SAP Ariba e-procurement and supply chain cloud solutions

With SAP Ariba intelligent spend management solutions, you can tie together more than 30 processes and incorporate comprehensive transaction data to deliver greater efficiency, accuracy, and control every step of the way, from source to pay.

When we work with you to create and integrate your supplier management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and financial supply chain management processes, you can:

Ensure negotiated savings reach your bottom line

Guide employees to buy from the right suppliers at the right prices

Effectively and efficiently manage cost accounting and payments

What’s more, when you choose SAP Ariba you can take advantage of business process integrations with SAP S/4 HANA. This enables you to effectively and efficiently manage cost accounting and payments, plus do in-depth spend analysis, because all of your spending data is integrated with all of your other spending and financial information, all in one place.

SAP Ariba 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.

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.

Solutions

SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration

Supply Chain Collaboration makes it easier to work with direct materials suppliers, improve visibility, and minimize risks.

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.

SAP Supply Base Optimization

This cloud-based solution provides advanced predictive analytics, optimization, and simulation capabilities, so you can negotiate effectively to meet local and global savings targets and make intelligent business award decisions.

SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions

Available at no additional cost with SAP Ariba Buying and SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, guided buying gives your employees a simple, elegant way to buy smarter. It’s an intuitive experience that leads them to follow procurement guidelines and best practices – without the need to know them before they shop.

Easily buy from your preferred suppliers the goods and services they need to do their jobs

Effectively and efficiently collaborate with suppliers and category experts

Quickly complete purchasing transactions

Effortlessly comply with your purchasing policies and procedures

SAP Ariba Spend Analysis

Get objective analysis of your supplier spending

SAP Ariba gathers your spend data from wherever it lives, classifies it according to company and industry standards, and then enriches it with Dun & Bradstreet market intelligence to deliver insightful analysis of your business buying behavior.

This cloud-based solution provides advanced predictive analytics, optimization, and simulation capabilities, so you can negotiate effectively to meet local and global savings targets and make intelligent business award decisions.

How much you’re spending among families of suppliers

Where savings leak, prices vary, and purchasing overlaps