Suppliers can use the Web UI interface to transact with their customers, but they can also directly integrate their ERP to their client’s ERP (through the SAP Business Network), supporting high volume relationships (see below). Each organization is responsible for its own user access management, and while the data shared is still under control of the buying entity, you no longer have to manage access matters for your supplier’s users, and change compared to SNC, which required the buying organization to also manage their supplier’s users.īusiness community – Where the SNC supplier portal offered suppliers integration to a single buying organization, SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration is based on the SAP Business Network, where suppliers can transact with multiple buying organizations using the same portal, increasing the value of adopting the solution. With SCC, it is for instance possible to define transactional rules applicable for procurement collaboration at global, supplier group, or individual supplier level.Īdministration – The platform on which SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration is built is shared by hundreds of thousands of buying and supplying organizations around the world. While cloud-based solutions still come with options in terms of configuration, the offered configuration frame still needs to be considered.

Connecting to a public could solution means for instance adopting a fit-to-standard approach as much as possible during the solution design phase, and having in sight the continuous improvements that will be delivered in the quarterly releases, as per SAP’s product roadmap. What are the main differences between SNC and SCC?Ĭustomization – The first thing to have in mind is that SNC was an on-premise solution, and SCC is cloud-based, which comes with additional considerations (pros and cons).

Beyond adopting the new generation of SAP cloud products and preparing for the end of support of the SAP SCM suite, what does the journey from SNC to SCC look like? Let’s consider the lessons learned from similar migrations.īig thank you to Julien Serres, at Deloitte, who worked on this article with me.

For any company using the SAP Supplier Network Collaboration (SNC) solution to collaborate with their direct suppliers on demand forecast, inventory positions and procurement transactions, SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) is a solution to consider.

Sap ariba vendor portal