Central Purchasing (2XT)

S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement Scope Items

Central Purchasing provides centralized access and visibility to processes across industries with a deep integration into the system landscape. It is connected to the customer’s ERP systems and exchanges purchasing documents (such as purchase requisitions and purchase orders) in the connected systems. It also offers central approval process, central portal, central output management, analytics, and responsibility management of product categories.

This scope item offers one platform where a procurement specialist can work centrally on purchase requisitions and purchase orders from different backend systems. Operational procurement processes are not the only tasks to profit from the hub approach. Strategic procurement tasks (such as Supplier Management) benefit from the transparency and the ability to initiate strategic activities from a central digital procurement control center.

Key Process Steps Covered

Maintain purchase requisitions centrally
Maintain and approve purchase orders centrally
Update edited purchase orders and purchase requisitions to the relevant backend systems
Use central purchasing analytics
Detect critical purchase order item overdue situation
React to critical purchase order item overdue situation
Automate purchase requisitions
Integrate with central purchase contracts (optional)

Benefits

Harmonize business processes
Get full transparency over all activities across all backend systems
Provide single data access for purchasers and ability to process procurement activities centrally when in a multi-system environment (for example, editing of purchase requisitions and purchase orders, approval of purchase orders)
Reduce TCO significantly for procurement departments through centralized process

Where is Central Purchasing(2XT) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

As a core function of Central Procurement within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group

Process flow of Central Purchasing (2XT)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Central Purchasing as it is defined for release s4h-2021.

Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Central Purchasing (2XT) - S/4HANA OP

Ref: Sourcing and Procurement of SAP S4H-2021

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