SAP Ariba Solution

SAP Ariba is SAP’s cloud based marketplace for business-to-business transactions. SAP Ariba runs the Ariba Network in which buyers and suppliers can find each other and do business in one network. You can integrate SAP Ariba Network with your on-premise system either through SAP Cloud Platform Integration or SAP PI.

A consistent user interface and shared master data are just the beginning

SAP Ariba intelligent spend management solutions offer out-of-the box integrations with SAP S/4 HANA Cloud. Now 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:

Perform in-depth spend analysis, because all spend data is in one place
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

1. Intelligent Spend Management

2. Supplier Management

3. Strategic Sourcing

4. Direct Spend Solutions

5. Procurement

6. Financial Supply Chain

7. Services for Buyers

SAP Ariba with SAP S/4HANA

Introducing next-generation, spend-process integration. Now you can accelerate your procurement and supply chain digital transformation and dramatically cut your costs.

Deliver the lowest TCO with pre-built integration, managed in the cloud

If you’ve been running into roadblocks on your digital transformation journey, SAP can help clear the way, from source to pay. We’re integrating SAP Ariba solutions with the SAP S/4HANA Cloud platform so you can say goodbye to inconsistent user experiences, fragmented solution stacks, and bad data, as well as the added costs and risks of third-party integration projects and middleware solutions.

Digitalizing source-to-pay with fully integrated end-to-end processes, governance, and user experiences means your organization can achieve:

Lower total cost of ownership – Savings pile up when you employ standard, native integrations and avoid third-party integration, maintenance, upgrade, and middleware costs
Rapid ROI – With built-in inter- and intra-suite integrations across the source-to-pay process, you can see a fast return on your investment while significantly reduce costs
Quicker, smoother deployments – SAP Ariba’s native, pre-built integration provides the fastest, most assured deployment with the least risk
Improved compliance – Seamless, easy-to-use software encourages greater user adoption and, in turn, more control and compliance
Greater efficiency – Since users engage with a standard interface across all applications, they can adapt to change quicker and execute day-to-day tasks faster, with fewer errors
Greater effectiveness – True integration and optimized data deliver complete visibility, stronger collaboration, and reliable KPI reporting across the source-to-pay process

Intelligent Spend Management

Every source. Every category. One unified view.

Get a unified view of spend data for smarter business decisions

Managing spending has never been more critical, and spend management excellence now takes more than just increasing compliance and reducing costs. Procurement, finance, and supply chain leaders are being asked to help fund both innovation and core business growth. Orchestrate multi-tier supply chains while managing supplier risk. And engage a changing workforce and support new business models while also protecting employees and the brand.

That’s a lot. And the only way to succeed is by controlling each spend category while simultaneously coordinating spending and policy across categories. Traditional solutions can’t do that. They just prop up organizational silos. But with Intelligent Spend Management, you can do both. Because only with SAP can you achieve:

Comprehensive supplier and policy management – Supporting all categories of spend, be there every time money is spent, regardless of the source of that spending, and capture that data
Best-in-class control of each spend category – Optimize indirect materials, direct materials, services, external labor, and travel and expense
A unified view of spending – Bring spend data together from across all sources and categories and understand total costs so you can work with colleagues to make smarter, faster spending decisions

Take your organization to the next level with Intelligent Spend Management from SAP. Choose SAP Ariba for direct and indirect, SAP Fieldglass for services, and SAP Concur for T&E.

1. Intelligent Spend Management

Every source. Every category. One unified view.

Get a unified view of spend data for smarter business decisions

Comprehensive supplier and policy management – Supporting all categories of spend, be there every time money is spent, regardless of the source of that spending, and capture that data
Best-in-class control of each spend category – Optimize indirect materials, direct materials, services, external labor, and travel and expense
A unified view of spending – Bring spend data together from across all sources and categories and understand total costs so you can work with colleagues to make smarter, faster spending decisions

Take your organization to the next level with Intelligent Spend Management from SAP. Choose SAP Ariba for direct and indirect, SAP Fieldglass for services, and SAP Concur for T&E.

Take a big-picture view of spending to bring more addressable spend under management and drive more organizational value.

