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What is SAP Ariba Procurement?
SAP Ariba's Procurement capabilities are to provide innovations in guided buying and spot buy, plus supplier and catalog enablement, and integration with Ariba Network – which the vendor states is more than 4.6 million connected companies strong and growing.
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What is SAP Ariba Procurement?
SAP Ariba creates connections between a business and its suppliers and targeted solution providers, in order to redefine how users communicate, collaborate, and get work done.
SAP Ariba spend management solutions are designed to help users tie together processes and incorporate comprehensive transaction data to deliver efficiency, accuracy, and control from source to pay.
The vendor states that with SAP Ariba as a partner to create and integrate supplier management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and financial supply chain management processes, users can:
- Ensure negotiated savings reach the bottom line
- Guide employees to buy from the right suppliers at the right prices
- Manage cost accounting and payments
SAP Ariba aims to contribute to a unified view of spending by connecting data from across the source-to-pay process for direct and indirect materials.
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| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | Ariba Network 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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What is SAP Ariba Procurement?
SAP Ariba's Procurement capabilities are to provide innovations in guided buying and spot buy, plus supplier and catalog enablement, and integration with Ariba Network – which the vendor states is more than 4.6 million connected companies strong and growing.
What are SAP Ariba Procurement's top competitors?
Coupa, JAGGAER (formerly SciQuest), and Zycus Procure to Pay Suite are common alternatives for SAP Ariba Procurement.
What is SAP Ariba Procurement's best feature?
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.7.
Who uses SAP Ariba Procurement?
The most common users of SAP Ariba Procurement are from Enterprises and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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January 04, 2022
Ariba steam lines spending and vendors
Ariba is being used to provide better insight and spending habits within the company. We are a large company that can have a lot of leverage if we negotiate from multiple departments rather than all individually trying our luck with vendors. Ariba puts all of these contracts and vendors in one place to ensure the best and most up to date pricing.
- Consolidates spending to trusted partners
- Ensures best prices
- Eliminates duplicitous efforts by multiple departments
- Tough to navigate at first
- Not always intuitive
- Not the most adaptable to all business needs
SAP Ariba was implemented as part of a regional-to-global procurement policy and management strategy. The organization bought the entire suite of modules initially focused on source-to-contract and in the process of focusing on the procure-to-pay as the organization also is involved in a multi-billion dollar merger and decisions on final ERP systems and other integrated technology services.
- SAP Ariba does a great job marketing and selling their solutions.
- SAP Ariba produces [a lot of] presentations and documentation about their products.
- SAP Ariba Support does a great job of passing you around to others when you need help.
- SAP Ariba Support is very efficient and closes tickets quickly.
- SAP Ariba needs to focus on solving problems as opposed to closing support tickets.
- SAP Ariba Support needs to provide a more customer-focused approach to understanding what the underlying issue as compared to what is reported.
- SAP Ariba documentation needs to provide real-world details on how solutions can be accomplished as opposed to only providing step-by-step procedures describing the experience in the software.
- SAP Ariba should provide some oversight to implementation partners, especially when a ton of money is spent to produce a so-called "working" system when it is only stood up and needs an immense amount of configuration changes to support the requirements.
December 29, 2021
SAP Ariba is a good way to catalog items for procurement
We went from using PeopleSoft to using SAP Ariba for our purchasing of items we used on the manufacturing floor. SAP Ariba made it easy to find the items that were needed in the catalog and have pictures to verify it was what I was looking for. For items that were bought frequently, there is an option to save items into a folder to find them easily without having to relook up the item as well which made the process much more efficient than previously with PeopleSoft.
- Saves items into a folder.
- Pictures to verify item.
- Ease of filtering what is being looked for.
- User friendly site.
- Being able to purchase everything in the cart at once instead of individually. May have been a company setting.
- Not kicking back to SAP after each purchase and having to go back into Ariba.
August 15, 2021
The best modern solution in procurement
It's used in the procurement department; we can create POs, invoices, followups, and different tasks related to procurement. It is the best modern solution in procurement. The landing pages are very user friendly so that we can operate it easily. It is the main platform where our procurement department does all its operational tasks.
