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What is SAP Ariba?
With advanced tools to automate manual processes and support close collaboration with suppliers, SAP Ariba helps streamline source-to-pay processes across organizations.
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What is SAP Ariba?
With advanced tools to automate manual processes and support close collaboration with suppliers, SAP Ariba helps streamline source-to-pay processes across organizations.
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What is SAP Ariba?
SAP Ariba automates management of the purchasing lifecycle for indirect goods and services, to streamline workflows, expedite approvals, and eradicate errors and exceptions. By increasing procurement efficiency, it helps users to manage more spend with less effort, and meet demands with agility and speed. For smaller companies relying on manual methods and simple automation, or a large global enterprises using multiple applications and ERP systems, SAP Ariba solutions deliver end-to-end spend visibility, control, and compliance, to help organizations become more flexible, responsive, and fiscally effective.
SAP Ariba Features
- Supported: Aggregates and classifies all company purchases
- Supported: Creates visibility to identify sources of savings
- Supported: Standardizes source-to-contract processes
- Supported: Tackles direct, indirect, and services spend
- Supported: Adapts automatically to market requirements
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SAP Ariba Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | SAP Ariba operates in more than 190 countries |
| Supported Languages | English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Romanian, Finnish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Thai. |
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With advanced tools to automate manual processes and support close collaboration with suppliers, SAP Ariba helps streamline source-to-pay processes across organizations.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 7.5.
The most common users of SAP Ariba are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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November 07, 2022
Positive SAP Ariba review with pointing some challenging aspects
We own Sourcing and Contracts, B&I, SA. We also use Guided Buying.
We use it for Indirect spend
We use it for Indirect spend
- Keeps full P2P cycle documents within one application and easy to access
- Has a complex variety of tools and options to build P2P process flows to fulfill organization's needs
- It is flexible to be able to customize processes
- Simple Service POs/POs to purchase services are not as easy to use and understand for inexperienced user
- Overwhelming number of different scenarios of supplier connection via business network and lack of one good solid guide that would allow IT to use to solve issues. In many cases, we have to rely on trial and error methods.
- Return to the previous page in B&I is not consistent for different types of documents. it can be OK, Done, Save, Close, Back...
- Guided Buying
- Separation of duties
- Electronic document transition with suppliers
- Reduced the amount of time to enter invoices
- Shortened the time for approval of requisitions
- Allowed for simpler search of the catalog items within one application
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Ability to send POs electronically and receive invoices electronically to reduce the amount of emails sent and time spent to receive and enter invoices.
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1000
Buyers, Category Managers, AP
10
IT for integration and master data. Ariba Program manager to stay on top of all the applications, GBS team to support suppliers and transactions. Support team to help out users to solve the issues.
- Electronic document transactions
- policies and compliance settings
- Contract repository
- having multiple ERPs connected and use the same suppliers
- Implement guided sourcing
July 21, 2022
SAP Ariba Procurement Review
The team needed a proc solution, with higher Ed. SAP Ariba Procurement is a more flat hierarchy which was required more data segregation.
- P2P
- Data sync
- Integration with S4 from security perspective
- Simplified processing
- Faster
- Transparent
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Since we had an SAP solution, the client wanted to use SAP Ariba Procurement as well.
4000
3
- P2P
- Integration with GRC
- P2P
No
P2P
May 09, 2022
Efficient and reliable
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SAP Ariba Procurement is the end-to-end management system used to run procurement activities worldwide. It addresses various issues such as a sourcing, strategic reporting, governance and competitive bidding, contractual management, and, most important, friendly and fast responses to business needs.
- Supplier sourcing
- Automation of procurement process
- Competitive bidding through e-auctions and e-RfX
- Collaborative procurement process
- Better look and feel
- More friendly integration with other business systems in place
- Customization
- e-auctions
- Suppliers' registration process
- Approval flow
- Data analytics
- Double-digit savings
- Better compliance
- Collaborative procurement process
20
Procurement
Finance
Management
Finance
Management
10
Computer literacy
Procurement expertise
Analytical thinking
Procurement expertise
Analytical thinking
- RfQ
- Approvals
- Reporting
- Suppliers registration
- Forward auction
- RPA for moving invoice to payment process
- Reporting
- Guided buying
No
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
I might asked for more details on the integration with the ERP
- Third-party professional services
Fujitsu
Yes
Blue-print
Design
Implementation
Post-support
Design
Implementation
Post-support
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Build on successes and ensure quick wins
- Lack of support
- Model complexity
- Language barrier
- Old legacy systems
Yes... to be able to get faster support
No
N/A
- Approvals
- E-Auctions
- Reporting
Yes
Excellent interface
July 07, 2014
Ariba Review
Ariba Contract Management is being used as a contract database for all contracts signed. The entire company is able to search for and find any contract entered into.
- Searching for agreements
- Customized templates for every situation
- Reporting capabilities
- Reporting for all users and not just a select few
- Response to system problems
- Technical Customer Service
- Consistency
- Ability to find and review any agreement
- Ability to track Legal Approvals