SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management

Product Information

Product

SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management

Release

2.0 Support Package Stack 4

Based On

SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and higher

Note Note

To install SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management, specific support packages of the underlying components are required. For more information, see the Release Information Note (RIN) 2268093Information published on SAP site, or contact your SAP Account Manager.

End of the note.

Documentation Published

April 2016

Documentation Corrections

For corrections and updates to SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management documentation, see SAP Note 1723078Information published on SAP site.

Use

SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management covers the entire supplier lifecycle, from supplier registration to supplier qualification, supplier evaluation, supplier classification, activity management, and supplier data management. This allows you to increase transparency, reduce costs, and build sustainable supplier relationships.

SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management supports the following business processes, which you can implement selectively by activating the related business functions:

For more information, see Business Functions.

SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management is split into the sell side and the buy side. Potential suppliers and suppliers operate only outside the firewall, that is, on the sell side, whereas employees in your company only operate behind the firewall, that is, on the buy side.

The following graphic displays the high-level architecture of SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management. Your architecture is determined by the processes you actually use. The graphic below displays how the components are connected, independent of the deployment options offered. For further details, see the Master Guide for SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management at http://service.sap.com/slc-instInformation published on SAP site.

You can access SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management using either the Portal-independent navigation frame (also known as SAP NetWeaver Business Client) or SAP NetWeaver Portal. If you choose SAP NetWeaver Portal, you must install the relevant business package. For more information, seeNavigation and Business Package for SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management

Integration

You can deploy SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management as follows:

  • In standalone mode, based on SAP NetWeaver 7.4

  • As an add-on to SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP Supplier Relationship Management 7.0

  • As an add-on to SAP enhancement package 8 for SAP ERP 6.0

You can also deploy SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management in a system landscape in which an SAP ERP system or a Master Data Governance (MDG) system is used as a central system for managing supplier master data.

More Information

  • For more information about implementing SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management, see the Master Guide for SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management at http://service.sap.com/slc-instInformation published on SAP site.

  • For more information about configuring SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management, see SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/slcInformation published on SAP site Start of the navigation path <release> Next navigation step Configuration and Deployment Information Next navigation step Configuration Guide End of the navigation path.