eBusiness services evolution: new access portal and technological upgrade

Starting from October 15th, 2018:

  1. The new eBusiness portal is live
    Exclusively dedicated to the eBusiness services users, in order to allow access to the numerous available solutions.
  2. The eBusiness platform technological upgrade is completed.
    All services have been migrated from SRM 4.0 version to the more recent 7.0, with some changes in the graphical layout, but available processes unchanged.

 

Please find below detailed information on the company and processes of your interest.

 

CLUSTER 1: Enipower

Due to the currently used SAP closure and subsequent migration to IESS SAP for Enipower, eBusiness Services are not available, both for Catalogue Purchasing and for eCatalogue (coded materials) Service.
 

CLUSTER 2: eContest, eSourcing, Procurement & Contract Management, eMaintenance and Intercompany services

From October 15th, access to services for users belonging to this cluster will take place from the new eBusiness portal. 

 

CLUSTER 3: All remaining companies and services

For users belonging to this cluster:

  • USER ACTIVATIONS TO EBUSINESS SERVICES

New requests for user activation, reactivation and change can be submitted by downloading the new forms published on e-Business portal.

  • ACCESS TO EBUSINESS SERVICES

From October 15th, all services are active on the new platform. Access to services will take place from the new eBusiness portal, using your network credentials (for all internal users with active Single Sign On).

  • OPERATIVE NEWS ON THE NEW PLATFORM

The new platform presents some graphic changes, that will make it more compliant to company communication standards.
From a process perspective, there are no relevant impacts; please note the following small changes:

  1. Users enabled to more than one service will access to a unique Home page, where they will find all the sections related to these services;
  2. The shopping basket creation will require to select an approver from the list of all Company/Direction approvers; in case the Cost Center (CC) is indicated, the shopping basket will automatically be sent to the CC responsible approval (modes and number of approval steps will depend on the single process).