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Ariba Resource Library

Welcome to the Ariba Resource Library, where you can download an extensive collection of white papers, webinars, and podcasts full of practical advice, proven strategies, and insightful commentary from the front lines of business commerce. You’ll hear from business and IT leaders, industry analysts, Ariba customers, and Ariba’s subject matter experts. Browse resources by topic or type, and don’t forget to check out the Collections page.

Expert Advice for Driving Powerful E-commerce Results: A Four-Part Webcast Series
Start improving your online business results today with actionable e-commerce tips and insights. This four-part webcast series features commentary from industry leaders working inside such major online sellers as Hewlett-Packard, Insight, National Business Furniture, and MarkMaster. You'll hear how one seller attracted a million-dollar online order. And how another boosted ROI while enjoying a 99 percent customer retention rate. You'll also learn tactics for expanding your customer base and increasing sales. And if you're just getting underway with your e-commerce program, we've got some proven tips to help you get off to a successful start.
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Extend that ERP! How Leading Enterprises are Profiting from More Collaborative Procurement
ERP and other back office systems are great at optimizing business processes inside the four walls of an organization. But business commerce happens outside, in the space between trading partners. That’s why leading enterprises are using the Ariba Network to connect their SAP, Oracle, and other back office processes to their suppliers – and profiting from procurement that’s more collaborative.

To learn how they did it, spend some time with the recorded webinars in this collection. You’ll hear how Deutsche Bank accomplished their global e–invoicing objectives, how GSK North America is using the Ariba Network to drive global PO compliance and smart invoicing, and how you, too, can improve collaboration with your suppliers for greater spend management and competitive advantage.
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Healthcare Industry - The Antidote to the Healthcare Crisis
Rising costs and regulatory and transparency pressures coupled with declining profit margins has caused even the once-immune healthcare industry to face an unfavorable diagnosis. The good news is that the antidote to the healthcare crisis is available to every business in the healthcare industry. Download these strategies, tips, and best practices that cover everything from diagnosing to maintaining the health of your supply chain.
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Lessons Learned from the Recession
The recession has fundamentally changed the way businesses organize and measure success as well as recalibrated supply markets, introducing new cost and operational risks that businesses cannot overlook. It has also created a new state of normal for business one in which supply volatility, capacity constraints, and global uncertainty will be commonplace and must be carefully managed.

So, what does the New Normal demand? Doing more with less, and ramping up quickly. That means exploring new delivery models, getting outside help, more-efficient resource models, and responding fast to changing market conditions.

Download the white papers in this series to learn how each function within your source-to-settle process–from spend analysis to procurement has been impacted and how you can apply these lessons learned to gain a competitive advantage in 2010.
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Overcome Barriers to E-Invoicing and AP Automation, Just Like These Leaders Did
To move your e-invoicing and AP automation initiatives forward, spend some time with this collection of free webinar recordings. Time and again, leading multinational companies have successfully overcome the same barriers you’re struggling with: systems issues, supplier reluctance, and internal alignment on goals and objectives. Learn how Deutsche Bank extended its SAP for global e-invoicing, onboarding 4,000 suppliers in the process; how NSG Pilkington aligned Finance and Procurement on the common goal of e-invoicing; how RockTenn went 100 percent paperless by consolidating their paper and electronic invoices processing, and more.
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