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SupplierPortal Advantage: Power of your
SAP ERP Extended to your Supply Chain
July 2013
Agenda
Arteria Technologies – An Introduction
SupplierPortal Advantage – Value Proposition
Features & Demo
Case Studies
Benefits Summary
Arteria Technologies
Credentials
• All SAP projects have ISO 9001:2008 and ISO
27001:2005 certification. Arteria is also SEI
CMM Level 3 Certified.
• “Best SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
Partner 2007” for APJ & “Mobility Recognition
Award 2011” for Indian sub-continent.
• First partner globally to have a SAP certified
NetWeaver Mobile Client
• SAP ISV with certified products and SAP Co-
Innovation Labs (COIL) partner.
• One of the first partner globally to publish
mobile apps on SAP Store for Mobility.
Introduction
• Arteria is more than 6 years old organization
and is located at the International Tech Park,
Bangalore.
• The management team comprises of former employees of SAP Labs India with several years of development, implementation and consulting experience.
• Arteria is exclusively focused on Services and
Products on SAP NetWeaver platform and
helps customers leverage the potential of
NetWeaver & Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP).
• Arteria has over 300 SAP consultants with
expertise covering Technical and Functional
skills.
“Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013” by Gartner, Inc.
Source: Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in the SAP
Ecosystem, 2013, Authors: Derek Prior | Thomas
Otter | Gilbert van der Heiden | Sunil Padmanabh |
Christian Hestermann, 18 April 2013
Arteria provides innovative solutions that tackle recurring SAP customer challenges and helps
customers to maximize their SAP ROI. “We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by
Gartner a confirmation of our mission to enable customers to leverage the power of
enterprise systems using mobility and portal technologies thereby improving business
performance,” said Sriram Kanuri, CEO of Arteria Technologies. “We continue to innovate with our
product roadmap; the upcoming launch of cloud version of our products will further enhance our
market position. Our strength is our capabilities to build solutions with quick ROI and help customers
extend their SAP ERP processes to business partners and employees while staying invested on the
SAP technology platform.”
Products and Services
NetWeaver based Products
• SupplierPortal Advantage
• DealerConnect Advantage
• SecondarySales Advantage
• Interactive Advantage
• Dashboards Advantage
Products on Mobile
• mApprove Advantage
• mDashboards Advantage
• mSalesForceAutomation Advantage
• mDepot Advantage
• mInspection Advantage
• mPlantMaintenance Advantage
• mSecondarySales Advantage
SAP Technology Expertise
• SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
• SAP NetWeaver BI & Business Objects
• SAP HANA
• SAP NetWeaver Gateway, BPM & Portal
• SAP Sybase Platform
• SAP BASIS, Solution Manager & TDMS
• SAP ABAP Custom & RICEFW services
• SAP Technical Upgrade
Solution Extensions Expertise
• SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
• SAP Archiving & Document Access by OpenText
• Seeburger EDI Adaptors
• SAP Duet Enterprise
Arteria Customers
Automotive
(OEM and
Auto
Components)
Consumer
Products and
Retail
Diversified
Groups
Arteria Customers
Discrete
Manufacturing
Process
Industries
Mill
Financial
Services
Life Sciences
Current Scenario:Disconnected Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process
Buyer Supplier
Create/Change
POReceive PO
PO
Receive ASN Create ASN
Receive
InvoiceCreate Invoice
PO
Confirmation
PO
Confirmation
Update
Payment
status updateInvoice
Update
Goods Receipt ASN Update
Information disconnect, lack of
visibility and no automation
across the supply chain
• Higher inventory pile up and out-of-
stock situations
• Inefficient, slow and expensive RFQ
and quote generation processes
• Inaccurate production planning
• Discrepancies between ordered and
received items.
• Unexpected receipts - late, partial,
and unknown shipments
• Unsynchronized replenishment and
supplier delivery
• Manual shipment notifications and
challans are error-prone
• Procurement employees spending
more time in expediting orders than
strategic sourcing
Enterprise Need: Supply Chain Collaboration
Outsourced
Manufacturing:
End-to-End
Subcontracting
Processes
Supplier
Collaboration:
Forecast, PO,
ASN, Invoice,
Payments
Quality
Collaboration:
Quality
Notification,
RCA Process
A strategic platform that
extends business process
beyond four walls to
suppliers and contract
manufacturers.