- LPO creation--creating LPOs is very easy and all the data appear on one page
- Tracking all the details for requests and new inquiries
- Booking the invoice and delivery schedule is easy and can be updated
- It can be bit difficult for a beginner.
- It should have more hovering helping tools that describe an icon when we put the cursor on it.
- There should be more options to create or generate any PO. On the home page there should be an option to see reports automatically without customization or entering any data.
November 30, 2021
SAP Ariba Procurement as a vendor view
We are a vendor and use the SAP Ariba Procurement system to get paid for event reservation invoices
- accessing payables
- tracking invoice status
- slow load time
September 30, 2021
Ariba great for streamlining B2B transactions. Administration sometimes hard to manage.
Bradken is using Ariba procurement at the request of our customers. This could include RFQs, Tenders, P/O submission, Shipping notices, invoicing. It is mainly used in Australia across our Sales and Order Fulfillments teams. However more customers outside of Australia are now onboarding to Ariba.
- Order management
- Payment advice
- Account hierarchy overview of customers and users
- Account management and training - our Account manager has been fantastic
- Global structure. Ability to have 1 user account that can go across multiple ANIDs
September 01, 2021
SAP Ariba Procurement--your source for sourcing
At Kuwait Steel, SAP Ariba Procurement is used for all sourcing activities across the company. Currently the upstream SAP Ariba Procurement modules (e.g., supplier management, sourcing, contracting and commerce automation) are used to automate and digitize our source-to-settle process.
Ariba is seamlessly integrating to our SAP ECC environment, where purchasing (purchase order placement) is done as well as where goods are received and vendors are paid. All fully integrated and automated.
Ariba is seamlessly integrating to our SAP ECC environment, where purchasing (purchase order placement) is done as well as where goods are received and vendors are paid. All fully integrated and automated.
- Process automation
- Create transparency in the sourcing process
- Collaboration within the company and with suppliers
- Dealing with discounts
- Savings should be calculated on net price, not extended price
- Contracts are created in ECC, since direct contracts with material code cannot be created in SAP Ariba Procurement
October 11, 2021
A benchmark system that connects us to our most valuable clients and enables us to offer them a premium experience.
SAP Ariba Procurement functions as a platform to manage inbound purchase orders and invoice against those orders. We are also increasingly asked to respond to tenders via SAP Ariba. Our clients typically decide when they are ready to start transacting via Ariba, and we take that opportunity to deliver additional value by offering extensive catalogue options including CIF and PunchOut. This provides additional functionality like integrated vendor configuration tools, real time pricing and reporting - all available via the customer's Ariba environment.
- SAP Ariba provides extensive Order Routing options that allow us to manage inbound data flow and troubleshoot any issues without having to bother our customers
- SAP Ariba enables us to easily add additional lines of business to an existing relationship
- SAP Ariba is an end-to-end collaboration solution from a supplier point of view, providing quote or catalogue data to the client, purchase orders back to us, and order confirmation and invoicing back to the client
- As suppliers, we have a single point of contact at Ariba who assists us to drive value with the client. This partnership is unique in Australia, no other platform offers this.
- Anyone can register a Supplier account. This has caused significant frustrations and confusion over the years, especially when integrating with clients or responding to tenders that are submitted to rogue accounts.
- SAP Ariba allows our clients to build extrinsic fields in the cXML that require additional mapping. A much closer adherence to the cXML standard would provide much simpler and robust integrations.
- Technical support from Ariba is split between the Supplier and Buyer side, resulting in painful situations when trying to resolve issues together with clients. We would really like to see a single point of contact that all stakeholders can work with (i.e. an Ariba technical contact, the client and the supplier working together to resolve a problem)
We use it across the whole organization to automate the purchasing process and the relationship with our suppliers and our logistics operator. SAP Ariba Procurement has enabled us to significantly reduce the time spent on creating and tracking purchase orders and errors in invoicing. We have also been able to have online information on the status of our orders and the exact dates of arrival at our facilities, which has allowed us to better plan our production lines.
