E2E Business Process Deep Dive – Source-to-Pay

Integration driven business value

for digital Source-to-Pay processes
Tilo Karschunke, Carsten Puschke
September 13, 2023
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Customer demands towards integration aspects

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SAP integration strategy
Recruit to retire

Source to pay

Design to operate

Lead to cash

Suite qualities

Seamless user experience

Consistent security and

identity management

One workflow inbox

Aligned Domain Models

and integration content

Embedded and cross-product

analytics

Coordinated lifecycle
management

End-to-end process blueprints

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Dedicated suite qualities

Suite qualities

Seamless user Consistent security One workflow Aligned Domain Embedded Coordinated End-to-end
experience and identity mgmt. inbox Models and and lifecycle process blueprints
integration content cross-product management
analytics

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Interlock between suite qualities
Implemented across end-to-end business processes delivered by SAP Business Technology Platform to unify user
experience, security, workflow inboxes, data semantics, analytics, lifecycle management, and process architectures.

Access all SAP solutions Reduce admin efforts for Simplify integration
across the intelligent user management and projects with pre-defined
enterprise from one single identity provisioning and content available on SAP
entry point and experience a enable a seamless login Business Accelerator Hub to
common look. process. connect applications.

Embedded Analytics
Across Solutions
Tap into comprehensive Accelerate implementation Complete tasks proactively Make quick and confident
blueprints to reduce plan- projects with harmonized through a unified view decisions by relying on
ning effort for implement- provisioning, setup and across SAP solutions and comprehensive and
tation projects and support operations, and monitoring automate workflow process- live analytical insights.
architecture decisions. solutions. ses without writing code.

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Fast Evolving Hybrid Landscapes

Hybrid Cloud Intelligent Enterprise Industry Cloud Hybrid Landscapes B2C Business Networks
Machine API Economy
SaaS SAP M&A B2B Mobile iPaaS
Learning
Artificial B2G
Cloud ERP Digital Transformation EDA Non-SAP New Business Models Intelligence

Cloud API B2B * Non-SAP application Event-Driven

Integration Management Integration connectivity Automation
End-to-end process Full lifecycle management of EDI-based business-to- Connectivity options to third- Sensing and respond
integrations enterprise APIs business integration party applications to business events

Prebuilt
APIs MIGs and MAGs Connectors Events
integrations Connect seamlessly Keep the core clean with
Ready to configure and Integrate, extend, govern Accelerate B2B
between SAP and third party micro application that respond
deploy between popular and monetize using APIs integrations using AI
applications using BTP to business events
applications

* EDI: Electronic Data Interchange….

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Simplify Integration by a Systematic Integration Approach

Assess your Integration

Strategy

Enable a Practice of
Empowerment

SAP Integration
Solution Advisory
Methodology
Design your Hybrid
Integration Platform

Define Integration
Best Practices
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Scoping of Integration Domains

User-Centric Real World

Applications Non SAP Objects

S/4 CX Cloud2
User2Cloud Thing2Cloud
Cloud
Cloud Apps
X …

Private Cloud Business Government

Partner Agency

Cloud
Cloud2OnPremise
On-Premise

Non SAP

OnPremise2 Applications
User2OnPremise Business Suite S/4HANA Thing2OnPremise
OnPremise

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Integration Styles and Use Case Patterns

Integration Styles

Process Data Analytics User Thing

Integration Integration Integration Integration Integration
Data
A2A Embedded UI Thing to
Replication
Integration Analytics Integration Analytics
(ETL)

Cross
Master Data Data Mobile Thing to
Application
Integration Virtualization Integration Process
Analytics

B2B Data Quality Chatbot Thing to

Use Case Integration Management Integration Data Lake
Patterns
Customer-
B2G Data Specific Use
Thing to
Integration Orchestration Case Thing
…

… … …

Robotic Digital
API-Managed Event-Based Stream Workflow
Process Integration …
Integration Integration Analytics Management
Automation Hub

Cross Use Cases

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SAP BTP Cloud Services

Business Technology Platform

Enterprise
security services
and hybrid identity
Enterprise readiness
Discovery Center & access
with holistic lifecycle Actionable & guided missions Service catalog Best practice enablement & learning content management
management
➔ Cloud identity
➔ Change and deployment services
management
Ecosystem and Marketplace ➔ Risk & compliance
➔ Technical ops automation
➔ Alerting
➔ Secure
➔ Smooth integration Integration packs Pre-built industry & LoB content Business workflows & bots Business apps- & third-party data development
option into existing
ALM processes
App Dev Automation Integration Data and Analytics AI

