SAP Ariba Contract Management vs SAP Ariba Procurement vs SAP S/4HANA Cloud

• SAP Ariba has Ariba Supply Chain Network that makes Suppliers/Vendors/Buyers onboarding very easy. Ariba Contract Management is very well integrated with Ariba network and hence sharing contractual documents and information are very easy.
• SAP Ariba provide integration with SAP ERP which takes out the effort needed to integrate Ariba with SAP.
• Ariba exposes API and ITK to do integration if your ERP is none SAP.

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• Customer Service. We have an incredible team that look after us.
• Listening. The team are receptive to ideas of how to improve the network and these ideas are often implemented.
• Standards. Providing a uniform set of rules enables us to onboard and engage quickly.

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• Moving on to the pros of SAP S/4HANA, I have noticed many advantages like it is highly integrative.
• Also, it has a high performance which runs on in-memory computing databases.
• Moreover, it is one of the most stable Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems offering high-end user experiences to address complex and complicated business problems.

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• The current ways of integration with SAP are a bit painful.
• ARIBA shared services turn around time and knowledge lacks the depth of the product.
• Reporting and Analytics need huge improvement.
• They promise an Amazon-like experience but they are nowhere close to it.
• Expensive for smaller countries but they have to bite the bullet to have one global solution.
• Expensive implantation given hurdles with integration / training / Reporting / Change management.

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• Ariba Connect Support - with the exception of the few, the general responses from a Support Request has the engineer repeat the issue at hand with the first response, request for additional examples on the second, then attempt to close the ticket with the third, citing that the system behaviour is OOTB or 'as designed'. No real investigation is undertaken until there has been multiple responses, or the SR has been escalated to an specialist engineer.
• Ariba should have better functionality for a supplier to route PO's to specific branches (different email addresses) within their organisation without the need for a full integration or through the use of email routing rules.
• Provide a more thorough process when a supplier upgrades from a Standard to Enterprise account. Currently suppliers are misled into upgrading to an enterprise account without any formal confirmation from Ariba to ensure that the supplier understands why, or even that they upgrading. This, coupled with the only option to pay outstanding invoices to downgrade, discredits Ariba and the Buyers reputation in the marketplace, and introduces significant P2P implications if re-enabling the supplier through a new account is undertaken as a work round.

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• Light version of the solutions for SMB size companies.
• Not so straight OOTB implementation and a lot of disparity seems with SAP leadership and the salespeople pitches.
• Need to make the cloud more exclusive to enable a faster shift of organization from OnPremise/AnyPremise solution to cloud.

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• Better compliancy
• The best business case for using Ariba is the savings you could archive after doing a Spend Analysis
• Bids more competitives

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• SAP Ariba has allowed that our Procurement Service Center performs much better with a reasonable headcount having 1 system able to support all our Policy requirements and it is easy to use.
• We are able to have 1 system covering 80% of our Global Indirect Spend - 1 system for global approvers for all countries, 1 way of working - consolidated.
• It provides ability to identify opportunities for value added initiatives that save time and money for the company.

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• Growth in Project Revenue due to adding more value to Client's Business.
• Due to the presence of several major modules in the ERP, Functional Resources are always provided Cross Skill Trainings to enhance their skillsets in different modules.
• Client's Satisfaction in turn make us happy in terms of work, thus involving recognition and appraisal within the organization.

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