Strategic Sourcing Solutions and Software

Discover qualified suppliers, speed up your sourcing cycles, and create the most competitive, best-value agreements for sustainable savings with all your sourcing needs.

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Source services, indirect materials, even direct materials using one solution

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To negotiate best-value sourcing agreements, the kind that provide sustainable savings, you need the right strategic sourcing environment. One that's connected to a powerful supplier network and built with superior tools, expertise, and information.

That’s exactly what you’ll get with SAP Ariba sourcing solutions. With tight integration to Ariba Network and connections to più di 4.6 milioni companies, SAP Ariba Sourcing and SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite provides the features and benefits you need to deliver the best sourcing results ever.

You can simplify your sourcing processes further with the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite by using a single solution for all your spend categories – services, indirect materials, and direct materials.

And with the new user experience provided by the guided sourcing capability, you can expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of request for information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) sourcing events. Friendly and intuitive, guided sourcing delivers simplified, streamlined processes that help reduce the time and effort needed to drive sourcing events, making it easier for you to realize sourcing savings faster. You can find more information about guided sourcing in the related resources section below.

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SAP Ariba Sourcing

SAP Ariba Sourcing software helps companies of any industry, size, or geography drive fast, sustainable results by automating and streamlining critical tasks involved in sourcing indirect materials and simple direct materials.

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SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite

Integrate sourcing, contracting, and supplier information and performance management with SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite. It supports a closed-loop, digital, and source-to-contract process for more complex direct materials sourcing.

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Best Practices Center: Sourcing

Drive faster ROI with your sourcing solutions by tapping our team's best-practice expertise.

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Create the right strategic sourcing environment for your organization

Here's a side-by-side comparison of the primary features of SAP Ariba Sourcing and SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite.

Solution Feature	Description	SAP Ariba Sourcing	SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
Fast time-to-value	Cloud-based delivery means fast ROI and low TCO.	enabled	enabled
Quick and easy supplier discovery	Find qualified suppliers with free business matchmaking.	enabled	enabled
Supplier profile management	Lower supply risk with up-to-date supplier information.	enabled	enabled
Guided sourcing capability	Wizards and tools help guide the way in events both simple and complex.	enabled	enabled
Compliance through workflow	Ensure compliance with advanced, automated workflow and approval routing.	enabled	enabled
Sourcing event support	Sourcing and event-day management assistance, including level-one help for both buyers and suppliers.	enabled	enabled
Procurement operations desk	Automate and improve procurement support while boosting team productivity and performance with this scalable, intelligent solution capability.	enabled	enabled
Expertise and best practices	From onsite consulting to web-based templates, services are available to maximize your ROI.	enabled	enabled
Advanced negotiation types	Multiple event types and advanced scoring, along with award optimization and analysis, increase materials savings.	enabled	enabled
Advanced direct materials sourcing capabilities	Innovations enable sourcing of both indirect and advanced direct materials on a single platform.	disabled	enabled
Product lifecycle sourcing	Seamless data sharing through integration with PLM, material management, and vendor management systems.	disabled	enabled
Integrated contract management	Improve control and compliance with integrated capabilities for authoring and approving contracts, including a clause library, workflow, and centralized repository.	disabled	enabled
Integrated supplier lifecycle and performance management	Capabilities and resources include your self-service portal, flexible matrix qualification, scorecards, and supplier performance management.	disabled	enabled

Related Resources

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Integrating the entire value chain to drive growth

Hear how Hindustan Zinc worked with SAP Ariba to implement an end-to-end sourcing and supplier management solution to power their digital transformation.

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"The SAP Ariba Sourcing solution, with its custom-made techno-commercial-administrative workflow, facilitates formalization and centralization and reduces the transactional cost and time."

- Gautham T., Head of Strategic Sourcing, V-Guard Industries Limited

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6 Reasons to Manage Suppliers on One Network

Instead of managing supplier relationships on multiple networks, what would happen if you could manage them all on a single network? Six things. Read this info brief to find what they are.

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One centralized sourcing platform

Using SAP Ariba, Dabur now has one centralized sourcing platform that manages over 350 sourcing events a year. Negotiation has accelerated from three days to one hour and there is greater transparency and simpler compliance management.