Ariba Sourcing Expertise
The decision support and optimization tools in Ariba Sourcing can revolutionize the way your organization sources goods and services. Yet technology is only half the story. Many organizations also leverage Ariba's capabilities to expand the sourcing capabilities of their teams, accelerate adoption of deployed sourcing tools and deliver bottom-line savings by tackling complex projects and advanced sourcing initiatives.
Ariba Sourcing Expertise is a unique blend of services and software that deliver market insight, global support, supply market access, and battle-tested supplier management methodologies found in no other solution. As the worldwide leader in Spend Management with sourcing specialists already deployed around the world, Ariba continuously improves the breadth of its Sourcing Expertise through an ever-growing knowledgebase of market conditions, sourcing processes, and global supply markets.
Every day, Ariba helps buying organizations
- Find and assess new suppliers in regions around the world
- Gain insight into specific direct and indirect spend categories and strategies for transferring category characteristics into online environments
- Augment their teams by executing portions of or entire sourcing projects
- Identity, prioritize and sequence sourcing opportunities to maximize return
- Design and implement programs to drive adoption, enable buyers and achieve sustainable results
- Develop expertise in advanced sourcing topics including low-cost country sourcing, total cost modeling, demand management and sub-tier sourcing
Ariba Sourcing Successes
- A global leader in diversified manufacturing relies on Ariba Sourcing teams to manage its largest, most complex and time-consuming sourcing projects—freeing its staff to focus on strategic planning.
- A high-tech leader uses Ariba Sourcing to help identify and qualify suppliers in its non-core categories. The result is increased productivity and assurance of supplier reliability.
