The purchasing department of a company faces the challenge of ensuring quick and easy access to all information relevant to the assessment of suppliers. In practice, the required data is usually not available in a uniform manner, but is distributed across many different systems. This makes the compilation of information intransparent, time-consuming, inefficient and error-prone.
To remedy this, IBsolution and apsolut have developed the Supplier Performance Dashboard based on SAP Analytics Cloud. It aggregates the central information for purchasing and presents it clearly in a single interface. The Supplier Performance Dashboard combines apsolut’s many years of expertise in supplier management and IBsolution’s extensive technological know-how in the areas of business intelligence and master data management. The result is a solution that significantly simplifies the day-to-day work of purchasers.
The standard elements of the Supplier Performance Dashboard are divided into seven areas: supplier overview, summary at supplier level, supplier data, spend, hard facts, soft facts and 3rd party data. Hard facts are key figures that are determined on the basis of qualitative data, while soft facts are derived from surveys backed by scores.
The contents and display methods are a best practice that corresponds to the experience gained from numerous implementation projects and is intended to show possible functionalities of a dashboard in SAP Analytics Cloud. A customer-specific design of the dashboard is usually required and is also possible without any problems. Almost all SAP and non-SAP systems can be connected via open interfaces.
The Supplier Performance Dashboard creates a central system for all supplier-specific data. The purchasing department has access to exactly the information it needs for its supplier management. In this way, companies use SAP Analytics Cloud to keep an eye on the relevant facts and get more out of their supplier-related key performance indicators. The Supplier Performance Dashboard whitepaper is now available for download free of charge.
Click here to download the whitepaper “Supplier Performance Dashboard” (available in German).
apsolut is an SAP and SAP Ariba partner for on-premise, cloud and hybrid procurement solutions. The company’s expertise ranges from SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass to SAP S/4HANA. Founded in 2005, apsolut Group has quickly made a name for itself as a pioneer in SAP-based eProcurement. apsolut is an SAP Gold Partner, a multiple award-winning SAP Ariba MEE Partner of the Year, a development and innovation partner of SAP, and a member of United VARs, the global alliance of leading SAP solution providers.
IBsolution is a consulting company specializing in SAP with headquarters in Heilbronn and additional locations in Germany, France, Bulgaria and Switzerland. The company sees itself as an expert for all SAP topics in the areas of business analytics, master data management, identity management, security, digitalization and cloud computing. And it has been doing so since 2003 – independently and owner-managed. More than 200 dedicated employees at IBsolution create solutions that inspire both business and IT. Customers receive business benefits packaged in fixed price packages, nearshore offers and innovative products that ideally complement the SAP portfolio.