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SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Full Visibility

Share real-time information with all your direct spend suppliers, obtain their commits, and tap network-generated intelligence to achieve complete supply chain visibility.

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Achieve complete supply chain visibility with SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration. Integrated with your ERP and supply chain optimization systems, this collaboration platform equips you to work safely and easily with multiple tiers of contract manufacturers and suppliers across key supply chain planning and execution processes.

Share production forecasts, orders, quality, and inventory information with suppliers and obtain their responses in real time.
Anticipate and resolve supply assurance problems quickly with collaboration dashboards that alert you to supply and demand mismatches.
Onboard all your suppliers using our on-demand tools, multiple integration options, and supplier enablement teams with decades of onboarding expertise.

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The Benefits of Multi-Tiered Supplier Collaboration

Microsoft describes their multi-tiered inventory strategies, their evolution to a build-to-order supply chain, and the significant inventory reductions they have achieved with SAP Ariba solutions.

Supply Chain Collaboration: Product Features

Broad collaboration

Collaborate in real time, with suppliers and contract manufacturing organizations across multiple processes, systems, and geographies, on key supply chain planning and execution processes like ordering, forecasting, quality, and inventory management.

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Actionable intelligence

Dashboards help you identify supply-demand mismatch and quality issues quickly, displaying supplier responses and status of their commitments to your forecasts, orders, quality notifications, and inventory pulls.

Improved compliance

With standards-based and secured electronic communications, as well as customized configuration of inter-company supply chain business rules, drive greater compliance with orders delivered correctly and on time.

Efficient onboarding

Multiple integration options ensure that sophisticated suppliers will participate. Use simple, on-demand tools to onboard the rest. Experts are available 24/7 to help you plan, prioritize, and execute.

Easy integration

Integrate this solution with any back-office system. Packaged integration is available with SAP ERP and supply chain solutions.

Fast time-to-value

Achieve fast time-to-value through efficient onboarding and quick deployment of this user-friendly solution, encouraging broad adoption by internal teams and external trading partners.

Get early visibility into supply availability

The SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration forecast add-on helps you and your trading partners align on supply and demand planning over multiple time horizons.

Buyers Forecast Add On

Real-time visibility into global inventory

With visibility into inventory managed by your trading partners, this add-on can drive down working capital, excess inventory, and carrying costs by optimizing inventory levels.

Inventory Add On

Gain visibility into quality issues

Resolve issues quickly and boost customer satisfaction by using this add-on to automate the exchange of quality information between you and your trading partners.

Buyers Quality Add On

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SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for buyers has helped streamline and simplify the way we work with our suppliers, making it easier for us all to do business.

Carlos Perez Barriocanal, Head of Management Information Systems, ITP Aero

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The Business Network and Its Impact on the Larger Ecosystem

Watch this IDC video for insight into how linear supply chains are being replaced by ecosystems of interconnected trading partners to achieve better collaboration, enhanced efficiency, and greater resilience.

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Boost Customer Impact by Harnessing the Power of the Business Network

This concise report by IDC explains the what and why of business networks and how they can help you drive resilience against disruption and flexibility to transform your business processes.

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Managing the Complexity of the Ecosystem Economy with Unified Business Networks

In this IDC Spotlight report, you'll read their take on the advantages of evolving linear processes into a business network to drive supply chain resiliency.

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Nine Practical Steps You Can Take to Improve Supply Chain Collaboration Right Now

Read this new white paper to learn how to use collaborative solutions to keep your supply chain moving in times of uncertainty.

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Build a Resilient Supply Chain

Register for this important webinar series to see how customers using SAP Ariba solutions for direct spend are building resilient supply chain collaboration infrastructures.

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Everything’s Connected: A Supplier Collaboration Podcast

Tune in to this podcast to hear discussions about the hurdles organizations face in collaborating with key trading partners – and the solutions you can use to keep your supply chain moving.

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Take action anywhere with the SAP Ariba Supply Chain mobile app

Gain instant visibility into the supply chain no matter where you are. Use the mobile app to manage availability of supply, view information from purchase orders, confirmations, and ship notices.

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