiant designed a cXML-based punch-out solution that allowed for the punch-out from the client environment to go to the external catalog, browse the catalog, add products for purchase, send for approval within SAP SRM, and then send the order back to the vendor for execution within the vendor’s system.
Benefits
- The current catalog from vendors is integrated into the client system and is always available for buyers.
- Uniform and structured buying process.
- Covers multiple aspects of the purchasing process: secure punchout, catalog browsing, approval, and purchase workflow.
An integrated system for the entire workflow led to multiple benefits.