Soultion Scouting Bootcamp - Architecting the Future of Procurement

Dr. Niladri Bihari Nayak walks through solution scouting for oil-and-gas procurement, mapping SAP tools like S/4HANA and Ariba against competitors including Coupa, Oracle, and GEP Smart across ten capability areas. The bootcamp shows how to use AI copilots to organize this landscape in mind-maps and color-code AI-driven features.
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Welcome back everyone. So let me then get started with our topic again. So we're talking about the procurement side of it, the solid. So let me go back to the solution scouting segment, which is we will be focusing on. So let me go there and the stream. If you have missed our previous session. Okay, AI solutions. Wherever the AI solution is there, you'll be finding. So this is where we are having talked about already sourcing procurement, operational procurement side of it. Now we will be going for the next one is your procurement collaboration. Okay, so operational procurement we understood, this is the solutions we are having it. Okay, now we will be in this green line of this metro map, we will be going to procurement collaboration. Okay, so if you go to the procurement collaboration, so you will be seeing what are the solutions available for this particular topic, particular capabilities, right? So if you go here, inside this we are having the other solution which is focusing on Your procurement collaboration, and what are the capabilities? These are the different capabilities. Okay, so we have these many capabilities. Okay, so and solutions point of view, we have the same S/4HANA Public Cloud editions, supplier quotation management, network procurement, SAP Business Network for procurement, SAP Business Network for supply chain, then BMS. Okay, and there is also partner solutions. We are having something called Smart App One. Right? And these are the capabilities: procurement contract collaboration. These are all collaboration topic because they're focusing procurement collaboration, right? And you will be finding here as well, here this one. So this is also, this is part of your procurement collaboration. So easy. So to understand this thing, right? So we can see procurement contract collaboration. Okay? So these are different solutions we are having. Order collaboration. We do have then sourcing collaboration. What are the kind of collaborations we will be having? Invoice collaboration, right? And these are possible collaborations which you'll be having here. So now if I go for procurement collaboration, from a procurement collaboration point of view, these are the capabilities we are having here. So what I will be doing is more from a procurement collaboration point of view. So if you see here, uh, from a procurement collaboration's point of view, procurement collaboration is all about this. Right, so if you go back to our AI, so our ChatGPT or whatever. Now let's say operational procurement. So we will be previously talked about this, right? So now, so we will go here. This is the operational procurement we understood in general. Okay, so this is what exactly we will be talking about. Collaboration, the operational procurement. We have a procurement collab. Okay, so these are different, different, uh, you will be having capabilities, the different business capabilities we are having here. Okay, and we will be going for diagram. So whatever we have, lot of collaboration happens. If it is not there, it will be again a pain, right? It is very difficult to manage all those things, right? So in typical setup, right? So for the reason, the procurement collaboration will be having different kind of collaboration. So we will be doing a— maybe we'll be also doing a mind map here. So from a procurement collaboration's point of view, so what I will be doing, I will also creating a mind map parallelly for you so that it will be easy for you to remember or create all of these things, because it is easy for us also to capture, to understand. So whenever doing solution scouting activity, in this boot camp, in this particular sessions. So you'll be understanding also in detail about it. So this is solution scouting, and again, this is an awareness session. This is not an implementation session. For implementation session, I always invite you to our boot camp. Join our boot camp and you will be understanding all those details in depth, and we'll be focusing there. Okay, so from a procurement collaboration point of view, let me say this is from a procurement collaboration. What are the different topics we be having here, and we will be seeing that as well. So let's say operational procurement, we already talked about, right? So already, let me go back. People who do not understand, again, you are joining for the first time, operational procurement point of view, these are the different solutions we are having that I told to you, okay? And these are different capabilities we are having: central purchase order processing, central purchase requirement processing, central purchasing source assignment, requisitioning, requisitioning guided buying, guided buying We have different products: lease and contract management, operational quote management, purchase order processing. All these are operational activity. Purchase requirement processing, purchase sourcing, purchasing source assignment, e-commerce trading, order management, self-service requisitioning. Okay, self-service questioning requisitioning for contingent field glass work. Okay, VMS, vendor management system. These are the activities, or these are different modules which support Putting here, so these are all part of your particular this collection. So I will putting all this in the GICS sector and in sector point of view these are solutions. So I will just