Ariba's Resource Library

Welcome to the Ariba Commerce Cloud Resource Library, where you'll find timely thought leadership, business commerce intelligence, and product information. Select from a collection of white papers, webinars, and podcasts for insightful commentary and advice from Ariba's subject-matter specialists, top analysts, and category experts.

Automotive - Driving Results in 2009
These are certainly unprecedented and unchartered times for the automotive industry. External market factors—including tight credit markets, volatile gas prices and rising unemployment—are causing most consumers to rethink their automotive purchases. Many analysts predict that demand in 2009 will be between 10M – 12.5M units, a staggering 22 percent drop from 2008.

In fact, there has already been a dramatic drop in demand, which has created excess capacity in the market. But the silver lining is that this excess capacity, coupled with the rapid decline in raw material prices, makes these the most competitive sourcing markets we have seen in decades
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Category Chatter
Ariba Category Chatter is a series of podcasts designed to give you expert commentary on critical issues affecting your operations. Each 20-minute episode analyzes category and market trends that are driving change and complicating the global economy – from rising oil and commodity prices to the do’s and don’ts of green sourcing.

Listen in on practical dialogue that can help you weather the current economic storm and turn spend management into a sustainable strategic advantage.
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Extend Your ERP Investment
Many companies have implemented SAP, Oracle or other ERP eProcurement systems. Yet companies continue to suffer from adoption and compliance issues such as poor contract compliance, slow catalog enablement, out-of-date catalogs and users going around the system. Download any and all of the resources in this collection to learn strategies and tactics to address these key issues and ultimately extend the value of your ERP's Procurement application.
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Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Industry - Some Food for Thought
Over the past year in particular, heavy scrutiny has plagued the food, beverage and tobacco industries due to numerous recalls and health concerns. Add in commodity price increases, declining sales, and the credit crunch crisis and you’ve got an industry vying for a way to stay alive.

More and more businesses in the food, beverage, and tobacco industries are turning to cost reduction strategies in order to stay competitive. Download the following content on trends, best practices, and strategies to help you break barriers even during these difficult times.
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Healthcare Industry - The Antidote to the Healthcare Crisis
Rising costs and regulatory and transparency pressures coupled with declining profit margins has caused even the once-immune healthcare industry to face an unfavorable diagnosis. The good news is that the antidote to the healthcare crisis is available to every business in the healthcare industry. Download these strategies, tips, and best practices that cover everything from diagnosing to maintaining the health of your supply chain.
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Lessons Learned from the Recession
The recession has fundamentally changed the way businesses organize and measure success as well as recalibrated supply markets, introducing new cost and operational risks that businesses cannot overlook. It has also created a new state of normal for business one in which supply volatility, capacity constraints, and global uncertainty will be commonplace and must be carefully managed.

So, what does the New Normal demand? Doing more with less, and ramping up quickly. That means exploring new delivery models, getting outside help, more-efficient resource models, and responding fast to changing market conditions.

Download the white papers in this series to learn how each function within your source-to-settle process–from spend analysis to procurement has been impacted and how you can apply these lessons learned to gain a competitive advantage in 2010.
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Manufacturing - Weathering the Storm
The combination of the current credit crisis, rapidly changing commodity prices, and increasing supplier risk has caused the manufacturing industry to become one of the most volatile industries in the market. Massive staff reductions and plant closings as a result of record-low demand has placed an enormous pressure on the industry to quickly implement wide=spread cost reduction strategies to survive.

Fortunately, the wheel doesn’t have to be reinvented—just researched and implemented. Download the following content on trends, strategies and best practices to help break barriers even during these difficult times.
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Retail - Shop Talk
It seems like it's next-to-impossible for the retail industry to avoid the headlines. Widespread commodity price increases, the credit crisis, and the economic slowdown have combined to put a squeeze on both the industry’s top and bottom lines.

As retailers continue to face an increasingly difficult economic environment that shows no signs of letting up anytime soon, more and more companies are exploring all possible options to identify cost savings.
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