Item: SAP Ariba
Rating: 9
Author: Joao Santos

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Ariba as our main STP platform, processing hundreds of transactions every month. Ariba's integrated functionality allows us to simplify, expedite and monitor our procurement processes.

Pros and Cons

Source of potential supplies
consolidate and integrate buying processes
Invoices management and processing

Reporting
Catalogs Management / Governance
Supplier's support
Implement AI functionalities

Most Important Features

Ariba Buying
Ariba Network
Ariba Contracts

Usability

Great tool, easy to manage, learn and the ROI is great. There is always room for improvements specially on the reporting side

Key Differentiators

Scalability
Integration with Other Systems
Ease of Use

Scalability

Alternatives Considered

BISP Solutions Oracle EPM Consulting

Better adoption and easy implementation

Key Insights

Do you think SAP Ariba delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SAP Ariba's feature set?

Yes

Did SAP Ariba live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SAP Ariba go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy SAP Ariba again?

Yes

Ariba facilitates our STP processes. It's a simple one-stop shop to process procurement transactions and integrate our vendors into our systems. The caveat remains on reporting. We don't have cleat visibility on the number of transactions processed every month, it's cumbersome to get a clear cut from the Ariba network side, we don't have the $ of transactions processed daily/monthly/yearly. Would be great to track catalog purchases / non-catalog purchases, TOP 10 suppliers, etc.

Would be great to improve the Contracts module to allow better management of active and future contract. That way companies wouldn't need to go for SAP partners to fulfill gaps

Great tool but could be better on reporting

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Ariba Procurement