In a collaborative industry ecosystem such as TV production, procurement of external services becomes a mission-critical process. SAP for Media supports a range of key processes involved with the creation of contracts, supplier selection, bidding, order management, confirmation, and invoice processing via a Web-based supplier collaboration environment, including:

• Requirement processing – With SAP solutions, you can automate purchase requisition processing, including demand creation and assignment and checking of accounting data.
• Purchase-order processing – SAP for Media solutions can automate conversion of demands to purchase orders (with or without reference to a contract) or delivery schedules for a scheduling agreement, and monitor fulfillment of these documents.
• Invoicing – With SAP for Media solutions, you can automatically create and process an invoice after the goods receipt or service performance has been confirmed.

Services procurement is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP and SAP Supplier Relationship Management. To find out how these applications can improve your services procurement, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning or supplier relationship management.