Advantrix Consulting
Services

Advice, delivery and support, from the people who do the work.

We advise on how procurement should run, run parts of it for you, and implement and support the systems behind it. We work with procurement, finance, IT and logistics teams, and the consultant in your workshop is the consultant on your build.

01

Procurement transformation

We look at how your organisation buys today and redesign it: the sourcing strategy, the operating model, the controls and the plan for savings.

Sourcing strategy
Analysis of your spend and supply base that informs the sourcing strategy.
Negotiation support
Support through negotiations, and follow-through until the savings are realised.
Operating model
The procurement model redesigned around your business goals.
Governance
Frameworks and controls for how buying decisions are made and approved.
Benefits tracking
Savings tracking and reporting on the benefits delivered.
02

Procurement outsourcing

Our category teams run sourcing on your behalf, using our own people, and report on what they deliver.

Category teams
Dedicated category teams that build and widen your supplier base.
Process design
Sourcing processes designed and rolled out.
Auctions and risk
Value delivered through auctions, with supply risk managed.
Monitoring
KPIs, supplier service levels and compliance monitored.
Category strategy
Category strategy carried out by our team, not handed back as a report.
03

SAP Ariba

We implement SAP Ariba, integrate it with SAP S/4HANA, and support it after go-live with application management and a help desk.

Delivered at Mahanagar Gas, Jindal Steel Sohar, SAEL and Birla Opus.

Add-ons for SAP Ariba
Implementation
Across Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, Guided Sourcing, Contract Management and Commerce Automation.
S/4HANA integration
Through the integration gateway, APIs and web services, with IDoc and OData interfaces.
Application management
Support under committed service levels, reported every month.
Help desk
A first-line desk for your buyers and your suppliers.
Configuration to your process
Templates, questionnaires, envelope rules and approval flows.
Process improvements
Such as adding suppliers to events from purchase history, and creating an RFQ from requisitions in one step.
04

SAP S/4HANA support

Application management for SAP S/4HANA after go-live: we keep it running, resolve what breaks and make the changes your teams ask for.

Talk to us about support
Incidents and requests
Tickets logged, prioritised and resolved under committed service levels.
Functional support
Purchasing, inventory, invoice verification and the finance steps linked to them, supported by consultants who know these processes.
Enhancements
Changes to ABAP code, forms, reports and workflows, tested before they reach production.
Integration
Interfaces with SAP Ariba and your other systems monitored, and failed messages fixed.
Monthly reporting
Ticket volumes, response and resolution times, and recurring issues, reported every month.
05

SAP BTP and custom applications

Where the standard product stops, we extend it on the SAP Business Technology Platform, inside your SAP estate. Where a requirement sits outside SAP, we build the application, host it and support it.

Delivered at Mahanagar Gas and Jindal Steel Sohar.

BTP applications
Business logic
Validations, calculations and approval rules held in one governed place.
Screens
Buyer screens consistent with the SAP experience your users already know.
Integration
Secure API integration with SAP Ariba, and data written back to S/4HANA so reporting stays intact.
Operation
Deployment, monitoring, hypercare after each release, and maintenance under a service level.
Custom applications
Built, hosted and maintained by the team that wrote the code.
How we work

From the first workshop to steady state, with one team.

The people who scope the work build it, test it with your users and support it after go-live.

  1. 01
    Discover

    A working session with your process owners. Current documents, approval flows and pain points are captured.

  2. 02
    Design

    The solution is designed on your templates and delegation of authority, and signed off before build.

  3. 03
    Build

    Built on APIs first, with a working demonstration at every iteration.

  4. 04
    Test

    User acceptance testing with your own users, with our team on site where it matters.

  5. 05
    Go-live

    Cutover and hypercare, with the build team still on the engagement.

  6. 06
    Support

    Handover to application management and the help desk, under committed service levels.

Ways to engage

Three ways to start.

A fixed-scope project

A defined implementation, development or process improvement, from design to go-live.

A product, configured

One of our products or applications, set up on your templates and approval flows.

Ongoing support

Application management and a help desk under committed service levels, reported monthly.

  • Remote delivery, with our team on site for workshops, testing and cutover.
  • Standard APIs wherever they exist, and automation only where they do not.
  • Senior people stay on the engagement, from scoping through to support.
Support after go-live

A desk that resolves what it can and escalates with the diagnosis done.

Level 1
Help desk
For buyers and suppliers: registration and onboarding, event access and bid submission, order confirmations and ship notices.
Level 2
Functional support
Event templates, questionnaires, approval flows, master data and configuration issues.
Level 3
Technical and development
Integration, API and application fixes, and enhancements to custom developments.
Every month you receive
  • A service level report, with every breach explained
  • Pending supplier registrations, by age
  • Failed vendor code creations, and order confirmation and ship notice exceptions
Talk to us

Tell us what you are trying to fix. We will come back with a scoped view of where advice, configuration, an extension or a product is the right answer.

Contact us