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Metro AGMetro AG Adopts SAP for Source to Pay
Metro AG, a consumer staples organization in Germany, uses SAP Ariba from SAP to support source to pay for procurement and AP.
Metro AG asked for a cleaner operating picture of procurement and payables. SAP is what they run.
“In Germany, procurement and AP already knew where procurement and payables went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.”
“SAP is the global leader in enterprise resource planning software, with S/4HANA, business technology platform services, and industry cloud applications.”
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Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Procurement and AP work from the same SAP Ariba record for procurement and payables |
| Capability | Procurement and payables can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
| Capability | Named workflow replaces ad hoc routing for procurement and payables |
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Metro AG did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed source to pay to move. In Germany, procurement and AP already knew where procurement and payables went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
SAP Ariba from SAP is now in that path. SAP is the global leader in enterprise resource planning software, with S/4HANA, business technology platform services, and industry cloud applications. The company treats it as production tooling for source to pay, which is why procurement and AP live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Metro AG can show how procurement and payables is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run source to pay on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
