Ariba Procurement Solutions

You’re up-and-running in no time with industry-leading, cloud-based solutions; the most pre-enabled suppliers; easy supplier on-boarding — and minimal demands on IT. With time-to-value measured in weeks – not months – you can:

• Shorten procurement cycles by 50 percent to 70 percent
• Achieve supply savings of 10 percent
• Reduce process costs by 25 percent to 60 percent

Meanwhile, your team will be equipped to create new savings opportunities, and you’ll see full program payback in less than a year.

Your Ariba solution isn’t just easy to use; it’s a consumer-like, intuitive experience that makes every user’s life easier. Like the satisfaction they get from Amazon.com, users will find the goods and services they need, from the suppliers your company wants them to use, and at your company’s preferred prices. Users can easily monitor project status, receive alerts, assign tasks, and execute approvals in real time, using any device. And all spend information is available in simple, visual reports for easy budget management and planning. Seeing how much time, trouble, and money they save, your users won’t want to do procurement any other way.

As Forrester Research reports, with Ariba you get the most complete e-procurement functionality, the largest supplier network, the best user experience, and the expertise to solve even your most challenging category-specific problems. Together, these help you achieve proven savings, measurable efficiency gains, and rapid ROI. In fact, Ariba customers have more spend under management, broader user adoption, and more suppliers enabled than their peers. Just look at Albemarle’s savings — $3 million in their first year. Schering Plough saved $244 million within 24 months. And Dollar Tree enabled 700 suppliers within months, and cut their P2P process costs by more than $1 million within one year.

With most procurement solutions, companies can capture the easy spend. Unfortunately, this represents less than 15 percent of a company’s total spending. That leaves little opportunity for sustained savings. With Ariba’s far-reaching procurement solutions and expertise, you can capture all spend categories — regardless of your backend ERP, procurement, or spend-generating system. This includes complex business services, which represent a increasingly bigger chunk of companies’ total spending.

As the world’s largest supplier network and trading partner community, Ariba’s global coverage and support enable you to easily on-board all your users and suppliers anywhere in the world. And because Ariba offers the industry’s only complete and integrated cloud-based spend management suite, you can expand process efficiencies and savings to the complete source-to-settle cycle. That means you’ll be well-equipped to implement strategies for a healthier, more competitive financial supply chain. Like capturing more early-payment discounts, reducing risk through supply chain finance, and more.