Influence of SAP PO for Transport Services on eCat share
Dear all,
SAP Purchasing Orders for Transport Services (U84*) have a significant
influence on the eCat share in some regions.
Transport Services are on the Accepted Exceptions List in most regions as
SAP PO cannot be used in general due to several reasons.
Nevertheless, SAP PO have been used and further implemented by the
buyers in the past years to increase the transparency for this Sub Material
Field, which contributes around EUR 1 bn p.a. for our total i-Buy volume. In
some regions, SAP PO are the only way to enable PUC1-Region to calculate
the ICR properly and to reduce the manual effort for the ICR calculation on
buyers and PUC side.
Therefore, we want you to refrain from abolishing existing SAP PO for the
sake of increasing the eCat share.
The same applies for the creation of SAP PO for 2016. Wherever SAP are
being used, do not stop using them in 2016.
In parallel, i-Buy GLS will decide how to consider SAP PO for Transport
Services in the eCat targets 2016.