ITM Assignment
Please discuss the following questions specifically:
1. What are the potential benefits of one or more of the solutions identified by SAP? Specifically identify which solution or solutions you selected.
2. Do you agree with them? Discuss and analyze. Explain why you agree or disagree. Try and explain the benefit that the SAP solutions you selected bring to an organization.
3. Using the knowledge you gained on Procurement departments and Enterprise Systems that support them discuss how this enterprise module might be useful to your organization? In discussing this state whether your organization has or does not have, one or more Enterprise Systems for Procurement and whether the people that run them could use the tools you identified.
This SLP will focus on Enterprise Systems that support a Procurement Department in an organization. All organizations have Procurement departments. If you are in the military, police, or other Government agency, the functions may be accomplished by the logistics organization or by the contracting office. Before reading about Procurement Enterprise Systems, go to each of these websites and look at the responsibilities (i.e., the business processes) of a Procurement Department.
• Steve P. (2013), Definition of Procurement Department, Retrieved from, http://www.ehow.com/about_6711466_definition-procurement-department.html
• The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (2011), Role of procurement within an organization, Retrieved from, http://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/article/role-of-procurement-within-an-organization-procurement-a-tutorial
• Drabkin& Thai (2003). U.S. federal government procurement: Structure, process and current issues.
Once you have an idea of what business processes Procurement departments accomplish, take a look at Enterprise Solutions for Procurement provided by SAP. Go To: “Procurement” at SAP ERP website http://www.sap.com/solution/lob/sourcing-procurement.html. The select the Explore the Solutions link. For this SLP paper, investigate and discuss the Procurement functional solution provided by SAP; discuss how it works.
Please discuss the following questions specifically:
1. What are the potential benefits of one or more of the solutions identified by SAP? Specifically identify which solution or solutions you selected.
2. Do you agree with them? Discuss and analyze. Explain why you agree or disagree. Try and explain the benefit that the SAP solutions you selected bring to an organization.
3. Using the knowledge you gained on Procurement departments and Enterprise Systems that support them discuss how this enterprise module might be useful to your organization? In discussing this state whether your organization has or does not have, one or more Enterprise Systems for Procurement and whether the people that run them could use the tools you identified.
