Ariba Sourcing Solutions - Enterprise
The Ariba Sourcing - Enterprise Package is designed for companies looking to source and evaluate more complex categories of spend using advanced RFX management tools and supplier performance management capabilities. This package is also appropriate for enterprises seeking solution customization and/or integration to legacy and/or ERP systems.
Capabilities included in the Ariba Sourcing - Enterprise Package:
- RFX Creation and Advanced RFX Management
- Competitive Bidding and Timing
- Supplier Response
- Communications and Messaging
- Reporting
- Project Management and Workflow
- Document Management and Knowledge Management
- Resource Management
- Sourcing Analysis
- Supplier Performance Management
Ariba Sourcing - Enterprise Package is delivered as an On-Demand offering.
Enterprise |
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|---|---|
| Technology Components | |
| Dashboard | + |
| RFX Management - Basic | + |
| RFX Management - Advanced | + |
| - advanced event types | + |
| - advanced pricing | + |
| - optimization | + |
| Project Management | + |
| Workflow | + |
| Document Management | + |
| Knowledge Management | + |
| Sourcing Reporting | + |
| Sourcing Analysis | + |
| Expertise Components | |
| Basic Implementation | + |
| Basic Product Support | + |
| Online Buyer and Supplier Training | + |
| Empowerment Package | + |
| -site administration | + |
| -event day management | + |
| -sourcing support desk | + |
| Sourcing Process / Workflow Setup | + |
| Prioritized Support | + |
| Infrastructure | Hosted, Single-Tenant Application |
Ariba Sourcing is a flexible combination of capabilities and expertise that help your organization make faster supply decisions. With Ariba Sourcing, you need no longer focus your sourcing efforts exclusively on high-value goods and services. Instead, you can rapidly address more categories of spend-translating to a significantly increased percentage of addressable spend, quarter after quarter.
Ariba Sourcing enables you to create effective learning organizations in which expertise gained in each sourcing effort and category is captured and shared across the company. So with every passing quarter, you enable employees throughout your organization to "source smarter". Ariba Sourcing comprises integrated decision support and optimization tools that consistently support rapid, sustainable bottom-line results:
- A robust platform for all RFX, auction, and negotiation types, as well as general surveys
- Support for direct materials categories, with hierarchical BOM line item support, matrix pricing, tier pricing, and staggered line timing
- Easy-to-use event creation and bid interfaces, real-time reporting, and streamlined supplier communications
- Team features for RFX scoring and proposal creation, as well as observer and delegate roles
- Integrated decision support with automated and team scoring
- A robust, constraint-based, real-time, optimization engine
The Ariba Sourcing Module is delivered as a CD for deployment behind the firewall or as part of the Ariba Sourcing - Enterprise Package delivered On-Demand (described above).
For organizations trying to monitor and manage their supply base, the vast number of suppliers involved can decelerate and limit the scope of supplier performance management (SPM) efforts. Companies may also find it challenging to link sourcing goals and contract terms to suppliers' performance data. This can be a particularly troublesome issue for companies working with multiple, disparate purchasing and payables systems.
To counteract the difficulties involved in gathering and aggregating supplier data, Ariba Supplier Performance Management provides:
- Pre-delivered, best practice key performance indicators, score card, and survey templates to gather supplier performance data from transactional systems, stakeholders and suppliers across the enterprise.
- Analysis templates that give buyers a comprehensive view of supplier spend, processes, and performance data-and enable them to compare suppliers across categories to promote better sourcing and procurement decisions.
- A collaborative workspace with best practice SPM activity templates, enabling buyers, stakeholders, and suppliers to systematically collaborate throughout the end-to-end supplier performance management process.
- Performance monitoring across transactional and subjective interactions using quantitative and qualitative data.
The Ariba Supplier Performance Module is delivered via CD for deployment behind the firewall or as part of the Ariba Sourcing - Enterprise Package delivered On-Demand (described above).
Ariba Category Management helps companies source more strategically by enabling sourcing and procurement professionals to collaborate closely, increase organizational visibility and control, and capture category knowledge for re-use. Seamlessly integrating with Ariba Sourcing, Visibility, and Contract Management capabilities, Ariba Category Management helps teams make better decisions and increase compliance and efficiency.
Ariba Category Management transforms sourcing and procurement by enabling companies to include all stakeholders in standardized processes. It facilitates effective collaboration among multiple parties-internal and external-in multiple locations. User-friendly access and a personalized, action-oriented dashboard ensure that all involved can participate effectively. Ariba Category Management enhances Ariba Spend Management Solutions by enabling greater sourcing self-sufficiency, coverage of more categories with the same resources, and continuous improvement of spend management processes and results.
The Ariba Category Management Module is delivered as a CD for deployment behind the firewall or as part of the Ariba Sourcing - Enterprise Package delivered On-Demand (described above).
