Ariba Supplier Management
As a buying organization driven to succeed, you require real-time, right-now access to your suppliers. Whether you're forwarding a purchase order or discussing long-term partnership goals, you and your suppliers need an integrated, flexible supplier management solution that lets you connect, manage content, and collaborate effectively.
The Ariba Supplier Management Solution delivers a comprehensive set of products and services that optimize buyer-supplier interactions throughout the entire spend management lifecycle. Leveraging the combined benefits of speed, coverage, sustainability, and flexibility, the Ariba solution provides greater control and visibility, improved product and service quality, and greater cost savings through efficient, streamlined processes.
- Speed. Our high-performance, global supplier network gives you immediate access to a diverse supply market with packaged, category-specific best practices and methodology.
- Coverage. Our solution provides end-to-end, closed-loop spend management processes between buyers and suppliers and supports all common transaction and communication protocols. Ariba offers expert resources to provide global, broad category coverage by managing supplier implementations and activities.
- Sustainability. With Ariba you'll drive down your total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging a flexible delivery model and centralized supplier network. Our embedded framework will provide you with continuous supplier performance management.
- Flexibility. Connect with all suppliers. Rapidly enable suppliers through standardized, category-specific processes across the enterprise and the Ariba Supplier Network.
Benefits of the Ariba Supplier Management Solution
- Lower total cost of ownership. Leverage global buyer-supplier interactions on the Ariba Supplier Network (Ariba SN).
- Access to supplier profiles. Provide a ready-cleansed supplier list with full profile.
- Accurate, negotiated catalog content. Administer content and dynamic catalog activities through Ariba SN collaborative content management.
- Continuous supplier performance improvement. Measure and track suppliers using strategic supplier performance metrics.
- Ability to support and educate suppliers. Help your suppliers understand the benefits of spend management.
