SAP Ariba Sourcing

SAP® Ariba® Sourcing
Benefits A strategic approach to sourcing is essential for achieving immediate needs as

well as for sustaining enterprise-wide cost reductions. Locating a supplier and
•• Bottom-line results – Realize immediate
pricing an item simply isn’t enough. Sustainable savings come from identifying
savings of 8% to 14% now
cost-cutting opportunities, defining and executing a supplier selection process,
•• Discovery of new qualified suppliers and creating contracts that convert them into actual savings. And this requires
through the integrated SAP® Ariba® being able to evaluate the total cost impact of sourcing decisions, while shorten-
Discovery solution to improve bid ing the amount of time and effort spent on administrative tasks.
competitiveness
•• Agility – Achieve significant reductions Effective supplier discovery and supplier information management are critical for
in sourcing cycle times by 50% and the sourcing process to drive sustainable results, yet many organizations strug-
administrative costs by 15% gle to keep their supplier information current. Strategic sourcing provides the
single greatest opportunity to impact the cost, quality, and performance of the
•• Flexibility – Walk-up on-demand supply chain and is among the quickest paths to lower costs and improved reve-
application combined with a rapid- nues. But increased globalization, soaring energy and commodity costs, and
deployment process and integrated tightening supply markets have kept many companies from achieving their full
support services places no burden sourcing potential.
on IT departments
•• Efficiency – Sustainable organizational WHY SAP® ARIBA® SOURCING
knowledge through in-context
intelligence The SAP® Ariba® Sourcing solution is designed to help companies overcome these
challenges. A unique software-as-a-service solution, SAP Ariba Sourcing is the
•• Global reach – Trade globally with
most widely adopted and complete strategic sourcing offering in the marketplace
support for multiple languages
used by thousands of companies to create and implement competitive best-value
and currencies
agreements.
•• Lower TCO – Software-as-a-service
delivery with faster time to value and By combining best-in-class sourcing and negotiation technology with access
faster innovation to a global network of suppliers and unparalleled strategy and category expertise,
•• Mitigated supply risk through continuous SAP Ariba Sourcing enables companies of any industry, size, or geography to
performance measurements and drive fast, sustainable results by automating and streamlining critical tasks
improvement across the sourcing lifecycle, including:
•• Strategy development – Identify savings opportunities, assess market dynam-
ics, and develop an informed sourcing strategy
•• Sourcing and negotiating – Identify and qualify suppliers, negotiate best-value
agreements, derive optimal award allocations, drive project collaboration, and
standardize processes and manage knowledge
•• Monitoring and managing suppliers and agreements – Quickly implement sup-
plier agreements, track and realize savings, and manage supplier performance
SAP Ariba Sourcing delivers more frequent innovation to help ensure speed,
consistency, and repeatability and is proven to deliver tangible, bottom-line value
for organizations of all sizes and industries, by:
•• Sourcing US$340 billion in annual spend across 500 categories
•• Saving $30 billion annually
•• Cutting process and cycle times by 50%–70%
With SAP Ariba Sourcing, you can integrate not only with other SAP Ariba solu-
tions, but also with third-party systems that use Web services and file channels.
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About SAP® Ariba® FEATURES
Solutions
Technology
SAP® Ariba® solutions support the •• RFX creation and management
marketplace for modern business, – A broad set of RFX types, including requests for information, requests for
creating frictionless exchanges proposals, reverse auctions, and forward auctions
between millions of buyers and suppliers – Integrated supplier discovery
across the entire source-to-pay process. – Rapid RFX creation
Our market-leading solutions enable – Patented competitive bidding and timing options
companies to simplify collaboration with – Sealed envelope bidding, Dutch auction, and total cost events
their trading partners, make smarter – Matrix and tiered pricing
business decisions, and extend their – Bid optimization and decision support
collaborative business processes with – Flexible supplier bidding options including buyer and supplier bundles
an open technology platform. More than – Supplier response management
two million companies use SAP Ariba – Team grading and collaborative scoring
solutions to connect and collaborate – Conditional content, table questions, and event prerequisites
around nearly US$1 trillion in commerce – Communications and messaging
on an annual basis. To learn more – Global, multilingual, and multicurrency capabilities
about SAP Ariba solutions and the •• Category Management
transformation they are driving, visit – Project management
www.ariba.com. – Workflow and approval management
– Document management
– Knowledge management
– Resource management
•• Sourcing analysis and reporting
•• Integration to third-party systems using Web services and file channels
•• Savings pipeline and tracking
Community
•• Integrated access to Ariba Network, the world’s largest trading community for
efficient and effective supplier discovery, qualification, risk assessment and
more-competitive negotiations
•• Unique peer benchmarking program with dedicated customer success teams
•• Access to Ariba Exchange User Community, a unique community designed to
drive networking and best-practice sharing and accelerate adoption
Capabilities
•• Expertise and best practices delivered through a flexible delivery model rang-
ing from onsite consulting to Web-based templates
•• Bundled empowerment support services, including basic product support,
event-day management, and a sourcing support desk
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Each year, more than 295,000 companies use SAP Ariba Sourcing to source
more than $340 billion in goods and services across 500 categories, to save
more than $30 billion, and to reduce process and cycle times by 50% to 70%.
Why not join them? To learn more about SAP Ariba Sourcing and the results that it
can deliver for your organization, visit http://www.ariba.com/solutions/buy
/sourcing, where you’ll find numerous informative resources such as white papers
and case studies. Or contact your account executive.
www.ariba.com
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