Maximizing the Value of SAP Ariba with RISE with SAP or GROW with SAP

Combining SAP Ariba with RISE with SAP can significantly enhance your cloud transformation strategy. Here's how these components can work together.

With SAP S/4HANA as the digital foundation, customers can manage vast amounts of data in real-time and gain access to crucial operational details.

Digitally transforming procurement processes requires rapid advancements in areas such as user experience, supplier collaboration, and the adoption of intelligent technologies. This agility is enabled by using SAP S/4HANA together with SAP Ariba and Business Network.

SAP Ariba solutions extend core operational processes, providing full source-to-settle functionality. This includes guided buying; collaborative sourcing and contracting; supplier lifecycle and risk management; discount management; and network-based, end-to-end supplier collaboration to deliver a guided, simplified user experience and enhanced collaboration with suppliers over Business Network.

With SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba solutions, customers have the most comprehensive portfolio for managing the entire source-to-settle process:

• It has breadth. It manages every step of the process, from sourcing through procurement to payments.
• It has reach. It enables connections and collaboration between buyers and a broad network of partners and trusted suppliers.

But, we all know integration is easy to talk about and hard to deliver. So, how can you trust that this comprehensive portfolio will actually provide the integrated ERP and procurement experience we’ve described in this lesson?

• First - ROI: Our customers see an estimated 278% return on investment (ROI) with the SAP Integration Suite, but that’s just the beginning.
• Second - Integration Investment: We offer over 280 pre-built integration touch-points between SAP Ariba and S/4HANA, with continuous expansion to support no-code, end-to-end process integration between these two solutions.
• Finally - Scale: We process over 1.1 billion integration transactions per year, connecting more than 2,500 suppliers and 1,300 buyers.

Grow with SAP provides customers with the tools to begin their procurement transformation journey. By leveraging these capabilities, organizations can streamline and enhance their procurement processes quickly and efficiently from the very beginning.

Accelerated Growth: Helps mid-sized companies to adopt SAP solutions quickly and efficiently. It offers simplified deployment and attractive pricing to expedite digital transformation and growth.

Scalability: Allows businesses to scale up as they grow, ensuring they can handle increased demand and complexity seamlessly.

With the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, you’re already on the path to best-in-class procurement. Depending on which edition you have, the baseline, foundational procurement functionality is already built in. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, includes entitlement to starter capabilities in operational procurement and invoice management through embedded solutions – specifically, SAP Ariba Buying, base edition, and SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management.

SAP Ariba Buying, base edition:This solution provides a simple purchasing experience, designed to make it easier for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers to jump-start their journey toward best-in-class procurement performance. It streamlines the requisitioning process, making it easier to manage long-tail spend as the initial step.

SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management: Embedded in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Premium Edition, this solution offers an inbound channel for invoice visibility and processing, with native OCR capabilities, centralized worklists, and visibility of invoices across all channels.

With this embedded SAP Ariba functionality, you can:

• Create a next-gen procurement experience: Simplify consumer-like catalog and non-catalog purchasing for casual users, with AI-driven item recommendations.
• Establish a foundation for invoice visibility: Leverage embedded OCR and workbench capabilities streamline and enhance transparency in the AP process, subject to document limits.