SupplierPortal Advantage: Power of your

SAP ERP Extended to your Supply Chain

July 2013

Agenda

Arteria Technologies – An Introduction

SupplierPortal Advantage – Value Proposition

Features & Demo

Case Studies

Benefits Summary

Arteria Technologies

Credentials

• All SAP projects have ISO 9001:2008 and ISO

27001:2005 certification. Arteria is also SEI

CMM Level 3 Certified.

• “Best SAP NetWeaver Process Integration

Partner 2007” for APJ & “Mobility Recognition

Award 2011” for Indian sub-continent.

• First partner globally to have a SAP certified

NetWeaver Mobile Client

• SAP ISV with certified products and SAP Co-

Innovation Labs (COIL) partner.

• One of the first partner globally to publish

mobile apps on SAP Store for Mobility.

Introduction

• Arteria is more than 6 years old organization

and is located at the International Tech Park,

Bangalore.

• The management team comprises of former employees of SAP Labs India with several years of development, implementation and consulting experience.

• Arteria is exclusively focused on Services and

Products on SAP NetWeaver platform and

helps customers leverage the potential of

NetWeaver & Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP).

• Arteria has over 300 SAP consultants with

expertise covering Technical and Functional

skills.

“Cool Vendors in the SAP Eco System, 2013” by Gartner, Inc.

Source: Gartner, Inc., Cool Vendors in the SAP

Ecosystem, 2013, Authors: Derek Prior | Thomas

Otter | Gilbert van der Heiden | Sunil Padmanabh |

Christian Hestermann, 18 April 2013

Arteria provides innovative solutions that tackle recurring SAP customer challenges and helps

customers to maximize their SAP ROI. “We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by

Gartner a confirmation of our mission to enable customers to leverage the power of

enterprise systems using mobility and portal technologies thereby improving business

performance,” said Sriram Kanuri, CEO of Arteria Technologies. “We continue to innovate with our

product roadmap; the upcoming launch of cloud version of our products will further enhance our

market position. Our strength is our capabilities to build solutions with quick ROI and help customers

extend their SAP ERP processes to business partners and employees while staying invested on the

SAP technology platform.”

Products and Services

NetWeaver based Products

• SupplierPortal Advantage

• DealerConnect Advantage

• SecondarySales Advantage

• Interactive Advantage

• Dashboards Advantage

Products on Mobile

• mApprove Advantage

• mDashboards Advantage

• mSalesForceAutomation Advantage

• mDepot Advantage

• mInspection Advantage

• mPlantMaintenance Advantage

• mSecondarySales Advantage

SAP Technology Expertise

• SAP NetWeaver Process Integration

• SAP NetWeaver BI & Business Objects

• SAP HANA

• SAP NetWeaver Gateway, BPM & Portal

• SAP Sybase Platform

• SAP BASIS, Solution Manager & TDMS

• SAP ABAP Custom & RICEFW services

• SAP Technical Upgrade

Solution Extensions Expertise

• SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

• SAP Archiving & Document Access by OpenText

• Seeburger EDI Adaptors

• SAP Duet Enterprise

Arteria Customers

Automotive

(OEM and

Auto

Components)

Consumer

Products and

Retail

Diversified

Groups

Arteria Customers

Discrete

Manufacturing

Process

Industries

Mill

Financial

Services

Life Sciences

Current Scenario:Disconnected Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process

Buyer Supplier

Create/Change

POReceive PO

PO

Receive ASN Create ASN

Receive

InvoiceCreate Invoice

PO

Confirmation

PO

Confirmation

Update

Payment

status updateInvoice

Update

Goods Receipt ASN Update

Information disconnect, lack of

visibility and no automation

across the supply chain

• Higher inventory pile up and out-of-

stock situations

• Inefficient, slow and expensive RFQ

and quote generation processes

• Inaccurate production planning

• Discrepancies between ordered and

received items.

• Unexpected receipts - late, partial,

and unknown shipments

• Unsynchronized replenishment and

supplier delivery

• Manual shipment notifications and

challans are error-prone

• Procurement employees spending

more time in expediting orders than

strategic sourcing

Enterprise Need: Supply Chain Collaboration

Outsourced

Manufacturing:

End-to-End

Subcontracting

Processes

Supplier

Collaboration:

Forecast, PO,

ASN, Invoice,

Payments

Quality

Collaboration:

Quality

Notification,

RCA Process

A strategic platform that

extends business process

beyond four walls to

suppliers and contract

manufacturers.

