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Supplier self-services (SUS) is a solution that reduces the costs of procurement cycles by improving the exchange of business documents and shortening the time it takes to process the content of these documents. While purchasers use familiar methods to order goods and services, SUS integrates suppliers into the procurement process to a much larger extent.

Using SUS, suppliers do not need their own systems to supply goods and services, but have direct Internet access to the purchaser's procurement system via a Web browser. By this means, they are able to rapidly react to order functions received from the host.

Integration

You can use supplier self–services with the following business scenarios:

  • Service Procurement

    SUS is installed separately, and configured to work together with SAP SRM or SAP ERP as procurement system. From a technical aspect, the connection to SAP SRM represents a standalone scenario with a Financial Accounting (FI) back-end system. Connecting to an SAP ERP system allows the user to collaborate on purchase orders containing service item hierarchies.

  • Plan-Driven Procurement with Supplier Integration

    SUS is installed separately, and configured to work together with Materials Management (MM) as procurement system. This enables the procurement of direct materials. From a technical aspect, this represents a classic scenario with one or more MM back-end systems.

In both scenarios, purchasers can enhance their selected procurement system to grant suppliers access to SUS. As of SAP SRM 7.0 and enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0, purchase orders, advanced shipping notifications (ASN), invoices, confirmations (service entry sheets), and evaluated receipt settlement (ERS) invoices (see the following sections) are transferred using the eSOA interface.

More Information

For information on configuration, see SAP Solution Manager under   Configuration   SAP SRM 2007   Basic Settings for Service Procurement or Basic Settings for Plan-Driven Procurement