Supplier Management enables you to classify suppliers using

procurement categories, and evaluate suppliers using real-time

transactional data to analyze criteria (for example, on-time delivery,
quantity, and prices).

Supplier management includes:

 Classification and Segmentation

o Supplier classification and segmentation is an ongoing
process in which you assess and classify your suppliers at
regular intervals and allocate your suppliers to segments of
different importance. You can then focus especially on those
suppliers that are strategically important and critical to your
business, thus enabling you to develop and manage your
business relationships.
 Supplier Evaluation
o In supplier evaluation, you send out supplier evaluation
requests to appraisers, asking them to fill out
questionnaires about a supplier. You first create the
questions and the corresponding answer options and then
include the questions in one or several questionnaires. You
can include the questionnaires in evaluation templates that
serve as the basis for sending out evaluation requests.