Overview

Accelerate Your Cash Flow

In today's challenging economic conditions, how would it benefit you to get paid sooner rather than later? For example, how would 15-20% reduction in days sales outstanding (DSO) impact your financial performance?

Faster payment is just one of the many benefits of participating in the Ariba® Supplier Network. Your customers' efforts to streamline their procure-to-pay processes via the Ariba Supplier Network can accelerate your order-to-cash cycles and reduce your accounts receivable costs. Even better, you can get paid faster without a change in terms with your customers.

How does it work? Our eInvoicing network speeds up the invoice and payment approval and process, which for many companies remains a manual process driven by paper, email, fax, and phone communications that are difficult to manage and track. We simplify this by providing a common, on-demand platform for buyer-supplier collaboration on invoicing and payment. Every communication is automated, streamlined, paperless, and tracked in real time as part of a closed-loop process.

Bottom-Line Benefits

Using Ariba's invoice and payment collaboration solutions, you can:

• Reduce costs: Create, present, manage, and archive invoices electronically, eliminating the need for paper documents and associated costs
• Manage more effectively: Respond to customer inquiries using a closed-loop, two-way communication process that consolidates and automatically reconciles orders, invoices, payments, and related key documents associated with the financial supply chain
• Work smarter and faster: Upload invoices using a variety of connectivity options (including a user-friendly interface), benefit from productivity tools such as the PO-Flip® tool or integrate directly with your back-end systems
• Collaborate with less effort: Use fewer resources to collaborate with customers and track communications, documents, and payments

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Features

Optimize Order-to-Cash Collaboration

Did you know that the suppliers and buyers on the Ariba^® Supplier Network processed over $110 billion dollars in business in 2008? And they did it without nudging accounting departments and ruffling through papers and spreadsheets to track invoice approval and payment status.

Now you can, too. Our electronic invoice and payment collaboration solutions provide a fast, flexible way for you to submit invoices and gain visibility into the reconciliation, approval, and payment processes. With Ariba, you will gain unprecedented visibility and control over the critical, day-to-day activities impacting your cash flow.

Highlighted Features

To streamline collaboration around invoicing and payments, Ariba provides you with:

• Visibility: Easily track invoice and payment status, exceptions, and required actions and follow-ups as part of a complete, closed-loop process
• Comprehensive data access: Gain fast access to comprehensive data across one or multiple customers so you can work efficiently, save time, and reduce costs
• Flexible connectivity options: Interact with Ariba using various connectivity options, including a Web user interface, EDI, and cXML
• Productivity tools: Automatically "flip" orders to invoices, which reduces manual data entry and errors
• Self-help resources: Ramp up quickly using free, online tutorials; documentation; and technical specifications
• Global support: Leverage 24x7 support provided globally via phone, email, and the Web in nine languages
• On-demand access: Access functionality quickly and easily using a 100% on demand, web-based platform - with no software downloads or complex IT projects required
• A standardized, one-to-many process: Simplify operations using a more standardized invoice process across multiple customers

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Benefits

Decrease Your Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Ariba's eInvoicing and payment network doesn't just offer you better cash flow and decreased DSO. You can also reduce errors, identify problems early, and lower accounts receivable costs. You gain an integrated, end-to-end invoice and payment process you can count on to simplify collaboration with even the most complex buyer.

Highlighted Benefits

With Ariba's invoice and payment solutions, you benefit from:

• Faster payment: Get paid faster by identifying problems earlier and speeding up approval cycle times without a change in terms from your customer
• Lower costs: Reduce accounts receivable costs through greater efficiency and instant visibility into each customer's invoicing approval and payment status
• Reduced credit exposure: Reduce business risk by gaining real-time visibility into invoice and payment approval processes
• Convenience: Easily access comprehensive customer data quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively
• Reduced complexity: Eliminate the complexity and expense of interacting through manual or point-to-point solutions
• Increased productivity: Use time-saving tools, such as PO-Flip®, for faster, easier data entry with fewer errors

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