Drive down Direct Spend efficiently with SAP Sourcing Simulation & Optimization

SAP Sourcing Simulation and Optimization on SAP Cloud Platform is a real-time decision-support and management tool for commodity managers in Discrete Industries to drive down direct materials spend efficiently, leveraging SAP Leonardo. It comes with out-of-the-box integration to your SAP ERP and the Ariba Network. This session will provide an overview and demo of the latest 1902 release.

Speakers
Ulf Petzel, SAP

Timestamps

• 3:30 – Direct materials single biggest cost driver
• 5:20 – Why care? Direct spend savings have an exponential impact on net income
• 6:40 – Direct spend as an optimization problem
• 9:25 – Characteristics and magnitude of the optimization problem
• 12:20 – Component price re-negotiations today
• 15:30 – Solution overview
• 17:55 – Workbench – define, analyze, and optimize price re-negotiation of a list of parts
• 18:55 – Process flow / key integrations
• 23:00 – Paradata integration
• 24:00 – Paradata sourcing dashboard – address by exception in the workbench
• 25:25 – Live demo
• 40:35 – Component price re-negotiations with SAP
• 43:15 – Q&A