Support Your Customers' eProcurement Initiatives and Grow Your Wallet Share

When you're able to respond rapidly to your customers' eProcurement initiatives, you're well positioned to become their preferred supplier and grow revenues in your accounts. But it's not always easy, is it? Complicated technology and a bewildering array of standards often make it difficult to develop an efficient approach that helps you respond to requests within expected customer timeframes while keeping costs down.

Ariba's order collaboration solutions, which include online catalog sharing to facilitate order placement, give you everything you need to meet - and even exceed - your customers' expectations. With our flexible, easy-to-use content publication tools and wide variety of connectivity options for PO receipt and response, you can quickly support your customers' eProcurement initiatives. You'll be well positioned to become a preferred, low-cost supplier.

Bottom-Line Business Value

With Ariba supplier solutions for order collaboration, now you can:

Simplify order collaboration: Access and respond to customers' eProcurement orders quickly and easily
Maximize responsiveness: Ensure you respond to eProcurement orders within customers' specified timeframes - a key performance indicator used by buyers to evaluate suppliers
Make catalog content easily accessible: Efficiently upload catalog content to your customers who use Ariba eProcurement solutions
Link to backend systems: Access and respond to customers' orders using a variety of connectivity options, including a user-friendly Web interface, fax, email, or integration directly to your back-end systems
Reach more customers: Extend your investment in Ariba-enabled content to reach additional Ariba buyers
Close the loop automatically: Benefit from a closed-loop, two-way communication process managed by Ariba that includes orders, change orders, acknowledgements, advance ship notices, and related key documents associated with your customers' eProcurement initiatives
Complement and extend your back-end order management system: Engage in collaborative processes with your customers that link your internal systems and processes with theirs

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Streamline and Automate Responses to Customers' eProcurement Processes

Did you know that the Ariba^® Supplier Network^TM processes one purchase order every two seconds and manages content for over 80 million catalog items? In addition, the Ariba Supplier Network facilitates $110 billion dollars in annual transactions each year.

Ariba's order and catalog collaboration capabilities provide a fast, flexible way for you to post catalog content and receive and respond to customers' eProcurement orders for your goods and services.

Highlighted Features

With Ariba's order collaboration solutions, you benefit from:

Centralized visibility and control: Use a single application to access and gain visibility into order collaboration information about one or multiple customers
Real-time access to information: Easily track order status and increase visibility into your customers' eProcurement purchase order processes, exceptions, and required actions or follow-ups
Comprehensive data access: Access comprehensive data across one or multiple customers for greater convenience, efficiency, and time and cost savings
Flexible technology options: Become Ariba eBusiness-enabled, regardless of your technological sophistication level, using a wide variety of options such as fax, email, Web user interface, EDI and cXML document types (for orders) and CIF and PunchOutTM (for catalogs)
Productivity tools: Automatically "flip" orders to invoices in an end-to-end, collaborative, order-to-cash process
Self-help resources: Use free online tutorials, documentation, and technical specifications to ramp up quickly on your customers' eProcurement efforts
Global support: Use Ariba's 24x7 customer support available globally via phone, email, or the Web in nine different languages
On-demand access: Simplify your IT requirements using our 100% on demand, web-based platform that requires no software downloads or complex IT services to support your customers' eProcurement initiatives

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Optimize Order Collaboration with Your Customers

Are you ready to support your customer's eProcurement initiatives and optimize order collaboration between you and your customers? Ariba® provides order and catalog collaboration solutions that make this possible.

Hundreds of thousands of suppliers around the globe use Ariba's order and catalog collaboration tools and applications to support their customers' eProcurement initiatives. Now you can realize the same benefits they enjoy.

Highlighted Benefits

With Ariba's order collaboration solutions, you benefit from:

Lower costs: Reduce the cost of doing business with customers through streamlined order collaboration processes and rapid catalog publication functionality
Increased revenues: Use Ariba to grow your business with current and prospective customers
Greater visibility and control: Track order status in real time and gain up-to-the-minute visibility into your customers' order management processes, exceptions, and required actions or follow-ups
Simplified processes: Use electronic order collaboration to reduce the number of lost orders, eliminate complex paper trails, and minimize data entry errors
Lower sales and account management costs: Leverage the Ariba Supplier Network to gain exposure to all of the buyers at your customers' sites, quickly and efficiently
Increased wallet share: Help customers reduce maverick spend (i.e., spend occurring outside your contract) so that buyers increase spend with you
Reduced complexity: Eliminate the complexity and expense of interacting through manual or point-to-point IT solutions
Leveraged back-end systems: Integrate Ariba software directly with your backend systems for end-to-end processes and easier collaboration