Ariba Spend Management Expertise

Ariba understands that support, administration, and spend management expertise are critical components for promoting user adoption and maintaining a successful spend management production environment. Ariba Expertise comprises of integrated project execution services that facilitate decision making and infuse best practices into the implementation and maintenance of spend management systems. Our Expertise helps manage project prioritization in order to accelerate results and build momentum for subsequent project phases.

Ariba Expertise is focused on delivering sustainable, company-wide capability and rapid results. Our offerings include:

  • Strategic Consulting. Enables strategic decision making, organization assessment, process design and performance improvement

  • Sourcing Services. Supports creation of sourcing programs and projects and includes category knowledge, supply market intelligence, and low-cost country sourcing

  • Managed Procurement Services. Offers tailored services to reduce total spend by managing non-strategic categories, processes and infrastructure

  • Customer Support Services. Supports customers' direct usage of software (training and product support)

  • Implementation Services. Executes installation and set-up of software

  • Supplier Enablement Services. Ensures that buyers and suppliers transact in a cost-effective, scalable manner

To help you identify opportunities and accelerate results, Ariba Expertise can assist you with unmatched levels of speed, sustainability, coverage and flexibility:

  • Speed. Fast access to spend management knowledge with quick turnaround and rapid delivery, management and reporting
  • Sustainability. Transfers knowledge into your organization, drives enablement and knowledge retention, and adapts as your needs change
  • Coverage. Provides information on hundreds of categories and supply markets, available across all services and software
  • Flexibility. Delivers best practices captured and transferred for multiple services, with integration across multiple platforms and technology