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SAP Ariba Procurement
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SAP Ariba Procurement
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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.
SAP Ariba Procurement Features
- Supported: HR Filing
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What is Ariba Network?
When organizations face disruption, they rely on procurement to adapt. Whether sales are soaring or demand is down, procurement is critical to your company’s response. Why? Because procurement sits at the center of both collaboration and cost – at the in...
Show More When it comes to procurement, software and needs can be massively varied. From large and complex needs like larger enterprises to smaller and simpler processes - tools like Procurify, Coupa, GEP Smart, or SAP Ariba can meet and exceed business needs.
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SAP Ariba Procurement Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| 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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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.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.4.
The most common users of SAP Ariba Procurement are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 06, 2022
Self-service procurement made easy!
We use SAP Ariba for our source to pay process (requisition, procurement, invoicing) including Ariba guided buying.
Advantages of Ariba procurement are standardized processes / approval workflows and catalogs.
Advantages of Ariba procurement are standardized processes / approval workflows and catalogs.
- Procurement workflow
- Self Service
- Approvals workflow
- User interface
- Mass creation of purchase orders
- Speed of user interface
November 28, 2022
Review from a biased user
This is the standard product to manage vendor invoices. Overall it is quite good and straightforward. From the end user perspective it is a bit late to the show as the UI/UX is a bit outdated. For example when you have to select/fill some of the fields the interface is not the friendliest to the user. I would propose to have a better/smarter "search as you type" inputs for approver fields and similar that have to be pre-filled
- Vendor invoice management
- Invoice payments
- Procurement
- UI
- UX
- Pre-fill of the fields based on historical data
November 22, 2022
SAP Ariba transformed procurement experience!!
SAP Ariba is used as a global platform for indirect procurement, integrating with vendors, providing a selection of catalog services for users in the organization, and managing vendor invoices. SAP Ariba is also used for supplier onboarding, including pre-onboarding checks. The platform provides standardized processes across the organization and end-to-end integration.
- Guided buying.
- PO approvals.
- Vendor integration (PO and Invoices).
- Better manage vendor invoices for smaller suppliers and non-Ariba suppliers. Allow them to submit invoices and share invoice data, avoiding the AP team handling invoices.
- Better workflow for supplier on-boarding, notifications.
- Seamless integration between Ariba and OpenText VIM.
November 22, 2022
Sap review
We currently use them for Supplier onboarding and procurement events, RFxs. <div><br>Long term, the goal is to use for entire sourcing lifecycles.</div><div><br></div>
- Detailed customizable events
- Wide amount of data collection
- UX can be difficult to manage
- Too many options presented
November 17, 2022
Ariba
we use upstream for contract repository
we use RFC process
we use P to P process
we use RFC process
we use P to P process
- guided buying
- CIG integration and the cockpit
- cannot think of more
- everything based on cvs files is cumbersome - tables better
- missing able to transport from test to production
- missing being able to see configuration only available for Ariba
November 17, 2022
It is my private opinion
What I see the customer would like to have more details and examples how it works exactly for their business. In generally there is a lot of description of this solution, but less about cases and implementation efforts.
- good interface
- intuitive user flow
- usability could be always improved
November 16, 2022
My SAP Ariba review
We use it for P2M and P2P process
- PO procurements
- P2M process
- Approval Flow
- Invoicing part
- Non-PO purchase
- Guided Sourcing
November 08, 2022
SAP Ariba Review from Config Admin
We use SAP Ariba Procurement for our supplier onboarding and registration globally. Sap Ariba provides the company one place to check for suppliers and supplier information. In the future we would like to use the Sourcing and Contract modules and the P2P products.
- Provides information in a clean and organized view for supplier profiles
- Excellent at providing tasks for approvals
- Organized view for approval flows for users
- Integration with other tools is not very good. The APIs provided are not scheduled within the Ariba process and must use a middleware to send information back and forth between tools
- Customer support for configuration questions. The response time can be weeks or months waiting time and the response back is often unhelpful.
- Flexibility with company entities. With a large company with so many entities it is hard to structure and customize your suppliers into many entities. You often have to duplicate.
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...
