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What is Ariba?

In 2012, SAP purchased Ariba, 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?

In order to provide resources, services, and insight that minimize financial and operational interruptions, fulfil workforce and customer demands, and lower supplier risks and market volatility, SAP Ariba solutions effortlessly interact with other SAP procurement tools.

  • Gain a deeper insight into spend: Tackle the complexities of all types of spend by leveraging decades of SAP expertise and specialized solution capabilities.
  • Seamless business process integration: Establish a streamlined source-to-pay process that connects with your payment systems, back-end operations, and trading partners to maximize value.
  • A worldwide professional network that links you to everything: Go beyond portals and participate in collaborative trade with millions of possible new suppliers and a global network of current partners.
  • Solving today’s challenges with a vision for the future: Stay resilient with a forward-thinking platform of SAP solutions that can scale and evolve with your company, no matter its current state or future direction.

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 your entire purchasing lifecycle by automating processes and providing users with a single platform to search for indirect goods and services.
  • Catalogs: Use enterprise-grade content management tools to define, validate, and enhance catalog content, making it easy for employees to purchase what they need.
  • Guided buying: Steer employees toward preferred suppliers, processes, and policies to boost adoption and ensure compliant spending.
  • Spot Buy: Provide a cost-effective solution for indirect goods, streamlining one-off or urgent purchases that are typically too expensive and time-consuming to source.

Procurement solutions from SAP can help you:

  • Redesign the experience to eliminate barriers and let intelligent technologies take on more tasks.
  • Connect categories on a global scale, managing spend centrally while staying agile to meet market demands.
  • By securely sharing information and insights, you may strengthen cooperation with trading partners.

Centralized information and risk management

  • Supplier information: Obtain a single supplier record with a high degree of data dependability and accuracy.
  • Lifecycle and performance management: To improve compliance throughout your whole supply base and allocate spending to favoured vendors, integrate with procurement.
  • Risk management: Incorporate risk assessment and due diligence into the source-to-pay process, customizing risk views and alerts based on your business needs and role.

Supplier management solutions from SAP can help you:

  • Identify and acquire the appropriate products from the right vendors to guarantee prompt delivery at the best possible price.
  • Mitigate risk at every stage, from onboarding and qualification to segmentation and performance management.
  • Eliminate savings leakage by integrating supplier qualification and segmentation into the buying process.

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.