原文出自 https://blogs.sap.com/2017/04/28/comparison-of-simplification-and-functionality-in-s4-and-ecc-in-procurement-process/
Functionality/Element |
ECC |
S/4 |
Material Master |
- Material Number length is 18 characters
- Service Master is used for Services.
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- Material Number length 040 characters
- MRP fields – Quota arr. Usage, SLoc MRP indicator, spec. proc. type SLoc , reorder qty and replenishment qty are not required to be switched on.
- A new Material type ‘SERV” for service material. However, service material type “DIEN’ is also available.
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Vendor Master |
- Master data is maintained separately for Vendor and Customer.
- Only one single address
- No integrated classification data
- No time – dependency
- Supplier evaluation is only on hard facts only and supplier evaluation for soft-facts using questionnaire is not available but only in SAP Supplier Life cycle management.
- No integration to Dun &Bradstreet Information Services
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- Business partner concept is used as a replacement for Vendor and Customer Master.
- The roles available are “000000” – Business Partner (Gen), “FLVN00” – FI Vendor and “FLVN01” – Supplier.
- Multiple addresses are possible.
- Multiple roles
- Time dependency object attributes and relationships
- Purchasing Category: Suppliers can be managed according to specific categories of goods and services.
- Classification: Assign important characteristics to suppliers. A score card for each supplier to monitor supplier’s social responsibility compliance
- Own questionnaire can be defined directly and evaluation requests can be created and distributed directly to appraisers.
- Support of Dun &Bradstreet Information Services data
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Purchase Requisition |
- If no source of supply is assigned automatically by the system, Buyer needs to do this manually.
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- System proposes automatically a set of available sources of supply to facilitate and accelerate assignment of source of supply.
- Grouping, filtering and downloading capabilities of open purchase requisitions.
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Purchase Order processing |
- Search for existing POs is time –consuming, no provisioning of existing documents.
- No prefilling of other fields based on supplier.
- No pre-filtering of value help search results.
- Only at the end get a list of errors that need to be corrected.
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- Dynamic prefilling and provisioning of fields based on selected supplier or material type.
- Restricted list of available value help fields to avoid subsequent errors in purchase order.
- Draft purchase order is created automatically when session is lost or retrieved automatically upon returning.
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Output Management |
- The output management configuration is based in NAST.
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- The configuration is based on BRF+ (Business Rule Framework Plus) based on Adobe server and Adobe Forms. But NAST configuration is still supported for New documents.
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Contract Management |
- Only one-time search for contract documents is possible.
- No action can be done directly in the contract list
- Approval information is missing
- Notes are missing
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- All activities can be executed in one screen
- Contract target value or target quantity update
- Approval details, notes, business card for supplier are provided
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Invoice processing |
- Inflexible search functionalities
- Confusing visualization of Supplier invoice to detect issues
- Administrator has to resolve business issues in case of faulty supplier invoice
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- Flexible and dynamic search capabilities
- Defect issues in one glance
- Directly resolve issues finish the process
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1. 物料主数据
ECC
S/4
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物料号长度40位
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MRP字段 – Quota arr. Usage, SLoc MRP indicator, spec. proc. type SLoc , reorder qty and replenishment qty 不再需要被开启。
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新的物料类型SERV用于服务型物料。然而,服务物料类型DIEN依然可用。
2. 供应商主数据
ECC
S/4
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业务伙伴被用于替代供应商和客户主数据。
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可用的角色是“000000” – 业务伙伴 (通用), “FLVN00” – FI供应商 和“FLVN01” – 供应商。
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支持多个地址。
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支持多个角色。
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时间相关的对象属性和关系。
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采购类别:供应商可以按照采购不同货物或服务的类别进行管理。
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分类:分配重要的特征给供应商。用每个供应商一个计分卡的方式来监控供应商的社会责任合规性。
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可以自行定义问卷调查,评估请求可以被创建并直接发给评估者。
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支持邓白氏信息服务。
3. 采购申请
ECC
S/4
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系统自动建议一组可用货源,方便和加速货源分配。
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未清PR的分组,过滤和下载功能。
4. 采购订单处理
ECC
S/4
5. 输出管理
ECC
S/4
6. 合同管理
ECC
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对合同凭证,只可以一次性搜索。
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不允许直接在合同清单中进行操作。
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缺少审批信息。
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缺少注释。
S/4
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所有的活动可以在一个屏幕内完成。
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合同目标值或目标数量更新。
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提供了审批信息,注释,供应商名片。
7. 发票处理
ECC
S/4
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灵活和动态的搜索能力。
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一目了然就能找到问题。
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直接解决问题,结束流程。