cVend™ is a dynamic, web-enabled Collaborative Application™ acting as a firewall for your SAP® vendor master data solution. The cVend module allows business data owners to collaboratively enter and maintain vendor master data. Continually validating the data against your business rules and existing vendor master data, cVend ensures Business-Ready Data Every Day™ quality in SAP.

Loads major SAP customer master data objects as part of integrated, controlled business process:

• Vendor address data including International Addresses
• Addresses by account group – sold to, ship to, bill to and payer functions
• Vendor sales and distribution data including sales tax and partner functions
• Vendor company code data including dunning data and withholding tax
• Vendor Banking data
• Credit Control data
• Vendor contact data
• Vendor contact to partner function – e.g. invoicing contact, ordering contact, etc.
• Material to vendor associations
• Other data as required

Implements and controls separate data management responsibilities as needed by business process design:

• Business line management to authorize vendor data creation, change
• SAP data collection experts in business roles (e.g. sales rep, customer service rep, sales administrator, credit, planner, etc.)
• Business approval roles (multiple if required)
• Data governance review and approval roles (if required)
• Data entry personnel

Additional features:

• Web enabled front-end to allow easy access through company intranet for all authorized users.
• Data quality and data completeness controls based on business decision type.
• Built in workflow to coordinate data collection, data approval and data entry across multiple personnel and organizations. Workflow driven through simple application process configuration – no separate workflow design or implementation required.
• Supports all SAP languages.
• Streamlined data entry screens with defaults, controlled drop down lists and validation rules based on SAP configuration, decision type and company business rules.
• Flexible security for personnel assigned to cVend roles - more granular and more flexible than typical in SAP security.
• Data fully validated before it is posted – no recycle between data entry function and data collection function caused by SAP data entry problems.
• Process status and audit trail available from data request creation step to final posting.

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