Solution: Arteria SupplierPortal Advantage
SupplierPortal Advantage
• Real-time and secure web based portal solution
• Self service function for suppliers to receive and
update current information from your SAP ERP
• Automated End-to-End processes with Improved
visibility, extended collaboration and efficient
material management
• Real-Time Collaboration with Suppliers to enable
Adaptive Supply Chain Networks
• Out-of-the-Box Collaborative Business Processes
Technology
• SAP NetWeaver Platform - Enterprise Portal,
WebDynPro and Web Application Server
• Compatible with SAP ERP (Any version) or SAP
R/3
• Extendable to Adobe Forms
• Enhancements supported via use of BADIs to
plug-in own rules and retrieval logic.SAP R/3 or SAP ERP
SAP NETWEAVER PORTAL
Purchase Order
Shipment Stocks
QualityVendor Rating
Finance
SUPPLIERS
AlertsMessage
BoardReports
ARTERIA SUPPLIERPORTAL
SupplierPortal AdvantageFeatures
Purchasing
• List Open RFQ, Maintain Quotations
• Attach documents like drawings / cost break
up sheets to Quotations (SAP DMS)
• Track overdue and upcoming Shipments
• View, Accept & Print PO and Amendments
• View Schedules and PO History including
GR/Invoice per line item
• Notes in RFQ & PO to collaborate with
Supplier
• JIT Calls/Scheduling Agreements
• Check Material Specifications
Shipment
• Create ASN (Advance Shipment Notification)
• View ASN History
• Undelivered Lots (Goods in Transit)
• GR List
Stocks
• Vendor FG Inventory, Inventory at Buyer
• Subcontracting material stock issued to vendor
Quality
• Material-wise Inspection details (quality
rejections) with drill down into Lots and result
recording.
• Inspection Lot per Material Code or PO Number
• Supplier Performance
• Compare Supplier Performance with peers
Finance
• Create Supplier Invoice
• Open Payables / Ageing Report
• Credit and Debit Note details
• Payment status tracking by Supplier Invoice
number or Cheque number with drill down into
supplier invoice details
SupplierPortal AdvantageFeatures
Common Features
• Role based secure access
• Real-time alerts and notifications PO, RFQs, JIT
Calls, GR, Inspection Lots, and Payments
• Create workflows and assign tasks
• Chat / Messenger
• Supplier message board, news and document
sharing
• Visibility control for fields
• Print, Sort, Filter on lists
• Excel Download
• Online Help and FAQ
• Drill down and Intuitive navigation
• Update own data
• Corporate Branding
Buyer View
• Internal users can view supplier portal for
multiple vendors based on the mapping stored
in SAP ERP.
Buyer Admin
• User administration
• Partner Assignment - Assign Users to Vendor
IDs
• Easy to use Content Management and
Authoring for news, flash, FAQ, help and upload
of common documents.
• Portal Usage Reports
• Trouble shooting supplier issues.
End-to-End Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process
Buyer Supplier
Create/Change
POReceive PO
PO
Receive ASN Create ASN
Receive
InvoiceCreate Invoice
PO
Confirmation
PO
Confirmation
Update
Payment
status updateInvoice
Update
Goods Receipt ASN Update
Strategic Platform for
collaborating with your suppliers
& sub-contractors
• Extended visibility of your internal
business applications
• Comprehensive end-to-end
collaborative business process
• Leverages your investment in SAP
ERP
• Built on SAP NetWeaver Platform
Benefits
• Streamlined Supplier Communication
• Reduction in Buyer Manual Effort
• Inventory Reduction
• Lead Time Variability Reduction
• Enhanced Supplier Satisfaction
Customer Speak
“
The application is scalable and is giving an acceptable response time for
transactions, provides real time data information from SAP and has helped in
ensuring a smooth material flow in the plant.
During the course of the project and the interactions held with your team members,
we have found your team to be extremely professional and willing to take that extra
effort for understanding the customer requirement and even challenging us when
our thought process might have been unclear.
Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles
”
We wish to congratulate your team on the successful implementation at Motor and
Transformer Divisions.
We greatly appreciate the timely manner in which you undertook the projects and
delivered quality output. Your team’s dedication to perfection has been a good
motivation for us.
