E-Procurement Software and Procurement Solutions

There’s a better way to do what you’ve always done

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Take procurement beyond the basic process and recreate the entire experience to guide users to the best choices in the least amount of time. Applying innovations within SAP Ariba procurement software and solutions, you can:

Rethink the experience to get the process out of the way – Remove obstacles that can distract users, improving the buying experience while intelligent technologies do more of the work for your team.
Link all spend categories together, all around the world – Tackle direct, indirect, and services spending in every market, managing it all in one place while automatically adapting to individual market requirements.
Create deeper, dynamic collaboration, end to end – Remove barriers between your teams and trading partners to securely share data, get insights, and manage workflow over Ariba Network for a more efficient procurement process and greater cost control.

Procurement Software and Solutions

When you use SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing for procure to pay, and SAP Ariba Catalog for procurement content, you can employ innovative capabilities and services for a seamless procurement process.

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SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing

SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing is a best-in-class, easy-to-use procure-to-pay solution that helps companies effectively manage all spend-related processes and ensure negotiated savings reach the bottom line.

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SAP Ariba Catalog

SAP Ariba Catalog defines, validates, and enriches catalog content with enterprise-grade content management tools and gives employees a simple way to get what they need.

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SAP Ariba Invoice Management

Increase the accuracy of invoices to speed up both processing and payments. Let Ariba Network do the work of pre-validating invoices so any missing or incorrect information gets corrected and you see fewer exceptions.

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SAP Ariba Buying

Choose this solution to automate your procure-to-order process and integrate with your back-end system to let your ERP handle invoice and payment processing.

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Ariba Network Commerce Automation

By managing business commerce over Ariba Network, you join a global trading community of millions of users. Buyers and suppliers can transact at Internet speed to process invoices for all spending: indirect, direct, and services, as well as PO and non-PO invoices.

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SAP S/4HANA for Central Procurement

Connect internal and external systems, supplier networks, and sourcing together to synchronize at speed. Get visibility, management, and governance over
procurement across SAP and non-SAP systems, whether in the cloud or on premise.

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The SAP Ariba Difference

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Put innovation to work

Reshape how procurement works for your employees with SAP intelligent technology. Simplify searches with natural language processing. Rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide targeted content and tailored steps that guide users and give them just what they need throughout the procurement process. Meanwhile, processes like invoice and PO reviews can be smarter and faster with a system that automatically checks fields, line-item details, account codes, and more to reduce exceptions, increase accuracy, strengthen cost control.

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Manage all spend in one place

Gain more control over spending by bringing all indirect and direct spend, as well as services procurement, into one system. From contract and catalog items to one-off tail spend, you can ensure your policies are applied consistently for greater compliance. By integrating direct materials procurement into your PLM system and process, you can bring effective cost control to product planning and protect your margins through delivery. And you can manage the unique industry requirements of pre-negotiated MRO, unplanned repairs, and work orders tied to owned assets.

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Control spending globally

SAP Ariba procurement software and solutions are available in more than 190 countries and 24 languages, supported by 13 global data centers, to help you simplify spending and strengthen compliance around the world. Eliminate manual tax data maintenance and integrate global tax intelligence with transactions automatically to get tax right the first time, every time. You also can build GDPR, SOX, HIPPA, and other regulatory requirements into the solution, and configure your invoice process to be consistent with regulatory requirements across 85 countries.

Collaborate over Ariba Network

Take supplier collaboration to a more strategic level. Automatically share information with suppliers to sync your needs with their capacity; increase the accuracy of requests, orders, and invoices; and give your buyers an intelligent way to work with suppliers on everything from sophisticated planning to detailed specs for catalog purchases. Increase the accuracy of invoices to speed up both processing and payments. Access millions of suppliers across hundreds of categories, so you can bring more categories of spend under management without increasing the demands on your team.

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Resources

Are you ready?

Are you ready for the unexpected? To strengthen supplier performance? To contribute more value? With Oxford Economics, we asked 1,000 global executives these questions. Their responses are now available in five new reports.

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Make sure you’re protecting procurement

While you’re evaluating procurement solutions, be sure to refer to this guidebook for a concise, high-level look at the critical characteristics that can maximize security and minimize risk.

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