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Intelligent Solutions for Seamless Source-to-Pay

Connect virtually every step and piece of data together across the entire source-to-pay process, so you can reduce leakage, increase speed, and strengthen control over spending.

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With SAP Ariba intelligent spend management solutions, you can tie together more than 30 processes and incorporate comprehensive transaction data to deliver greater efficiency, accuracy, and control every step of the way, from source to pay.

When we work with you to create and integrate your supplier management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and financial supply chain management processes, you can:

Ensure negotiated savings reach your bottom line
Guide employees to buy from the right suppliers at the right prices
Effectively and efficiently manage cost accounting and payments

What's more, when you choose SAP Ariba you can take advantage of business process integrations with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This enables you to effectively and efficiently manage cost accounting and payments, plus do in-depth spend analysis, because all of your spending data is integrated with all of your other spending and financial information, all in one place.

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Achieve full transparency into spending

Capture data and classify it according to your company and industry standards, then enrich it with market intelligence for insights into company-wide spending. Uncover buying trends with integrated solutions, linked data sources, and augmented analytics. Run what-if scenarios to improve planning and create leaner, flexible, and compliance-boosting processes. Increase both the quality and speed of decisions across your organization by giving buyers – and suppliers – near-real-time visibility into the purchase process from end to end.

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Provide a dynamic, guided experience

Improve adoption and compliance with a simple, guided-buying solution that employees will use. Serve up customized suppliers, commodities, and processes for each user. They can find in one place everything they need – including unsourced goods – and save time with an automated approval process. You can even employ machine learning to avoid purchasing items from a bill of materials that aren’t on contract: SAP Ariba automatically finds sourced materials that are similar and suggests the best alternatives to buyers.

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Integrate your direct spend processes

Seamlessly integrate your direct spend procurements processes with your Product Lifecycle Management, ERP, and SAP Integrated Business Planning systems. You’ll have greater supplier collaboration capability to bring to market what customers want, faster and more efficiently. Source multi-level BOMs on a single platform. Integrate production steps to progress simultaneously. And collaborate with multiple tiers of suppliers to manage your non-linear and external supply chains to increase fill rates and ensure you can satisfy customers when they’re ready to buy.

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Make the Case for Change

If the procurement gaps uncovered during the pandemic haven’t inspired investment in digitizing procurement, what will? To help you make a case for change, we offer five key questions that every CPO should answer with their teams.

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Top 10 Issues Facing Procurement Leaders in 2022 ...

... and how to solve them. Explore the top ten issues facing you as a procurement leader this year, including mitigating supplier risk, reducing spend, and driving corporate sustainability.

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Strategic Sourcing Solutions

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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Procurement Solutions

With the control that SAP Ariba guided buying and spot buy capabilities provide, you can cut supply costs by as much as 10% and lower processing costs by 25% to 60%.

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Supplier Management

With SAP Ariba solutions, SAP provides the only end-to-end software portfolio that lets you manage supplier information, lifecycle, performance, and risk all in one place.

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Solutions for Direct Spend

Connect the people, partners, processes, and information needed to manage all design-to-deliver activities in a simple, smart, and open way.

Direct Spend Solutions

Financial Supply Chain

Transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets to boost free cash flow, free up working capital, and deliver more bottom-line value.

Financial Supply Chain

Services for Buyers

Before and after deployment, SAP Ariba Services provide support for change management, adoption, connectivity, and much more.

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SAP clients have told us collectively that they have chosen SAP Ariba solutions for the extensive benchmarking across industries and spend categories and integration with SAP S/4HANA. They also love the guided buying experience in the SAP Ariba solutions.

Mickey North Rizza, Vice President of Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce, IDC

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