Procure-to-Pay

Businesses require easy-to-use requisitioning, receiving and invoicing capabilities to effectively manage the transactional aspect of their procurement spend. Automated and streamlined, procure-to-pay functionality can increase user, process, and price compliance while driving exceptional efficiency across the enterprise.

Business Needs
Procurement needs differ for every business, though all may benefit from reduction of maverick spending and increased compliance with pre-negotiated contracts. Our robust procurement solutions address these and other common issues:

• Lack of coordination between purchasing organizations, suppliers and accounts payable that cost companies time and money
• Inability of employees to find needed items or gain rapid approval to purchase
• Manual or paper-based purchase order, invoice and payment processing that is cumbersome and error-prone
• Electronic supplier communication and connectivity to further reduce errors and process inefficiencies
• Lack of awareness by users who do not comply with purchasing policies and guidelines
• Negotiated contracts that are not used or enforced
• Manual process of matching receipts with purchase orders

Ariba Solutions
Ariba Procurement Content allows you to access a single content source for all commodities-ensuring procurement compliance, in an easy-to-use intuitive search experience.Ariba Procure-to-Pay addresses procurement, supplier, and accounts payables issues. It is a complete solution that encompasses:

• PO (catalog, non-catalog, Pcard) purchasing
• Non-PO (invoice against contract) purchasing
• Real-time contract compliance (proactively applied to every requisition)
• Electronic supplier connectivity
• Receiving and invoicing
• Pcard Reconciliation

Included are the following services:

• Catalog Enablement and on-going Catalog Management
• Supplier Enablement
• Deployment and Integration Services
• Hosting, Support, Application Management and Training

Impressive Results
With Ariba Procure-to-Pay, businesses can improve their purchasing lifecycle with greater compliance controls, better process management, and reduced regulatory risk. Ariba's Procure-to-Pay solution is truly industry leading and helps to:

• Automate, monitor and control the end-to-end purchasing lifecycle
• Save time with an easy-to-use UI and built-in approval workflows and policies
• Minimize maverick off-contract purchasing
• Facilitate electronic PO submission, advanced ship notice, order confirmation, invoicing, reconciliation and payment with your network of suppliers
• Gain visibility into the procure-to-pay process and stakeholder performance

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Resource Library: Procurement

Webinars

• Hackett Group 2010 Key Issues Study
  Results and Analysis
  
• Using demand management to drive procurement excellence
  
• European CPOs
  Capitalising on the Best Opportunities
  
• Operating in the New Normal
  Procurement After the Recession
  
• 5 Strategies to Dramatically Accelerate Procurement Performance in 2010