putting here all this box I'm taking in. Okay, I'm putting into my GICS sector collection. So I'm creating a collection out of it. So these are possible product we will be evaluating. Okay, and whichever is the best we will be those solution capabilities we will be evaluating here. So from operational procurement point of view, these are the different collections. So these are the different capabilities we have captured here in our— this collection sheet, collection folder, right? So I'm still capturing all of these things, you will be finding here directly. So this is for entire energy sector and exclusively for oil, gas, and energy, okay? These are the collections we are making in, okay? And this is for our— so what I will be doing is as an easy-to-do activity, in this we will be capturing here and we will be having a whiteboard and inside that we will be having a mind map. So we will be doing this activity as a new project. So we already talked about the end-to-end procurement value stream earlier, if you remember that, right? And procurement value stream and process flow overview already we have talked about, okay? Total value stream is having a four, five core stages: need identified, supplier selected, PO created, goods received, invoice match. This is the typical mapping. Okay. Then inside that we have vendor master management, we have pricing, contract, demand and ordering, logistics and finance. Okay. These are different process mapping. And from an enterprise architecture point of view, we are having again. So these are different point of view we have seen it. Right. So now taking in the next step here. Okay. From a Document point of view. Okay, so what we will be doing here in this activities, we will be also talking about the solution. This is a solution scouting activities we are doing it, right? So I will say solution scouting. Okay, so solution scouting we are doing it here. So let me do that here at this activities. Okay, solution scouting. So let me say solution scouting. Okay, so this is an activities which we're doing here, solution scouting. Let me do that. So in the solution scouting, we are having, uh, today we're focusing on oil energy sector. Okay, that is a GICS sector 01. GICS01, energy sector, and inside that we are talking about oil, gas, and energy. Oil, gas, and energy. So just give me a minute, my WhisperFlow is not working somehow, so let me check it out a little bit. Settings. Auto change. I will change to Lenovo. Just a minute. Yeah, let me try again to speak. Oil, gas, and energy. Okay, so this is— yeah, now done. So oil, gas, and energy. And inside that, what we do have, we have already talked about. So the oil, gas, and energy inside this What we had is first thing we have seen here in this is the operational procurement, right? And operational procurement, what we have seen. First of all, let's capture it. Operational procurement. Operational procurement. Then the next one is what we do have. The next one is we have here is procurement collaboration, procurement collaboration, right? And then we will try to understand the next part here is procurement contract management, procurement contract management. Okay, so it didn't understand procurement, procurement Okay, so procurement contract management is there. Now we do have the next one, next capability. So next in the cycle we will be having here is procurement planning and analytics. Procurement planning and analytics. Procurement planning and analytics. Okay, this is done. The next one we have here in this mind map, services receiving sourcing, services receiving. Then we have a sourcing, sourcing here. So this is how actually I'm— so it is not understanding anyway, sourcing. I will just put it here. Okay, so let me type it out only. Sourcing we have already have. Then we have here is supplier claims and returns management. Supplier claims and returns management. Yeah, this is perfect. Then we do have what? Supplier invoice management and supplier management. Okay, so this is what we have. Okay, okay, supplier invoice management, supplier invoice management. Then we do have here supplier management, supplier management. No supplier. S-U-P-P-L-I. Supplier management. So supplier management side of it. Then we do have next last is travel and expense management. Travel and expense management. Okay, so now I think we are done with this side of it from an oil and gas energy— oil, gas, and energy sector point of view. How many are there? We have seen operational procurement we are having, then we do have a procurement collaboration, then we have a procurement contract management, okay, and we do have then procurement planning and analytics, This is what we have next. Then we have services receiving, okay? So we'll try to again figure it out which are the solutions we are scouting here, okay? And not only limited to SAP, we will be going beyond SAP as an architect, okay? So SAP solutions are the best, but still we will be also checking out what are the other possible solutions in the market. We will be also evaluating, okay? So for each and everything, okay? So this is what exactly we'll be planning to do for each and every sector, each and every industries, and more or less similar will be coming up. But still we will be evaluating as a doing our market research and following the competitive analytics. Okay, so all these things we'll be doing here. So these are the things I think we are done. So we will just fixing the sizing and all. So this is overall we understood procurement collaboration, procurement Contract management, procurement planning and analytics. We do have then services receiving services. You have sourcing. Then we do have your supplier claims. So we'll finding it out what are the solution the best for which of the criteria. Okay. So now we'll be