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What is SAP Ariba?

SAP Ariba is the leader in Spend Management. Ariba began with a mission to help companies control spending and cut costs by making it easier for buyers and suppliers to work together. In 2012, Ariba was acquired by SAP, the world’s largest business software company, combining Ariba's cloud-based solutions for procurement and supply chain with SAP’s expertise in enterprise application software and supply chain management. Ariba can easily integrate with different SAP ERP solutions like SAP ECC and S/4 HANA with easy to configure workflows to automate different processes in complete procurement cycle.  

Following is an overview on the main solutions for digital commerce that SAP Ariba provides:

With its supplier risk management and supplier life-cycle management solutions, this portfolio helps companies have a reliable, up-to-date, and comprehensive view of supplier information, spend, performance, and risk, allowing them to reduce risk and prevent savings leakage.

It helps companies manage the entire sourcing, contracting and spend analysis processes for all types of spend - direct and indirect materials as well as services – all in one place.

Helps to connect the people, partners, processes, and information needed to manage all design-to-deliver activities. Its benefits include: Faster time to market and time to volume / Quick and accurate sourcing / Effective supplier collaboration / Better product cost management / Stronger compliance / Complete supply chain visibility.

SAP Ariba e-procurement software solutions deliver negotiated savings that help companies achieve compliance, visibility, and control while cutting costs and risks. It also helps them gain more control over costs and risks in their buying processes, reduce buying cycles by 50 percent, cut supply costs by 10 percent and lower processing costs by 25 percent to 60 percent.

SAP Ariba solutions give companies the capabilities, intelligence, and global reach to transform their payables from liabilities into strategic assets. It also helps eliminate manual processes that make it costly and time-consuming to manage exceptions and enforce compliance. Other benefits include:

• Automated invoice capture, workflow and approval
• Eliminating invoice exceptions
• Ensuring invoices are linked to purchase orders, contracts, and service sheets
• Keeping up with jurisdictional invoice tax regulations
• Increasing free cash flow and improving working capital metrics
• Reducing costs and liquidity risk in supply chains
• Capturing more early payment discounts

SAP Ariba platform was designed to allow for agility, flexibility, and scalability to adapt to changing technologies today and in the future. It allows users to extend the functionality of their procurement solutions and adapt their solutions to their business requirements in a simple, fast way with minimum dependency on IT or external services. The platform can also be used to build new apps and integrate with other solutions to meet the customers' needs. 

SAP Ariba offers broad integration with all back-end systems and ERP and even deeper integration with SAP solutions that lead to unlocking the full value of SAP Ariba solutions. SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway gives companies a fast, simple way to connect their back-end systems without the need for multiple adapters. SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway facilitates transactions between buyers and suppliers on Ariba Network and also integrates SAP Ariba cloud applications. Moreover, companies can integrate SAP Ariba with S4/HANA, which enables Ariba to offer many different integration scenarios to support many business processes.

SAP Ariba supports buyers by offering guidance on everything, from best practices to change management. At any stage of deploying and adopting SAP Ariba, companies that choose SAP Ariba are granted access to a wide range of services such as:

·         SAP Ariba Best Practice Center

·         SAP Ariba Content and Connectivity Solutions

·         SAP Ariba Customer Support

·         SAP Ariba Education and SAP Ariba Change Management

·         Success Planning with SAP Ariba

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