SAP Build Apps SAP Build Process SAP Integration Suite SAP Analytics Cloud SAP AI Core
Automation • Cloud Integration • Business Intelligence
• Workflow • API Management • Augmented Analytics SAP AI Launchpad
SAP Build Work Zone • Enterprise Planning
Management • Trading Partner
• Decisions & Rules Management
SAP Business Application • RPA bots • Integration Advisor SAP Datasphere
SAP AI Business Services
Studio • Process Visibility • Open Connectors Data Attribute Recommendation
• Self-service data access
• Integration • Document Information Extraction
• Mobile Services SAP Task Center Data discovery
Assessment • Orchestration
• Runtimes Personalized Recommendation
• Migration Assessment • Processing & persistency
(Cloud Foundry, Kyma)
• Data governance
• Document SAP Integration Suite, • Data ingestion
Management Services advanced event mesh
Learn more:
SAP BTP ABAP SAP Master Data
SAP Business BTP Innobytes –
Environment Governance
Accelerator Hub Monthly innovation
SAP HANA Cloud
highlights

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Integrated Source-to-Pay processes Official Roadmap Link
SAP Intelligent Spend & Business Networks

Source & Contract

• Define and create the category strategy
• Identify and source material and service needs
• Negotiate & manage contracts with trading
partners
Source & Contract Plan & Forecast Buy & Deliver Invoice & Pay

Plan & Forecast

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS • Plan and forecast demand for goods, services
and resources
SAP Business Network

SAP Ariba solutions

Buy & Deliver
• Initiate a request for purchasing goods &
SAP S/4HANA services
• Execute orders for goods & services
SAP Fieldglass solutions • Deliver & receive goods & services

Partner Third Party

Invoice & Pay
• Create/manage the invoices and credit memos
• Apply early payment options
SAP One Domain Model: Supplier | Product • Pay trading partners for goods delivered and
services rendered

SAP BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM

Unified Services Offering and Operations

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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

Consistent
Security &
Identity
Management

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Consistent Security & Identity Management

Consistent security & identity management – benefits

Identity and Access Management Business benefits

▪ Ensure unified user access management across
SAP solutions
▪ Centralize access across business applications to
▪ User access
management (IPS*)
complete an end to end process, users don’t
▪ Single-Sign-On (IAS*)
have to log into individual applications across
S2P
▪ Automated, adaptive,
Identity and Access Management
and compliant access ▪ Foster user productivity and collaboration
management (IAG*)**
▪ Event-driven identity
▪ Enable and accelerate digital transformation
lifecycle management
(IAG*)**
SAP S/4HANA Cloud SAP Ariba Technology Benefits Capabilities

SAP … ▪ Eliminate disruptions through ▪ Identity Provisioning and

streamlined user and access Governance
data management across the
IT landscape ▪ Identity Authentication
*IPS = Identity Provisioning Service; IAS= Identity Authentication Service; IAG = Identity Access Governance
▪ Decrease IT costs while
** optional for Intelligent Enterprise scenarios
increasing IT agility

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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

Seamless
User Experience

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Seamless User Experience

SAP Ariba Guided Buying seamless user experience – benefits

Business benefits
▪ Best-in-class, consistent, harmonized and
modern UX across all end-to-end business
processes and products
▪ Embedded intelligent and contextual user
guidance, situation handling, dynamic content
▪ Central entry point for all products, central
monitoring
▪ Consistent look and feel across applications
▪ Seamless navigation across applications

Mobile Access

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Seamless User Experience

SAP Business Network Seamless User Experience – benefits

Business benefits
The new Ariba Network Supplier Portal and
Workbench improves efficiency with
▪ Customizable homepage for suppliers, based on
the way they work
▪ Key insights at-a-glance, such as invoice aging,
leads and more
▪ Worklist filtering on the new transaction
workbench, with the ability to create multiple
personal variants
▪ Modernized and intuitive user interface

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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

One
Workflow Inbox

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One Workflow Inbox

One Workflow Inbox – benefits

Business benefits
▪ Reduce the time spent by users navigating
through various systems
▪ Improve the approval or completion time for
critical items
▪ Improve the quality and consistency of approvals
▪ Enable smart decisions through the infusion
of contextual data and insights in the approval
process

Capabilities

Seamless and integrated user experience for approvals

across Procurement Solutions, such as

▪ Ariba Sourcing: Approval of Sourcing Request to create

Sourcing project, Sourcing Project - Approval to Publish
Sourcing Event, Approval to Award Sourcing Event

▪ Ariba Guided Buying: Approvals for Purchase

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One Workflow Inbox

One workflow inbox with SAP Task Center

Travel

HR

Procurement

Before After

Customer Challenge Solution

Workflow tasks are scattered across multiple inboxes SAP Task Center provides an integrated and unified view
because every application comes with its own inbox of all workflow tasks across multiple applications and
keeps the business moving forward
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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

Embedded and
Cross Product
Analytics

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Embedded and Cross Product Analytics

Embedded and Cross Product Analytics – benefits

Business benefits
▪ Out of the box and real time SAC-based app
based analytic insights such as EU dashboard,
sourcing efficiency, savings, event analysis,
etc.
▪ Pre-built content across key performance
indicators that leverage the power of data
within the applications
▪ Secure, enriched, intelligent repository
▪ Improved visualizations reduce time to action

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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

End-to-End
Process
Blueprints

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End-to-End Process Blueprints

