Shortfacts - November 2017

E-Procurement goes S/4

In one of the world's first innovation projects for a global service provider with over 12,000 employees, the connection of an e-procurement suite to S/4 recently went live. In the process, the previous procurement landscape of a US provider was replaced by a bundle of WPS4, Catalog Cloud and Meplato Business, thus laying the foundation for the digital transformation of procurement. Following the global rollout in over a dozen countries, Procurement will be able to use completely new, agile and innovative processes and functions. The interaction between WPS4 and Catalog Cloud not only enables shopping basket optimization across all connected content sources in one system, but also enables procurement to digitize its product range and supplier strategies and map them on a system-based basis. Meplato Business rounds off this picture with the strategy-compliant provision of coordinated product ranges in numerous European countries.