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Financial Supply Chain Management

When you turn payables into strategic assets you can boost free cash flow, free up working capital, and deliver more bottom-line value.

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Make payables strategic for a strong financial supply chain

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Market-leading financial supply chain management solutions from SAP Ariba give you the capabilities, intelligence, and global reach to transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets. You can finally eliminate manual processes that make it costly and time-consuming to manage exceptions and enforce compliance. Our solutions can also help your business to:

  • Automate invoice capture, workflow and approval

  • Eliminate invoice exceptions

  • Ensure invoices are linked to purchase orders, contracts, and service sheets

  • Keep up with jurisdictional invoice tax regulations

  • Increase free cash flow and improve working capital metrics

  • Reduce costs and liquidity risk in your supply chain

  • Capture more early payment discounts

Only SAP Ariba makes it possible to have solutions seamlessly integrated with the most comprehensive procurement platform and the world’s largest business network to deliver full visibility from source to settle, for more effective financial supply chain management. Unlock the trapped value from your payables and streamline transactions and invoice management — making life better for everyone with a stake in your financial supply chain.

SAP Ariba Financial Supply Chain Management Portfolio

Solutions

Invoice Management

Reduce process complexity and ensure compliance with all your invoices: PO, non-PO, MRO, and service invoices. With smart invoicing, only from SAP Ariba, your invoices process themselves.

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Solutions

SAP Ariba Payables

Improve your DPO, lower your suppliers’ DSO, and capture significant savings with SAP Ariba’s flexible and scalable financial supply chain management solutions.

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Resources

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How We Did It: Financial Supply Chain

Managing payables and keeping suppliers happy can be challenging. With financial supply chain solutions from SAP Ariba, suppliers know when they’re getting paid – and you look like a hero.

Rethinking Working Capital Management as Interest Rates Rise

With years of low interest rates, working capital management – keeping DSO low and DPO high –has not been a priority for many companies. That's going to change. Join this webinar on August 30th to get ready.

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DPO and On-Time Payment Performance, from Metrics to Legal Mandates

How’s your B2B payment performance in Europe? Legislation is empowering suppliers to collect interest on late payments and governments to dictate payment terms. For a plan to improve your performance, read this paper.

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Working Capital Management: The Missing Link in Payables and P2P

A recent survey shows that many companies have automated P2P to some extent, but most haven’t taken P2P transformation far enough to realize the benefits of optimized cash and working capital.

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Effective Working Capital Management

Market volatility and regulatory reforms increase the urgency to prioritize strong corporate financial oversight. Learn why you need to start a payables and working capital optimization program.

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Resources

We can request payment acceleration in exchange for a discount on a sliding scale, any time before the invoice due date. This flexibility for managing our cash flow through the Ariba Network is huge.