doing here what an activity here. So we will started with operational procurement right in the operational procurement. What we have seen, right? List down the solutions. So parallelly, we'll be utilizing also here your copilot, so that it'll be easy for us to you know get it out. So let's see. These are solutions which you have already talked about operational procurement, right? And this operational procurement is what doing what? This is what exactly the topic side of it. I will be going here operational procurement side of it, right? So operational procurement what we have seen inside this. I will be preparing updating the notes here. I will be adding my notes. So this is what exactly operational notes, so that it will— AI will be understanding this thing, right? And I will see, first of all, before we go to the solution scouting, I will say that list down the leading products which will be helping in operational procurement for an oil and gas and energy sector. All right, let's see. And it is not limited to SAP, by the way. And we would be seeing, uh, whether it is whatever we have having as our— so we are doing an external market research for this. And which is the product? Meanwhile, okay, it will be checking in, and then based on that, we will be also evaluating activities. However, we are doing any of the solutioning, okay, before each and every capabilities or so, you can see how we can optimize your entire procurement process, your operations, another efficiencies, okay, all the things, okay. So again, you can say that, okay, as you have a supply to your top-line visibility, compliance, streamlined process for goods and services acquisitions. The idea is here to cost saving, improve vendor collaboration, resource allocation, a seamless management procurement lifecycle through digital unification, okay. And as I said that we will be having— we are not limited to SAP So we will be having there are different solutions. We will be finding these are different possible solutions. You can see SAP Ariba, we have S/4HANA, we have SAP Fieldglass. Okay. Again, similarly, Aviva has its own solution. SAP has its own solution, right? These are SAP solutions. There are Aviva solution. There are Oracle also has its own solution. There are so many things. Okay, there are different again. We are having a core suite. Okay. कोल गैस स्पेसिफिक ओके दें आल्सो हैव मेंटेनेंस एमआरओएनएसएस एंट्री प्रॉपर्टी मैनेजमेंट वी डू हैव हेक्सागोंस मार्केटप्लेस एंड कैटेगरी स्पेसिफिक भूतविवरण वी हैव कुपाव ओके सो दिस इज़ व्हाट वी आर टॉकिंग अबाउट लेट मी सो अगेन सो वी आर टॉकिंग अबाउट लेट Let me go back to the mind map. Okay, so let's see that. So let me share my screen once again. So from a solution scouting point of view, as I said that we are not limiting to the SAP solutions, although that is on our priority list, but we will also understand in the competitive marketplace. Okay, so from a supplier collaboration marketplace point of view, you can see there are so many other tools also— GEP Smart, Coupa. So it is a homework for all of you to check all of these solutions and are they better than SAP, or are they, you know, what are their unique capabilities, or is there any niche, uh, things they are doing it which SAP is not doing it. Again, this is research activities for all of you. Okay, so this is what exactly you have to do. So you can figure it out. Similarly, field operations point of view We do have inventory logistics procurement point of view. These are different products we do have. Digital procurement point of view, now we have field operations point of view. We do have Honeywell, Schneider. We do have a digital procurement point of view. We have SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Palantir. This is also very good tool. I have seen, I have evaluated one of once upon a time. I have evaluated this product also for one of the major clients. Okay, so you can see that this is the comparison and SAP is leading here most of the cases. You can see that, but this is what exactly. So strongest will be SAP S/4HANA procurement, SPRE, Fieldglass, and if you're having any plant and all, they're recommending Hexagon like that. Okay, so what it is saying that because already we have a value stream, right? So we also have to map it to a value stream like an architect, right? So what I will be doing here now, let me go here and check it. So let me see, just a minute. Yeah, so now in this I will be also trying to map it to a procurement value stream. Yes, map it to procurement value stream. Okay, so it will do that. Let's see that procurement value stream. So let's see that how it is mapping this entire thing now. Okay, so now let's go to the next part of it. So what it has done from a procurement value stream's point of view, okay, what it has done is the mapping has been done for operational procurement. This is the what value stream-wise we are having here, then we would be seeing here another solutions directly. So this is operational procurement of the products, we already talked about it, right? So let me go to the last part of it. Okay, so for each and everything actually you can see that, yeah, this is the mapping table aligned with your value stream node, okay, which are the leading products and which is actually इट सुपोर्टिंग तू दिस पर्टिकुलर सल्यूशन यू कैन सी दैट राइट? फॉर सोर्सिंग, ओके, यू कैन सी दैट ट्रेवल एंड एक्सपेंस मैनेजमेंट डेफिनेटली एसएपी कॉन्कर, कुपा एंड ट्रेवल एंड एक्सपेंस, ओके? सो इफ़ आई गो तू आवर एसएपी सल्यूशन स्काउटिंग, ओके, सो यू कैन सी द कंपैरिशन I will see that. Okay, so let me see. Okay, so this is what we have. AOR. So I will be creating a ready-to-paste mind map. So yes, mind map notes. Okay, so we'll be putting that into our AOR map. Okay, so let's do that activity, and meanwhile we'll be checking out all of these things. So this is, yeah. So