November 07, 2022
Easy Use and Workflow
I am using Ariba procurement in onboarding clients within our organization. It is a good way of having all the vital information needed and documentation to complete the workflow of approvals. The scope can be used around IT, marketing, supply chain, logistics and other uses for onboarding within Ariba. Great tool overall.
- Onboarding clients
- Workflow of approvals
- Documentation question
- Ability to request changes
- Ability to only have the third row option available for country/region
November 05, 2022
SAP S2C Functionality
We use SLP, Risk, Sourcing, and Contract Management. Our scope is noninventory, global, 20k users, and significant spending. We are evaluating P2P configuration as we have multiple ERP Systems that will continue. We use cross-functional, automated workflow, which works well. We could have better reporting and template management. In particular, we like the new Supplier Snapshot Reporting but need to add business information to display the data accurately. In addition, we would like more functionality in sourcing using a Sourcing intake Request.
- Automated workflow.
- Process visibility.
- Supplier Questionnaires.
- Reporting flexibility - we need to use excel & power to get the reports we need.
- Sourcing Intake Form Availability in Souring Module.
- Reminder emails and notifications that are consistent.
- No more degradation issues that are system wide.
November 04, 2022
Ariba SCC Implementation/Support Review
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.
- Data Transfer
- Real Time Updates
- Communication Effectivity
- Failure Rates of Documents
- Problem Solving
- Issue Resolution services
November 04, 2022
SAP Ariba Procurement review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SAP Ariba to raise purchase requests and process purchasing order formation. The major problem faced is the approval flow, it has to be changed and cannot be standardised as per the user. The other problem is that if the system does not have specific information updated then the user cannot move forward. It has to report to the IT team to update. There should be a system in which users can update new information by themselves as per the requirement. Also for editing any purchase request we have to first select the item and then make 2 clicks to edit it. There should be an edit option with every item for convenience and time saving.
- Creation of purchase orders
- in built tax options
- in built cost center options
- More colourful
- easy edit option
- Multiple file upload option
November 03, 2022
overall useful
we are implementing it for supply management and RFP
- holds all supplier information
- holds documentation
- easier way to see stored documents
November 03, 2022
Great for procurement, a headache for accounting.
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.
- Offers a variety of methods to purchase.
- The system has flexible configurations.
- Approval flow creation is extensive yet user friendly.
- There is too much reliance on invoice approvers who regularly get things wrong without providing AP the tools they need to correct problems.
- I've been told my SAP that Ariba is not an accounting system, but the fact is invoicing is an accounting activity. More capability is needed around managing the accounting of an inovice.
- There seems to be an expectation that every IR Exception has a tolerance. It is extremely difficult to configure an exception without a tolerance.
- There's no ability to change the value of an invoice.
November 01, 2022
Please Invest in your Support Department
We implement SAP Ariba Procurement as a Partner to customers to solve a myriad of business problems and address procurement needs.
- Providing and enforcing procurement processes for end users to follow
- Managing Contract and Catalog based Indirect Spend
- (Guided Buying) A good User experience for end users purchasing items and following along in the process
- Very complex settings at an administrative level
- Incomplete integration with SAP product
- The sprawling scope of "Ariba Procurement" is is difficult to manage and support
October 31, 2022
Ariba leaves much to be desired
We use the buying & invoicing and Guided Buying modules of Ariba. We are a diverse company with multiple sites and business units across the company. Due to being a DOD contractor, we have a secure internet browser and have had constant GUI/usability issues. The system has been challenging for user adoption. We are only using Ariba for indirect procurement currently.
- Allows for some customization
- Ability to interface with S/4Hana
- Cloud based
- Overall system usability is poor; each button must be clicked multiple times for it to register
- Out of the box functionality is limited
- Customizations are expensive and cumbersome
October 31, 2022
The Truth about SAP Ariba Procurement.
We use the complete suite of SAP Ariba, Sourcing, Contracting, Procurement, and Invoicing. It allows us to make all sourcing functions, all contracting functions, purchase requisitions, and payments.
- Purchase Requisitions.
- Invoice Processing.
- Guided Buying.
- Reporting is terrible.
- The product is very disjointed and it is not easy for the upstream to talk to the down.
- Supplier Diversity recommendations are lacking.
- Contract Data is hard to obtain.
October 31, 2022
A great platform!
