Procurement and Expense Solutions

Ariba Spend Management Solutions: Procurement and Expense

Without an effective procurement solution, organizations lack the crucial spend data and best practice knowledge they need to make meaningful, sustained improvements. Instead, they are relegated to frustrating inefficiencies: paper-driven, error-prone purchasing processes, reduced user and supplier engagement, and frequent maverick buying that hampers data visibility and effective leveraging of spend.

The Ariba Procurement and Expense Solutions comprise flexible applications and services that deliver rapid, easy-to-use requisitioning and procurement capabilities for handling every aspect of spend. Through automated, streamlined, plan-to-pay functionality, the solutions boost user, process, and price compliance and drive exceptional spend management efficiency across your enterprise. The Ariba Procurement and Expense Solutions enable better execution of spend compliance by:

  • Supporting broad, efficient global rollouts with rapid user and supplier adoption, integration to multiple legacy systems, and capture of all spend
  • Expediting buyer-supplier communications to achieve shorter cycle times and lower total cost of ownership through a single shared infrastructure
  • Leveraging best practices to build procurement consistency and improve effectiveness across the organization

Ariba Procurement and Expense Solutions consistently achieve results for customers through these core enablers:

  • Speed. Rapid implementation via a flexible, extendable architecture. Features ease of use and training with scalability and performance.

  • Sustainability. End-to-end procure-to-pay process coverage, delivered in a sustainable model with low cost of ownership for closed-loop process to capture savings.

  • Coverage. Provides the ability to automate repeatable best practice processes, and analyze operational spend performance. Integrates with the Ariba Supplier Network featuring over 120,000 pre-enabled suppliers.

  • Flexibility. Extensible configuration is able to adapt to complex business process. Flexible deployment options that work for growing businesses.

Procurement and Expense Core Solution Elements

  • Ariba Buyer
  • Ariba Procure-to-Pay
  • Ariba Services Procurement
  • Ariba eForms
  • Ariba Travel and Expense
  • Ariba Contract Compliance
  • Ariba Invoice and Settlement
  • Supplier Connectivity