Integration of Procurement with External Suppliers (2EJ)

For purchasing organizations whose suppliers use traditional data exchange protocols like electronic data interchange (EDI), or in Two-Tier scenarios, where subsidiaries are on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, this scope item provides a set of robust application programming interfaces (APIs) to simplify and automate exchanging procurement documents and their follow-on messages.

The following documents and functions are supported:

Procurement Process:

- Create, change, cancel purchase order (outbound message)

- Receive purchase order confirmation (inbound message)

- Receive Advance Shipping Notification (ASN, inbound delivery message)

- Receive supplier invoice (inbound message)

Return Process:

- Create return purchase order (outbound message)

- Receive return purchase order confirmation (inbound message)

- Receive supplier invoice: Credit Memo (inbound message)

The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messaging protocol is supported.

You can enable B2B integration with the corresponding Integration of SAP S/4HANA Sales with Procurement (2EL) scope item.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Create, change, or cancel purchase order
• Send purchase order to supplier
• Receive purchase order confirmation from supplier (optional)
• Receive advance shipping notification from supplier and process inbound delivery (optional)
• Receive invoice or credit memo from supplier
• Perform customer return process

Benefits

• Experience higher degree of automation in exchanging procurement documents with suppliers
• Reduce time and manual efforts in corresponding with suppliers
• Increase productivity, performance, and work satisfaction of procurement professionals and accounts payable accountants
• Save costs for paper, postage, mailing, records management
• Enable higher degrees of scalability with process efficiency gains

Where is Integration of Procurement with External Suppliers(2EJ) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

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

Process flow of Integration of Procurement with External Suppliers (2EJ)

• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA On Premise *1
• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA Cloud *2
• Best Practices of SAP Analytics Cloud *2
• Best Practices of Robotics Process Automation(RPA) with SAP Leonardo *2

• RISE with SAP
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP on Azure
• Business Process Management