Biocad optimized purchasing process using SAP Ariba

2020: Ariba SAP implementation

The Biocad company with the help of SAP implementation of Ariba optimized purchasing process and reduced a purchasing cycle by 10-15%. The company Deloitte, CIS acted as the partner in implementation. It became known on October 1, 2020.

The main objective of Biocad - to increase efficiency of purchases and to reduce costs, to create the end-to-end transparent scenario from requirement before the choice of the supplier and registration of the agreement, having increased thus the speed and rationality of decision-making on this matter. It was important to use the uniform instrument of vendor interaction where would be performed: registration, qualification on categories, participation in procurement procedures, assessment of activity of the supplier. Before such the integrated tool was absent, behind observance of regulations was controlled manually along with procurement procedures, collecting of the reporting was also manually carried out, and transactions were duplicated in several systems.

With Ariba SAP implementation all strategic purchases are carried out to Biocad in a single system with automatic observance the politician of the company now, verification process and qualifications of suppliers is unified, control of costs became simpler, the routine, often repeated transactions are minimized and in general the speed of holding procurement procedures and collecting of the necessary, correct reporting grew. All this allowed category managers to concentrate less on routine transactions and to focus a look on strategic objectives of purchasing function. Besides, all procurement procedures are published on the website now that allowed Biocad to expand base of suppliers.

Thanks to flexibility of a cloud solution of SAP Ariba, its preconfigured content and also experience of implementation of our partner of Deloitte, the CIS on implementation of similar projects in the industry we made our project in 6 months. Use of the integrated solution considering all world practices and providing transparent process of purchases strengthened reputation of Biocad among external business partners as the company using the innovation market-based approaches, - Dmitry Gordeev, the deputy CEO for finance and supply chain management of Biocad noted.

The company without large-scale finance and time expenditure in return can quickly receive the convenient tool for high-quality purchases and deliveries with observance of all terms both necessary the politician and requirements, - Alexey Petunin, the managing director of SAP for work with partners and the high-growth companies in Russia and the CIS emphasized.

Our analysis shows that the world aims at connection of business process in a uniform information ecosystem. More and more transactions are executed without the addressing paper regulations and politicians of the companies, and key staff of the companies can focus on intellectual aspect of the activity, having left a routine to the automated solutions, such as SAP Ariba for automation of purchasing process. I am very glad that for BIOCAD it was succeeded to implement this approach for 100%, - Pavel Andronov noted, the head of practice[1].

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