Summarizing SAP Ariba Sourcing Benefits and Key Capabilities

• Unified platform to manage all source-to-settle processes
• Powerful process and workflow management with savings-tracking technology​
• Comprehensive RFx management, forward and reverse auctions
• Power to extend the value of existing ERP Investments​
• Access to a wide user community​
• Unified supplier experience and collaboration
• Easy to adopt interface
• Ability to deliver at scale​

• Bottom line results: Realize immediate savings.
• Faster supplier discovery: Discover new qualified suppliers, using SAP Business Network Discovery to improve bid competitiveness.
• Agility: Dramatically reduce sourcing cycle times and administrative costs​.
• Flexibility and lower total cost of ownership: Rapidly deploy a SaaS solution for faster time to value and accelerated innovation, and use support services from SAP to eliminate IT burdens​.
• Efficiency: Create sustainable organizational knowledge using analytics for in-content intelligence.​
• Global reach: Trade globally with ease using support for multiple languages and currencies.
• Reduced risk supply: Use continuous performance measures to detect and mitigate risk.
• Adoption: Help foster internal adoption and realization of the benefits through a simplified, intuitive user interface.​​​

• Improve Spend Coverage​
  • Easy content creation and collaboration experience through single page event creation, inline editing of content, bulk line item management, project widgets, contextual learning and in-application messaging.
  • Enable sourcing managers to easily create and manage the sourcing pipeline to rationalize the supply base, negotiate lower pricing, or respond to unforeseen demands.
  • With a simple and easy to use interface, ensure high user adoption and coverage across spend categories.
  • Supplier access to the world's largest business network to manage sourcing events, supplier onboarding and lifecycle management projects, and PO, Invoice, Inventory, Quality, Forecast, and Financing collaboration.
• Execute Desired Sourcing Outcome
  • Define and drive your sourcing strategy using a range of patented RFP and auction tool sets supported by comprehensive decision framework and analysis engines.
  • Comprehensive event format support - RFPs, RFI, auctions (forward, reverse, index, Dutch, Japanese, total cost, bid transformation with patented rules to drive market results.​
  • Mechanisms to drive event competitiveness, market feedback, compliance through event scoring methodology, multi-round sourcing, sealed envelop, traffic lights and so on.​
  • Constraint based optimization solver with built-in and configurable scenarios, what-if analysis and so on, for awarding large complex events with bid analysis for comparative visualization based on user criteria.
• Realize Sustainable Savings​

  • Enforce negotiated savings through fully integrated contracting, supplier management, operational procurement, and analytics processes.

  • Integration with SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing for operational procurement compliance, SAP Ariba Supplier Management solution for Supplier status based event inclusions, SAP Business Network Discovery integration for event posting​.
  • SAP Endorsed app certified integration with Icertis Contract Management for follow-on contract authoring, negotiations, obligations management and contract performance management​.
  • Native integrations with SAP S/4HANA and ERP system for material master, request for quotes and award integration. API library to support 3rd party app extensions and add-ons.

• Electronic, template-based support for RFIs, RFPs, and auctions​.
• Auction support, including a variety of types, such as reverse, index, forward, Dutch, Japanese, and total cost, with rules to drive the best market results​.
• Comprehensive automated and team scoring features with comparison reporting​.
• Sourcing support desk, sourcing advice, and guidance by expert SAP Ariba personnel​.
• Flexible project management tools with integrated workflows, document management, and approvals​.
• Centralized sourcing information faster and easier access​.
• Dynamic, real-time event views, integrated reporting, and decision analysis of multiple "what if scenarios​.
• Rapid identification and assessment of new sources of supply​.​

By using contract management functionality built into SAP Source-to-Contract Suite, you can say goodbye to misplaced and mismanaged paper contracts, as well as the risks of lost savings that go with them.​

• Manage procurement and sales contracts, IP licenses, internal agreements, and more​.
• Standardize and control contract deployment and approval​.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and trading partners​.
• Integrate vendor master and contract data to and from other back-end systems.​

SAP Strategic Sourcing supports the management of supplier information by helping ensure that the supplier information in your vendor master data is accurate and up to date.

• Assess and qualify suppliers using matrix-based filtering based on a category, region and business unit​.
• Access a 360-degree view of supplier information.
• Streamline supplier onboarding processes, including workflows and approvals.​

The SAP Ariba Sourcing solution integrates patented "request for" RFx technology, process workflows, commodity intelligence, and supplier discovery, resulting in a flexible, comprehensive sourcing solution that enables fast, sustainable, bottom-line results. ​

• Slash cycle time and administrative costs​
• Reduce IT burdens and costs​
• Trade globally in many languages and currencies​
• Mitigate supply risk using performance measures​

• Project management: Model best practices, including phases, tasks, milestones, team members collaborators and more​
• Process, workflow, and approval management: Use workflow management and savings technology to accelerate sourcing cycles​
• Document management: Enable easy document collaboration, sharing, and management using version controls, comment capabilities, and an audit trail​
• Knowledge management​
• Resource management: Employ management and reporting tools to manage user priorities and staff availability across projects​

• Rather than relying on a vendor list or searching the internet to find new suppliers, you can use the SAP Business Network Discovery solution for supplier matching, so that you access more than a million qualified suppliers worldwide.​
• The solution allows tenders to express their interest in a tender or bid opportunity and self-invite, which is a key requirement for public sector organizations.​
• SAP Ariba Sourcing automates RFX creation and distribution as well as scoring, using multilevel weighted scoring settings where stakeholders can score supplier responses collaboratively.​

• You can deploy SAP Ariba Sourcing with an optional, pre-integrated solution that provides savings pipeline and tracking functionality for driving and evaluating the impact of sourcing programs.​
• Capture and report on estimated, negotiated, implemented, and actual savings and spend savings analysis across regions, time periods, departments, suppliers, and spend types.