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EDFSAP Supports Source to Pay at EDF
EDF, a utilities organization in France, uses SAP S/4HANA from SAP to support source to pay for procurement and AP.
Teams at EDF moved procurement and payables onto SAP after local tools started to collide.
“From France, utilities teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer.”
“SAP is the global leader in enterprise resource planning software, with S/4HANA, business technology platform services, and industry cloud applications.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because procurement and payables has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in source to pay sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | SAP S/4HANA is the governed place procurement and AP use for source to pay |
Story
EDF grew procurement and payables faster than the local tools around it. From France, utilities teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Procurement and AP were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out SAP S/4HANA put source to pay on SAP. SAP is the global leader in enterprise resource planning software, with S/4HANA, business technology platform services, and industry cloud applications. EDF keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so procurement and AP do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier source to pay. Procurement and payables is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join procurement and AP without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
