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One of the best tool to manage vendor effectively and efficiently
October 25, 2023

One of the best tool to manage vendor effectively and efficiently

Piyush Mittal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SAP Ariba Procurement

We are using SAP Ariba Procurement for our IT and non IT procurement. It can be easily integrated with AD and other risk and compliance tools such as RSA Archer through API. We have customised it as per our need. This tool helping us in getting quotes from different vendors on a particular product or service and then we can accordingly select the vendor that fit our need. This product is helping us in managing our vendors effectively.
  • Vendor Evaluation and Onboarding.
  • Vendor Risk Management to meet internal policy compliance.
  • Easy integration with other GRC tools and reporting tools.
  • It is a very costly product.
  • Although it suport customusation but some out of box fields does not support it.
  • Reports and dashboard could be improved.
  • Integration capability with other tools
  • Powerful workflow management and automatic notification
  • RFX management capabilities
  • Better tracking over active and inactive vendors
  • Effective vendor risk management and compliance with third party risk management policy
  • Improve spend coverage
Choosing this product was the right thing we did because we are experiencing it has made our life easy. Vendor management is one of the difficult process and SAP Ariba Procurement helps in tracking vendor spending, negotiating better deals and agreement with suppliers. It has good reports, dashboards, automatic notifications and powerful workflow automation capabilities.
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
The single most important factor is integration with other tools. We had a requirement to integrate with mutiple systems such as RSA Archer GRC tools,AD, ITAM and SAP ECC system. It has powerful API available (such as REST API) and with the help of API we have easily achieve this. Also, other important factors are eaae of use and scalability.
  • CobbleStone Contract Insight®
SAP is a big name in the market and it is very good in terms of technical and functional support. SAP Ariba Procurement is a very powerful tool in terms of integration with third party tools, scalability, SAAS cloud solution, workflow automation and RFx management. Also, it has one of the large user community where we can put questions and get response in realtime.

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?

Yes

Would you buy SAP Ariba again?

Yes

It is well suited for companies who deals with large number of vendors because it helps in negotiating better deals and track the spending on different category of vendors. It helps in establishing vendor metrics to evaluate their performance as well. It is less appropriate for orvanisation who deals with fixed vendors or less number of vendors.