Spend management is the tried and true practice of comprehensively managing all supplier relationships and company purchasing to identify every dollar spent and get the most out of it. Spend management best practices integrate and automate all spend-related activities from source to settle so that buying happens as planned and suppliers get paid in compliance with contracts.

By taking a big-picture view of spending, more addressable spend can be brought under management, driving more organizational value. The value is derived from:

Greater efficiency – from automating manual, error-prone processes
Lower supply costs and risks – by knowing exactly what is being bought, from whom, and for how much
More effective collaboration – between trading partners and cross-functional teams
Improved productivity – by freeing time and resources to focus on more strategic activities

2. Get the Pulse of Your Suppliers

Check in with your suppliers, gauge their ability to meet demand, and learn what help they need – if any – to keep your supply chain intact. Quickly and at no charge.

The right products, from the right suppliers, at the right time with our supplier management software

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. You can:

Get a unified supplier record with a high degree of confidence in the data
Integrate consistent supplier qualification and segmentation with other procurement processes
Scale supplier risk management and compliance to your entire supply base

SAP Ariba Supplier Risk Management

Providing up-front information to make smart, safe procurement decisions.

Make risk assessment and due diligence part of the procurement process

With SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, you can help your buyers make smarter, safer decisions before purchase, simply by making risk due diligence a natural part of the procurement process. And when your buyers are well-informed, they’ll make decisions that prevent supply chain disruptions. That helps you avoid damage to your revenue or reputation. Also, you’ll gain a high degree of confidence that your supplier information is correct and up to date.

This market-leading supplier risk solution lets you tailor risk views and alerts to your business, to each supplier relationship, and to your role. You can also segment suppliers based on your risk exposure. With a complete view of each supplier, you can make more timely, contextual, and accurate business decisions — and improve collaboration with your trading partners.

Supplier Lifecycle Management and Performance

Drive spend to preferred suppliers and scale compliance for your entire supply base.

Manage suppliers better, from onboarding to phase-out, all in one place

SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance is a unique supplier lifecycle management solution. Its capabilities are integrated with your procurement processes to help you drive spend to preferred suppliers and scale compliance for your entire supply base. These capabilities are designed to:

Provide you with a single, accurate supplier record
Make it easy for suppliers to maintain their own information
Let you manage suppliers based on specific parameters
Help you operate with speed and consistency in the entire procurement process

3. Start Sourcing for Free

Discover qualified suppliers, speed up your sourcing cycles, and create the most competitive, best-value agreements for sustainable savings with all your sourcing needs.
To help companies deal with today’s supply chain disruptions, new customers can now find alternate sources of supply using the free SAP Ariba Start Sourcing software. Sign up by July 31 to post 90 basic sourcing events.

Optimize cost, manage risk, and make sure the savings you negotiate are fully realized

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 Solutions and Software

Discover qualified suppliers, speed up your sourcing cycles, and create the most competitive, best-value agreements for sustainable savings with all your sourcing needs.

Source services, indirect materials, even direct materials using one solution

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 4.6 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 Spend Analysis Software for More Procurement Savings

With the clearest insight into all your spend and suppliers, you’ll see all the ways you can increase savings, mitigate risks, and improve compliance.

Real spend management begins with insightful 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 intelligence to deliver insightful analysis of your business buying behavior.

Spend analysis delivers the spend visibility you need to make better, faster, and more confident buying decisions – and negotiate with more clout. That’s because you’ll know:

How much you’re spending among families of suppliers
Where savings leak, prices vary, and purchasing overlaps
Compare your spend to that of your industry peers

You can also see which suppliers can help you achieve diversity and sustainability – and more.

Contract Management Software and Services

Paper contracts are old school. With contract management software from SAP Ariba, you can centralize contract storage, strengthen compliance, automate and accelerate the entire contract lifecycle, and much more.

Streamline contract collaboration and compliance the easy way with SAP Ariba

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.

4. SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Spend

Connect the people, partners, processes, and information needed to manage all design-to-deliver activities in a simple, smart, and open way.

Respond swiftly to changes in supply and demand while boosting profitability and shareholder value

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.

SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Full Visibility

Share real-time information with all your direct spend suppliers, obtain their commits, and tap network-generated intelligence to achieve complete supply chain visibility.

