SAP Ariba provides the only end-to-end solution portfolio that lets you manage supplier information, lifecycle, performance, and risk all in one place.

With SAP Ariba, you can drive spend to preferred suppliers and reduce risk every step of the way, from supplier onboarding and qualification to segmentation and performance management. You can:

• Get a unified supplier record with a high degree of confidence in the data
• Integrate consistent supplier qualification and segmentation with other procurement processes
• Scale supplier risk management and compliance to your entire supply base

Discover qualified suppliers, speed up your sourcing cycles, and create the most competitive, best-value agreements for sustainable savings with all your sourcing needs.

With the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solution portfolio, you can manage your entire sourcing, contracting, and spend analysis processes for all types of spend – direct and indirect materials as well as services – all in one place. Integrated into your execution and procurement processes, these solutions can help you to:

• Aggregate and classify all purchases, company-wide
• Gain visibility, segment spend, and identify savings opportunities
• Standardize source-to-contract processes across teams and business units
• Drive materials cost savings and optimization across all spend categories
• Ensure that the savings you negotiate are fully realized
• Increase speed and drive up throughput across your teams
• Reduce risk by finding better suppliers and innovation partners

Connect the people, partners, processes, and information needed to manage all design-to-deliver activities in a simple, smart, and open way.

Digitize your extended supply chain with end-to-end, digital procurement solutions that support your direct spend, starting with integration with your product design and R&D processes, all the way through manufacturing execution and delivery.

SAP Ariba Solutions for Direct Spend integrate seamlessly with your PLM, ERP, and SAP Integrated Business Planning systems to unlock a world of benefits, including:

• Faster time to market and time to volume: Integrate R&D and product design with sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management to accelerate innovation.
• Quick and accurate sourcing: Source all materials and services for multi-level BOMs on a single platform, and move smoothly toward volume production.
• Effective supplier collaboration: Identify any potential supply shortages before they occur.
• Better product cost management: Minimize contract leakage and realize negotiated savings when all purchase orders reflect supplier agreements.
• Stronger compliance: Tie supplier qualification and sourcing together to ensure selection of qualified suppliers and mitigate supply chain disruptions.
• Complete supply chain visibility: Collaborate with multiple tiers of suppliers to manage your non-linear and external supply chains, reduce inventory levels, increase fill rates, and increase team productivity.

Ensure compliance and control while providing users a delightful buying experience, with innovative capabilities like guided buying and spot buy.

Whether you want to improve your entire buying and settlement process end-to-end, or just part of it, SAP Ariba e-procurement software solutions deliver negotiated savings that improve your bottom line. You can gain more control over costs and risks in your buying processes and:

• Reduce buying cycles by 50 percent
• Cut supply costs by 10 percent
• Lower processing costs by 25 percent to 60 percent

With SAP Ariba, you get the broadest set of capabilities on the market. Like market-leading innovations in guided buying and spot buy. Plus the most pre-enabled suppliers, easy supplier and catalogue enablement, and integration with Ariba Network – more than 3.6 million connected companies strong, and growing.

Transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets to boost free cash flow, free up working capital, and deliver more bottom-line value.

Market-leading financial supply chain management solutions from SAP Ariba give you the capabilities, intelligence, and global reach to transform your payables from liabilities into strategic assets. You can finally eliminate manual processes that make it costly and time-consuming to manage exceptions and enforce compliance. Our solutions can also help your business to:

• Automate invoice capture, workflow and approval
• Eliminate invoice exceptions
• Ensure invoices are linked to purchase orders, contracts, and service sheets
• Keep up with jurisdictional invoice tax regulations
• Increase free cash flow and improve working capital metrics
• Reduce costs and liquidity risk in your supply chain
• Capture more early payment discounts

Only SAP Ariba makes it possible to have solutions seamlessly integrated with the most comprehensive procurement platform and the world’s largest business network to deliver full visibility from source to settle, for more effective financial supply chain management. Unlock the trapped value from your payables and streamline transactions and invoice management — making life better for everyone with a stake in your financial supply chain.

Maximize the value of your SAP Ariba solutions with integration wizards, extensions, and templates – without burdening your IT resources.

Globalization and digital transformation are placing new demands on your organization, requiring you to react rapidly to constantly changing business needs and market conditions. And, users are more empowered than ever to access information in real time.  The SAP Ariba platform has been designed with agility, and scalability to adapt to changing technologies and ensure your users are kept at the forefront of new developments.  

SAP Ariba seamlessly integrates with your ERP systems.  They offer broad integration with all back-end systems and even deeper integration with SAP solutions with powerful results.

Now you can achieve truly touchless transacting, driving significant savings and efficiency gains for your business. On a single, connected platform for managing all spend, you can easily analyze all global purchases to optimize procurement results. Count on your integration framework and solutions being based on:

• Choice – Integration options that fit into your existing landscape
• Open Standards– Common technologies your IT team can user for connectivity and data exchange
• Simplicity– Cloud apps that require no new hardware
• Extensible Business Processes– A rich portfolio of standard integrated business processes

Strengthen and sharpen your e-commerce capabilities to become the preferred, easy-to-find vendor of purchase-ready buyers around the world.

Buyers ask suppliers to join Ariba Network so you can work together more efficiently and effectively on all the shared aspects of business commerce: proposals, contracts, orders, invoices, and payments. Doing so through Ariba Network can save you both a lot of time and money.

As a supplier on Ariba Network, you tap into the world’s largest B2B marketplace, with millions of companies doing business at more than double the volume of Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay combined. Ariba Network makes it simple to:

• Accelerate the sales cycle while lowering the cost of sales
• Find new customers who are ready to buy
• Respond to RFP/RFI, submit proposals, and negotiate contracts
• Boost sales through catalogues
• Handle purchase orders, send invoices, and receive payments
• Know when you’ll get paid and for what
• Strengthen customer relationships and increase customer retention

Across the buying cycle, SAP Ariba provides affordable, user-friendly solutions to help you cut processing and supply costs while strengthening compliance and control.

SAP Ariba Snap is a fast and easy way for your midsize company to implement our integrated procure-to-pay solution. By digitalizing and automating each step of your buying process, you can eliminate most of the paper-intensive, manual processes that prevent you from having visibility into company-wide spending. Using role-based dashboards that present you with real-time information, you can derive actionable insights that help you control spending and reduce costs.

Backed by SAP Ariba’s decades of procurement expertise, SAP Ariba Snap provides easy-to-use tools for both you and your employees through a solution that is:

• Packaged and priced to fit your business
• Built to improve cash flow, control, and compliance without adding complexity
• Designed to scale as you grow
• Capable of freeing up your staff to focus on more strategic sourcing and procurement activities