The management of the supply chain is a vital activity, and many companies use more than one enterprise system to deal with it. Even if SAP is one of the best solutions for this, making it available for all involved parties can come with increased costs. With all the technological development that takes place nowadays, it is very important for companies to count on the most efficient solutions to cross-integrate all data with optimal costs.
For this reason, BearingPoint developed Swarm - a tool for data collection with immediate availability for your business. It can be easily and safely integrated with SAP in order to integrate data as desired for each business process. It allows employees and business partners to follow the purchasing process without direct access to SAP. This brings a lot of structure and control to the data collection process and ensures a smooth automated workflow.
The smart forms can be tailored to each purchase document so that they cover the need of each user involved. The workflow functionalities with e-mail notifications are a smart way for obtaining and tracking all required approvals. Based on your own criteria, the approved data gets automatically available in SAP.
Moreover, Swarm has the potential to cover further business needs by offering the following functionalities:
The purchasing documents can be now fulfilled, submitted, and approved in a very simple way that has the power to cover the complexity of the process itself. The user-friendly workflows integrated with the usual communication channels are a key element that offers immediate data availability for all employees. In today’s versatile work environment, not being dependent on individual system connections to perform your work is vital for the business metrics and for serving the customers as fast as desired.
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