Get this built-in capability with SAP Ariba procurement solutions
Available at no additional cost with SAP Ariba Buying and SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, guided buying gives your employees a simple, elegant way to buy smarter. It’s an intuitive experience that leads them to follow procurement guidelines and best practices – without the need to know them before they shop.
Guided buying helps you boost user adoption to reduce savings leakage and maverick spend, while it helps your employees to:
- Easily buy from your preferred suppliers the goods and services they need to do their jobs
- Effectively and efficiently collaborate with suppliers and category experts
- Quickly complete purchasing transactions
- Effortlessly comply with your purchasing policies and procedures
Product Features
Real-time guidance
Users know while shopping when a purchasing or budget policy is violated, rather than finding out after submitting a request. You set rules that may allow them to proceed with the exception or require a different purchase.
Cost savings
Through greater compliance, less savings leakage, and easier supplier collaboration, significant savings can be allocated to more strategic organizational initiatives.
Supplier management and collaboration
Integration with other SAP Ariba solutions facilitates both supplier management and collaboration on one-off purchases, with the ability to select preferred suppliers as well as request quotes via Ariba Network.
Internal collaboration
Based on what the user is buying and where the user is located, guided buying gives instant access to the category expert in that user’s purchasing unit.
Persona-based dashboards
The guided buying capability can be flexibly configured to align forms, permissions, and system behavior for each user, presenting them with customized tiles and categories to streamline purchasing.
Help community
Exclusive guided buying help community provides the framework to provide targeted help content to users and make it easy for them to collaborate efficiently during their purchasing process.
Resources
Read IDC's worldwide market shares reportSAP 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.
Related Solutions
The guided buying capability comes built-in with these SAP procurement solutions.
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.
More about procure-to-paySAP 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.
More about procure-to-order