Procurement Starter Kit - object-centric
The Procurement Starter Kit helps you kick-start your process mining journey for Procurement, by showing in which areas Celonis can help your business reduce spend, improve productivity and optimize working capital.
With the Procurement Starter Kit, you can:
Surface the most impactful inefficiencies in your Procurement process.
Reduce Spend cost and optimize working capital by improving spend under management and on-time delivery.
Improve labor productivity by understanding the current levels of your touchless order rate.
Reduce spend by understanding the root causes of unused contracts, unfavorable prices and free text orders.
Benchmark your processes and performance across your organization.
Navigating the Starter Kit:
The Procurement Knowledge Model, with the KPIs (key performance indicators), calculated attributes, and filters that contain the process knowledge for Procurement.
A Getting Started Guide view will help you understand the different parts of the Starter Kit and the order in which they should be used.
An Overview view provides a single entry point for the Starter Kit for you to dive deep into specific use cases.
A Use Case Analysis view is the place where you work with the core use cases (e.g. on-time delivery, three-way-match, touchless orders and more) and your customized views. Here, you can validate your ingested business data, understand how core process KPIs are calculated, and adjust the variable values and the Starter Kit views to fit your requirements.
A Process Exploration view, here you can get a look at how your Procurement process currently runs with the standard process mining use cases (e.g. Automation, Cycle Time, Rework).
A Path-to-Value view to help you assess the value Celonis can provide for your Procurement process.
A Data Validation view will help you spot errors in the extraction or transformation process and ensure that everything is ready to start using the Procurement Starter Kit.
A Benchmarking view, to help you compare the performance of the different regions, organizations, customers, etc, in your Procurement process.
A General Settings view is where you can adjust the non-use case-specific variables of your Starter Kit, like currency or date format.
A Process Explorer view lets you focus on your Procurement process and discover inefficiencies.
Preconfigured Insight Explorers, one for every use case, give you a quick start with AI-generated insights.
A Preconfigured Process Adherence Manager gives you a starting point for process modeling and process adherence analysis for Procurement.
This documentation is for the object-centric version of the Procurement Starter Kit, which works with objects and events created for object-centric process mining.
The object-centric starter kit has been developed for multiple versions of the Celonis Catalog:
Version 2 (catalog version 2.x.x): the data model name will be perspective_celonis_Procurement
Version 3 (catalog version 3.x.x): for this version multiple extensions exist for the different systems:
Core perspective (system agnostic): perspective_celonis_Procurement
SAP ECC extension
SAP S4Hana extension
To understand which object-centric Starter Kit version you would need to use please see the section Navigating the different starter kit versions.
For the documentation and setup instructions for the case-centric version of the Procurement Starter Kit, see Procurement Starter Kit.