Bharat Bijlee Limited
Case Study: Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer
Description
• Replaced a Lotus Notes based portal with real-
time Supplier Portal on top of SAP R/3 4.7 x 110
Existing Challenges
• Obsolete Technology; no support
• Replication between Notes and R/3; delayed
data and incorrect postings.
• Performance Issues; portal does not scale up
for more than 70 users
Achievements
• 3 months go-live to support 350 suppliers with
superior performance
• Migrated existing custom functionality for
Shipment Notifications
• Enhancements for Finance, Supplier Inventory
and Spare Parts
Case Study: Market Leader in Automotive and Powder
Coating
Description
• Replaced a hosted portal (one-way data
transfer) with a real-time Supplier Portal
Existing Challenges
• No real-time integration between portal and
ERP.
• Data in portal is not updated back to ERP, buyer
needs to view ECC and portal to get complete
picture
• No flexibility to configure portal as per business
requirements.
Achievements
• Real-time alerts and dashboard for the supplier
to get complete picture of the business
• Developed new functionality for quality related
processes
Case Study: World’s largest rice millers and basmati rice
exporters
Description
• Procures rice from various mandis using
authorized agents. The entire procurement
process is mapped to SAP.
Existing Challenges
• The agents interact with the internal team to get
/ update SAP with the various transaction
related information.
• Agents are shared their daily purchase
instructions (quantity and price) over phone
update back the transaction and dispatch
details over phone / mail.
Achievements
• Web enabling of existing SAP process with
simple access to SAP ERP
• Real-Time information from agents helps
business take instant decisions and thereby
reduce purchase cost.
SupplierPortal Advantage: Benefits Summary
A SAP NetWeaver based portal that provides secure access to supplier facing transactions and reports. This
solution helps supplier access most important information and services for doing business with your company.
It also enables buyers and suppliers to have the same view on the transactions, thereby helping you meet
your customer demand effectively.
Self Service Supplier Portal
• Real-time web based secure portal
• Improves visibility and automation across supply chain
• Employees can focus on strategic sourcing
Feature Rich
• Alerts and Notification
• Modules: Purchasing, Shipment, Quality, Finance
• Collaboration: News, Tasks and Chat
Lower TCO
• Single Platform: Runs on SAP NetWeaver
• Leverage existing SAP ERP implementation and extend it to your supply chain
• Easy to deploy with rapid go-live
Thank You!
Arteria Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Level 1, Innovator,
International Tech Park, Whitefield,
Bangalore – 560066
India.
Web: www.arteriatech.com
Email: [email protected] | [email protected]
Phone: +91 80 4242 3801
Appendix: Technical Architecture & Implementation
Details
SAP ERP or R/3
RFC
Sup
plie
rs
SAP EP
HTTPS
Solution Implementation• Easy to deploy (Rapid Go-Live) in weeks
• Easy to enhance
• Corporate branded portal
• Can be extended with Adobe Forms for Off-line
Quotations
Security• Role based access
• Authorization framework – Information and
function access
• Inbuilt security features of Enterprise Portal
(authentication)
• Transport layer security using HTTPS
Internet
Firewall
Appendix: Detailed Landscape
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SAP J2EE Load Balancer
SAP NetWeaver Portal
RDBMS
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Instance
Dialog
Instance
Dialog
InstanceSAP Logon Group
can be used for load
balancing
Message
Server
End-to-End SSL
Appendix: Indicative sizing
OS NetWeaver CPU RAM HDD
32 bit or 64 bit
Note: Production should be 64 bit
>= 7.0 SP20 Dual Core 4 GB 100 GB
Concurrent
Suppliers
Portal Server ECC (Additional Computing)
SAPS CPU RAM HDD SAPS CPU RAM
100 990 4 12 GB 100 GB 425 1 2 GB
150 1485 4 12 GB 100 GB 637 1 3 GB
200 1980 4 16 GB 150 GB 850 1 3 GB
250 2475 4 16 GB 150 GB 1062 1 4 GB
300 2970 6 20 GB 200 GB 1275 2 5 GB
400 3960 6 24 GB 250 GB 1700 2 7 GB
Production (Portal and ECC)
It is recommended to have Webdispatcher and Application Gateway on separate hardware. Hardware: 1 CPU / 2
GB.
Development / QA Portal Server