- Casual Buyers Challenges:
- Complex end-user experience in discovering right buying channel for goods/services
- Increasing self-service procurement practice and compliance
- Procurement Operations Challenge:
- Needs to ensure we have one place to buy goods/services that supports compliance
- Executive Leadership Challenges:
- Increase profitability by managing indirect spend better
- Reduce operational costs and increase efficiencies by 1%–2% of annual savings
Exploring Buying in Portfolio Procurement Solution
Objective
After completing this lesson, you will be able to analyze how Buying challenges faced by different procurement professionals can be addressed by SAP Ariba solutions.
Buying Challenges
SAP Ariba Buying: User-friendly Purchasing of Goods and Services
SAP Ariba Buying makes shopping for the things you need for work as easy as shopping for the things you need outside of work with an intuitive interface and standard eCommerce look and feel.
Guided Buying
SAP Ariba Buying's guided buying capability allows non-procurement professionals a single place to search for goods and services, making purchases with little to no involvement from the procurement department.
Guided buying captures organization's purchasing policies and uses them to guide casual users and functional buyers to the appropriate buying channels. Users know right away when a policy is violated, rather than finding out after submitting a request.
Casual users and functional buyers are presented with the following SAP Ariba guided buying screen.
