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Sourcing and Contracts

Create best-value sourcing agreements for sustainable savings in direct materials, indirect materials, and services.

Reduce costs and mitigate risks while fully realizing negotiated savings

Standardize source-to-contract processes across the organization as you identify savings opportunities and find new sources of supply.

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Product Overview

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Commodity classifications

Collect and combine spend data and classify it with taxonomies based on customized terms or industry standards unique to SAP.

Enriched supplier data

Gain insight into your supply base, find sourcing opportunities, and optimize negotiations based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

Built-in machine learning

Enable fast, accurate supplier enrichment and commodity classification with large data volumes, as well as ongoing refreshes.

Fast analysis and reporting

Achieve faster data loading and accelerate reporting without data-size barriers by using SAP HANA.

Integrated services

Maximize your ROI with application, project management, and adoption support and guidance from deployment strategists.

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Guided sourcing

Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.

Process and workflow management

Use powerful management and savings-tracking technology to speed up sourcing cycles, boost productivity, and track savings.

Support for multiple RFX types

Create “request for” events and competitive bidding environments to save time, compare choices, and make informed decisions.

Savings pipeline and tracking

Use an optional, pre-integrated app for tracking and reporting savings for insight into what’s working and what’s not.

Two solution editions

Choose the standard or lower-cost base edition, a “lighter” version that can kick-start your digital transformation journey.

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Collaborative negotiations

Make negotiations more efficient to accelerate contract cycles, identify revenue opportunities, and minimize revenue loss.

Centralized contract repository

Keep better track of your contracts with secure, electronic storage capabilities and search tools for on-demand access.

Contract processing workflows

Control contract authoring, negotiation, approval, and execution with automated workflows and a comprehensive audit trail.

Powerful search and reporting

Avoid missed deliverables and milestones while eliminating maverick and redundant contracts.

AI-driven contract intelligence

Maximize contract value using advanced insight and monitoring from Icertis to align contract performance with business goals.

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Simplified category spend profile creation

Enable users to create comprehensive category 360 profiles quickly.

Guided strategy and plan development

Provide industry standards-based guided strategy frameworks and system recommended opportunities.

Outcome monitoring and execution

Cascade opportunities for effective execution while monitoring KPI performance.

Streamlined, automated processes

Free up resources to focus on value creation with automated category strategy creation and management. 

Consistent category frameworks

Use a consolidated category taxonomy for purchasing that provides a uniform framework for classifying goods and services.

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Guided sourcing

Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.

Process workflows

Drive efficiency with flexible project management tools, including integrated workflows, document management, and approvals.

Category management

Define the project processes, activities, and tasks you need, given the category, geography, and business units involved.

Integrated contract management

Improve control and compliance with capabilities for authoring and approving contracts, a clause library, and workflows. 

Integrated supplier management

Employ capabilities to qualify suppliers, streamline onboarding, monitor performance, and mitigate risk on a single platform.

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Project management tools

Use electronic, template-based tools to get bids and issue awards with integrated workflows, approvals, and documentation.

Materials dashboard

Monitor sourcing needs with innovative and configurable dashboards for materials and bills of materials (BOMs).

PLM and retail solution integration

Share data smoothly by uniting product lifecycle management (PLM), material and product information, and vendor management.

BOM and recipe collaboration

Collaborate with key suppliers to boost innovation, improve design for manufacturability, and control costs.

Integrated contract and supplier management

Create contracts automatically, qualify vendors, streamline onboarding, and manage supplier risk on a single platform.

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Automated project initiation

Enable demand and sourcing projects to be triggered by purchase requisitions acquired from multiple back-end systems.

Sourcing project management

Facilitate project and event creation, management, and execution for materials that are part of available material masters.

Automated negotiation processes

Achieve greater efficiency with options for multiple rounds of renegotiation and support for flexible pricing conditions.

Access to material masters

Help ensure the automated creation of sourcing award documents, such as contracts and POs, complies with terms and conditions. 

Supplier management and collaboration

Manage supplier lists to receive bids from the right suppliers and integrate with supplier portals to ease collaboration.

SAP Ariba is recognized with peer review awards

Our cloud-based solutions have received many industry leadership awards based on customer reviews.

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What are analysts saying about spend management solutions from SAP?

Find out why industry analysts have repeatedly named SAP a Leader for our comprehensive procurement solution portfolio.

2023 IDC MarketScape on Sourcing Applications

This report, when taken together with IDC’s procurement report, identifies SAP as a solution leader in improving the entire source-to-pay process.

2023 IDC MarketScape on Procurement Applications

See how our procurement solutions rank among SaaS and cloud procurement vendors and view strengths and challenges based on IDC analysis and client feedback.

Taking procurement and your business to the next level with SAP

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A real-world discussion on how much procurement can do

Let’s be honest. Procurement isn’t easy, especially when you’re doing more
with less. But here are five ways you can fix that and conquer its complexities.

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Source-to-pay transformation with built-in AI from SAP

From simplified sourcing to better buying experiences, realize significant process efficiencies and savings using AI capabilities embedded in SAP solutions.

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