what we will be doing is, so this is already we have listed and we are not limited to SAP by the way, as I told to you, right? And because the vendor scouting whenever we are doing or any kind of solution scouting we are doing it, right? We do usually in this way, okay? And now what I will doing, I will putting this node, this copying this thing, okay? And now what I will do here is we go back to our activities into the IOM mind map. In that mind map, exclusively for operational— this is for operational procurement we are talking about, right? In general, I am talking about this. So ready to paste for entire hierarchies, okay, for each and everything. So let's say for operational procurement I am talking about, then this is what exactly the hierarchy. These are difficult solutioning we will be having for this particular topic. Okay, so now what I will do, so for this, okay, so now this is the solutions for, uh, from an operational procurement point of view. Later point of time we will be aggregating over this, okay, but from this angle, okay, what I will do, I I will be putting here into this category. So this is first of all we'll be understanding this, and later point of time we will be capturing this as well. So now what I will do, I will put it here for operational procurement. These are the solutions, okay? So I will go one by one, okay? And later point of time I will be coming once again, okay? So now what I will do, operational procurement point of view, this is the solutions, and I will be putting here add a mind map here. So add a mind map and okay, so now inside this I will be creating— no, I will not be creating, rather I'll be adding here directly. Okay, so this is the solution. No, I think it will be not like this. Add a mind map. Okay, so I will be using AI here. Okay, so I will putting AI here for operational procurement, and this is what exactly it is summarizing, and this is what exactly we want, isn't it? So I will summarize— I will putting in the chat, by the way, this is not summarizing. And so I will putting in the chat here. Okay, operational procurement has a In this thing, okay? And I will putting here. Then let's see what is happening. So this four five things whatever we have seen, okay? It will be putting here, okay? And you can see the detailed notes here also. It has captured here. That means under operational procurement we have S four Hana and we have SAP ID buying and invoicing. We have Hexagon Smart Materials another. Option, IB maximum also can do that, infer also can do that. Okay, so these are 5 things we have put it here, possible thing. We're just doing a scouting here, right? Okay, so now these are 5 things we are having here. Now what we will be having again, uh, the further details you can see that what exactly each and every product will be doing here, you will find here. So those details we are not going now, okay? But from a mapping point of view, so now what we will be be going here is the next part of it in the solution scouting itself. What we have done, uh, for operational procurement, we have already done it, okay? And also what are the other possible solutions, okay, they are saying, we will be also capturing here, okay? So now this is the one. So we will see that SAP recommends this, okay? So we will see how exactly we'll be doing here. Ctrl+C. So for operational procurement So first of all, let's capture all the things together from overall. Then we will be going to SAP and other specific things at a point of time. So from a procurement collaborations point of view, I will be again putting AI note here, and let me put the notes here so that it will be capturing the entire thing here. So what I will do, I will go to procurement collaborations, and inside this I will be adding a mind map here. So I will go to AI here also. I will putting here the details. SAP Ariba Supplier Collaboration, Coupa also has its own supplier portal, GP Smart also has its own supplier portal. So I will putting here these details also. Similarly for each and every nodes we will putting here. So what exactly SAP Ariba Supplier Collaboration is doing, Coupa Supplier Portal what it is doing, and GP Smart. Okay, all these things we are putting here as the 3 branches. Okay. So this is from a procurement collaboration point of view. So I will be removing this empty node, and latter point of time we will be understanding each and every section once we go to the detailed part of it. Similarly, from a contract management point of view also, we do have all these things. SAP Ariba Contract, Ariba has its own solution, eValue also has contract solution. There are multiple other solutions, but at least we should be having We should be understanding who is our competitor, who is actually also offering similar kind of a solution. It is good to know— not good to know, even, even you have to evaluate, okay? Because every industry may not be going for SAP solutions, right? So they have their own priorities. And, uh, okay, so for the reason you have to know, understand this, guide those organizations and everything in a positive way, okay? In a more holistic way. So this is not the way I want it. Okay, so I will say that. Okay, so anyway, so let me try this. Okay, and I will be one adding one branch. Okay, yeah, so I can see that here actually it has added three things. Okay, this is a contract management point of view. Then we have procurement planning and analytics point of view. What are the solutions we are having? So these are three solutions we are having here. SAP Analytics Cloud. Analytics Cloud plus Ariba Spend Analysis, Microsoft Dynamics plus Copilot, then Palantir. Okay, so these are the solutions we are having for procurement planning and analytics point of view. Okay, so again, these are not the final thing we are actually