April 2025
Signs your organization needs procurement orchestration layer
Procurement orchestration is a digital approach that coordinates all procurement aspects (processes, systems, stakeholders) for efficiency, visibility, and collaboration. It aligns procurement with business goals, enabling strategic focus and responsiveness beyond simple automation.
Signs you need a procurement system:
- Heavy reliance on manual and disjointed processes
- Limited real-time visibility into procurement activities
- Procurement is not seen as a strategic function
- Friction between procurement and business stakeholders
- Siloed and inefficient technology stacks
- Slow change management and implementation cycles
Blog by Philip Ideson
Courtesy of Art of Procurement
Procurement Orchestration Explained: All You Need To Know
Role of SAP Business One in procurement orchestration
SAP Business One streamlines the entire order-to-pay cycle for small and midsized businesses, managing vendor quotes, purchase requests, and payments. Integrated reporting tools enable supplier comparison for better deals and cost savings.
Key Features
- Procurement – create purchase requests, POs, and goods receipts; link purchasing documents and view document trails for audit purposes; and manage returns, additional expenses, and multiple currencies.
- Warehouse and accounting integration – achieve real-time synchronization of goods receipts and inventory warehouse levels; process accounts payable invoices, cancellations, and credit memos with a PO reference; plan your material needs; and schedule your purchases accordingly
- Master data management – manage detailed data in a user-friendly interface, view account balance and purchase analyses, and maintain detailed item purchasing information with price lists and tax information.
- Easier, up-to-date reporting – generate reports with real-time data and display them in various report formats or dashboards.
Courtesy of SAP
What is SAP Business One? - 4most Systems (Pty) Ltd
How SAP Business One covers the entire procurement process
SAP Business One – Purchasing module covers the entire procurement process, includes the key document stages:
- Framework Agreement
- Order request
- Supplier Request
- An order
- Goods Receipt
- Goods Return Request
- Return
- Incoming invoice
- Incoming credit
Courtesy of SAP B1 Blog
4most Systems provides world-class, individually tailored and innovative business solutions for small, medium and large enterprises across industries and sectors. Established as an SAP Partner in 2004, we deliver ERP solutions utilising SAP Business One at the core. With offices in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia as well as a growing economic footprint in the DRC, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania, the company has a strong base, being the first and only partner to establish all-round SAP competency, offering over 30 years of experience and skills.