Solution: Arteria SupplierPortal Advantage

SupplierPortal Advantage

• Real-time and secure web based portal solution

• Self service function for suppliers to receive and

update current information from your SAP ERP

• Automated End-to-End processes with Improved

visibility, extended collaboration and efficient

material management

• Real-Time Collaboration with Suppliers to enable

Adaptive Supply Chain Networks

• Out-of-the-Box Collaborative Business Processes

Technology

• SAP NetWeaver Platform - Enterprise Portal,

WebDynPro and Web Application Server

• Compatible with SAP ERP (Any version) or SAP

R/3

• Extendable to Adobe Forms

• Enhancements supported via use of BADIs to

plug-in own rules and retrieval logic.SAP R/3 or SAP ERP

SAP NETWEAVER PORTAL

Purchase Order

Shipment Stocks

QualityVendor Rating

Finance

SUPPLIERS

AlertsMessage

BoardReports

ARTERIA SUPPLIERPORTAL

SupplierPortal AdvantageFeatures

Purchasing

• List Open RFQ, Maintain Quotations

• Attach documents like drawings / cost break

up sheets to Quotations (SAP DMS)

• Track overdue and upcoming Shipments

• View, Accept & Print PO and Amendments

• View Schedules and PO History including

GR/Invoice per line item

• Notes in RFQ & PO to collaborate with

Supplier

• JIT Calls/Scheduling Agreements

• Check Material Specifications

Shipment

• Create ASN (Advance Shipment Notification)

• View ASN History

• Undelivered Lots (Goods in Transit)

• GR List

Stocks

• Vendor FG Inventory, Inventory at Buyer

• Subcontracting material stock issued to vendor

Quality

• Material-wise Inspection details (quality

rejections) with drill down into Lots and result

recording.

• Inspection Lot per Material Code or PO Number

• Supplier Performance

• Compare Supplier Performance with peers

Finance

• Create Supplier Invoice

• Open Payables / Ageing Report

• Credit and Debit Note details

• Payment status tracking by Supplier Invoice

number or Cheque number with drill down into

supplier invoice details

SupplierPortal AdvantageFeatures

Common Features

• Role based secure access

• Real-time alerts and notifications PO, RFQs, JIT

Calls, GR, Inspection Lots, and Payments

• Create workflows and assign tasks

• Chat / Messenger

• Supplier message board, news and document

sharing

• Visibility control for fields

• Print, Sort, Filter on lists

• Excel Download

• Online Help and FAQ

• Drill down and Intuitive navigation

• Update own data

• Corporate Branding

Buyer View

• Internal users can view supplier portal for

multiple vendors based on the mapping stored

in SAP ERP.

Buyer Admin

• User administration

• Partner Assignment - Assign Users to Vendor

IDs

• Easy to use Content Management and

Authoring for news, flash, FAQ, help and upload

of common documents.

• Portal Usage Reports

• Trouble shooting supplier issues.

End-to-End Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process

Buyer Supplier

Create/Change

POReceive PO

PO

Receive ASN Create ASN

Receive

InvoiceCreate Invoice

PO

Confirmation

PO

Confirmation

Update

Payment

status updateInvoice

Update

Goods Receipt ASN Update

Strategic Platform for

collaborating with your suppliers

& sub-contractors

• Extended visibility of your internal

business applications

• Comprehensive end-to-end

collaborative business process

• Leverages your investment in SAP

ERP

• Built on SAP NetWeaver Platform

Benefits

• Streamlined Supplier Communication

• Reduction in Buyer Manual Effort

• Inventory Reduction

• Lead Time Variability Reduction

• Enhanced Supplier Satisfaction

Customer Speak

“

The application is scalable and is giving an acceptable response time for

transactions, provides real time data information from SAP and has helped in

ensuring a smooth material flow in the plant.

During the course of the project and the interactions held with your team members,

we have found your team to be extremely professional and willing to take that extra

effort for understanding the customer requirement and even challenging us when

our thought process might have been unclear.

Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles

”

We wish to congratulate your team on the successful implementation at Motor and

Transformer Divisions.

We greatly appreciate the timely manner in which you undertook the projects and

delivered quality output. Your team’s dedication to perfection has been a good

motivation for us.

Bharat Bijlee Limited

Case Study: Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer

Description

• Replaced a Lotus Notes based portal with real-

time Supplier Portal on top of SAP R/3 4.7 x 110

Existing Challenges

• Obsolete Technology; no support

• Replication between Notes and R/3; delayed

data and incorrect postings.

• Performance Issues; portal does not scale up

for more than 70 users

Achievements

• 3 months go-live to support 350 suppliers with

superior performance

• Migrated existing custom functionality for

Shipment Notifications

• Enhancements for Finance, Supplier Inventory

and Spare Parts

Case Study: Market Leader in Automotive and Powder

Coating

Description

• Replaced a hosted portal (one-way data

transfer) with a real-time Supplier Portal

Existing Challenges

• No real-time integration between portal and

ERP.

• Data in portal is not updated back to ERP, buyer

needs to view ECC and portal to get complete

picture

• No flexibility to configure portal as per business

requirements.

Achievements

• Real-time alerts and dashboard for the supplier

to get complete picture of the business

• Developed new functionality for quality related

processes

Case Study: World’s largest rice millers and basmati rice

exporters

Description

• Procures rice from various mandis using

authorized agents. The entire procurement

process is mapped to SAP.

Existing Challenges

• The agents interact with the internal team to get

/ update SAP with the various transaction

related information.

• Agents are shared their daily purchase

instructions (quantity and price) over phone

update back the transaction and dispatch

details over phone / mail.

Achievements

• Web enabling of existing SAP process with

simple access to SAP ERP

• Real-Time information from agents helps

business take instant decisions and thereby

reduce purchase cost.

SupplierPortal Advantage: Benefits Summary

A SAP NetWeaver based portal that provides secure access to supplier facing transactions and reports. This

solution helps supplier access most important information and services for doing business with your company.

It also enables buyers and suppliers to have the same view on the transactions, thereby helping you meet

your customer demand effectively.

Self Service Supplier Portal

• Real-time web based secure portal

• Improves visibility and automation across supply chain

• Employees can focus on strategic sourcing

Feature Rich

• Alerts and Notification

• Modules: Purchasing, Shipment, Quality, Finance

• Collaboration: News, Tasks and Chat

Lower TCO

• Single Platform: Runs on SAP NetWeaver

• Leverage existing SAP ERP implementation and extend it to your supply chain

• Easy to deploy with rapid go-live

Thank You!

Arteria Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Level 1, Innovator,

International Tech Park, Whitefield,

Bangalore – 560066

India.

Web: www.arteriatech.com

Email: sales@arteriatech.com | parag.jain@arteriatech.com

Phone: +91 80 4242 3801

Appendix: Technical Architecture & Implementation

Details

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Solution Implementation• Easy to deploy (Rapid Go-Live) in weeks

• Easy to enhance

• Corporate branded portal

• Can be extended with Adobe Forms for Off-line

Quotations

Security• Role based access

• Authorization framework – Information and

function access

• Inbuilt security features of Enterprise Portal

(authentication)

• Transport layer security using HTTPS

Internet

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Appendix: Indicative sizing

OS NetWeaver CPU RAM HDD

32 bit or 64 bit

Note: Production should be 64 bit

>= 7.0 SP20 Dual Core 4 GB 100 GB

Concurrent

Suppliers

Portal Server ECC (Additional Computing)

SAPS CPU RAM HDD SAPS CPU RAM

100 990 4 12 GB 100 GB 425 1 2 GB

150 1485 4 12 GB 100 GB 637 1 3 GB

200 1980 4 16 GB 150 GB 850 1 3 GB

250 2475 4 16 GB 150 GB 1062 1 4 GB

300 2970 6 20 GB 200 GB 1275 2 5 GB

400 3960 6 24 GB 250 GB 1700 2 7 GB

Production (Portal and ECC)

It is recommended to have Webdispatcher and Application Gateway on separate hardware. Hardware: 1 CPU / 2

GB.

Development / QA Portal Server