Procurement and Expense Solutions - Professional

Best practice purchasing organizations have realized that automation of the requisition-through-payment process is critical to achieving contract compliance, realizing sourced savings, and delivering value to the bottom line. Through Ariba Procure-to-Pay-the heart of the Ariba Procurement solution-companies can automate, improve, control and monitor procurement to realize immediate process efficiencies and cost savings. Built on a robust and highly scalable application architecture, Ariba Procure-to-Pay provides full requisition-to-pay functionality for all users and commodities.

The Ariba Procure-to-Pay - Professional Package delivers rapid cost savings by restricting maverick buying and increasing the efficiency of the entire procurement cycle. Each solution delivers an intuitive, self-service purchasing process with a 'walk-up' user interface that drives rapid stakeholder adoption across the organization. By extending the procurement automation process to suppliers via the Ariba Supplier Network, our solutions reduce the req-to-check cycle and drive down transaction costs.

Ariba Procure-to-Pay - Professional Package. A comprehensive, scalable solution designed for rapidly growing organizations that require support for complex business processes. The Professional Package includes core functionality that covers the req-to-pay process with minimal configuration and integration, as well as advanced functionality and services and enhanced support for configuration and back-end integration.

With escalating travel costs and decreasing budgets, companies are looking for methods to meet their business travel requirements and not over-extend their estimates. Ariba Travel and Expense delivers a comprehensive travel spend management solution that enables companies to significantly drive bottom-line savings through increased compliance and heightened visibility into cross-company travel spend.

With Ariba Travel and Expense, travel managers can control collaborative strategic sourcing processes, ensure compliance with online travel booking solutions, automate expense reporting, and streamline cumbersome audit processes such as VAT reporting and tax filing. End users can access an easy-to-use interface to manage pre-trip travel approvals and budgets, create itineraries, download travel card charges, create and submit expense reports, and maintain visibility of the entire reimbursement process.

Our Travel and Expense solutions enable Accounts Payable to manage the expense reporting process, validate and reconcile receipts to reports, handle auto alert exceptions, and streamline tax filing and reporting. Ariba Travel and Expense - Basic and Professional Packages are delivered as On-Demand offerings.