evaluating. So we are doing a market research. How do you— I'm just guiding you, how do you do as a— even if you're not having a background of SAP or on any of these technologies, how do you, okay, do all of these things in a later point of time? Try to understand the solution inside of it, but for now this is okay. So this is the idea and we're just putting here in the mind map so that it'll be easy for us to capture all the things together. And these are Palantir, is also streamlining, it's one of the leading product ops in the market I'm aware of. So this is for my procurement planning and analytics point of view. Now next is services. So for service point of view, SAP Fieldglass, Okay, you utilize it for vendor management system primarily, right? So that is pretty much how we use it. So let me go here, the service receiving side of it. Then we have these are the solutions. If I go to AI and if you put it here, these are these different solutions. People who are already working as a field glass, you should be happy about it. It is not an HR limited to HR. This is a different solution. So usually capture it under procurement cycle. Okay, so although many of the times I have seen HR consultant also work in SAP Fieldglass, I have seen that even I have also worked for a while. So then is the sourcing. Okay, so sourcing point of view, we have Coupa, SAP Ariba, all of these solutions, right? So we'll be capturing this as well in our mind map. So let me do that and I will put it here. SAP Ariba, all All the solutions are here, right? SAP Ariba, GP Smart, Coupa Sourcing. Okay, I will be adding all these 3 things. Okay, then we have a supplier claims and returns management. So here we have 2 things here, supplier claims and returns management point of view. We will go here and we will be able to add these 2 things here. Let me add these 2 things. Okay, and, uh, I will be able to add them as 2 branches like this. Okay, supplier management. Aviva also is one of the leading solutions. Aviva, Ariba. Okay, all these are good solutions. Okay, so then we will be going for supply invoice management. We have a Coupa, Ariba invoicing, Coupa invoice automations. So these things are there. Okay, and we will put in here as well. Okay, so We will be evaluating, by the way. This is just a draft we are preparing. This is not the final one, but we will be evaluating and we will be doing this as an activities. Okay, and but at least you should be knowing what are the things they are doing, and that is the idea today's session. Okay, all awareness. You should be knowing what are the products available in the market for different procurement solutions, and you should be aware of it. Supplier management point of view. So we do have here AI again, I'll put it here. Supplier management, yeah, Coupa, Ariba, and all of these other solutions. You can see that, right? So these are 3 things we have here. Add item, one item is a branch, okay? And under this we have 3 things, okay? Then we have a travel and expense management. SAP Concur, if you're having a Coupa solution, we have a travel and expense management there also, okay? So these are the different areas. Now we going to each and every— from an SAP point of view, we'll be looking at how our evaluation is matching or not, or we will be seeing those details as well. Okay, so let me see that. So the first draft is ready, and we will be now evaluating, comparing this thing. Okay, so this is what we— from AI. Okay, so now what I will be doing, I will closing the Copilot here, and now what I will be doing, I will be going to our solution scouting here, and we will also seeing there what are the options they are having here. Okay, so from their point of view, uh, you will be seeing there in operational procurement, these are the solutions they're talking about— SAP Recommerce and all these are mandatory solutions they're talking about exclusively for this particular industry, oil and gas industry. Okay, so now what I will be doing, I'll So from an operational procurement point of view, Okay, so now if I go further, so let's say Central self-service requisitioning. So this is the solutions for here, and you will be finding here the business values. You see that it will be helping you central self-service requisitioning. Okay, this is an Ariba. Okay, so this is an entire solution is an Ariba. So I don't have to worry much. So I just need to check it out what other possibilities are here. Okay, so S/4HANA, Ariba Pay, or spend management— these are the solutions we should be aware of it for this particular thing. All right, so now having said that For this particular thing, we have again central solutions, right? So this is one of the solutions which you are having here, oil and gas and energy specific. And once you do for its one industries and sector, right, to be much easy to do this activities, uh, in the other sectors as well, right? So this will be much easy once you do this complete activity. This is the employee self-service, but this is not SuccessFactors. This is exclusively for your field glass solution. Okay, so this entire thing you'll be finding here in detail, right? This is, uh, I will say that you have to go through it, okay? And you can take a download of it, okay? And check it out, what are the description, what are the details about it. So you can see that this is a product point of view from an overall SAP solution point of view. If you are focusing it, right, this is the entire thing they are talking about. Okay, so what I can do, this is also From SAP solutions point of view, I would be capturing here. We also capturing what are the SAP specific solutions I am having here. Okay, so let's say SAP solutions focused. I will say then I will be adding this branch to here. Okay, so now this is something I got it. Now from