Streamline and Automate Invoice Management

Relying on paper-based processes to handle inbound invoices drives up costs in more ways than one. Think about all the time and resources your AP team spends manually inputting invoice information, validating and matching invoices with purchase orders, handling supplier inquiries, and dealing with blocked invoices from ERP systems.

With Ariba© Invoice Management solutions, you can transform invoice management from a high-touch to a low-touch process that reduces costs by up to 70 percent. Using the Ariba Network as your supplier portal, the software supports collaborative processes with intelligent workflow, enabling you to automate data entry, matching, and validation activities; eliminate supplier inquiries; and minimize exception handling.

Bottom-Line Benefits

Using Ariba's invoice management solutions, you can:

• Eliminate AP touch: Eliminate most costs receiving invoices via direct integration with your back-end systems and automating nearly every step in the invoice-to-payment process.
• Auto-post and auto-reject invoices: Leverage straight-through processing driven by intelligent workflow that eliminates the number of errors that need to be rejected and posts accurate invoices automatically.
• Automatically validate all invoices: Reliably validate invoices down to the line level so only accurate invoices get accrued.
• Eliminate supplier inquiries: Enable your suppliers to check payment status and investigate blocked invoices themselves using self-service functionality.
• Maximize supplier participation: Achieve 100 percent supplier participation by eliminating technical barriers.
• Gain visibility and control: Automatically consolidate and reconcile orders, invoices, payments, and related key documents, and gain full visibility and control over processes and activities.

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Deploy Just the Right Invoice Solutions to Meet Your Needs

Did you know that the suppliers and buyers on the Ariba® Network processed more than $110 billion dollars in business in 2008? Even better, buyers did it without manually matching invoices with POs, cutting paper checks, and getting bogged down with blocked invoices and supplier inquiries.

Now you can, too. Our electronic invoice management solutions provide a fast, flexible way for you to process invoices and payments while giving you unprecedented visibility and control. You can deploy the solutions separately or together to address every invoice challenge.

Highlighted Solutions and Features Ariba's on-demand e-invoicing solutions include:

• Ariba Invoice Automation: Use flexible connectivity options to support invoice collaboration between you and all of your suppliers at the point of invoice submission, validation, and receipt, as well as self-service handling of supplier inquiries. Many of your suppliers probably already participate in the Ariba Network. The remainder can be enabled quickly and easily using a wide range of connectivity options, including the Ariba Supplier Web Portal, cXML, EDI, and CSV (an Excel-based format).
• Ariba Invoice Professional: Once suppliers are sending invoices electronically, you can leverage Ariba Invoice Pro to enable intelligent workflow for activities such as validation, data entry, exception management, and approvals. It also provides buyer-side data entry, three-way match and contract compliance, advanced reporting and analytics, and self-service for supplier inquiries. You can also leverage Ariba Payment Automation for delivery of detailed remittance advice to automate reconciliation of approved invoices.
• Ariba Invoice Conversion Services: For total invoice automation and optimization, the Ariba Invoice Conversion Service (ICS) scans and converts paper invoices and related attachments. You also have the option of using optional intelligent character recognition technology or double-blind key entry. ICS ensures that 100 percent of your invoices are transmitted from the Ariba Network so you can eliminate manual processing costs.

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Maximize Supplier Participation and eInvoice Processing Efficiency

With Ariba® Invoice Management solutions, fully automated, streamlined e-invoice management is just days away. Solutions are available on demand and designed to integrate seamlessly together, giving you a complete solution that delivers greater returns on your procure-to-pay initiatives.

Highlighted Benefits

With Ariba's invoice management solutions, you can drive out costs from the bottom up and top down. You benefit from:

• Improved quality of invoices: Ariba uses automated network validation at the time of invoice submission and goes down to the line level. This minimizes errors and rework and ensures booked invoices are accurate.
• Automatic invoice posting and rejections: Because invoices are validated to a high degree of reliability, about 95 percent are automatically posted via straight-through processing; any invoices with errors or omissions are automatically rejected and handled efficiently via intelligent workflow.
• Elimination of AP touch to reduce costs: The software eliminates most invoice handling costs by receiving invoices via direct integration with back-end systems and automating nearly every step in the invoice-to-payment process. Ariba customers have cut costs by up to 70 percent.
• Intelligent workflow: The solutions eliminate blocked invoices from your ERP system by handling exceptions in a streamlined way (and before they ever get accrued).
• Maximized supplier participation: Now you can eliminate technical barriers to supplier participation for 100 percent enablement and maximize returns on procure-to-pay initiatives.
• Global visibility and control: Gain real-time visibility and control into the status of all invoices with one solution that handles 80 currencies and facilitates compliance with local VAT laws.
• Optimized working capital: Combine invoice management with Ariba’s working capital management solutions so you can improve cash flow management, eliminate late payment fees, and realize up to three times more savings over pre-negotiated discounts.
• Elimination of supplier inquiries: Now most supplier inquiries can be handled electronically via self-service features that give them invoice status, cash forecasting information, and resources to accelerate invoice dispute resolutions.

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