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What is Ariba?

SAP purchased Ariba in 2012, a well-known pioneer in spend management software.

Today’s businesses may streamline their operations and minimize costs with the SAP Ariba spend management solution portfolio.

The solutions provide direct, intelligent connections that revolutionize how businesses cooperate and carry out tasks by connecting SAP Business Network to millions of trading partners worldwide:

  • Buyers can oversee the entire purchasing process, driving sustainable sourcing savings, controlling costs, and fostering ethical, healthy supply chains.
  • Suppliers can connect with profitable customers, expand existing relationships, streamline sales cycles, and enhance cash flow management.

What makes SAP Ariba solutions so different?

By seamlessly integrating with other SAP procurement tools, SAP Ariba solutions provide resources, services, and insights that minimize financial and operational interruptions, meet workforce and customer demands, and reduce supplier risks and market volatility.

  • Gain a deeper insight into spend:Tackle complex spend categories by leveraging SAP expertise, and at the same time use specialized solutions to gain better visibility.
  • Seamless business process integration: Create a streamlined source-to-pay process that connects payment systems, back-end operations, and trading partners, so you can maximize value.
  • A worldwide professional network that links you to everything: Go beyond portals by collaborating with millions of suppliers worldwide, while also strengthening relationships with existing partners.
  • Solving today’s challenges with a vision for the future: Stay resilient with SAP solutions that can scale as your business grows, and at the same time adapt to future challenges with ease.

Why SAP Ariba solutions?

In a fast-changing world, procurement is the key to keeping your business moving forward.

Procurement and transformation

  • Procure to pay: Streamline the purchasing lifecycle by automating key processes, while also offering a unified platform for easy access to indirect goods and services.
  • Catalogs: Use advanced content management tools to validate and enrich catalogs, so employees can quickly find and purchase what they need.
  • Guided buying: Direct employees toward preferred suppliers and policies, thereby boosting adoption and ensuring compliance.
  • Spot Buy:Simplify one-off or urgent purchases, and as a result, reduce both costs and management effort.

Procurement solutions from SAP can help you:

  • Redesign the experience to eliminate barriers, and at the same time let intelligent technologies take on more tasks for greater efficiency.
  • Connect categories on a global scale, while also managing spend centrally and ensuring the agility needed to meet dynamic market demands.
  • By securely sharing information and insights, you can not only strengthen cooperation with trading partners but also build long-term trust and resilience.

Centralized information and risk management

  • Supplier information: Obtain a single supplier record with reliable data, while also ensuring consistency across the procurement process.
  • Lifecycle and performance management: Integrate with procurement to improve compliance and at the same time allocate spending to preferred vendors for better control.
  • Risk management: Incorporate risk assessment into the source-to-pay process, so that you can tailor risk views and alerts to business needs and roles.

Supplier management solutions from SAP can help you:

  • Identify and acquire the right products from trusted vendors, so you can ensure timely delivery at the best price.
  • Mitigate risk from onboarding to performance management, and in doing so strengthen supplier reliability.
  • Eliminate savings leakage by integrating supplier qualification into buying, which in turn supports compliance and cost efficiency.

Direct and indirect materials sourcing

  • Strategic sourcing: To minimize expenses and reduce risks, combine sourcing, contracting, and supplier lifecycle management.
  • Product sourcing: Empower teams to create high-value sourcing agreements tailored to the demands of automotive and industrial manufacturing sectors.
  • Contract management: Accelerate contract cycles and cut down on administrative and legal expenses by eliminating paper-based processes.
  • Spend analysis: Consolidate spend data from multiple systems to quickly identify and prioritize sourcing opportunities.

Sourcing and contracting solutions from SAP can help you:

  • Effectively manage and enhance your sourcing, contracting, and spend analysis across all spend categories.
  • Accelerate sourcing cycles and establish competitive, high-value agreements that drive long-term savings.
  • Maximize cost efficiency, reduce supply chain risks, and capture the full value of negotiated savings.

Automated receipt, processing, and payment

  • Network-based business rules: Alert suppliers to mistakes and stop erroneous invoices from getting into your back-end system or process workflow.
  • Touchless processing: Automatically capture and process invoices, including PDFs, non-PO invoices, and invoices for complex services.
  • Configurable workflow: Leverage pre-configured, best-practice workflows instantly and easily modify them using drag-and-drop functionality.
  • Enhanced compliance: For more robust compliance, use two-way (PO-invoice), three-way (PO-goods receipt-invoice), and four-way (PO-goods receipt-contract-invoice) matching.

Invoice and payment solutions from SAP can help you:

  • Increase invoice accuracy to speed up payments and processing.
  • Pre-validate invoices to correct missing or inaccurate information, minimizing exceptions.
  • Release your employees from laborious duties so they can concentrate on strategic projects.