Hello all,
I am doing some research into procurement with S/4HANA and particularly looking at scenarios it can take over from SRM.
I see the role of Ariba here in taking over SRM functionality, but according to various sources, SAP S/4 will also take over some SRM functionality. But when looking at these scenarios It looks like this functionality is already in ECC (for instance purchase requisition <-> shopping cart or workflows)
So I whas thinking, why would you use SRM instead of plain ECC for these seemingly duplicate functionalities? And how does S/4HANA reduce these 'advantages' of SRM over ECC? For everything more interesting (catalogs etc.) they seem to refer to Ariba, but i want to know the advantages for S/4HANA only.
note: my SRM knowledge is pretty limited to non-existant, but I cannot seem to find decent documents about SAP strategy or history as to why these 2 products exist next to eachother in this way?