What is SAP Ariba?

Supply chain management and purchasing management are critical in today's business world. While competition in the business world is increasing day by day, businesses attach importance to increasing efficiency in their supplier processes in order to stand out from their competitors. For this reason, the digitization of supplier relationship management processes is an important agenda for businesses.

Digital Procurement and Supplier Management: What is SAP Ariba?  

SAP Ariba is a business network that connects buyers and suppliers to manage their supply chains. The company was founded in 1996 and acquired by SAP in 2012. Now known as SAP Ariba, the company has over 5,000 customers in more than 100 countries and processes billions of dollars worth of transactions each year.

SAP Ariba is an intelligent cloud-based platform for strategic sourcing and procurement processes. It optimizes the procure-to-pay processes of businesses end-to-end and enables them to increase efficiency.

SAP Ariba, the most advanced procurement solution offered by SAP, covers the entire process from source-to-payment, such as purchasing and invoicing, sourcing, procurement processes, supplier management, and spend visibility. SAP Ariba procurement solutions enable suppliers and buyers to execute their supply chain strategies on a single platform. With Use SAP Ariba, businesses can perform the following processes:

• Visualise workflows and make business processes more efficient.
• Increases supply chain collaboration and strengthens relationships with suppliers.
• Thanks to automation, it automates routine processes such as invoicing and payment and improves cash flow.
• Unifies all processes related to sourcing, supplier, procurement, and supply chain management.
• SAP Ariba's core commerce platform helps companies optimize the buying process by enabling suppliers to bid on contracts before they are awarded.
• It also enables buyers to create standardized contracts and offers, which can then be shared with multiple suppliers at once.

Functions of SAP Ariba Solutions

SAP Ariba allows buyers to manage their suppliers' catalogs, view purchase orders and invoices and receive purchase order approvals from suppliers. Buyers can also create contracts with suppliers, manage supplier ratings and reviews, as well as track shipments and delivery status. The software has mobile apps for Android and iOS devices.

In addition, SAP Ariba offers several other modules that can be used separately or combined with its core commerce platform:

• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) helps companies manage supplier relationships through collaboration tools such as marketplaces and e-auctions.

• Purchasing & Procurement (P&P) provides real-time visibility into spending data so you can make informed decisions about where best to spend money.

• Payments & Collections manages payment terms between buyers and suppliers.

• Sales & Marketing helps automate marketing efforts for both internal sales teams as well as external partners.

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Why Choose SAP Ariba Solutions?

SAP Ariba is a very useful solution for businesses with complex procurement and purchasing systems. In a fast and ever-changing business world, maintaining competitiveness and ensuring customer satisfaction is possible with a strong supply management system.

Procurement and Transformation

• It automates the entire purchasing and payment lifecycle of businesses and provides customers with a single platform where they can search and find goods and services.
• With guided buying, employees can analyze preferred suppliers, policies, and processes to make more compliant purchases.       
• Helps to create cost-saving sourcing for indirect goods. Simplifies costly and time-consuming purchasing processes.
• Helps to centralize spend management and adapt to the market.
• Securely share data and collaborate with business partners.

Sourcing and Contracts

• Reduces costs and supplier risk by integrating sourcing with contract and supplier lifecycle management.
• Eliminates manual processes (such as paper, and printing) by digitalizing contract management. Shortens contract durations.
• Enables organizing spending data in different systems. Thus, identifying resource opportunities is simplified.

Supplier Management

• It collects supplier information in one place and improves the timeliness and accuracy of data. 
• Integrates with procurement for lifecycle and performance management. Thus, it increases compliance for the supply base and directs spending to the relevant suppliers.
• It helps to procure the right products from the right suppliers at the right price and at the right time.

Invoice and Payment Management

• Increases invoice accuracy to speed up the invoice processing and payment process. This prevents incorrect transactions with missing or incorrect information.
• Automates the processing of invoices such as PDF invoices, and non-order invoices.
• It saves teams from time-consuming, manual processes thanks to automatic receipt, processing, and payment.
• Payment processes offer a seamless source-to-pay process by integrating trading partners and back-end systems.

Integration with ERP Systems

• SAP Ariba seamlessly and seamlessly integrates with SAP ERP products to provide data flow between different departments of the business.
• Businesses using SAP Ariba with SAP HANA business solutions transmit instant data from the P2P (procure-to-pay) system to different departments such as sales and finance.

SAP Ariba Mobile Application Features

SAP has made it possible to access SAP Ariba solutions via mobile devices. Businesses can carry out request, approval and monitoring processes through SAP Ariba mobile application. Mobile applications can be used on mobile devices such as phones and tablets.

What is Ariba Network?

Ariba Network is a business-to-business (B2B) digital marketplace for procurement, created by Ariba, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the global procurement market. Ariba Network offers buyers and suppliers an online network through which they can connect with each other, share information, make commitments and exchange payment — all in real time.

The Ariba Network is built on the Ariba Network Platform, a cloud-based platform that allows users to set up, manage and execute transactions through an electronic supplier portal.

Ariba Network offers a wide range of services across industries including transportation, retail, food & beverage, manufacturing and healthcare. It also offers a variety of solutions including global sourcing, supplier management, spend analysis, contract management and more.

Ariba Network also offers a range of additional services that help users manage their businesses more efficiently, including:

• Negotiation management: Ariba Negotiation Management helps improve negotiation outcomes by providing a structured process for managing negotiations from beginning to end. It includes collaboration tools that help users develop and update proposals during the negotiation process, as well as tools for managing contracts after they’re signed.
• Supply chain optimization: Ariba Supply Chain Optimization helps companies optimize their supply chains by providing visibility into supplier performance, inventory management and forecasting capabilities.
• Financial management: Ariba Financial Management provides users with financial forecasts based on historical data, as well as tools for managing inventory.

What is SAP Ariba Discovery?

SAP Ariba Discovery is a global B2B matching platform that connects businesses with new business opportunities for thousands of large companies on the Ariba Network.

SAP Ariba Discovery is an application that helps you find suppliers and partners in your industry. The goal SAP Ariba Discovery platform is to help you grow your business. SAP Ariba Discovery is a cloud-based solution that can be accessed from anywhere at any time. It helps users build deeper relationships with new partners through a simple, intuitive interface.

The platform provides a range of capabilities, including:

• Matchmaking: Ariba Discovery matches buyers and suppliers based on key criteria such as industry, geography and size.
• Demand forecasting: The platform uses data from the Ariba Network to provide forecasts for future demand
• Market intelligence: Access to competitive information helps you identify new opportunities and risks in your market.

SAP Ariba Integration

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