End to End Process Blueprints – benefits SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Business benefits
▪ Easy way to explore scenarios like 'hire-to-retire’
and ‘external workforce’ – decomposed into
applications, modules, business services,
technologies, and integration flows
▪ Map out your roadmap to adopt the solution and
transition from current solution landscape to
target
▪ Implement end-to-end scenarios which are
connected with runtime objects in overarching
solution process flow diagrams

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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

Coordinated
Lifecycle
Management

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Coordinated Lifecycle Management

Coordinated Lifecycle Management – benefits

Business Benefits
▪ Better overview and faster error resolution
▪ Detailed status overview per business system and
scenario
▪ More reliable operations with alerting and tracking
features

Capabilities

▪ E2E Message Monitoring

▪ Payload-based message search

▪ Alerting

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Process Specific - Coordinated Lifecycle Management

Cloud Integration Automation Service

Instead of distributed PDFs, notes, help pages… You get one workflow

▪ Manually find right documentation ▪ Standardized guidance through all steps, including system
▪ Manually find experts and set up team landscape information

▪ Manually create plan and assign tasks ▪ Role-based task assignments

▪ Manually execute tasks and track progress ▪ Partially automated with integrated parameter management
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 Source-to-Pay
BUSINESS PROCESS INTEGRATION

Aligned
Domain Models &
Integration Content

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Aligned Domain Models & Integration Content

Aligned domain models & integration content – benefits

One common Data Model in Source & Contract Business benefits

Master Data Owner One Domain Model / Master Data Consumer
MDI ▪ Harmonized master data drive data consistency
and quality across solution landscape
Company code ▪ Power end-to-end business processes by data
SAP S/4HANA Ariba Sourcing & Contracts
semantics
Supplier
▪ Empower data-driven decision-support

One common Data Model in Procure to Pay Technology benefits

Master Data Owner One Domain Model / Master Data Consumer
MDI ▪ Enable out-of-the-box SAP-to-SAP integration
Payment Terms
▪ Reduce IT costs
Cost Center
SAP S/4HANA Ariba Guided Buying
WBS

Partners

One Domain Model/MDI above are just part of the complete list

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Aligned Domain Models & Integration Content

Source to Pay – Focus on Master Data Integration

SAP Ariba Buying

SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying

SAP S/4HANA SAP Strategic SAP Strategic

SAP Strategic
Sourcing Suite SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

MDI
MDNI Sourcing Suite MDNI Sourcing Suite
Add-
DRFOUT DRFOUT
on

SAP SAP SAP

SuccessFactors SuccessFactors SuccessFactors
solutions solutions solutions

Point-to-point integrations Phase 1 Phase 2 (future direction)

▪ Data extraction through SAP ▪ Common data model across
S/4HANA–native OData APIs consumers (ODM)
(no SAP Ariba Cloud Integration ▪ Data extraction once and use
Gateway solution add-on) SAP Master Data Integration
▪ Data distribution through MDNI to distribute to various
to SAP Ariba solutions consumers
▪ Data replication through SAP
Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway
for connectivity (optional)
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Aligned Domain Models & Integration Content

Source to Pay – Focus on Business Process Integration

Transaction Data • S/4HANA centric, best-practice business process integration scenarios

Integration • Native API-based integrations with Integration Suite, managed gateway (connectivity and data
mapping layer), without SAP ERP or S/4HANA add-on component

Indirect Material Services / Contingent Labor Direct Material

Plan & Forecast
• Lean Services with Ariba Guided • Sourcing for Direct Material
• Ariba Sourcing Buying, Contracts (single item) • Contract Management
and SAP Business Network
• Ariba Contract Mgt. • Buyer Integration via SAP Business
• External workforce procurement Network
• Ariba Guided Buying
with SAP Fieldglass
Focus 2022+ • Seller integration via SAP Business
Focus 2023+ *
• Commerce Automation
Network
• Quote Automation
• Lean Services with Ariba Guided Buying, • Supply Chain Collaboration
Contracts (hierarchy items) and • Forecast / MRP
SAP Business Network • Contract Manufacturing
• Maintenance and project-based services • Supplier Managed Inventory
with Fieldglass and SAP Business Network • Quality Management
• Scheduling agreements, Returns
Focus 2021 + Focus 2023+ * • Multitier with subcontracting Future plan*

*Roadmaps are subject to change. For more information check out SAP Roadmap Explorer for S2P
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questions?

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Suite qualities: Overview

Consistent roadmaps along end-to-end key processes

Click the suite qualities titles Get the corresponding suite quality roadmap

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Key takeaways

▪ Setting the stage – drivers / motivation for SAP’s integration

strategy

▪ Suite qualities themselves address certain integration needs

▪ At the same time, they also need to be viewed holistically

with their interdependencies

▪ Suite qualities are enabled by a broad range of

SAP Business Technology Platform services

▪ Source-to Pay business process is strongly relying and

benefiting on / from suite quality adoption

▪ Get details on SAP Road Map Explorer

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 Thank you
Tilo Karschunke
Director | Intelligent Spend & Business Network
Global Center of Excellence | SAP Customer Success Platform

Carsten Puschke
Director Product Management
Business Technology Platform

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