# SAP SRM 7 - What Grnter, Frster would not tell you...

The various market comparisons are available and these are based on market research, do these miss the flavour of the capability.

SAP SRM 7 - What goes in next Year's IT budget!

What CIO and IT heads would be looking in next year's IT budget

A few drivers-

- More business drivers that help them directly/indirectly to keep the customers happy
-Consistent and well-managed IT landscape
-More compliant business and accurately reported
-Help to grow business and increase sustainability
- Increase skill of organisation using IT as backbone

How SAP SRM 7 would help
- Get vision of the spend
- Manage procurement
- Be auditable and compliance based
- Leverage on the technology, help on sustainability

# SRM SUS or Ariba Supplier Network!

SRM SUS or Ariba Supplier Network (ASN). Recently SAP has not delivered 'wow' enhancements for SAP SUS and has been more focused on integrating with cloud. Ariba Supplier network provides the capability to connect with supplier and exchange the documents electronically. This collaboration helps organisations to achieve more automation.
Ariba network allows Purchase Order, Acknowledgement/ASN, Invoice/ Payment request as transactional interaction. There are out of box reports to monitor the process.
As far as the technical integration is concerned SAP provides the Ariba integration Addon. The communication happens through cXML,Idoc using middleware.
These are different approach for the Supplier collaboration the apple to apple comparison can not be made for SUS and Ariba. Apparently ASN is more clear choice for near future deployments.