SAP and Korus Consulting, a member of Sberbank Group, announced that they started developing an integrated purchasing management solution on the basis of SAP Ariba and Korus Sfera, a service of legally significant electronic document flow. This partnership is one more step towards the establishment of Sberbank’s ecosystem on the basis of innovative solutions. It is expected to raise the efficiency of interaction between suppliers and purchasers on the Russian market and provide Russian companies with more possibilities to enter international markets. Sberbank is expected to become the first client that will use the solution.

      The new solution will be developed according to legislative requirements of the Russian Federation related to the legally significant document flow and a possibility to sign contracts with an electronic signature.  Users of the system will have access to a complex of services to manage the purchasing process: from making an application to the payment. Also, all additional functions of the solution are available through the SAP Ariba standard interface.