Analyzing Sourcing in Portfolio Strategic Sourcing Solution

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to analyze how Sourcing challenges faced by different procurement professionals can be addressed by SAP Ariba solutions.

Sourcing Challenges

Sourcing Challenges:

Needs suppliers that are easy to work with
Needs to enforce sourcing agreements. Needs to reduce the cost of goods sold and accelerate innovation

Category Management Challenge:

Needs to track and execute RFXs and auctions in a single integrated platform

SAP Ariba Sourcing: Collaborate Better and Source Smarter

The SAP Ariba Sourcing solution helps organizations realize sustainable savings across spend categories through strategy development and execution, supplier discovery, and savings tracking.

Infographic illustrates search, report, track savings process, highlighting sustainable savings, supplier collaboration, discovery, program management, and decision support.

SAP Ariba Sourcing: Key highlights

RFx management capabilities that cover multiple events and project types to address a diverse range of sourcing requirements
Execution and savings management through built-in cost modeling, scoring, decision support and optimization, workflow management, and savings-tracking technology
Integration with SAP Ariba Discovery for supplier matching and access to new and qualified sources of supply that in turn drive additional savings and competitiveness
Access to preferred and qualified supplier information that ensures sourcing compliance based on regional, category, and business-unit-specific goals
Integration with SAP Ariba solutions as well as external ERP systems, enabling seamless process flows, data consistency, and operational compliance across systems

Integrated Supplier Discovery on the Ariba Network

Infographic displays supplier search, engagement, and onboarding process using intelligent matching tools, enriched profiles, and direct access to sourcing.

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