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2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Procure-to-Pay Suites

SAP was named a Leader for the seventh time. SAP was also recognized in the 2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Procure-to-Pay Suites.

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Delivering the innovation and capabilities you need to transform procurement

SAP Ariba Procurement solutions SAP Fieldglass Solutions

For the seventh consecutive time, SAP has been named a Leader with the SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass integrated solutions in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites. For this report, Gartner evaluated 16 procure-to-pay software vendors based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.

SAP received the highest score for the Services Focused Use Case and the second-highest scores for the Indirect Procurement Focused Use Case and Complex Environment Focused Use Case in the 2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Procure-to-Pay Suites. SAP was the only vendor with scores in the highest three across all use cases.

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Read the Critical Capabilities report

Critical Capabilities research complements a Gartner Magic Quadrant by allowing deeper insight into the providers' product or service offerings by identifying which ones best fit various use cases. Magic Quadrants position vendors in a market, while Critical Capabilities provide a deeper dive into the providers' product and service offerings.

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Why choose SAP?

What makes SAP the best choice for procurement success? Our total spend management solutions provide a unified source-to-settle platform that enables you to:

Gain visibility and control over all spend

Manage cost and compliance effectively and analyze results across spend categories, including direct, MRO, indirect, services, and travel and expense, no matter your market or industry.

Maximize supply chain resilience and transparency

Engage in deep collaboration with millions of suppliers as well as real-time data sharing, logistics optimization, and intelligent asset management on SAP Business Network.

Easily integrate procurement and supplier master data

Drive a seamless buying experience and end-to-end efficiency by integrating with your back-end systems using our native integration solution for SAP ERP and platform-based integration for non-SAP systems.

Optimize the invoice-to-pay process and streamline global operations

Enable increasingly touchless processes through automated invoice reconciliation and approvals as well as built-in support for international regulations and tax requirements.

Build a dynamic and responsive workforce

Use a single centralized solution to actively initiate, engage, manage, and complete external labor assignments so you can quickly scale capacity, reduce risk, and boost productivity and results.

Speed implementation and ROI

Rely on embedded success services focused on supplier onboarding, catalog and integration enablement, sourcing support, and benchmarking insights delivered by hundreds of experts in multiple languages.

Real customers. Real results.

Customer feedback tells the truest story about solution value, and our customers provided plenty of positive comments on their experience with SAP. Here’s a sampling of what they told Gartner.

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“SAP Ariba is a state-of-the-art advanced procure-to-pay solution”

“SAP Ariba is one of the best end-to-end procurement solutions with advanced procurement and operational procurement in one platform. Features such as guided sourcing, guided buying, contract management, and electronic invoicing simplify [the] procurement experience with 360 degrees of robust visibility for CPOs and category managers."

“Best procurement process management platform”

“It’s a powerful platform which provides visibility into our overall buying process, including real-time budget tracking configurable reports. It provides [a] single point of access to request both goods and services from our supplier, which improves operational excellence, continuous improvement, and supply chain management."

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"An incredible purchase-to-pay solution"

“SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing is an incredible purchase-to-pay solution for ordering anything we want to prevent errors and calculation problems that can often occur in large orders. It is the most powerful software in our lives nowadays."

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“Great P2P product: It works and delivers value immediately”

“The overall experience has been great. We have a non-common backend ERP and integration was a breeze through CPI and OOTB integration points. The account team I dealt and I deal [with] on a daily basis goes above and beyond to ensure our success.”

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Customer Success Stories

Read firsthand accounts of companies using SAP solutions to optimize their procurement performance.

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Source-to-Pay Transformation

See how SAP Ariba spend management solutions can help you digitalize and simplify source-to-pay processes on a single, integrated cloud platform.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites, by Micky Keck, Lynne Phelan, Balaji Abbabatulla, Patrick Connaughton, 28 November 2022

Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Procure-to-Pay Suites, by Lynne Phelan, Micky Keck, Balaji Abbabatulla, Patrick Connaughton, 28 November 2022

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SAP was referred to as Ariba (SAP) in the 2015 report and SAP (Ariba and Fieldglass) in the 2016, 2018, and 2019 reports.