Supplier Classification and Segmentation (19E)

Supplier Classification and Segmentation (19E)

This scope item helps you gain a portfolio-level view of your supplier relationships. It also gives you the transparency to continuously determine the right mix of suppliers, serve your business objectives optimally, and to reduce your overall supply risk. You can classify and segment your suppliers by multiple criteria. This enables you to identify suppliers in a flexible manner, as well as to define and monitor sourcing strategies.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Create classification scorecard for supplier
  • Create purchasing categories
  • Search suppliers via assigned attributes

Benefits

  • Create a strategic approach to supplier management
  • Maximize value and minimizes supply-based risk
  • Support powerful searches using all strategic attributes as parameters
  • Enable multiple classifications per supplier using flexible dimensions (for example factory, category, region)
  • Provide analysis needed to identify valuable suppliers

Where is Supplier Classification and Segmentation(19E) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

  • As a core function of Supplier Management within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group

Process flow of Supplier Classification and Segmentation (19E)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Supplier Classification and Segmentation as it is defined for release s4h-2021.


Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Supplier Classification and Segmentation (19E) - S/4HANA OP
Ref: Sourcing and Procurement of SAP S4H-2021
Best Practices related to S/4HANA*1) Yearly Updates are released per September of each year
*2) The Quarterly updates are released per Februari, May, August and November
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