Collaborate over Ariba Network to reduce inventory levels, increase fill rates, and increase team productivity

Achieve complete supply chain visibility with SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration. Integrated with your ERP and supply chain optimization systems, this collaboration platform equips you to work safely and easily with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers across key supply chain planning and execution processes.

Share production forecasts, orders, quality, and inventory information with suppliers and obtain their responses in real time.
Anticipate and resolve supply assurance problems quickly with collaboration dashboards that alert you to supply and demand mismatches.
Onboard all your suppliers using our on-demand tools, multiple integration options, and supplier enablement teams with decades of onboarding expertise.

Strategic Sourcing Solutions and Software

Discover qualified suppliers, speed up your sourcing cycles, and create the most competitive, best-value agreements for sustainable savings with all your sourcing needs.

Source services, indirect materials, even direct materials using one solution

SAP Supply Base Optimization

Sourcing and supply base executives face increasing pressure to meet quarterly or
annual savings targets while maintaining quality and on-time delivery performance.
However, the massive number of parts and suppliers in discrete manufacturing
industries – combined with constantly changing commodity prices, manual processes, and lack of advanced analytics – makes it difficult to achieve savings goals.
With key information about supply scattered across many solutions, how can you
turn this data into the timely intelligence needed to set price targets, prepare for
negotiations, and make the best business award decisions?
The SAP® Supply Base Optimization solution provides the decision support you
need to efficiently meet goals for direct spend savings. 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.

5. Software and Solutions for Simple and Smart Procurement

Turn old cost centers into new money makers with the most capabilities, the largest supplier network, and a user-friendly, guided buying experience.
With the control that SAP Ariba guided buying and spot buy capabilities provide, you can cut supply costs by as much as 10% and lower processing costs by 25% to 60%.

Achieve compliance, visibility, and control while cutting costs and risks

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. You can gain more control over costs and risks in your buying processes and:

Reduce buying cycles by 50 percent
Cut supply costs by 10 percent
Lower processing costs by 25 percent to 60 percent

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 catalog enablement, and integration with Ariba Network – more than 4.6 million connected companies strong, and growing.

Procure-to-Pay Software Solution

Provide your users a fast, guided buying experience with SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, the leading procure-to-pay software solution.

Control spend and drive negotiated savings to the bottom line

SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing is the easy-to-use, procure-to-pay (P2P) software solution that sets the standard for all other procurement software offerings. It’s user-friendly, with streamlined catalog maintenance and a configurable interface.

This P2P 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 each phase of your procure-to-pay process.

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 catalog and contract compliance. The result: Your negotiated savings actually reach your bottom line.

Guided Buying

Rogue purchases are a thing of the past. Now you can give your employees a simple way to buy smarter through preferred channels.

Help your users by providing automated buying-channel guidance

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:

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.

SAP Ariba Spot Buy

Your custom B2B marketplace that makes it easy to buy goods from trusted suppliers with built-in control.

Simplify and control the procurement of non-sourced goods with SAP Ariba Spot Buy

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
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

Here’s how it works:

Find: When an item can’t be found in the company catalog, users search the SAP Ariba Spot Buy catalog, filtering results by category, brand, and price.
Approve: Configurable business rules and spot buy-specific workflow enforce corporate policies.
Buy: Approved purchase requisitions trigger checkout, secure payment, and shipment of goods.

* The use of SAP Ariba Spot Buy is subject to regional availability.

6. Financial Supply Chain Management

When you turn payables into strategic assets you can boost free cash flow, free up working capital, and deliver more bottom-line value.
Transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets to boost free cash flow, free up working capital, and deliver more bottom-line value.

Make payables strategic for a strong financial supply chain

Market-leading financial supply chain management solutions from SAP Ariba give you the capabilities, intelligence, and global reach to transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets. You can finally eliminate manual processes that make it costly and time-consuming to manage exceptions and enforce compliance. Our solutions can also help your business to:

Automate invoice capture, workflow and approval
Eliminate invoice exceptions
Ensure invoices are linked to purchase orders, contracts, and service sheets
Keep up with jurisdictional invoice tax regulations
Increase free cash flow and improve working capital metrics
Reduce costs and liquidity risk in your supply chain
Capture more early payment discounts

Only SAP Ariba makes it possible to have solutions seamlessly integrated with the most comprehensive procurement platform and the world’s largest business network to deliver full visibility from source to settle, for more effective financial supply chain management. Unlock the trapped value from your payables and streamline transactions and invoice management — making life better for everyone with a stake in your financial supply chain.

