Strengthening business resiliency, together

We offer the immediate help you need to recover. And the solutions and strategies to keep supplies flowing – and supplier risk in check – no matter what happens next. That’s why you choose SAP Ariba.

Optimize cost, manage risk, and make sure the savings you negotiate are fully realized

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

Achieve compliance, visibility, and control while cutting costs and risks

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 catalog enablement, and integration with Ariba Network – more than 4.6 million connected companies strong, and growing.

Support growth initiatives while strengthening trading-partner relationships

Explore SAP Ariba solutions for invoice management and discount management, complemented by offerings from our financial ecosystem partners. With these integrated financial supply chain management solutions and services, you can achieve visibility throughout the source-to-pay process, improve supplier relationships, and realize fast ROI.

These mutually beneficial solutions close the loop on your collaborative procure-to-pay program by

• Mitigating supply chain risk by strengthening suppliers' ability to manage their cash needs
• Boosting free cash flow and freeing up working capital to fund your growth initiatives
• Automating invoice capture and approval for greater efficiency and compliance
• Delivering more control over payables, cash, and Days Payable Outstanding 

And because SAP Ariba financial supply chain management solutions can benefit your suppliers as well as your organization, their use encourages supplier adoption of your e-invoicing and working capital initiatives. What’s more, helping suppliers during difficult times can not only stabilize your supply chain to ensure business continuity, but it can also effectively strengthen your brand value.