Seven Top Tips to Enhance Your Position with Buyer
Sarmento Silva of AstraZeneca, an expert in supplier/buyer relationships and purchase-to-pay optimization strategies, offers practical suggestions on how suppliers can make themselves more competitive with prospective buyers, increase operating efficiency, and drive higher sales. > Read more

Cellular Accessories for Less: Winning on Speed, Price, and Service
The need to provide accurate, timely online content for customers is essential in the fast-changing cellular accessories market. Read how CAFL used Ariba SN and Ariba PunchOut to enhance the user experience and boost customer purchases by an average of 32 percent. > Read more

Choosing and Using Your Account Administrator
The account administrator plays a crucial role in maximizing the value of your Ariba SN account. Gain a clearer understanding of the way administrators are assigned, how to change administrators, and the responsibilities the job entails so you can manage this key position more effectively. > Read more

Improve Data Tracking and Analysis with Ariba SN Reports
Ariba SN reports are a powerful tool to help you better understand and track your company’s online transaction activity. Take advantage of this valuable feature by learning how to access, create, and schedule reports. Find out how reports enable you to analyze extensive data and retain important data longer. > Read more

Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Adding Product Images to CIF Catalogs
Today's sophisticated end users expect supplier eCommerce sites to be as user-friendly and versatile as consumer websites—and product images are a key part of that experience. Learn how the fall release of Ariba Buyer will let you add product images to your online CIF catalog so you can increase sales and improve performance. > Read more

Only the Best Suppliers Will Do
It may read like a trick question, but it's not: How does a purchasing operation manage an optimized supply base while meeting growing customer demand for diversity? > Read more

Ariba Adapter Opens Global Supplier Network
eWeek reports on Ariba's new software and services that enable users of procurement software from other vendors to link into the company's supplier network. > Read more

Not Just a Cost-Reduction Tool
Reverse auctions "allow your people to negotiate [not just pricing], but some of the other terms and conditions, [and address] vendor-managed inventory programs, payment terms and supplier quality issues," says Rick DeHart, vice president of worldwide procurement at Scientific Atlanta. > Read more

CPOs Focus on Sourcing, Spend Management
The initiatives differ from company to company, industry to industry. But procurement tacticians all have the same objective: Take dead aim at addressing the procurement and sourcing issues that confound or challenge their companies as they deal with the economy, the buying and price climate in 2005. > Read more

How Buyers Choose Suppliers, Measure Performance
Quality and service are most important to buyers of copiers, MFPs and faxes when measuring performance. > Read more