Dynamic Discounting and Discount Management

With SAP Ariba Discount Management, you can optimize your cash and earn healthier returns at the same time.

Collaborate on early-payment discounts with suppliers on Ariba Network, with dynamic discounting and discount management

With SAP Ariba Discount Management and working capital management services, not only can you boost your suppliers’ liquidity, but you can also earn far greater returns than short-term cash investments provide.

Collaborating with the suppliers you choose, you’ll use on-demand tools for automating the early-payment discounting process, from initial offer through final capture. It all transpires over Ariba Network, the world’s largest business network. If a supplier isn’t already on it, it’s easy to enable them.

You’ll then be fully equipped to:

Manage payables and cash with greater precision, control, and visibility
Expand discount capture across targeted suppliers, spend, and invoices
Enforce pre-negotiated contract and discount terms
Employ tools for capturing additional sliding scale discounts

Electronic Invoice Management

Less complexity, more strategy. Eliminate exceptions and enforce compliance to unlock value trapped inside your payables.

Smart invoice management: The foundation for a healthy financial supply chain

Invoice automation can lower processing costs by about 60 percent – reason enough to use invoice management software. But only SAP Ariba offers smart invoicing through Ariba Network. With smart invoicing, network business rules alert suppliers about errors and prevent incorrect invoices from entering your process workflow or back-end system. What’s more, you can capture and automate the processing of all your invoices, including PDF invoices, non-PO invoices, and invoices for complex services. This enables close to 100 percent touchless processing, as well as:

Accelerated cycle time
Automated exception-handling
Stronger compliance
Reduced savings leakage
Supplier visibility into payment status
Improved cash flow for your suppliers
Automated capture of negotiated terms

Now, instead of spending its time handling paper, exceptions, and phone calls, your AP team can focus on more strategic pursuits. Like helping to free up cash and optimize working capital.

Payment Capability

Cut those payment-status calls 60% – 80%. Now you can combine simple and secure electronic payments with rich and timely remittance advice.

Combine multiple simple and secure payment capabilities with rich, timely, and contextual remittance

Limited remittance data. Daily phone calls asking, “Where’s my payment?” It’s all so 20th century, riddled with uncertainty, complexity, and risk – for both you and your suppliers. Fortunately, there’s the SAP Ariba payment capability. You can finally combine multiple payment methods with timely remittance that is fully contextual to the transaction details. Suppliers gain full visibility into that detail even before their payment, which goes a long way toward minimizing those payment-status calls.

Now you can complete the procure-to-pay process simply, securely, and with a high degree of certainty about who is paying, to whom, for what, and when. All because Ariba Network’s capacity for facilitating buyer-supplier collaboration has been enhanced with our partners’ expertise in securely managing sensitive bank information and moving money.

7. SAP Ariba Services

As your solution implementation partner, SAP Ariba Services helps you realize value at every stage of your digital transformation journey, from initial set up to ongoing adoption and success.

SAP Ariba services bring your solutions to life

SAP Ariba services, offered in conjunction with our procurement and supply chain solutions, are supported by a global team of 1,700 trained consultants. Their mission is to make sure you get the most value from your solution subscription. Services are available at each stage of your digital transformation journey, from deployment to efficient and effective implementation to ongoing adoption and success.

Your SAP Ariba project commences with leading practice, developed over time with centralized learning and experience. We work with you to define and align on your strategic, financial, and operational goals. This guides the entire project and informs the strategy we take to enable your users and deploy your solutions.

Services fall into three categories:

Deployment Services – Basic services that serve as the foundation to help you get up and running with your SAP Ariba solutions.
Solution Consulting – Services designed to move your solution from basic configuration to one tailored to your needs and business goals.
Management and Adoption – From application management services to preferred care, you’ll receive the right level of services to that fits your unique business needs.