Outsourced Manufacturing (subcontracting): supports real-time visibility in progress of the manufacturing process and component stocks at the manufacturing supplier. Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI): the buyer shares stock and demand information, based on which the suppliers will deliver, in line with agreed service levels. The supplier submits an order confirmation, and when the goods are shipped, a shipping notification. Purchase Order Collaboration: the buyer publishes a purchase order on the Ariba Network. These messages enable buyers and suppliers to collaborate on various processes, like:įorecast Collaboration: the buyer shares a forecast with the supplier, whom in return can send a commit stating to what extend he can meet the forecast and potential excess capacity available. The figure below gives an overview of the messages that can be exchanged between buyer and supplier using the Ariba Network. The steep growth path was largely facilitated by using the in-house knowledge and experience gained with SNC, when building similar functions in SCC. At the start the SCC functionality was limited, but as SAP Ariba followed an aggressive growth path to increase functionality, it has now surpassed SNC. SAP Ariba has announced that SCC is their future proposition for supplier collaboration SNC will still be supported until 2025 but will not be extended with new functionality. But where SNC is an on-premise application connecting one customer to multiple vendors, the cloud application SCC provides a network, enabling vendors to connect with multiple vendors.

With SCC, SAP Ariba created a competitor for another application in the vast SAP portfolio, SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SNC). SCC is an extension of the Ariba Network focusing on integration of the suppliers’ logistic operations into the customers’ supply chain. In 2014 / 2015 SAP Ariba introduced Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain (CSC), later rebranded to SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC). The Ariba Network was initially positioned as an e-invoicing solution, SAP Ariba’s answer to existing initiatives like the Tungsten Network.

Collaborating with your suppliers using SAP Ariba SCC

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