- Easy and fast integration with ERP
- Provides the supplier with clear information on changes to purchase orders
- Allows bulk confirmation of delivery dates
- The purchase order history is visible to us and to the supplier, which eliminates order discrepancies
- We have the delivery date and tracking number updated at all times
- Invoices are automatically uploaded and approved in our ERP
August 13, 2021
Efficient and reliable
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
November 08, 2021
SAP Ariba Procurement - Review
Ariba is our corporate application to manage PRs and POs across the whole organization. We also use SLP, contracts and sourcing for a few departaments or specific purchases.It provides us with a complete vision of the purchase cycle of each need of the organization. From the request to the posting of the invoice. Control and analysis of suppliers
- purchase document traceability
- analysis and management of historical data
- Quick interaction with the provider
- suppliers support
- information for suppliers onboarding
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.
- User Experience
- Approval processes
- Integration with SAP ERP landscape (R/3, S/4)
- SAP Data Modell and Master Data integration
- Service Management (reported time, invoicing)
October 08, 2021
SAP Ariba Procurement Review at a Glance
We are using SAP Ariba [Procurement] in capturing all the requirements and enabling easy transfer of data. It has helped us a lot in providing scalability and transparency in supplier risk and management. We are using it in our department to cater [to] daily P2P needs in our organization.
- Record tracking is very easy
- Seamless transactions of approvables with live updates working like online shopping
- Highly scalable and user friendly
- Integration is a bit tricky
- User interface needs to be improved
July 22, 2021
SAP Ariba... Better should be the best!
My Client is using Ariba for Non Productive Procurement. This is a mixed model where Purchase Requests are created in ECC and then transferred to Ariba Procurement for further processing. I do not see any important business advantage as the organization is not benefitting from Ariba Procurement functionalities like Quote to Order/Spot Buy or Guided Buying. Buyers are typically choosing their long-lasting suppliers. The actual purpose of implementing Ariba Procurement is not getting leveraged.
- Ariba Catalogues are excellent. The Supplier maintains the catalogues and buyer can directly use it. That really speeds up the procurement process.
- Collaborative approach on Ariba Network gives integrated & seamless supply chain approach.
- Procurement & its integration with financial supply chain houses makes it easy for the supplier to maintain the cash flow.
- Minimal errors on incoming invoices because of tight integration with Supplier.
- Supplier onboarding is very easy & fast as all the required training is already available based on supplier account type.
- First, I do not digest the concept of two cloud systems. SAP, on one hand, is selling S/4HANA as a cloud product and asking to buy Ariba products to integrate with suppliers in Cloud. Ideally, ERP in Cloud should have native integration with E-Commerce networks. It should work as I am emailing from Gmail to Hotmail or sharing from WhatsApp to Facebook.
- Ariba Procurement & its integration with ERP are still not so easy. SAP ECC looks very strong and robust in front of SAP Ariba Procurement. The integration is very limited and does not allow [us] to use all the functionalities from ECC. (Some examples: Serial Number Management, Manufacturer's Part Number, Integration with Quality Management is also very limited.
- The degradation of Ariba Productive system affects heavily on day-to-day business.
- The integration of Ariba Procurement to ERP is not redundant. I am still not comfortable that the Purchase Order created in Ariba is created again in ECC system as a reference document. This does not seem to be a seamless integration. The PO created in Ariba should make GR in ECC directly. This is my expectation when we say seamless integrations
March 11, 2021
Great experience using SAP Ariba as a Supplier
We use SAP Ariba to connect with our customers, loading PunchOut or CIF Catalogs, receiving Purchase Orders and sending Order Confirmation, Shipping Notices and Invoices.
- Supplier Onboarding
- Catalog Management
- PO/INV transmission flexibility
- Speed of the Supplier Portal
- PDF OCR in standard for Invoices of all customers
February 08, 2021
SAP Ariba from a supplier's perspective
We're a supplier on the SAP Ariba network. We work with a large number of clients to provide them with custom product catalogues and the exchange of documents such as purchase orders, order confirmations and invoices. The primary departments that make use of it are E-Commerce, IT and Finance. It provides a uniform and unified platform for us to integrate with multiple clients in a much more streamlined way than if we were to work with each individually.
- 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.