here, I will be again adding AI here. So I will put the chat here. These are the details which I got it. And okay, this is the one solution. So now I will put it here, let it create. So what are the business values out of it? So you can see that these nodes now is going here. This is the solution, this is the business value, this is exclusively this solution. So these are 3 branches I am adding here. And I'm just trying it out to capture. So I think it's pretty much easy. Okay, this is one of the things which we'll be focusing on. So I will adding these 3 things, and now we are having here. But ideally this will come under here. Okay, this is the business value. This branch will be coming here. I will cut it here, and let me go back. Okay, so let me pull it out here. So we are doing the solution scouting exercise. Now what I will do here on oil and gas sector operational procurement, we are discussing, right? So if I go further here, so from SAP Solutions point of view, what we are doing here is this part will be cut and we will putting that here inside the— so we will be putting it here. Okay, these are the business values. And for this particular thing, we have— this is the solution to this part, and I will be also capturing. So this is the solutioning, entire solution scouting we are doing today, and we are doing it for an energy sector company, and inside that we are doing it for oil and gas energy sector, and inside that we are doing it for an operational procurement point of view. Inside that, we are having multiple vendors here— IBM, Infor, Hexagon, right? And we will be seeing here in this particular solution first. Okay, so this is the solutions for SAP Fieldglass vendor management system we have identified, and these are different business values we are having here for this particular solution, and the remaining things are pretty much sorted. Okay, so now I will do this activities. So this is the one solutions we have as per the SAP guidelines. We have got it, okay, from the SAP solution scouting point. Of view. Now this part and this part also I will be adding here because this is also an SAP solution. These 2 I will cut and I will be going to SAPs now. I will be adding here. Okay, so, uh, here what happens We have we're talking about S4HANA, Central Procurement, and all of those things. Okay. So now I will be going here in this particular solutions we have. Now. So this is already we talked about all of these things, right? So. So this is one of the factor you have seen, right? And also now the next part is from operational procurement point of capabilities. We're just talking about capabilities today, okay? So other capabilities we're talking about here is, uh, this one, central purchase order processing, okay? So central purchase order processing is for, uh, cloud public. Here we are having here. So if I go here This will be done by which product? You will be seeing that SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition itself, it will be able to do that, right? So we don't need to put anything additional things here, but rather we'll putting in the note section here this entire thing. So from this to this, okay, and we will be capturing here directly. So now we will putting here in the end-to-end procurement and It will be part of S/4HANA procurement itself. Okay, so maybe I will be putting here inside the note section, otherwise this will be too complicated. Okay, let me try this. If it is getting complicated, we will be see that. Okay, so this is, uh, I will be adding here. Okay, so let's see that. Okay, so there are different solutions again we have, and AI offerings also there. So let's try that. What happening. So this is how exactly it has captured business value solutions. AI offering is also there. There is an AI-assisted material group recommendation. So let's see that how it is capturing. Yeah, yeah, so this is capturing well. Okay, so this is actually captured part are different business values, what are different solutions. This is S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition anyway, okay? And also we have AI offerings here. All the AI offerings I will be highlighting here in a different way. So I will do here as a formatting here, and we will be utilizing this color code here. Wherever there's an AI offering, I will be having different color code to it. It's okay, okay. So I will do that, okay. So this is an AI offering is there, okay. So this is, uh, one of the thing we have exclusively for S/4HANA procurement point of view. Then, uh, this is already we talked about this particular thing. Central purchase order processing is one thing, one capabilities. Then another, after understand the purchase order processing, okay, we will be going to the another capabilities. We have purchase requirement processing, okay, this is another thing. Again, you'll be finding this is something, uh, the business value of it. And this is, by the way, upcoming, okay. So there are certain things is upcoming, you will be finding here. Ability to display the approval status of each and every Generate reminders for centrally managed purchase requisition and Jule. So Jule is coming up, okay? Jule is this is an upcoming innovations. Although it is there, but for this particular solution, there's still a roadmap and is also captured by the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. If you're utilizing the public editions, you will be finding this detail here, okay? So if I what I will do, I will putting again this thing into our mind map so that. It will be capturing the gist of it, okay? What capabilities you'll be capturing. And I think this will be coming as again here, this is a central purchase order processing. Similarly, so we have to highlight, by the way, this is a capability point of view, okay? So it's