The qualification and preferred supplier capabilities also interface with Sourcing and Guided Buying solutions to help drive spend to your desired suppliers and is managed through SLP. SLP offers your company a unified, up-to-date supplier 360° record, allows suppliers to maintain their own information, and lets you manage suppliers based upon various defined parameters to give you visibility and control over your supplier onboarding process.
You may also be deploying SLP as part of a migration from one of the older versions of SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (SIPM). If you have recently purchased SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite, this is likely the version of supplier management you will be deploying. This is SAP Ariba’s latest and greatest version of supplier management software. Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Management (SLP) It’s critical to make sure the information you’re going to hand to your deployment partner is both current and accurate, or it can cause months-long delays in the deployment process. It’s also the most crucial because your suppliers are quite literally the backbone of your SAP Ariba solution.Įven more so than with contracts, which we discussed in the previous article in this series, there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to getting ready to deploy your supplier management solution. Supplier management is the most complex solution to prepare for from a deployment standpoint.
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