In times of digital transformation, SAP procurement teams need room for innovation
Markets are changing faster than ever before. AI is finding its way into all areas of purchasing. Real-time data is essential for target-oriented decisions. Adaptability forms the basis for a future-proof SAP procurement strategy. This adaptability can be achieved through the necessary freedom for innovation and standardization processes that enable efficiency but do not act like a corset.
FUTURA Smart adapts to your successfully established processes in S/4HANA - and not the other way around.
That's why FUTURA Smart is an extremely flexible and quick-to-implement solution. With just one system for all purchaser for logging in in the morning: Your SAP system.
No parallel purchasing processes.
No
Shadow systems.
No error-prone
data imports and exports.
Guided sourcing approach
Standardized purchasing processes for all product groups and shopping basket function for items to be put out to tender - thanks to the wizard with clearly timed steps, tendering times in operational sourcing are significantly reduced.
Supplier management
In order to be able to react quickly to procurement bottlenecks or to find alternative suppliers, it is important to have an easy way to expand the supplier pool – and to integrate recently found suppliers into your procurement processes just as easily online.
Sourcing management
The highest level of transparent control is required to ensure that sourcing projects are actively managed at all stages of the request process and to make well-founded decisions.
Multistage sourcing
A tendering project does not have to relate to just one tendering variant. Depending on the procurement object and the market situation, several steps can also be combined to create multistage sourcing.
Smarter sourcing thanks to active management
and transparent control
Track the status and activities of your suppliers in the tendering process. Who has read the tender, with whom is a bid already being processed or which supplier has already submitted it?
Each individual step of your suppliers is displayed in the form of status messages.
Communication with suppliers also takes place via FUTURA Smart - documented in an audit-proof manner.
The price comparison list is the central element in purchasing and makes it possible to compare individual bids with each other in a structured manner.
Automated and individually configurable according to your needs, it is the perfect starting point for negotiations.
You can develop target scenarios for your purchasing strategy on the basis of any price deviations - even across different tendering rounds.
There are often changes in the order processing.
In the order confirmation, you can recognize possible deviations in the order quantity or delivery times. This allows you to react immediately, e.g. change the order or find replacement suppliers.
Finally, you change purchase orders and/or contracts from FUTURA Smart in SAP
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FUTURA Smart is a Futura Solutions solution
Futura Solutions supports companies for which SAP acts as the digital core. We offer agile, feature-rich and easy-to-use e-sourcing solutions that serve as a certified S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement extension. Through the smooth digital networking of internal and external value creation partners, Futura Solutions enables flexible, sustainable purchasing processes.
Since 1997, we have been developing our innovative software solutions on the basis of SAP integration expertise and best practice process orientation.
A future-proof solution thanks to SAP certification
The integration of the FUTURA® Cloud procurement platform in S/4HANA is officially SAP-certified - for on-premise variants as well as for the two cloud variants of SAP S/4HANA.