Difference between SRM and SNC

[Former Member]

Hi all,

i frequently get this question from many of my friends who work on SRM, as what is the difference between SRM and SNC.Because the supplier collaboration part of SNC resemles with few functionalities of SRM.

What kind of industries go for SRM?

What kind of industries go for SNC?

Regards,

Nandan

[Former Member]

Dear Nandan,

SNC offers a complete view on supply chain collaboration, offering a company ways to effectively collaborate with its customers, suppliers, Third party logistics providers and outsourced manufacturing partners. In SNC, inventory and demand data is shared across the supply chain and thus effectively managing supply chain process. Through SNC, customers and suppliers can simultaneously eliminate inefficiencies in their supply chains by synchronizing the flow of information between them.

On the supplier collaboration side, SNC offers upstream business processes like Supplier Managed Inventory, discrete purchase order management, scheduling agreement release handling and web-based kanban signals. For customer collaboration, SNC offers comprehensive downstream business processes like responsive replenishment which represents the next generation in demand driven replenishment and collaboration.

SNC is used in companies involved in supply chain processing. Industries: Hightech, Retail, Automotive, Chemical, Pharmaceuticals, etc.

Regards

Naveen

[Former Member]

Hi Nandan

SRM and SNC have few functionalities common.

SUS and Plan driven procurement. Like SNC Purchase Order Collaboration, these are direct procurement(Supplier known).

Where SRM has other business process like Self Service Procurement, where in they can create quotations and then compare and select the best supplier(In direct Procurement)

In SNC we do not support Service Orders, We only support Quantity Orders. Where SRM can support both.

They have other Business process(SAP SRM Supplier Collaboration), where in the solutions and backend systems like SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Collaboration Folders (cFolders), and SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM), to provide collaborative planning, sourcing, procurement.

Where SNC plays a material monitor here communicating between OEM & Supplier Org

SRM support both quantity procurement and service procurement directly and indirectly.

Where in SNC supports direct quantity procurement.

It is the business need, upon which they select SNC or SRM.

Best Regards

Vinod