SRM Business Scenario Overview

In this post we will see the list of SRM business scenarios SAP offers to the customer. This post is just an overviw of the business scenarios SAP offers to customers. We will see much more on the below scenarios in the coming posts.

SRM is implemented in different business scenarios, where SRM acts as a central procurement system. The following are the list of SRM Business scenarios (or) Implementation scenarios.

• Self Service Procurement 
• Plan Driven Procurement
• Service Procurement
• Catalog Content Management
• Spend Analysis
• Supplier Collaboration
• Operational Contracts
• Sourcing with RFX / Live Auction
• SAP PPS( Public Procurement Sector).

All the above scenarios are fit into the following Major procurement process

Operational Procurement

Sourcing

Supplier enablement

Within Operational Procuremnt the following Busincess scenarios comes under this.

1. Self Service Procurement
2. Plan Driven Procurement
3. Service Procurement

Under sourcing the following Business process comes under this

1. Catalog Content Management
2. Stategic Sourcing
3. Contract Management
4. Spend Analysis

Supplier Enablement where suppliers be a part of the entriprise, So under this Major business process the following Business process comes under this

1. Supplier Self Registration
2. Collaborative Replenishment
3. Desing & Order Collabration

Self Service Procurement can be implemented in Classic , Extended Classic and standalone as well. So when we implement Self Service Procuremtn in Classic scenario then the process flow happens

Plan driven procurement can be implemted with Extended Classic Scenario

Service Procurement can be implemented in Classic Scenario.

CCM Can be implemented either in Classic and Extended Classic