Starting point

The financial crisis brought home just how important the right choice of supplier is. Purchasing departments are faced with the task of choosing suppliers that are worthy of their company’s trust. Concentrating on selected suppliers is a key element of modern procurement strategies. This, however, makes companies dependent on a small number of suppliers, which in turn makes them more vulnerable to defaulted deliveries that put their production at risk.

Modern supplier rating is based on a professional risk management and is taking on increasing importance in today’s business world.

Supplier rating is efficient only if the supplier rating data (supplier rating, risk category) are constantly updated in SAP and subject to continuous checks. The sheer number of active suppliers and parameters, however, makes a manual handling of these tasks practically impossible.


Challenge

Maintaining your supplier ratings manually is an enormous effort. In most cases, you feed the rating data into your system without ever updating them according to the latest information on your suppliers. This leads to a failure of identifying current risks.

Solution

SOPLEX SR – the SAP supplier rating software by SOPLEX

This SAP solution determines all supplier master data on a daily basis and according to a set of fully customizable criteria defined by you.

• Use of all existing SAP functionalities
• Integration of all relevant SAP modules (FI, CO, ...)
• Integration of the SAP e-mail functions
• Integration of e-mail functions
• Interfaces to other systems, such as SAP BW, dispute management …, can be implemented

Features

SOPLEX SR – dynamic supplier rating with SAP

• Fully customizable set of rules
• Use of all internal data (payment behaviour, …)
• Use of all external data existing in SAP (business information, …)
• Automatic calculation of a supplier rating
• Automatic monitoring of suppliers
• Automatic alert system
• SR info system – reports by the click of a button

Business impact

SOPLEX SR is the SAP solution that gives you a constant and automatic supplier rating and thus helps you to organize follow-up processes.

• Automatic analysis and rating of suppliers
• Calculation of ratios (supplier rating, risk category, …)
• Organization of solvency-related follow-up processes
• Comprehensive reporting tools

Technology

SOPLEX SR 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