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THE OCI PUNCHOUT PACKAGE

OCI Punchout: order from the supplier catalog directly from your ERP

Catalog usage rate from 40% to 70%. Training effort down 80%. Compatible with SAP, Ariba, Coupa, Microsoft Dynamics and Jaggaer. Your buyers leave the ERP to search the supplier catalog and then retype the order by hand. OCI punchout ends this manual handoff. Here you'll learn how the connection works technically, which ERP systems it supports and how much effort your IT needs to plan for it. 

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How an order via OCI-Punchout works

The process has four steps and takes the requester no longer than a normal purchase requisition in the ERP.

Step 1: Jump from the ERP into the catalog

Your requester starts the punchout from the ERP, in SAP for example via transaction ME1L or a dedicated catalog entry. The ERP passes the user ID along, so the user is recognized in the catalog automatically. A separate login is not needed.

Step 2: Search the catalog and fill the cart

In the simple system catalog, the user sees up-to-date prices and availability from all connected suppliers, with your negotiated terms. They search, compare and add items to the cart. Account assignment is already prefilled based on their role and can be changed if needed.

Step 3: Transfer the cart back to the ERP

With one click on "Back to ERP", simple system transfers the complete cart as an OCI response: material, quantity, price, unit, description and all account assignment fields. The ERP receives the items in purchase requisition format. Nothing is retyped and nothing is copied.

Step 4: Approval and follow-up processes in the ERP

From here, your usual process takes over: your approval workflows start in the ERP, and the order goes to the supplier. Your users then see order confirmation, delivery note, delivery date and invoice copy directly in simple system, without switching back to the ERP.

Key Fact. Users save 2 to 4 minutes per order because switching systems and manual re-entry are eliminated. At 1,000 orders a year, that is around 50 working hours.
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The OCI punchout package for seamless integration into your BANF

Real-time article data directly from the ERP

Access daily updated prices, availability and article information from your vendors directly from your ERP system and always keep it up to date.

One interface. All vendors.

Transmit orders to all connected vendors via a single OCI interface - without changing systems, without additional effort.

Seamless integration into your ordering process

OCI-Punchout integrates seamlessly into your existing BANF and ordering process - your users continue to work in the ERP as usual.

What you get

All functions in the OCI Punchout package at a glance

  • Enable SAP users to navigate directly from SAP to the simple system catalog - a seamless punchout experience with OCI 4.0 support.

  • The OCI Punchout feature connects SAP systems directly to the simple system catalog via the standardized OCI protocol (Open Catalog Interface). Users start the punchout from SAP (transaction ME1L or Custom Catalog) and land in the simple system catalog interface. The system supports OCI 4.0.

    The Punchout is configured via a single click in simple system.
    Users can search, compare and add products to the shopping cart in the simple system catalog directly from SAP - the Punchout is automatically connected to the SAP user. This enables seamless navigation and significantly reduces training requirements.

    • OCI 4.0 Punchout protocol support

    • Direct access from SAP (ME1L or Custom Catalog)

    • Configuration in self-service or with support

    • Storage of SAP vendor data and authentication

    • Seamless navigation between SAP and the catalog

    • User recognition in the punchout process

    • Support for SAP ECC, S/4HANA and hybrid environments

    • Increase catalog quotas by 30-50% through easy access from SAP

    • Reduction of maverick buying through centralized punchout control

    • Save 2-4 minutes per order thanks to seamless navigation

    • Reduction of training costs: OCI users need 80% less training

    • Typical savings: 8-12% on total procurement costs

    • Amortization of the integration already from the first month through catalog increase

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Increase catalog ratio from 40% to 70% through SAP integration

A large industrial company with 5,000 SAP users has a simple system catalog with good contracts and discounts. However, the catalog quota is only 40% - many employees continue to order uncontrolled via traditional purchasing channels or other vendors. The IT team has to manually transfer orders to SAP or employees leave the SAP system to use the catalog. This is time-consuming and error-prone. The negotiated discount advantage is not fully realized. An estimated 2-3 million euros in optimizable spend is left on the table.

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Quickly migrate SAP user base to new catalog without training

A group company with 12,000 SAP users is migrating to a new procurement platform (simple system). The old catalog works poorly, the new platform has better contracts and functions. Normally, such a migration would require 6-12 months of training, change management and go-live support. The management expects a quick changeover in order to realize the savings. Traditional change management with training and separate logins costs €150,000-300,000 and ties up the IT team completely.

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What your IT really has to do for the OCI connection

The OCI connection is not an integration project, it's a configuration. Because OCI is a standard, no custom development is needed: your ERP can already do punchout, it just has to be pointed at the simple system catalog.

Effort for connecting OCI punchout to simple system:

Effort for connecting OCI punchout to simple system
Step Who Effort
Create a catalog entry in the ERP and store the OCI call Your IT or your SAP administrator a few hours
Configure the punchout in simple system You via self-service, or together with us one click
Align account assignment fields and mapping Your procurement and accounting teams one meeting
Test with a test order Together half a day
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from € 49 / month for the use of the OCI Punchout package

The basic package from simple system is required to use the "OCI-Punchout" add-on. This package provides the necessary basis for using the platform. Once the basic package has been activated, the "OCI-Punchout" add-on can be added flexibly.
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NO YEAR-LONG PROJECT

Your indirect procurement goes live in 30 days.

Your vendors, your approval workflows, your ERP. In the meeting you will see which building blocks you need, which you do not, and in which order they go live.
How the meeting works
You tell us your processes, your procurement policies and your vendors.
We tell you which building blocks you can leave out.
At the end you have a clear picture of the next steps, costs and opportunities. After that you test for free, no credit card.

 "The integration into our SAP ERP® went smoothly." Andreas Wallny, Vulkan 
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users, orders and your own vendors
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The introduction of simple system not only gives us as purchasers more time for strategically important tasks. The high degree of automation has significantly reduced the process costs for C-parts management at DUDOCO: The savings here amount to around EUR 70,000 per year.
Jakob Krüger, Purchasing DODUCO GmbH
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Frequently asked questions about OCI punchout

  • OCI punchout is the connection of an external supplier catalog to your procurement system via the Open Catalog Interface, an open catalog interface specified by SAP. With one click you jump from the ERP into the catalog, fill the cart there and hand it back to the ERP automatically. Ordering and approval continue to take place in the ERP.

  • Both standards solve the same task but come from different worlds: OCI was specified by SAP and is widespread among mid-sized companies in German-speaking markets, while cXML comes from the Ariba environment and dominates internationally. simple system supports punchout via the OCI standard; the connection to SAP Ariba and Coupa also runs through it.

  • SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, Coupa Procurement, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain, and other systems that support the OCI standard. Configuration is done centrally in simple system: one catalog for all your ERP systems, even in heterogeneous group landscapes.

  • A few hours for the catalog entry in the ERP, configuration in simple system with one click, one meeting to align the account assignment fields, and half a day for testing. Because OCI is a standard, no custom development is needed.

  • Yes. The punchout is initialized with the account assignment data from your ERP. The user sees cost center, G/L account and WBS element already prefilled in the catalog and can change them. All cart items carry the account assignment, which travels back to the ERP with the cart transfer. In customer projects, account assignment errors drop by 85 to 95 percent as a result.

  • From €49 per month as an add-on to the simple system basic package. There are no transaction fees on your order volume and no license costs per user.

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