Solutions for Industries

The power of digital transformation

Across industries, companies are deploying ground-breaking technologies, employing innovative business models, and heightening the focus on customers.

With SAP solutions and Ariba Network, they’re digitally transforming procurement and enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of network-based supplier collaboration. This puts them in a position to respond better to disruption and improve sustainability.

Choose an industry below to learn how you can do the same, aligning your spend decisions with your organizational strategy for all categories: direct materials, indirect materials, and services.

Spotlight on Key Industries

Explore how SAP customers in these industries can successfully manage digital transformation, evolving consumer needs, global shifts in demand, and disruptive new business models.

Automotive

Sharpen spending and operational competencies while accelerating innovation, integrating supplier and partner networks, and transforming business models to meet consumer expectations.

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Banking

Combine market-leading spend management solutions with the world’s largest business network to strengthen efficiency, resilience, and compliance while controlling costs.

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Chemicals

Manage complex and volatile supply chains while complying with mandates for reduced carbon footprints, green packaging, and sustainable production.

Find out how

Consumer Products

Innovate with speed and agility to bring new products to market while increasing productivity, delivering greater customer value, mitigating risk, and lowering costs.

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Energy and Natural Resources

Play a strategic role in quickly helping the company manage supply chain disruption, drive innovation, accelerate product lifecycles, and add value to the consumer experience.

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Insurance

Improve productivity, reduce costs, and increase transparency with faster, automated processes that enable quick and agile response to changing consumer needs.

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Public Sector

SAP intelligent procurement solutions can help you deliver on your mission to provide equitable, efficient, and effective services, while supporting a prosperous economy.

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Real Customers, Real Results

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Chemicals: Sasol

“SAP Ariba’s reliability and versatility were the two key ingredients that improved our service level to the organization. By standardizing our procurement processes, it enabled us to have better visibility into our spend while improving efficiencies and significantly lower costs.”

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Chemicals and Consumer Products: Henkel

“Technology allows us to speak the same language across Henkel. SAP Ariba solutions are key to connecting purchasing, supply chain, manufacturing, deliveries, and sales. They increase the resilience of our supply chains today and give us the tools to keep our finger on the pulse of tomorrow.”

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Industrial Machinery and Components: Kennametal

“The capabilities of SAP Ariba solutions were far better than anything else that was out there on the market. SAP Ariba solutions help us leverage every opportunity to take cost out of the business and help drive value to the bottom line."

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Resources

The Procurement and Supply Chain Imperative

What has the pandemic taught us? Oxford Economics research reveals the strategic systems thinking that successful procurement and supply chain leaders used to adapt quickly and keep the business running.

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Resources

Make your supply chain more resilient and sustainable

Watch this webcast to learn about the Oxford Economics research which reveals how the use of systems thinking can enable supply chains to be more resilient, sustainable, and collaborative.

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Supply Chain Collaboration

Find out how you can work safely and easily with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers across key supply chain planning and execution processes.

Supply Chain Collaboration

Ariba Network

Learn how Ariba Network can help you manage the entire procurement process from source to pay, while controlling spending, finding new sources of savings, and building a healthy, ethical supply chain.

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