- Speed of movement. It's a large organisation and sometimes change can be slow.
- Knowledge in front line support is often very sporadic and luck of the draw.
February 04, 2021
SAP Ariba Review
SAP Ariba is Ventia's primary procurement platform for all standard procurement requirements: from Source to Contract, through to Procure to Pay. It delivers a simple to use user interface which promotes good procurement processes to ensure suppliers are paid on time.
- Ensures PO's are transmitted to suppliers, so they are aware of what they are being engaged for, how much value they have been provided and providing them a direct link back to the person responsible for the PO and for ensuring their invoice is paid.
- Provides an easy to use interface for end-users who may have limited knowledge of what's required in a good quality PO. Most administrative fields are pre-populated, leaving only a few fields to populate in order to create a PO. This coupled with the ability to search for items through online catalogues helps remove the reluctance to create PO's upfront.
- Allows suppliers to submit their invoices directly in the companies payment system with minimal effort, requiring only the end user to acknowledge the receipt of goods/services delivered before an invoice is ready for payment. This eliminates the need to chase outstanding invoices after they've already fallen overdue. Providing suppliers with a real time status of their current PO's and Invoices is also a real advantage for suppliers, allowing them to proactively address any issues before and invoice becomes overdue.
- 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.
April 30, 2021
Simple and User Friendly!
SAP Ariba Procurement is being used by our organization's billing department to upload our customer invoices so that they can pay them. It is a great tool that allows us to upload our invoices and have the customer be able to immediately view and pay them. It gives us direct contact with the customer so that invoices on SAP Ariba Procurement can be viewed by both parties and it allows us to track what invoices are missing and need to be uploaded.
- Track invoices
- Submitting invoices to the customer is easy and simple
- Managing customers and invoices is a simple process
- Adding a customer to our list is a bit tricky
- The trading partner relationship request emails often get lost
- Having the add button for a customer instead of a trading partner relationship email would be much better
January 19, 2021
A suppliers view of the platform
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.
- Repository for all transactional documents
- Simplistic user interface making it easy to navigate
- Flexible configuration for multiple clients
- Good security controls
- Built to manage global transactions
- Limited routing options for different departments or systems
- Reporting is sub par for a supplier
- Multiple account manager for a user needs reviewing
- Little coordination between the supplier and buyer when launching global enablements
- Experienced suppliers sometimes know the process better than the enablement team
- Little ability to test punchout processes without the client
December 13, 2020
SAP ARIBA - friendly user
We joined Ariba’s Procure to Pay solution for the Direct PO and Indirect
Requisitioning process. Employees in the US and UK, PL, France are already using
Ariba, they are benefiting from improved service delivery, process
standardization and simplification, as well as increased compliance.
- Streamlined Invoice approval process.
- Automatic document exchange for Ariba Network Enabled suppliers.
- Streamlined and simplified Purchase Requisition and Invoice approval process
- New system for creating Indirect Purchase Requisitions – SAP will no longer be used for that process - simplification
- New system for Indirect Goods Receipt – SAP will no longer be used for that process - simplification
- Generally this is not an issue with ARIBA, however this is difficult for smaller business to join ARIBA (costs) and the process is not that effective as can be. IN fact there are two way of working with and without the ARIBA
- If there is a wrong information the invoice will not migrated to the payment system.
- Sometimes there are issues with the invoices when they get submitted by the customers, which cause delay in getting them paid.
- At first but only at first it can be hard to navigate the system and get everything set up.
January 18, 2021
Great solution for invoicing and payments.
For all our orders and invoicing we use SAP Ariba for all goods that we do purchase. It gives us a clear overview or insight of all our orders and invoices in the past so all our past orders are being tracked. It has assisted us to digitize things with all our suppliers. Managing budgets, supplies, processes, approvals, and payments is now an easy task with SAP Ariba.
- Easy to track invoice progress.
- Great tool for managing expenses with suppliers.
- It provides easy access form anywhere at anytime.
- User friendly and intuitive UI.
- The continuous change in fee structure is what we dislike as we have to inform sellers of the changes.
January 04, 2021
Good end-to-end feature pack but aging product.
