Initial Situation
A large industrial company with 5,000 SAP users has simple system catalogs with good contracts and discounts. However, the catalog adoption is only 40% – many employees continue to order uncontrollably through 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 in optimizable spend is on the table.
Your Solution with simple system
- OCI Punchout is configured and tested for SAP
- Users see the simple system catalog directly in SAP (ME1L or Custom Catalog)
- Clicking "simple system Catalog" launches the punchout – no system switching
- Users navigate the familiar simple system catalog
- Shopping cart handover transfers orders automatically to SAP
- Cost assignment is automatically adopted
- Approval workflows apply automatically
Result: Catalog adoption rises from 40% to 70% within 3 months. Control is 100%, training effort minimal.
Your Benefit
- Time savings: Catalog adoption from 40% to 70% = less manual SAP transfer (100h/month saved)
- EBIT impact: +€345,600/year (12% discount on €2.88M optimized spend) + €42,000/year (process costs) = +€387,600/year
