SAP Ariba

De-Centrelised indirect procurement departments in different countries. One dedicated department in Austria, which is responsible for dedicated commodities. However, the company hasn’t had any kind of indirect procurement department before the digital transformation started approximately 7 years ago and orders for indirect products and services were commited by phone or email.

We use the whole Ariba Source2Pay process incl. Contract Mgt. and Guided Buying

We use Guided Buying. We challanging in the implementation of sourcing and contracting in combination with central procurement.

we use upstream for contract repository
we use RFC process
we use P to P process

We own Sourcing and Contracts, B&I, SA. We also use Guided Buying.
We use it for Indirect spend

We utilize Ariba SCC for communication between Crown and our Suppliers for Purchase Orders, Order Confirmation, Ship Notices, and Invoices. This gives our Supplier a repository to receive our Purchase Order data, provide acknowledgements on the orders, give us updated Shipment Information, and Invoice against those orders. Ariba SCC helps to collaborate and process all this information in on place effectively.

SAP Ariba Procurement was implemented to expand our procurement capabilities. Both upstream and down stream are used at my company. The product offers significant gains for procurement related activities such as sourcing, contract development and flexible spend channels.

Was a procurement business leads for our company-wide integration, currently over catalogs and optimization?

After evaluating various S2P products like ARIBA, Coupa, etc, ARIBA was finalized. We're already using many SAP products so it was worthwhile to invest in this product due to more accessible integration options and also the backing from SAP was important.

We are actually using SAP Ariba Procurement within our whole organization as our main central purchasing platform. With this, our users can purchase materials and services for all most all their needs.

SAP Ariba is deployed across our global organisation to receive purchase orders and for the majority of clients submit their invoices. There are also numerous punchout and cif catalogues that allow for seamless ordering either directly from the clients Buyer platform or by navigating around ours, building a basket of goods and executing an order automatically.

We leverage the tool to address overall category and spend management. This begins with the RFI / RFQ and RFP process. From there we may or may not enter an auction, but we will execute a contract that will be leveraged for the procurement of goods and services. Those items will be received either centrally or locally before they are invocied.

We leverage the tool for approvals and reports as well as looking at opportunities for early payment discounts.

The bank uses SAP Ariba Procurement for its end to end Request to Payment process. When users have a an indirect product or service need, they go to SAP Ariba Procurement. There based on their need, the system guides them to where they need to go, whether it is a smaller, low risk purchase or one that is medium to high risk purchase. The system is able to determine what the need is based on answers to questions and guides them to the best procurement method that is required for the purchase. The end to end process is routed through dynamic tasks and all sourcing, contract and procurement documents are stored in the system. The SAP Ariba Procurement solution allows for the bank to use the strength of the Ariba Network to do business with thousands of suppliers electronically and touchless. It allows for the bank to ensure there is contract compliance to all contracts and provides line level detailed spend visibility into what we are buying. With this data the bank has been able to rationalize and risk assess suppliers so that we are doing business with a core group of suppliers and that we understand the risk of doing this business.