Supplier Relationship Management

Overview

Ariba is the perfect Spend Management Solution that would help organizations to streamline their Procurement process and achieve efficiency having transparency, visibility, governance and cost saving advantages.

SAP Ariba solutions can revolutionize and enhance many aspects of businesses, from procurement to financial supply chain management. 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 $4.6 billion in goods and services traded every day.

Product Overview

SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite extends the functionality of our industry-leading sourcing solutions into managing the more advanced requirements of direct materials sourcing. The result is a single, closed-loop, source-to-contract solution bundle for managing sourcing and suppliers across all spend categories.

With the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solution portfolio, you can manage your entire sourcing, contracting, and spend analysis processes for all types of spend – direct and indirect materials as well as services – all in one place. Integrated into your execution and procurement processes, these solutions can help you to:

• ✤ Aggregate and classify all purchases, company-wide
• ✤ Gain visibility, segment spend, and identify savings opportunities
• ✤ Standardize source-to-contract processes across teams and business units
• ✤ Drive materials cost savings and optimization across all spend categories
• ✤ Ensure that the savings you negotiate are fully realized
• ✤ Increase speed and drive up throughput across your teams
• ✤ Reduce risk by finding better suppliers and innovation partners

Strategic Sourcing suite is bundled with the following solution modules:

• ✤ Supplier Lifecycle Performance-SLP
• ✤ Sourcing
• ✤ Contracts

Supplier Lifecycle Performance - SLP

Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite helps you manage supplier information by helping ensure supplier information in your vendor master is accurate and up-to-date. Now, through a single, web-based platform you can:

• ✤ Assess and qualify suppliers at the item, plant, or location level
• ✤ Access a 360-degree view into supplier information
• ✤ Monitor and manage supplier performance with a centralized information portal
• ✤ Assess compliance and manage supply risk
• ✤ Quickly identify and assess new sources of supply
• ✤ Streamline supplier on boarding process workflows and approvals

SAP Ariba Sourcing

To negotiate best-value sourcing agreements, the kind that provide sustainable savings, you need the right strategic sourcing environment - one that's connected to a powerful supplier network and built with superior tools, expertise and information.

That’s exactly what you’ll get with SAP Ariba Sourcing solutions. With tight integration to Ariba Network and connections to more than 3.6 million companies, SAP Ariba Sourcing and SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite provides the features and benefits you need to deliver the best sourcing results ever.

And you can simplify your sourcing processes further with the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite by using a single solution for all your spend categories – services, indirect materials, and direct materials.

SAP Ariba Contracts

Say goodbye to misplaced and mismanaged paper contracts and to the risks and lost savings that go with them. With contract management software from SAP Ariba, you can eliminate the paper and ink from the creation, execution, and management of any type of contractual agreement.

Here are just some of the things you can do with our contract management software:

• ✤ Manage procurement and sales contracts, IP licenses, internal agreements, and more
• ✤ Automate and accelerate the entire contract lifecycle
• ✤ Standardize and control contract development
• ✤ Strengthen operational, contractual, and regulatory compliance

You’ll find it far easier to collaborate on contracts with all stakeholders – no matter where you operate in today’s digital economy.

You furthermore find the below portfolio of Strategic Sourcing:

• ✤ SAP Ariba Discovery for buyers
• ✤ SAP Ariba Start Sourcing
• ✤ SAP Ariba Savings Pipeline and Tracking

Product Overview

The world’s largest business commerce network provides you with the tools and enablement services to quickly connect and transact with all suppliers regardless of their size or e-commerce maturity.

Reduce the Costs of managing processes and speed up cycle times.

Faster, cleaner, digital transactions radically increase efficiency and effectiveness for buyers and suppliers and improve relationships. Business rules across 28 document types drive touchless processing and reduce queries by giving visibility to status information.

Global Coverage with local knowledge and tax compliance.

With suppliers in 190 countries and supporting 24 languages, Ariba Network is truly global. Proven compliance to local tax and legal requirements for electronic invoicing in 39 countries. Pro-forma invoicing in 66 countries. API’s allow partners to extend capabilities and compliance reach.

SAP Ariba's Supplier Enablement team of over 500 dedicated do most of the on boarding work for you.

Leverage Ariba Network business rules to help guide suppliers and achieve 100% compliance

Start transacting with all your suppliers in a uniform & digitized manner.

