If you are an SAP SRM customer, you are currently in a big dilemma. SAP SRM had embedded content management and catalog search technology from Requisite Software for enabling supplier catalogs. Beginning in January 2007, SAP is no longer supporting Requisite's technology within SRM. As a result, it is recommending that SRM customers must migrate to either recently introduced technology - SAP MDM catalog, or to its earlier released technology SAP CCM (Catalog Content Management). We believe that there is a third option that is at a substantial lower risk and at significantly lower cost....
 

Procurement has the dubious distinction of being at the center of all enterprise activity yet, at the same time being on the fringes. Unless you are a procurement outsourcing service provider, there are very few exceptions where procurement is considered the single most important core competence of an organization. And yet the very essence of any enterprise is buying and selling goods or services. Sales is obviously considered to be a top function in most organizations. Why wouldn't the corresponding procurement function be regarded similarly? Fortunately, 89% of our respondents indicated that the procurement function has grown more strategic over the last three years....