BeNeering Sourcing empowers buyers to execute category sourcing strategy. Buyers can run direct, strategic and tactical sourcing events in one tool, uncovering bigger savings potential. Quotation request is a powerful tool to use within operational procurement to further drive savings.
PLATFORM COMPONENTS
Sourcing Engine
Single tool for DIRECT materials, strategic and tactical sourcing
BeNeering Sourcing Engine
Sourcing Features
Intuitive UI for RFx creation and further processing
Flexible starting points: category strategy plan, freetext request, catalog data, or SAP ERP orders
Real time access to SAP ERP data for history price analyses
Functional Coverage
Smart Sourcing Basket
Create requisition directly from supplier offer
Scoring Matrix
Supplier offer allocation based on SAP ERP historic data and calculation types
Events template management & Bidding rules customization engine
Bidding rules allow buyers to structure events as per strategic needs of exact category
Demand bundling and consolidation
The planning manager works with real-time demand documents displayed from SAP ERP and can make adjustments to generated requirements
Supplier Portal & One-off access
A free-of-charge supplier portal to track events and submit offers. Invitations can be sent to both SAP ERP suppliers and new external suppliers
Customer-driven customizations
The Dynamic Cloud Forms (DCF) engine is the main UI framework of BeNeering, forming the basis for individual customer screen views. DCF enables customers to customize their own views by assigning them to data objects
Award conversion options
Awarded offer can be converted into purchase requisition, operational contract or catalog item(s)
SCALABILITY
Large scale tenders with many line items and attachments
REAL TIME SAP ERP DATA EXCHANGE
Native, real-time data and document exchange with SAP S/4HANA – error-proof architecture
BeNeering Sourcing Benefits
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Extending your SAP ERP: BeNeering Sourcing can be used as an extension to SAP ERP Material Requirements Planning (MRP) process. Open requirements with no source of supply can be sourced via BeNeering Sourcing
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Sourcing & PO History Leverage: Real-time data exchange with SAP ERP to enrich allocation with PO history
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Step-by-step guidance: requestor is guided to the right next step depending on category strategy
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Built-in Compliance: thresholds, approvals, and policies are seamlessly embedded, based on your procurement policy and real time data exchange with SAP ERP
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One-click Offer-to-PO Conversion: no manual copy-paste needed, awarded offer can be automatically transferred into purchase requisition, SAP Contract and if required to catalog item
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BeNeering AI Engine: with the help of AI requesters can add existing offers to the shopping cart using drag & drop. The shopping cart is pre-filled with structured data from the offer.