We use Ariba for our Indirect purchases. Ariba has allowed our company to build a streamlined P2P approval process. We have built a robust yet manageable financial and functional workflow that gives our users an easy user experience when approving documents. Ariba has also made it easy to build approvals around Material Groups within the approval flows.
- Workflow Management.
- Catalog Management.
- Material Group approval mapping.
- Service POs would be ideal so that we can address Fieldglass Work Orders.
- Multiple Company codes allowed on a single PO would allow our company to function better.
- Allowing updates to a Fieldglass PO directly in the UI versus forcing a user to go back to Fieldglass.
October 31, 2022
Jaret's Review.
Was a procurement business leads for our company-wide integration, currently over catalogs and optimization?
- Integrating supplier catalogs with internal procurement policies.
- Simple, user friendly requisitioning and approval tool.
- Receiving portion is simple and easy.
- Report building can be confusing. Fields are named differently than the front in the interface, etc.
- Difficult to use as a central procurement tool across different business units/company codes. Had to build a custom solution for assigning buyers to requisitions.
- Req>PO> Receipts are integrated, but invoicing has a separate group of documents. So PO status only progresses to "Received," and you have to go to separate screens/reports for payment status.
October 31, 2022
Helps build a better Procurement.
With SAP Ariba Procurement- Guided Buying, you have a better user experience in raising requests, managing requests and driving effective authorization. Spending management helps in making better decisions for my company and for customers. Business Network provides an effective collaboration platform for trading partners to communicate and help achieve business outputs. The business case for our organization was to better manage tail spend and spend analytics. Post implementation, we were able to save 10% of the procurement spend and realize benefits.
- User Experience, for self managing Purchase Requisition.
- Simplifying Buying channels and punchout catalogs.
- Ease of user collaboration and faster processing time.
- Onscreen Analytics, instead of logging into other applications.
- More self-driven configurations for end users to take lead on, example business rules settings.
- More APIs/integration options for integrating with third party systems.
October 28, 2022
Report quickly Ariba !!
Manage indirect spend and ensure compliance to policies.
- Approval workflow
- Compliance to procurement policies
- Supplier registration
- Support for Brazil region
- Delay between the operational data and spend data of >6 hours
- Flexibility in customizing the messages and fields
October 27, 2022
Consistent & Simple User Experience is the goal!
I am the System Admin for Ariba Guided Buying and Buying & Invoicing. The particular use case is our end users who buy technology items and Office equipment to do their jobs.
- Req Approval and Workflow to PO creation & touchless Invoicing.
- Category (UNSPSC) Management.
- Basic Reporting.
- Need for kitting in Guided Buying, so vendors can group multiple products together within CIF catalog options.
- For Level 1 catalogs, allow for multiple UNSPSC or Keywords to resolve to catalog upon search.
- Make it easier for Suppliers to create/integrate/maintain Level 2 catalogs, so Buyers can best expose their items in Guided Buying search. A lot of our preferred vendors, including Re-sellers & small local businesses, do not have the means, capabilities, or desire to maintain Level 2 catalogs... limiting/deleting opportunities for them. The introduction of the new Amazon Business "Spot Buy" feature brings the risk of those (smaller than Amazon) suppliers slowly losing business.
- With the Team Buying feature, allow for internal teams who do a lot of Buying On Behalf Of to have flexibility in who does the Receiving on the item... as it is still limited to the one original Requester/Preparer.
September 19, 2022
Cloud based, Backed by SAP, one stop shop for P2P requirements
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.
- End to end S2P solution
- easy integration with SAP ECC/S4
- Backed by SAP's continuous cloud innovation
- UI needs to be modernized
- The learning curve for users is still huge
- vendor pipeline feature is expensive
September 16, 2022
Ryan's SAP Ariba Review
We use SAP Ariba Procurement for processing Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, Advanced Ship Notices, Order Confirmations, and Invoices. This product allows us to automate and standardize the order-to-cash process. We are using the cXML features rather than EDI. This is a much more manageable and flexible process. Item catalogs are also used heavily to keep product offerings and pricing in line.
- Generating standardized Purchase Orders.
- Ease of maintaining item catalogs to keep pricing in sync.
- Orders to Confirmations to ASN to Invoice process flow is great.
- cXML errors can be difficult to interpret.
- Ariba Support is terribly slow.