SAP Ariba Procurement is used at a global corporate level to manage the purchasing process, from requisitioning all the way to invoicing. It's set up across two ERP systems in a suite integrated solution with a generic and an SAP variant. The business problems it helps us address are purchasing request approvals, three-way-match compliance, no-PO no-pay policy enforcement, and e-commerce invoice automation.
- Document approvals engine: It's possible to set up approval flows for all document kinds as requisitions or invoices. The approval process designer is robust and mature solution--you can design approval flows without an IT team. Approving is also possible from email, mobile app, or using API.
- Guided Buying: The procurement team can give guidance to requestors on how to buy what. Helps to go away from tribal knowledge. You can suggest preferred suppliers or catalogs for the requestors to use.
- Easy integration with Ariba Network is a strong point for SAP Ariba Procurement. You can easily exchange the documents from your SAP Ariba Procurement with your suppliers.
- Release stability/Insufficient testing: We have observed a few times that after SAP Ariba Procurement has a quarterly functional or monthly service pack release, the changes will cause functionality to break down or stop working.
- Aging UI: the traditional SAP Ariba Procurement user interface is aging and not very friendly for casual users. To create purchase requisitions, it requires many fields and lots of clicks. The new guided buying is trying to address and simplify that but it doesn't yet have all the functionalities of the traditional UI.
December 29, 2020
SAP Ariba experience at Monte de Piedad
We've used SAP Ariba for 3 years for sourcing strategies.
At this moment we are deploying SAP SLP for our department of vendor management, and for another business entity we have SAP CML for core banking.
At this moment we are deploying SAP SLP for our department of vendor management, and for another business entity we have SAP CML for core banking.
- The user experience is very friendly even for those who are not involved with technology.
- Our bidding processes are very clear for the vendors, because it permits send their quotations in real time.
- The configuration of our events is very easy to handle, it's important for us because sometimes we must to publish in a very short period of time.
- Support for our vendors in order to help them to incidences that they present during the events, especially in auctions.
- As we are located in Mexico City, sometimes it's difficult for us contact the support area because the telephone numbers are foreign, besides, the communication it's sometimes in English, not all the team can talk in this language.
- According to the registration process that the partner established in the manual, it isn't easy for the suppliers following the instructions, we have [had] several problems with this. We believe that [it] is not clear to fill out the requirements that we ask so this complicates the events.
December 17, 2020
Powerful vendor management tool/application
SAP Ariba Procurement is fairly easy to use and navigate and provides a one-stop SAP for our procurement needs.
What I like most is that you can follow a job, from purchase order to invoice, in one place. You get notified when a purchase order has been entered or changed, and you can go in and submit your invoice against the PO once the job is done. You can also track the invoice's progress through the system on its way to payment. What I like least about this software is that if you make a mistake, it can take some time to get it corrected in the system, sometimes taking away precious time in getting paid for a job.
What I like most is that you can follow a job, from purchase order to invoice, in one place. You get notified when a purchase order has been entered or changed, and you can go in and submit your invoice against the PO once the job is done. You can also track the invoice's progress through the system on its way to payment. What I like least about this software is that if you make a mistake, it can take some time to get it corrected in the system, sometimes taking away precious time in getting paid for a job.
- Flexible piece of software for managing spending with vendors
- It has a lot of features that can be customized
- Email notifications where they send you alerts for leads/ RFPs
- Generic when it comes to specifications
- Does not offer that much opportunity for individual processes
- Support is really hard to get when we can't navigate to something
December 16, 2020
SAP Ariba Procurement can even be used by an IT man
SAP Ariba Procurement is being used together with our ERP system, Infor LN, across most of the organization and provides a great overview for spending, invoices, and trading with customers and suppliers. It's giving some flexibility that is especially important in these times, being an online tool and being able to access it from everywhere with ease.
- In general, user-friendly and easy to access.
- Have to mention SaaS when mentioning "easy to access."
- Giving a great overview for the business.
- Easy to upscale for new and existing offices.
- There is a bit of a learning curve before you get the easy to use feeling.
- Missing out on few add-ins etc.
- Can be hard to find information about the application (KB).