very specific. We will be highlighting this is the capabilities and this capability will be helping us to do this activity, okay? So here also I will be putting another thing here. And this AI thing, I will be putting in the AI and it will be creating a mind map below that for us. Okay, so let's see that how exactly it is doing. So one is a purchase order, so there is a purchase requirement processing. Okay, these are all central. Okay, and we will be capturing here directly as a branch here. Okay, so this is the thing we have. Central Purchase Requirement Processing. Okay, so I will— I think I got a question, what is the difference between these 2? Okay, so let's do an AI activity for this. We'll try to understand what exactly it is doing for us and what is difference between these 2, right? So if you do not know anything about it, so you can go to Gemini or anything right-hand side. If you're starting from new people who are starting. Okay, so you can go here and check it out, right? The— I will be posting it here. What is the difference between central purchase order processing versus central purchase requirement processing? If you do not know anything about it, just you put this to with an example, okay, of an oil and gas sector. So it is taking some time. So anyway, so meanwhile we will be checking the other solutioning. So it will take some time. Let me check it out, the other one. So this is one other solution. So we have seen that the purchase order— this is a purchase order processing, this is the purchase requirement processing. Okay, so now, uh, what we will do here, the next one is, uh, Central Purchasing again, Source Assignment. So we will see that as well. Okay, so this is the second, third thing we will be, we will be coming to this, uh, difference. Otherwise it's an activity for you which you can try it out. Okay, so now the third one is Central Purchasing Source assignment, right? And what are the solutions we are having here? So if you scroll down, maybe Ariba Procurement. Okay, S/4HANA is there definitely, but we also have Ariba Procurement. We have Integration Suite, Managed Gateway for Spend Management, and SAP Business Network for S/4HANA. These are different different solutions. There are two for this capabilities. We are having this set of solutions. Okay, so again we will be doing an AI activities here. So the mind map will be building up and so that it will be easy for us to evaluate all of these things. Okay, it's already done. Okay, but let me do this. Okay, this is under S/4HANA Central Procurement. So I will doing AI activity here. I'll put my chart here, then let it be Okay, so now we have solutions, business value, and all the remaining things whatever we are seeing here today you will be finding directly here. Okay, so now what I will do, I will be going here updating these things in our BizPartner, the possible— so okay, uh, solutioning, and then I will be updating here. So I will be adding all the 3 items here now. So this is now expanding, as I say. But again, what I will do, I will be putting here this one, okay? Central Purchasing Source Assignment, okay? So this is what exactly we talked about, Central Purchasing Source Assignment. This is the capabilities we are having here. This is the capabilities. And now under this we these many solutions. Okay, so this is an overall and more from an SAP point of view, what are the things it can do. Okay, and what are the different business value and what are the different solutions. So we are finding here, okay, mandatory solution is this one, optional is this 2. Okay, so now we will be capturing this here. Let me check if I can do this. Okay, I think this is also doable. Okay, we don't have to cut and paste directly. I will put it here. This is also will go here. Add to branch. Okay, so what we are seeing here, so SAP solutions point of view, and we are having these 2 solutions. One is mandatory, another is optional. So we have SAP Procurement Edition, Cloud Edition. This is the solution. Then we have SAP Integration Suite. Okay, so this is what exactly we need to check again at a point of time. The mandatory solutions point of view, this is the solution, right? So we'll understand because there are so many solutions now. You, I'm sure you must confused if you're for a beginner, right, which one to difference among all of these solutions, right? So that we'll be discussing some other day on another workshop. But today's idea is how do you capture these things in one place, and, uh, more from a knowledge management point of view, more from a research, and, uh, not only limited to focusing on SAP but also non-SAP solutions also. As I said, we are also looking at Okay, so this is what exactly captured here today. SAP Ariba, S/4HANA, self-service field management system, right? Okay, so now inside this we have 3 things we have seen. All right, now another thing we'll be also evaluating, central purchasing sources. And after that, uh, this is one thing we have now. We will be going to the another thing here. This is the third thing we have seen it, right? Central purchase order processing, central purchase requirement processing, central purchasing, uh, purchasing source assignment. Then we have a central self-service requisitioning. Okay, so this is the solutions which we have here directly. So what are the solutions here? So here we have By empowering employees with a guided and automated requisitioning system and centralizing processing control. Okay, this is the offering here. Okay, this is again an Ariba solution, and we have Ariba Procurement here. Okay, so if you see here, uh, here also we have Ariba Buying and Invoicing. We are having it. Okay, but if I put it here— okay, so here we have multiple solutions, by the way. Not only limited to S/4HANA, we have Ariba procurement