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SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Full Visibility

Share real-time information with all your direct spend suppliers, obtain their commits, and tap network-generated intelligence to achieve complete supply chain visibility.

Collaborate over Ariba Network to reduce inventory levels, increase fill rates, and increase team productivity

SAP Ariba Supply Chain mobile app

Achieve complete supply chain visibility with SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration. Integrated with your ERP and supply chain optimization systems, this collaboration platform equips you to work safely and easily with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers across key supply chain planning and execution processes.

Share production forecasts, orders, quality, and inventory information with suppliers and obtain their responses in real time.
Anticipate and resolve supply assurance problems quickly with collaboration dashboards that alert you to supply and demand mismatches.
Onboard all your suppliers using our on-demand tools, multiple integration options, and supplier enablement teams with decades of onboarding expertise.

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The Benefits of Multi-Tiered Supplier Collaboration

Microsoft describes their multi-tiered inventory strategies, their evolution to a build-to-order supply chain, and the significant inventory reductions they have achieved with SAP Ariba solutions.

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Broad collaboration

Collaborate in real time, with suppliers and contract manufacturing organizations across multiple processes, systems, and geographies, on key supply chain planning and execution processes like ordering, forecasting, quality, and inventory management.

Actionable intelligence

Dashboards help you identify supply-demand mismatch and quality issues quickly, displaying supplier responses and status of their commitments to your forecasts, orders, quality notifications, and inventory pulls.

Improved compliance

With standards-based and secured electronic communications, as well as customized configuration of inter-company supply chain business rules, drive greater compliance with orders delivered correctly and on time.

Efficient onboarding

Multiple integration options ensure that sophisticated suppliers will participate. Use simple, on-demand tools to onboard the rest. Experts are available 24/7 to help you plan, prioritize, and execute.

Easy integration

Integrate this solution with any back-office system. Packaged integration is available with SAP ERP and supply chain solutions.

Fast time-to-value

Achieve fast time-to-value through efficient onboarding and quick deployment of this user-friendly solution, encouraging broad adoption by internal teams and external trading partners.

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Supply chain collaboration: Achieving total visibility into supply

SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration equips you and your suppliers to drive an efficient supply chain network, connecting all stakeholders in a single solution so you can reduce inventory.

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Get early visibility into supply availability

The SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration forecast add-on helps you and your trading partners align on supply and demand planning over multiple time horizons.

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Real-time visibility into global inventory

With visibility into inventory managed by your trading partners, this add-on can drive down working capital, excess inventory, and carrying costs by optimizing inventory levels.

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Gain visibility into quality issues

Resolve issues quickly and boost customer satisfaction by using this add-on to automate the exchange of quality information between you and your trading partners.

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Gaining complete supply chain visibility with supplier collaboration

You’ve tried integrating direct spend suppliers into your systems with point-to-point EDI, e-mail, and faxes. But for complete supply chain visibility, SAP’s supply chain expertise and Ariba’s network of buyers and suppliers.

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Take action anywhere with the SAP Ariba Supply Chain mobile app

Gain instant visibility into the supply chain no matter where you are. Use the mobile app to manage availability of supply, view information from purchase orders, confirmations, and ship notices.

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SAP Ariba solutions have completely transformed our direct-materials-supplier collaboration processes.

Vijay Vital, Staples Australia

Collaborate on direct materials across your supply chain

Supply chain pros face tough challenges. Like achieving real-time visibility into supply and finding and selecting the right direct materials suppliers, among others. This paper offers some solutions.

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Achieve a real-time supply chain through better collaboration

Drive an efficient supply chain that connects all systems, processes, and spend. Enable in-the-moment collaboration with suppliers to transform planning and execution processes in new and innovative ways.

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Staples: Delivering 96.8 percent of orders next day

With SAP Ariba, Staples Australia and New Zealand gained complete visibility into supplier commitments and inventory, facilitating management and helping ensure on-time customer deliveries, every time.

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