Ariba Sourcing Solutions

Ariba's Strategic Sourcing Solution

Ariba Sourcing is the market's most widely adopted and complete strategic sourcing software for creating and implementing competitive best-value agreements. By combining best-in-class negotiation and sourcing software with access to a global network of suppliers and unparalleled strategy and category expertise, Ariba Sourcing enables companies of any industry, size, or geography to drive fast, sustainable results by automating critical tasks across the sourcing lifecycle, including:

• Strategy development - Identify sourcing savings opportunities, assess market dynamics, and develop an informed sourcing strategy
• Sourcing and negotiating - Identify and qualify suppliers, negotiate best-value sourcing agreements, derive optimal award allocations, drive project collaboration, and standardize sourcing processes
• Monitoring and managing suppliers and agreements - Quickly implement supplier agreements, track and realize sourcing savings, and manage supplier performance

Features

• Technology
  • RFX creation and management
    • Rapid creation of a broad set of RFX types, including RFI, RFP, reverse auctions, and forward auctions
    • Patented competitive bidding and timing options
    • Sealed envelope bidding, Dutch auction, and total cost events
    • Matrix and tiered pricing
    • Bid optimization and decision support
    • Supplier response management
    • Team grading and collaborative scoring
    • Global, multi-lingual, and multi-currency capabilities
  • Category management
    • Project management
    • Workflow and approval management
    • Document management
    • Knowledge management
    • Resource management
  • Sourcing analysis and reporting
  • Integration to third-party systems
  • Sourcing savings pipeline and tracking
  • Category playbooks
• Community
  • Integrated access to the Ariba Network for efficient and effective supplier discovery, qualification, risk assessment and negotiations
  • Unique peer benchmarking program with dedicated customer success teams
  • Access to Ariba Exchange to drive networking, best-practice sharing, and adoption
• Capabilities
  • Expertise and best practices delivered via flexible delivery model ranging from onsite consulting to web-based templates
  • Bundled empowerment support services, including basic product support, event day management and sourcing support desk

Benefits

• Realize immediate savings of 8-14%.
• Discovery of new qualified suppliers and improved bid competitiveness through integration with Ariba Discovery
• Agility: Reduce sourcing cycle times by 50% and administrative costs by 15%.
• Flexibility: No burden on IT departments with this walk-up, on-demand application; a rapid deployment process; and integrated support services.
• Efficiency: Sustainable organizational knowledge through in-context sourcing intelligence
• Global reach: Support for multiple languages and currencies
• Lower TCO: SaaS delivery with faster time-to-value and innovation
• Mitigated supply risk through continuous performance measurements and improvement

Ariba Sourcing delivers tangible, bottom-line value. Collectively, our users:

• Source $340 billion in annual spend across 500 categories
• Save $30 billion annually
• Cut process and cycle times by 50-70%

Contact us to learn more.

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