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SAP Ariba

What is SAP Ariba?

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SAP Ariba is a cloud-based purchasing and procurement platform that supports buyers in their day-to-day tasks. Being an Intelligent Spend management solution, it ensures the digital transformation of the purchasing process.

SAP Ariba solutions simplify collaboration between buyers and suppliers within the cloud-based B2B marketplace SAP Business Network. You can use it to efficiently manage procurement processes, including buying and invoicing, supply chain collaboration, sourcing, supplier management, contract management, and catalog management.

SAP Ariba Solutions

SAP Ariba offers several solutions catering to procurement and supply chain management aspects. Each module focuses on specific functionalities and processes.
Discover SAP Ariba solutions and choose the one to streamline procurement business processes in your company.
Get deep insights into your spend management to make sound spending decisions and optimize direct and indirect procurement for control and saving.

SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance

Core capabilities to manage supplier data through purchasing lifecycle:
- 360° view across all suppliers and their data in SAP Ariba and external systems.
- Tracking suppliers’ activity and performance.
- Self-service options for suppliers
Quick supplier onboarding.
- Smooth integration with external systems: real-time synchronization with supplier data between the systems.

SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing

Core capabilities to cover invoicing and payment:
- Digitization and collaboration through the SAP Business Network.
- Invoice validation through company-specific and general rules.
- Exception management and behavior control based on the invoice type, purchase order data, or organizational structure.
- Invoice conversion services to automate paper and PDF invoices.
- Document status visibility for payment and remittance advice.

SAP Ariba Supplier Risks

Core capabilities to manage supplier risks:
- Flexible risk monitoring and scoring
- Intelligent control assessments based on suppliers’ inherent risks
- AI/ML-empowered KPI model
- Integration with SAP ERP, SAP Ariba Procurement, and Ariba Network to create multifaceted supplier risk profiles

SAP Ariba Catalog

Core capabilities to cover contract management processes:
- Centralized storage for procurement, sales, and internal/corporate contracts.
- Manage and sign non-disclosure agreements.
- End-to-end template-based contract management processes
Enhanced compliance activities.
- Automatic alerts and configurable reports.
- eSignature options: DocuSign and Adobe EchoSign.

SAP Ariba Buying

Core capabilities to cover operational procurement processes:
- Simplified guided experience for contactless spend categories with policies and restrictions.
- Tactical sourcing and collaboration on the goods and services.
- Searching and buying non-sourced goods with Spot Buy.
- Professional procurement operations, including demand aggregation, total landed cost, etc.
- Real-time integration with external systems, including budget check.

SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration

Core capabilities to collaborate on material quality:
- Data sharing for inspecting materials and finished products
Predefined inspection of specifications.
- Visibility into inspection results
Event/incident tracking, audit trails, and reporting.
- Communication on a product problem or deviation from standard.
- Collaboration on batch-record reviews and finalization of batch-record information.
- Quality releases of product bulk materials.
- Bill of Material (BOM) support.

What challenges does SAP Ariba address?

Inefficient Processes

SAP Ariba automates and streamlines procurement processes, eliminating manual and paper-based tasks. It enables electronic requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, and invoicing, improving process efficiency and cost savings.

A lack of sustainability and purpose

Coordinate with sustainable and diverse suppliers, thus boosting investments flow. Attract more customers and ensure more significant levels of your employees' engagement.

Poor collaboration processes

SAP Ariba helps build collaboration plans that transform your vision into supply availability, automate repetitive tasks to minimize labor-related errors, and maintain real-time collaboration.

High operational costs

SAP Ariba helps minimize extra costs in your company's procurement processes by setting up and emphasizing intelligent cash flow requirements.

Lack of Visibility

SAP Ariba enhances procurement visibility, providing insights into supplier performance, pricing, contract compliance, and spending. This enables better decision-making, collaboration, and control over procurement activities.

Lack of Data Insights

SAP Ariba offers robust analytics and reporting capabilities, allowing organizations to leverage procurement data for insights, such as spend analysis, supplier performance, savings opportunities, and benchmarking.

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