Supplier Information

Starting point

Modern supplier management means having constant access to up-to-date information on your suppliers. External information plays a significant role in supplier management, with a wide variety of information sources and types to choose from:

  • Business information services
  • Bank information
  • Balance sheets, annual reports
  • Information provided by credit insurers
  • etc.

Companies select their information provider according to the type of information they need. Consequently, they work with different providers and choose the one providing them with the information most suited to their particular need.
Flexibility in selecting the provider and type of information (e.g. business information) is thus a crucial requirement for managing external information.
Supplier transparency is something that concerns every level of your company. All departments, such as the purchasing department, vendor management, etc., need to have access to the information at any time in order to optimize processes and avoid risks.

Requirements of a modern supplier information management with SAP

Management of all external information directly in your SAP system irrespective of the

  • Provider
  • Country
  • Type of information
  • Time of retrieval

Solution

SOPLEX SI – the SAP supplier information management software by SOPLEX

This SAP solution allows you to manage all external information related to your suppliers (business and bank information, sales information, negative criteria …) manually and automatically in your SAP system. There are two modules you can choose from according to your requirements.

Features

SOPLEX SI – modern supplier information management with SAP

  • Direct connection to more than 20 national and international information agencies
  • Inquiries directly from within SAP
  • Information reports completely managed in SAP
  • History of retrieved information
  • Mailbox
  • Supports SAP mail and e-mail
  • Alert lists
  • Alert system
  • Manual inquiries via the Internet directly in SAP
  • Manual entry of external information in SAP
  • Saving information in SAP, e.g. as PDF or Winword document
  • Uploading data records to SAP
  • Automatic upload of Crefoscore data
  • Automatic management of payment experience pool data (e.g. DRD, DunTrade, EOS CMS)
  • Assignment and direct connection to SAP vendor records
  • Link to the SAP credit master data
  • SI information system – reports by the click of a button

Business impact

SOPLEX SI is the SAP solution that makes your suppliers transparent.

  • Online access to the leading national and international information agencies
  • Monitoring services
  • Calculation of a company-internal information score
  • Organization of solvency-related follow-up processes
  • Comprehensive reporting tools


Technology

SOPLEX SI is add-in software for SAP

  • Own namespace
  • Programming language ABAP/4
  • No modification of the SAP system
  • Implementation via SAP transports
  • Multilingual versions
  • No additional hardware required
  • No third-party software required
  • SAP authorization concept
  • Easy to implement