Resource Library

Welcome to the Ariba Spend Management Resources Library. Here you will have access to the latest spend management intelligence and Ariba product information: white papers, webinars, podcasts, and commentary from top analysts and Ariba category experts.

Invoice & Payment
Working Capital 20/20
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March 18, 2010 2pm EDT / 7pm GMT
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Procurement
Assessing the CFO's View of Procurement
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March 11, 2010 - 11:00 a.m. EST / 4:00 p.m. GMT
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Catalog Management
Ariba SupplyWatch: Q1 2010
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The Five Steps to Making a Difference in your Marketing Print Spend
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Ariba SupplyWatch: Q4 2009
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Découvrez comment détecter et vous protéger contre le risque fournisseur
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Predictions 2009: ePurchasing Market
by Forrester Research
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Category Management
Tips for Category Management
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Contract Management
Why CLM Technologies Need To Be Part of Your Supply Chain
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Lessons Learned from the Recession: Contract Management
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Contract Management: Challenges and Strategies for Success in the New World
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Electronic Signature
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Electronic Signatures: The Missing Link in Contract Management Automation
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Invoice & Payment
eInvoicing Adoption Benchmarking Report Q1 2010
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The New Normal in Payables Outsourcing
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Smart e-Invoicing: How Global Companies Achieve Touchless Invoicing
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Leading Strategies In Cash Disbursements
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Procure to Pay Benchmarking and Best Practices
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Procurement
Procurement in the New Normal
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European CPOs: Capitalising on the Best Opportunities
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Using demand management to drive procurement excellence
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Hackett Group 2010 Key Issues Study: Results and Analysis
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Preparing for the New State of Normal - A ProcureCon CPO Clinic
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Services
Les Achats Durables : un levier essentiel de la sortie de crise ?
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Sustainable Procurement: A crucial lever to end the crisis?
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Milk the Sacred Cow: Find Hidden Savings in Indirect Categories
with Sourcing Interests Group
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After the Gold Rush - Process Improvements
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Base Localization
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Services Procurement
Best Practices in Contingent Labor Acquisition
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Consulting Services Procurement: Manage Better, Spend Less
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Procurement of Marketing Services: Doing More with Less
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Print Procurement: Quality and Savings
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Contingent Labor: Agility and Savings
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Sourcing
Sourcing Pipeline Building: Driving Effectiveness and Sustainability
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Lessons Learned from the Recession: Strategic Sourcing
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AMR Research: Reaching Sourcing Excellence, Part 1:How To Keep 30 Cents of Every Dollar Spent
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Supplier-Nominated Savings: Ask and You Can Receive
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Top 5 Categories to Source Now: European Market
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Sourcing Services
Effective Procurement Engagement within Marketing Spend
with Sourcing Interests Group
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Rise of Protectionist Policies in the Face of the Global Recession
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Outsourcing 2008 – Trends & New Markets
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Supply Risk Management – Owning the Brand & the Supply Chain
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The “R” word – Recession Impacts the Metals Industry
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Spend Management
Ensuring a Smooth Migration to Ariba Spend Management 9r1
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The CFO's View of Procurement: Work in Progress
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CPOs in Europa: Kapitalisierung der besten Ansatzpunkte
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European CPOs: Capitalising on the Best Opportunities
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Responsables européens du service des achats : tirer parti des meilleures opportunités
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Spend Management Services
Optimizing Spend Management Strategies to Successfully Address Marketing Print
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Spend Visibility
Correcting Your Spend Vision with Visibility
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Spend Visibility: Do You Have the Correct Lenses?
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Next-Generation Spend Analysis: Beyond Commodity Classifications
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Aberdeen Report: Spend Analysis- Pulling Back the Cover on Savings
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How to Uncover Hidden Savings through Spend Visibility
Featuring Aberdeen Group
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Supplier Management
Lecons de la Crise: Risque Fournisseur
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Guide Pratique: Risque Fournisseur
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Risikomanagement Survival Guide
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Finding Suppliers with Ariba Network Discovery
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Generate Working Capital with No Out-of-Pocket Costs
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Supplier Network
How to Make the Promise of eSourcing a Reality
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Five Ideas to Decrease Order to Pay through Integration
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Maximizing Return on Your Ariba Supplier Network Investment
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The Evolution of Supplier Networks: What do today’s network solutions have to offer?
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SupplyWatch
Ariba SupplyWatch: Q3 2009
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Ariba SupplyWatch Q2 2009
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Ariba SupplyWatch: Q1 2009
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Ariba SupplyWatch: Q4 2008
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Travel & Expense
The New Face of Travel Procurement
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White Paper
Ensuring a Smooth Migration to Ariba Spend Management 9r1 03/08/2010 (836 kb)
Sourcing Pipeline Building: Driving Effectiveness and Sustainability 03/01/2010 (298 kb)
Procurement in the New Normal 02/17/2010 (600 kb)
The CFO's View of Procurement: Work in Progress 01/29/2010 (649 kb)
eInvoicing Adoption Benchmarking Report Q1 2010 01/27/2010 (1 MB)
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Podcast
Rise of Protectionist Policies in the Face of the Global Recession 06/12/2009 (19 MB)
What Should Procurement Executives Be Thinking About Now? 06/02/2009 (8 MB)
Top Attributes of an Effective CPO 05/14/2009 (9 MB)
Addressing Best-in-Class CPOs Skills and Talents 05/01/2009 (9 MB)
Supply Risk - Job #1 in EMEA? 04/21/2009 (12 MB)
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Industry Research
Why CLM Technologies Need To Be Part of Your Supply Chain 12/21/2009 (538 kb)
Spend Visibility: Do You Have the Correct Lenses? 12/21/2009 (288 kb)
Coping with the "New Normal" - How the Changed Economy is Shaping IT Practices 12/07/2009 (222 kb)
Ariba Subscription Revenue Jumps 71%; SaaS Leadership Is Spend Management's Bailout Strategy 02/13/2009 (146 kb)
Forrester Research Case Study: Global Pharmaceutical Company Cuts AP Cost-Per-Invoice by Half with Ariba 12/12/2008 (109 kb)
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Category Chatter
Tata Motors’ Nano: It’s real…so how did they do it? 09/15/2009 (9 MB)
Procure-to-Pay Solutions - What You Really Need to Know 01/01/2007
Videos
Spend Management: A CEO's View 07/15/2009
On Demand Survival Guide Video 10/09/2008
Presentations
Ariba Services Overview 07/08/2009 (4 MB)
Ariba Spend Management Extensions - LIVE 2008 07/08/2009 (17 MB)
Ariba Spend Management Services Overview 07/08/2009 (2 MB)
Best Practices for Strategic Sourcing with or without an E 07/08/2009 (5 MB)
Best practices in Complex Services Procurement 07/08/2009 (5 MB)
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SupplyWatch
Ariba SupplyWatch: Q1 2010 01/28/2010 (5 MB)
Ariba SupplyWatch: Q4 2009 10/29/2009 (6 MB)
Ariba SupplyWatch: Q3 2009 07/30/2009 (4 MB)
Ariba SupplyWatch Q2 2009 04/24/2009 (4 MB)
Ariba SupplyWatch: Q1 2009 01/29/2009 (4 MB)
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The resources below have been grouped by topic for your convenience. You may also view resources by solution.

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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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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