Respond swiftly to changes in supply and demand while boosting profitability and shareholder value
Digitize your extended supply chain with end-to-end, digital procurement solutions that support your direct spend, starting with integration with your product design and R&D processes, all the way through manufacturing execution and delivery.
SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Spend integrate seamlessly with your PLM, ERP, and SAP Integrated Business Planning systems to unlock a world of benefits, including:
- Faster time to market and time to volume: Integrate R&D and product design with sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management to accelerate innovation.
- Quick and accurate sourcing: Source all materials and services for multi-level BOMs on a single platform, and move smoothly toward volume production.
- Effective supplier collaboration: Identify any potential supply shortages before they occur.
- Better product cost management: Minimize contract leakage and realize negotiated savings when all purchase orders reflect supplier agreements.
- Stronger compliance: Tie supplier qualification and sourcing together to ensure selection of qualified suppliers and mitigate supply chain disruptions.
- Complete supply chain visibility: Collaborate with multiple tiers of suppliers to manage your non-linear and external supply chains, reduce inventory levels, increase fill rates, and increase team productivity.
Enabling Microsoft’s One Digital Supply Chain
Microsoft explains how working with SAP Ariba is streamlining their design-to-deliver direct spend processes and helping their One Digital Supply Chain initiative achieve its goals.
SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Spend
SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration
Supply Chain Collaboration makes it easier to work with direct materials suppliers, improve visibility, and minimize risks.
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Strategic Sourcing
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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SAP Supply Base Optimization
This cloud-based solution provides advanced predictive analytics, optimization, and simulation capabilities, so you can negotiate effectively to meet local and global savings targets and make intelligent business award decisions.
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Solutions for Process Manufacturing
Digitally transform supply chain collaboration, supplier management, and strategic sourcing to optimize margins, batch and product quality, and inventory.
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Solutions for Discrete Manufacturing
Build a digital, collaborative supply chain with the market-leading, combined expertise of SAP and Ariba.
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Solutions for Consumer Industries
Digitally transform direct spend procurement and supply chain collaboration to accelerate innovation and time to market while reducing costs and optimizing inventory.
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