Integration – often the most complex part of Procurement implementation. In Mid Market companies, there is often an even more difficult challenge in that you do not have big teams whether in IT or Procurement or AP. So when you embark on a procurement transformation agenda, it is the area that tends to be a bit scary.
SAP have done a huge amount of work to make this a much simpler exercise than it used to be when it comes to SAP ERPs. So more native integration so it’s as out of the box as possible, reducing the TCO with less overhead on IT and the business.
But the DNA of the SAP Procurement suites via Ariba has always been ERP agnostic.
As such – especially in the Mid Market - we find ERPs of all shapes and sizes. Netsuite is of course one of the most common. But you don’t get the richness of spend management capability that you need and perhaps more importantly you don’t get access to a Network to intelligent business to business capability with your suppliers.
So how do you take advantage of a best in class procurement suite and the SAP Network that helps you achieve your Procurement challenges, create close collaboration with your suppliers but do it with your Netsuite backend by making integration simple?
I talk to Mark Simon, VP of Strategy at our partner Celigo to get the lowdown on their IPaas solution that has made this incredibly simple.