Technical Requirements to become a supplier on BASF MRO E-Procurement System

Mission - Implement the SAP Enterprise Buyer Professional (EBP) E-Procurement software as a standalone solution.

Objectives
1. Reduce cost by directing requisitioners to use one WEB based consolidated catalog of approved/contract vendors for Purchase Card transactions.
2. Gain experience with the SAP EBP module that will allow BASF to expand to non-P Card orders (capital, work order, services, and standard SAP requisitions).

Activities / Approach
This project is intended to place a common easy-to-use WEB based procurement solution on every procurement card user's desk to procure items approved as purchase card transactions. This project will be implemented initially at the Mount Olive site.

The rollout to the remaining BASF US sites will be done when the project has been turned over to maintenance mode.

This project will position BASF to integrate WEB based procurement through SAP for maintenance and capital items upon implementation of new releases of SAP software

Supplier Readiness
As a supplier you will need allow BASF to shop on your web catalop utilizing the Open Catalog Interface methodology as describe in the following document.

Open catalog interface.pdf
Also we will send you the Purchase Order via an electronic web XML transaction in the "cxbl" format. Details of this format can be found on the Internet at www.xcbl.org