Procurement Content

A lack of up-to-date, reliable content that casual users can access handicaps the success of your eProcurement initiatives. Users now expect a consumer website shopping experience from their procurement systems with catalogs containing the most current products and pricing.

Ariba Procurement Content extends your ERP through a casual-user friendly interface to reduce maverick spend and increase content and contract compliance, resulting in immediate cost savings.

Business Needs
Procurement content requirements vary for every business. Inaccurate item data and frequent supplier catalog updates are costly to catalog managers in time and effort. Companies need a better way to handle the way they create, manage, and present catalog content.

• Catalog managers waste time and effort on frequent catalog updates to correct wrong data
• Employees are unable to find needed items or gain rapid approval to purchase
• Searching for items through multiple supplier catalogs and navigating multiple user interfaces is confusing to employees
• Achieving employee compliance without monitoring purchasing rules, contract terms and pricing is difficult
• Spend visibility needs to be reported on down to the SKU level
• Services procurement is frequently overlooked because of complexity and decentralization

Benefits
Ariba Procurement Content allows you to access a single content source for all commodities ensuring procurement compliance, in an easy-to-use intuitive search experience.

• A rich consumer-like user interface allows users to easily search for goods and services such as temp labor, projects, legal, print, marketing, direct mail, installations and more
• Only approved content and active contract compliance
• Integration with one or more eProcurement systems such as SAP, Oracle, Lawson or homegrown any system that supports cXML, Oracle XML or OCI.
• Ongoing catalog maintenance services
• Support for multi-lingual catalogs, global deployment
• Rapid deployment
• Training and support
• On demand provides quick time to value and low total cost of ownership

Proven Results
With Ariba Procurement Content, distractions of catalog management and compliance are eliminated with an end-to-end combination of proven technology and a user-friendly interface.

• Leverage investments in existing purchasing systems
• Minimize maverick off-catalog and off-contract purchasing with preferred suppliers of specific goods or services
• Save time and money by reducing manual processes, errors and oversights
• Enable proper catalog content to be displayed to the user
• Improve adoption and increase transaction volumes
• Consolidate purchasing into a single content system
• Gain productivity and visibility into spend process
• Consolidate spend reporting
• Cleanse data for improved search, comparison, selection and reporting

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Resource Library: Procurement

Webinars

• Hackett Group 2010 Key Issues Study
  Results and Analysis
  
• Using demand management to drive procurement excellence
  
• European CPOs
  Capitalising on the Best Opportunities
  
• Operating in the New Normal
  Procurement After the Recession
  
• 5 Strategies to Dramatically Accelerate Procurement Performance in 2010