More than 3.4 million connected companies transact $2.1+ trillion in commerce on the Ariba Network. Why? Because everything needed to manage commerce-from sourcing and orders through invoice and payment-is there for them, along with experts to help optimize the program.

Product Overview

Whether you want to improve your entire buying and settlement process end-to-end, or just part of it, SAP Ariba e-procurement software solutions deliver negotiated savings that improve your bottom line.

• ✤ Reduce buying cycles by 50%
• ✤ Cut supply costs by 10%
• ✤ Lower processing costs by 25% to 60%

With SAP Ariba, you get the broadest set of capabilities on the market. Like market-leading innovations in guided buying and spot buy. Plus the most pre-enabled suppliers, easy supplier and catalogue enablement, and integration with Ariba Network – more than 3.6 million connected companies strong, and growing.

Procure to Pay

SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing is the easy-to-use, procure-to-pay software solution that sets the standard for all other procurement software offerings. It’s user-friendly, with streamlined catalogue maintenance and a configurable interface.

The solution can help your business become more agile by allowing you to better control global spend with flexible management and visibility tools. SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing also helps you to simplify commerce by consolidating and managing all your key processes.

Buyers from large, midsize, and growing companies enjoy the simple and smart guided buying experience. It delivers a quick ROI through built-in approval flows that ensure both catalogue and contract compliance. The result: Your negotiated savings actually reach your bottom line.

Guided Buying

Guided buying brings suppliers and buyers together to help streamline procurement. By encouraging your employees to follow procurement guidelines - without having to read them first - you can help them quickly and easily buy goods and services from preferred suppliers with minimal support from your procurement teams.

With this built-in capability of SAP Ariba procurement solutions, you can:

• ✤ Reduce buying cycles by 50%• Use integrated supplier performance management tools to expand supplier participation
• ✤ Collaborate with suppliers directly through the buying interface
• ✤ Embed rules to ensure the buying process is compliant with your procurement policies

You’ll also boost adoption of your SAP Ariba procurement solution because all users, from the occasional to the frequent buyer, will find the buying experience easier and more satisfying.

Spot Buying

When it doesn’t make sense to source a one-off or emergency purchase, turn to SAP Ariba Spot Buy. This innovative capability of SAP Ariba Procurement solutions* provides:

• ✤ An easy way to quickly find and buy what you need from among more than 10 million items
• ✤ Collaborate with suppliers directly through the buying interface A trusted source of supply from hundreds of pre-enabled suppliers
• ✤ Control, because you customize it according to your policies and procedures, and then receive detailed data for monitoring and reconciling transactions

Product Overview

SAP Fieldglass, a longstanding leader in external talent management and services procurement, is used by organizations around the world. Our cloud-based, open platform has been deployed in more than 180 countries and helps companies transform how work gets done, increase operational agility and accelerate business outcomes in the digital economy. Backed by the resources of SAP, our customers benefit from a roadmap driven by a continuous investment in innovation.

Using a vendor management system to manage projects and services

Organizations today frequently use outside resources to deliver services across a variety of labour categories. While it’s very common for companies to engage with third-party vendors to provide IT services, they’re also utilizing outside resources to provide financial services, engineering, marketing, advertising, print, construction, maintenance and management consulting, among other sectors. These engagements are often managed independently of one another with many elements during the process — from requirements and budget, to supplier expectations and milestones defined and executed on an ad hoc basis. Additionally, with different managers, departments and geographies using inconsistent and disparate processes for management, companies are losing visibility into this growing segment of spend and headcount.

The SAP Fieldglass Vendor Management System (VMS) manages projects and services by automating processes throughout the procurement lifecycle. SAP Fieldglass is used by large organizations around the world to simplify how external service providers are engaged, ensure compliance to safety and security policies, measure the quality of services being delivered, and realize cost savings that can range from 8-12% in the first year.

Non-employee budget

According to recent research from SAP Fieldglass and Oxford Economics, an average of 44% of payroll budgets goes to the external workforce — essentially any project governed by an SOW or outsourced to a non-employee.

Product Overview

SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway, enabled by SAP Cloud Platform Integration, gives you that fast, simple way to connect your back-end systems without the need for multiple adapters. Intuitive self-service tools let you quickly configure, extend, and test processes, while automated upgrades and monitoring make it easy to keep transactions flowing smoothly.