Talk given on Sap Inside Track in Wroclaw 2016

1. Radoslaw Kotowicz, Sap Polska, May 2016
SAP Business Networks
Internal

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Agenda
• (Almost) complete landscape
• Ariba Network, on it’s own
• B-process
• Quadrem
• Crossgate
• Interoperability & future

3. SAP Business Network
Landscape

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Business Network compounds

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Business Network compounds
2011

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Business Network compounds
2011
2012

7. Ariba Network

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High level view

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cXML
• Designed for
• Procurement Applications (e.g. Ariba P2P)
• Commerce Network Hubs (e.g. Ariba Network)
• PunchOut Catalogs (e.g. eBay via Ariba Spot Buy)
• Order-Receiving Systems
• Created by Ariba in 1999
• Current version 1.2.030
• Free for use and modification

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Document types

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cXML Message Types [http://xml.cxml.org/current/cXML_DTDs.zip]
$ grep -Poh '^<!ELEMENT.*Requestb.*' *dtd | sort -u | cat -n
1 <!ELEMENT ContractRequestHeader (LegalEntity, OrganizationID, OrganizationalUnit*,
PaymentTerm*,
2 <!ELEMENT MasterAgreementRequest (MaxAmount?, MinAmount?,
3 <!ELEMENT AuthRequest (Credential+, X509Data?)>
4 <!ELEMENT BlanketOrderStatusUpdateRequest (OrderReference, BlanketOrderStatus)>
5 <!ELEMENT CatalogChangeRequest (CatalogID, SubscriberList)>
6 <!ELEMENT CatalogUploadRequest (CatalogName, Description, Attachment,
7 <!ELEMENT CollaborationRequest ( CollaborationInfo?)>
. . .
63 <!ELEMENT XMLPayRequest ((RequestData, RequestAuth))>
$ grep -Poh '^<!ELEMENT.*Responseb.*' *dtd | sort -u | cat -n
1 <!ELEMENT AuthResponse (Credential)+>
2 <!ELEMENT ContentResponse (ContentResponseHeader, ItemIn*)>
3 <!ELEMENT cXML (( Header, (Message | Request)) | Response)>
...
21 <!ELEMENT SessionStatusResponse EMPTY>
22 <!ELEMENT SubscriptionContentResponse (Subscription, SubscriptionContent+)>
23 <!ELEMENT SubscriptionListResponse (Subscription+)>
24 <!ELEMENT SupplierDataResponse (Supplier)>
25 <!ELEMENT SupplierListResponse (Supplier+)>
26 <!ELEMENT XMLPayResponse ((ResponseData, Signature?, TransactionReceipts?))>

12. b-process

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Quick facts
• Founded in 1999, acquired by Ariba in 2011
• Supported documents: invoices
• Focus: Europe & NA
• Assets: Invoice compatibility

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billManager platform
Legal E-Invoicing• Structured data
• > 100 invoices / month
• Interchange agreement required
• Virtually printed PDF files
• > 20 and < 100 invoices / month
Smart PDF
EDI Demat
 Scan – OCR
• Data extraction from paper invoices
issued by suppliers not yet shifted to
tax dematerialization
CLIENT
Web Portal
• Invoice data key-in
• < 20 invoices / month
• Legal fields checks
• Electronic duplicate
archiving
• Online access
• Legal fields checks
• Digital signature
• Legal e-archiving
• Online access
• Business data checks

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B-process interoperability
ACCELYA ACCELYA
AGENA CERTIPOST
AVIDSEN DESKOM
B2B EDICOM
CEGEDIM GENERIX
CERTIPOST GXS
DESKOM MARAKANDA
EDICOM OB10
EDICOT ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES
EDT STEPCOM
EUROEDI STERLING COMMERCE
GEXEDI
GMI
ILLICOM
INFLUE / GENERIX
INTERCOMMIT
OB10
ORDIROPE
SERES
SRCI
STERLING COMMERCE
THOMSON
TIE FRANCE
TRUSTMISSION
TX2 CONCEPT
Input
(26 operators)
Output
(11 operators)
1st BUSINESSPOST

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Migration to Ariba Network
• Buyers are already being migrated to AN. This implicates migrating the interconnected
supplier (possible overlap)
• Some buyers transact with suppliers using formats such as EDIFACT D96A, which are not
supported by Ariba yet
• As a tactic solution bridging for these type of transactions is implemented, however this is
not a standard Ariba/SAP list product

17. Quadrem

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Quick facts
• Founded in 2000, acquired by Ariba in 2011
• Supported documents: PO, RFQ, remittance advice, ASN, service entry sheets, invoice, GR
(~ P2P scope)
• Focus: Africa, APAC, Mining & Oil industry
• Assets: completement AN geographically, large customer overlap with SAP

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Supported Documents
Request for Quote
Quote
Purchase Order (New, Change Orders)
Order Response
Order Status Request / Order Status Resp.
Advance Ship Notice
Advance Ship Notice Response
Goods Receipt Notice
Invoice
Invoice Response
Invoice Status
Remittance Advice
Service Entry Sheet
Service Entry Sheet Response

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Supported Documents
Request for Quote
Quote
Purchase Order (New, Change Orders)
Order Response
Order Status Request / Order Status Resp.
Advance Ship Notice
Advance Ship Notice Response
Goods Receipt Notice
Invoice
Invoice Response
Invoice Status
Remittance Advice
Service Entry Sheet
Service Entry Sheet Response
DOWNSTREAM

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Supported Formats
• xCBL (primary)
• cXML
• EDI
• Flat files
Consulting work
involved

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Word about xCBL
• Stands for XML Common Business Library
• Created by CommerceOne in 1997
• Latest version 4.0 from 2003
• Definitions available in DTD, XML Schema, SOX (created initially for this purpose)
• Document overlap with xCML
• Focus on both procurement and sourcing (cXML initially on procurement)

23. Crossgate

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Quick facts
• Founded in 2001, acquired by SAP in 2011
• Supported documents: probably any existing ones
• Assets: business process repository including relations, format definitions and mappings
towards other consumers

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Old commercial

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Crossgate

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Crossgate’s Technologies
• SAP II
• B2B360 (SAP II OnD)
• TradeXpress (EAI)

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Interoperability
<Use whiteboard>

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EOLs
• Crossgate – end of 2017
• b-process – 2018
• Quadrem – end of 2017

30. Thank you
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31. Appendix A
Further AN states

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AN statistics
What happens more than 3 times a second? A documented is routed across the AN
Over how many new relationships are created every hour? 20
How many new trading relationships were created over the last year? Over 205,000
How often do new companies join the Ariba Network? Every Minute!
How much spend is transacted on the Ariba Network every second? $27,000
How many countries is the Ariba Network utilized in? Over 190
Over how many thousand Sourcing events were created in the last year? Two hundred (thousand)
The total Sourcing volume is now over this dollar amount. 205 billion
How many invoices are created per minute? ~ 55
What was the growth in Total Commerce from Q1 2014 - Q1 2015? 29.81%
What is the Market Opportunity for direct materials supply chain collaboration amongst the Fortune 2000 companies where SAP
has 75% penetration?
More than $2Tril spend
On average, how many new suppliers are added to the Ariba Network via our upstream solutions every month 20K Suppliers
What growth in sourcing events being run on the Ariba platform did we experience in Q1 2015 compared to Q1 2014 50%