and all other things we are having here. So if I go further, then let's say I am putting it here. I will be adding the notes here. Okay, so again we have these are different sort. And let's see that mandatory, and there is the all these things we are seeing here. So it will be gaining building up that solution. So this is how for one industry, one thing we are doing it here. So this is the S/4HANA point of view. Mostly we have Ariba solutions here. It will be ensuring you are having a compliance. It will be saving on your direct spend. Okay, and these are possible solutions we are having here, right? And you can see all of these things directly here. Okay, so in this, what you are seeing here is these are the 3 things we are having here. But the thing is, uh, here we do not have a main thing here. So I will go back to the main solutions. Central self-service requisitioning. Okay, so this is the capabilities we are looking at. Central Cell Service Regulation. Okay, so this is what exactly I'll be putting here. This is the capabilities here we have. And if I go further inside this, what you are seeing here, and these 3 things. Okay, so there is a description, the the business value. Okay, there's the descriptions, all the details are here. And this is solutions also. So solutions point of view, from SAP point of view, these are the mandatory solutions only we have: Ariba, S/4HANA, SAP Integration Suite. Again, the similar thing only. Okay, so these 3 things I will bring it here and put it here. Then we have business values. Business values also here, I will put in here. Then the solutioning side of it. So the mind map is little getting complicated, but it's okay. So now what I will do, so I will not expand everything here, so we will be going to the this part only today. We're talking about central self-service requisitioning here only, right? So what solutions we have already, the descriptions we have here, it will be— what are the activities we'll be doing here is actually has mentioned here, okay? And from business values point of view, so we will be capturing that here. And then we do have solutions. So this branch also we will be putting it here. Okay, so this is something we are doing here, the description. So there is a business value out of it and there is SAP solutions to it, right? If I go further, so this is a branch is like this. The mandatory solutions. Okay, this is the SAP solutions we are having here. Definitely these are SAP solutions only. So I don't have to say that it is an SAP solution. So this is already we know that. So I will be deleting this branch and keep the children. And yeah, so this is already we understood. These are mandatory solutions and these are what we are having here. Okay, so I think this is pretty much clear, and we are having the descriptions also like this. Okay, this is your central self-service requisitioning. Okay, and combination of S/4HANA Cloud Public and Ariba. Okay, so that is the offering, the solution point of view, and we are just capturing here. So now at least we understood these are different products available in the market and which is actually helping it. Okay, so here also the description part of it, I will be moving it here to the note sections rather. Okay, I'll put it as a note. So I will be adding that. So let me put that— the notes, by the way, not the text. This is one note anyway. Another note I'll be putting here is a description. So there was a description here anyway. It's okay. So you can see that this is actually coming under this, but again, this is a part of your sourcing requirement point of view, and operational procurement actually is coming here in this picture. If you see that, okay, so if I double-click on that, let me check it out, display. Otherwise I will be canceling this one. Let's not needed. Okay, I'll be removing it. But anyway, at least we understood that for this particular central purchase order, this is the solutions, right? So in this way, I would recommend you continue to do these activities. And, uh, as the next step, what I will be doing is, uh, for each and everything, whatever we are having here in these categories, we'll be having a count also, right? The operational procurement, how many, how many capabilities we have seen? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Okay, maybe this is something interesting, Recommerce. I have not seen earlier, so we will see what are the solutions that happens. SAP Recommerce. Okay, they're having a solution called SAP Recommerce, right? So this is something even many of you might not be knowing it also. If you're knowing it as well and good. Okay, if you want to check it out, you can check it out here. NFT Recommerce, an end-to-end solution for brands and retailers to take back, manage, and resell pre-owned products, supporting circular commerce and sustainable— okay, this is what exactly they are offering. Okay, CRM. Okay, but, uh, here they have mixed up. We need to See that how it is applicable. Okay, okay. So in this way, I would recommend go here and recommend to— if you want to part of, I will highly recommend join our, uh, the boot camps upcoming days. Uh, we have here throughout exclusively to start the Diamond members, and you can come here and you can enroll for any of the programs. So you'll be having an access to this and You will be having multiple different labs and all. Okay, so thank you for joining in and looking forward to see you in the next sessions, in the next procurement webinar. And we will be continuing with the series, Solution Scouting series. It's very interesting topic and we will continue it from here. Okay, so thank you everyone for joining in and we will be seeing you in the next session. Take care, God bless, bye-bye.
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