Ariba Supplier Network

As a buying organization using point-to-point communications, you likely find that managing your supplier base is expensive and time consuming. Without a centralized solution, you lack the spend visibility and control to truly leverage supplier relationships. And finding new, qualified suppliers without instant access to a global supplier community can be a challenge-resulting in less-than-optimum supplier selection decisions.

Ariba.com Network® is one of the world's largest open business transacting networks, encompassing more than 140,000 e-enabled vendors transacting with hundreds of the world's largest buying organizations. By providing a single point of integration to trade globally in real time, Ariba.com Network® helps you rapidly achieve bottom-line savings through efficient management of supplier interactions across the Spend Management lifecycle.

The Ariba Supplier Network helps you attract and rapidly enable target suppliers of any size or industry. The hosted architecture of the Ariba Supplier Network scales with the growth of your business, reliably and securely. You can post RFIs or RFPs to the Network-in any spend category-allowing suppliers worldwide to compete for your business. And powerful invoicing and settlement functionality enables you to effectively close the loop in your procure-to-pay cycle.