This indispensible reference serves as your comprehensive guide to the business processes and functionality of supplier collaboration with SAP SNC 5.1 (formerly Inventory Collaboration Hub, ICH). Using a fictitious company as an example throughout, this book, the authors introduce the business background and usage scenarios, and then moves on to cover SNC configuration in detail. Readers will also uncover important information about how SNC ties in to other SAP solutions.

Supplier Collaboration with SAP SNC details which procurement processes map with each of the business scenarios in SAP SNC 5.1, explaining individual process flows and functions in detail along with the required master data. You also learn which factors to take into account when establishing the system architecture of your SAP SNC system, and get an overview of the basic services that are enabled by supplier collaboration with SAP SNC.

Highlights

• Supplier Managed Inventory
• Forecast Delivery Schedule Processing
• Purchase Order Handling
• Subcontracting
• Supply Network Inventory
• Work Order Collaboration
• Kanban
• Delivery Control Monitor
• Dynamic Replenishment
• Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN) Processing
• Invoice Collaboration
• Integration with other SAP Solutions
• Technical Architecture and Enterprise SOA
• Data Reorganization

About the Author(s)

Dr. Mohamed Hamady is a senior consultant at SAP. He has several years' experience of implementing SAP SNC in many customer projects. Anita Leitz is an SAP SCM business development manager at SAP. She has completed numerous projects both at home and abroad, and has been working on the topic of supplier collaboration for three years.

Table of Contents

1 ... Introduction ... 15
... 1.1 ... Who Is This Book For ... 16
... 1.2 ... How Is This Book Structured ... 17

2 ... Adaptive Supply Chain Network ... 19
... 2.1 ... Requirements ... 19
... 2.2 ... Collaboration as a Key Function ... 23
... 2.3 ... Supplier Collaboration ... 25

3 ... Supplier Collaboration in a Model Company ... 29
... 3.1 ... Analysis of the Procurement Processes in a Model Company ... 29
... 3.2 ... Mapping the Analyzed Business Processes with SAP SNC ... 39

4 ... Business Processes in SAP SNC 5.1 ... 53
... 4.1 ... Generic Master Data ... 53
... 4.2 ... Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI) ... 55
... 4.3 ... Forecast Delivery Release Process ... 89
... 4.4 ... Purchase Order Process ... 102
... 4.5 ... Subcontracting ... 116
... 4.6 ... Supply Network Inventory ... 122
... 4.7 ... Work Order Collaboration ... 139
... 4.8 ... Kanban ... 158
... 4.9 ... Delivery Control Monitor ... 173
... 4.10 ... Dynamic Replenishment ... 183
... 4.11 ... ASN Processing ... 193
... 4.12 ... Invoice Collaboration ... 200

5 ... SAP SNC — Architecture ... 217
... 5.1 ... Setting Up an SAP SNC System ... 217
... 5.2 ... System Landscape ... 220
... 5.3 ... Basic Services ... 224
... 5.4 ... Enterprise SOA Concepts ... 234

6 ... Integrating SAP SNC with Other SAP Solutions ... 243
... 6.1 ... Classifying SAP SNC into Various Supplier Collaboration Business Processes ... 243
... 6.2 ... Collaboration Folders ... 246
... 6.3 ... SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence ... 248
... 6.4 ... SAP Event Management ... 250
... 6.5 ... SAP NetWeaver Portal ... 252
... 6.6 ... SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization ... 253
... 6.7 ... SAP Supplier Relationship Management ... 254

7 ... Data Reorganization ... 257
... 7.1 ... Procedure ... 257
... 7.2 ... Reorganizing Transaction Data ... 258
... 7.3 ... Reorganizing Master Data ... 260
... 7.4 ... Archiving Transaction Data ... 261

A ... Glossary ... 265

B ... SAP Consulting Services Portfolio ... 271
... B.1 ... Implementing an SAP SNC Solution ... 271
... B.2 ... SNC02 — Strategic Roadmap Development for Supplier Collaboration ... 273
... B.3 ... SNC00 — Rapid SAP SNC Footprinting ... 274
... B.4 ... SNC01 — Introduction to Supplier Collaboration with SAP SNC ... 275
... B.5 ... SNC04 — Ramp-Up Application Hosting ... 277
... B.6 ... SNC05 — Supplier Backend Integration in the SAP SNC-SMI Process ... 279
... B.7 ... SNC06 — SAP SNC with SAP NetWeaver Portal ... 280
... B.8 ... SNC07 — Expert Solutions in SAP SNC ... 281

C ... The Authors ... 283