SAP Ariba

Consolidate and control all spending from source to pay

SAP Ariba is how companies connect to get business done, using our market-leading, digital commerce solutions and Ariba Network. Buyers and suppliers from more than 3.6 million large, midsize, and growing companies, operating in more than 190 countries, are discovering new opportunities, collaborating on transactions, and growing their businesses. 

Now you can more effectively and efficiently manage all or part of the purchasing process, while controlling spending, finding new sources of savings, and building a healthy supply chain. With SAP Ariba spend management solutions, you can digitalize and simplify all your processes end-to-end, on a single, integrated platform in the cloud.

SAP Ariba Solutions include modules covering the following areas: 

Strategic Sourcing

Discover qualified suppliers, speed up your sourcing cycles, and create the most competitive, best-value agreements for sustainable savings with all your sourcing needs. Make better sourcing decisions with spend analysis insights. Negotiate best-value agreements for sustainable savings on both direct and indirect materials. Minimize risk and accelerate the contract life-cycle with built-in contract management functionality.

Procurement

Cut costs and risks and ensure compliance using the market’s broadest set of e-procurement solution capabilities. Lead employees to preferred suppliers with a simple, guided buying experience. Transact with all suppliers easily and confidently over Ariba Network.

Pay / Financial Supply Chain

Transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets to boost free cash flow, free up working capital, and deliver more bottom-line value. Automate invoice capture, workflow, and approval. Provide suppliers visibility into payments. Improve cash flow and deliver more bottom-line value while reducing supply chain costs and liquidity risk.

Supplier Management

How much simpler would supplier management be if you had a reliable, up-to-date, and comprehensive view of supplier information, spend, performance, and risk? And how much easier would you find it to reduce risk and prevent savings leakage if supplier qualification and segmentation were an integral part of your buying processes?

SAP Ariba Supplier Management makes this possible. Integrated with the rest of your procurement processes, it’s the only end-to-end solution portfolio that lets you manage supplier information, lifecycle, performance, and risk all in one place. With SAP Ariba, you can drive spend to preferred suppliers and reduce risk every step of the way, from supplier onboarding and qualification to segmentation and performance management.

Solutions for Direct Spend

Digitize your extended supply chain with end-to-end, digital procurement solutions that support your direct spend, starting with integration with your product design and R&D processes, all the way through manufacturing execution and delivery.

SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Spend integrate seamlessly with your PLM, ERP, and SAP Integrated Business Planning systems to unlock a world of benefits, including:

• Faster time to market and time to volume: Integrate R&D and product design with sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management to accelerate innovation.
• Quick and accurate sourcing: Source all materials and services for multi-level BOMs on a single platform, and move smoothly toward volume production.
• Effective supplier collaboration: Identify any potential supply shortages before they occur.
• Better product cost management: Minimize contract leakage and realize negotiated savings when all purchase orders reflect supplier agreements.
• Stronger compliance: Tie supplier qualification and sourcing together to ensure selection of qualified suppliers and mitigate supply chain disruptions.
• Complete supply chain visibility: Collaborate with multiple tiers of suppliers to manage your non-linear and external supply chains, reduce inventory levels, increase fill rates, and increase team productivity.

Ariba Network

Buyers ask suppliers to join Ariba Network so you can work together more efficiently and effectively on all the shared aspects of business commerce: proposals, contracts, orders, invoices, and payments. Doing so through Ariba Network can save you both a lot of time and money.

As a supplier on Ariba Network, you tap into the world’s largest B2B marketplace, with millions of companies doing business at more than double the volume of Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay combined. Ariba Network makes it simple to:

• Accelerate the sales cycle while lowering the cost of sales

• Find new customers who are ready to buy

• Respond to RFP/RFI, submit proposals, and negotiate contracts

• Boost sales through catalogs

• Handle purchase orders, send invoices, and receive payments

• Know when you’ll get paid and for what

• Strengthen customer relationships and increase customer retention

Packages for mid-sized companies

One of the reasons SAP Ariba is the leader in spend management solutions is our expertise in automating all steps of the source-to-pay process on an integrated, cloud-based platform. But maybe you’re not looking to tackle your processes end to end. As a midsize and growing company, perhaps you just want to quickly solve some specific sourcing, contracting, or spending challenges. We specialize in that, too.

SAP Ariba solutions are designed to help midsize companies streamline and achieve real-time visibility into spend, collaborate better with suppliers, mitigate risk, and ensure compliance. With the right business management software and access to Ariba Network, we can help you automate any part of your source-to-pay process. We’ll equip you to reach beyond your organization’s four walls into the cloud, where you can securely share processes with your suppliers to: 

• Achieve real-time visibility and control of company-wide spending

• Find new sources of supply and negotiate real cost savings

• Simplify contract approvals and management

• Help employees quickly and easily buy from preferred suppliers at the right prices

• Reduce invoicing errors and capture more early-payment discounts

• Improve cash flow and optimize working capital