Spend Management Overview
As competition in the procurement arena intensifies, it is critical that organizations dramatically improve their effectiveness by managing spend and accelerating process performance. Leading companies understand that this can only be achieved through a comprehensive spend management solution-one that delivers cross-company spend visibility, promotes accurate decision making, and employs best practices on which to refine and grow an efficient procurement infrastructure.
The Ariba Spend Management Solutions comprise software, services and expertise that enable companies to rapidly master their spend and accelerate their journey toward bottom-line success-without costly customization or internal IT alignment issues. Combined with our comprehensive, scalable Ariba Supplier Network, Ariba solutions drive more business volume between buyers and suppliers than any other spend management system. That's why Ariba applications currently operate on nearly four million desktops around the world.
Spend Management: Our Sole Focus Ariba is the recognized leader in spend management because it is our exclusive focus. With global operations in 21 countries, we incorporate over 400 full-time sourcing experts and 700 spend management experts into one of the largest sourcing organizations in the world. Our experience managing spend for a variety of organizations has enabled us to resolve our clients' typical obstacles to success, particularly lack of resources or difficulty obtaining executive buy-in. As a result, we enrich over $60 billion in spend annually and help companies achieve measurable, sustainable benefits, quarter after quarter.
Flexible Deployment Options Ariba Spend Management Solutions offers flexible deployment options to companies looking to start or expand their spend management efforts.
- Spend Management Basic. Enables small and mid-sized companies to rapidly, cost-effectively begin using the software, domain expertise and best practices of the world's leading companies. Solutions include core Spend Management functionality with basic support and empowerment.
- Spend Management Professional. Provides sophisticated spend management capabilities in an on-demand delivery model. Solutions builds on the Basic capabilities, with advanced functionality such as additional turnkey commodity templates, category-level management, flexible configuration capabilities, advanced project support, and training services.
- Spend Management Enterprise. Delivers the full power of spend management to large enterprises. Available as hosted on-demand solution or CD licensed. Includes prioritized support, 24x7 interactive training, expert services, and extensive customization and control capabilities.
Ariba delivers capabilities across four key success points that are essential to effective spend management:
Speed. Extensive services, intelligence, and rapidly deployable solutions support faster rollout and greater traction in under-managed spend areas-generating results in weeks instead of months or years. Expert data cleansing and enrichment paired with exceptional category knowledge enables fast, accurate identification of new savings and spend opportunities.
Sustainability. Superior information transparency drives improvements in companywide spend performance. Platforms and systems with built-in best practices and templates help organizations capture and institutionalize crucial spend management processes and knowledge, facilitating widespread compliance and self-sufficiency and ensuring that identified savings can be realized far into the future.
Coverage. Broad category coverage and expertise join powerful technology to drive efficient sourcing and procurement from supply markets across the globe, regardless of category complexity. Integration to multiple ERP and legacy systems-along with outstanding visibility and control-expands spend management value to all users and transactions across the organization.
Flexibility. Ariba offers new levels of choice in the way companies adopt spend management-and in the way they can deploy, expand, and purchase their spend management programs to achieve powerful bottom line results.
