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Enhancing Supplier Relationship Management Using SAP SRM
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Chapter 2: 'SAP SRM -- An Introduction' |
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Download chapter 2: 'SAP SRM -- An Introduction'
 Excerpted from the book 'Enhancing Supplier Relationship Management Using SAP SRM', Author Sachin Sethi, ISBN 159229068X, Copyright 2007. Written permission from SAP PRESS is required for all other uses. Copyright © 2007 SAP PRESS America. All rights reserved. Email: customer@sap-press.com. SAP PRESS America, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1100, Rockville, MD 20852-3030, USA.
Chapter Excerpt:
2.1 Evolution of SAP SRM
SAP introduced its e-procurement solution in 1999. Since then, the solution
offering and its acceptance have seen tremendous growth. The SAP SRM
solution has been the fastest-growing SAP application in two of the last three
years, up to 2006. Customers that were early adopters of this solution
remember the solution branding as Business to Business Procurement (BBP)
or Enterprise Buyer Professional (EBP). Over the years, the solution has
grown from a web-based catalog requisitioning solution aimed at operational
excellence to the solution today that offers complete supply management.
Figure 2.1 provides a chart that shows the progression of this solution
from B2B to SAP SRM.
In 1999, SAP introduced the B2B Procurement 1.0 solution and has since rebranded
the offering from BBP to EBP to the solution available today as Supplier
Relationship Management (SRM). The solution release generally available
to customers today is SAP SRM 5.0. Recently SAP has announced plans
to rebrand the SAP SRM 6.0 release as SRM 2007. Based on current information
SRM 2007 (or 6.0) will be generally available towards the third quarter
of 2007, until which time it will remain in ramp-up mode with selected customers.
2.2 SRM and SAP Enterprise Applications
The SAP SRM solution integrates seamlessly with enterprise resource planning
(ERP), product life-cycle management (PLM), and supply chain management
(SCM) applications to ensure an effective implementation of crossapplication
business processes (see Figure 2.2).
 Chapter 2: 'SAP SRM -- An Introduction'
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