You may be tired of users always finding a way around your online procurement system, but you can't blame them. It's just too difficult to use. And keeping catalogs up-to-date is a time-consuming challenge. What's more, only a fraction of your approved suppliers are online and, for those that are, pricing is often wrong. Hmm. Looks like some significant changes are needed if your online procurement initiative is ever going to fulfill its potential.
Get back on track with Ariba Procurement Content.
Delivered through the Ariba Commerce Cloud, it's the only SaaS solution that extends and maximizes the spend coverage of SAP, Oracle and other ERP electronic procurement systems. Its single user interface and integration with the Ariba Network make catalog enablement and maintenance fast and easy. Users can search only approved supplier content for all the goods and services they need -- with the right contract pricing proactively applied. And they'll have just as convenient and enjoyable an experience as they do when shopping on their favorite retail websites.
With easy maintenance, up-to-date content, and a user-friendly system, you'll have no trouble delivering the bottom-line savings you need.
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Implement a more user-friendly system.
Users prefer the easy login, quick search, and click-to-buy conveniences of consumer websites. But corporate procurement often involves navigating through a client/server ERP system with multiple shopping cart interfaces and manual item-retrieval processes. Ariba Procurement Content integrates with any ERP or procurement system, and can unify multiple systems. Your employees simply log in to a complete content source of approved goods and services through a single user interface. The consumer-like search tool provides intelligent fuzzy search, parametric filtering, and side-by-side product comparisons, just like Amazon.com
Achieve unparalleled user adoption.
The key to ensuring user adoption is providing an easy-to-use shopping cart and current content. That sounds simple and straightforward, but achieving it is a problem for SAP, Oracle, and others. Ariba Procurement Content delivers a simple and intuitive shopping experience, as well as up-to-date, reliable content, to drive spend through the system and help you realize anticipated savings. Plus, Ariba's deep commodity and procurement capabilities provide best-practice guidance and support. This includes web-based training tutorials and documentation, and timely response to critical questions through 24/7 phone and email support.
Use Ariba to requisition any type of service.
Each category of service involves a unique ordering process. Only with Ariba Procurement Content can you requisition any type of service, including temp labor, projects/consulting, print, facilities, vehicle maintenance, marketing services, and more. Using easy-to-configure requisition forms specific to your category requirements will speed the time-to-fill cycle. And with access to the Ariba Network, you can easily collaborate with suppliers, exchanging information, generating multiple quotes, and driving competition for your business.
Quickly enable supplier catalogs.
Getting catalog information into a searchable, electronic format is time-consuming and prone to error. But enabling new suppliers and catalogs, from initial creation through cleaning and on-boarding, is a breeze with Ariba Procurement Content. Even when you need catalogs in multiple languages and with millions of SKUs. And our fast SaaS implementation means your catalogs can be up-and-running in no time.
Easily maintain all catalogs.
Catalog information is difficult and time-consuming to maintain, requiring days or even weeks to update. So most corporate procurement systems carry outdated content. If you can relate to that, then your users are probably not buying from your preferred suppliers, and paying too much for goods and services. But with Ariba Procurement Content, your catalogs can now be updated in minutes. And our solution comes with automated catalog self-maintenance and verification capability.
Ariba Procurement Content is just one solution available in a complete business commerce management suite that's delivered through the Ariba Commerce Cloud. You can seamlessly integrate your online procurement content with solutions for spend analysis, sourcing, contract management, settlement, supplier management, and more. Regardless of your industry, size, or location, and whether you're buying, managing cash, or selling, the Ariba Commerce Cloud can help you do it better. Learn more.
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