Sourcing Solutions
For global as well as local organizations, effective spend management requires professional sourcing management. With a comprehensive set of technology and expertise, Ariba Sourcing Solutions deliver the fast and sustainable results companies of all sizes need to achieve superior sourcing results.
Business Needs
To boost their bottom line, businesses need to reduce the amount of time and money they invest in sourcing. Ariba Sourcing Solutions empower sourcing professionals with technology and expertise that address common sourcing business issues such as:
- Difficult-to-use sourcing technologies - Ariba makes it easy to source, with accessible online tutorials and helpdesks for technical and sourcing-related questions
- Cumbersome and lengthy implementation - Ariba's On-Demand solutions can be launched and ready for you to use in as little as one week
- Lack of a single source of truth for Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance auditors
- Questionable ROI metrics - Ariba's reporting and analysis capabilities provide the insights you need to measure your success and identify needed improvements
- No closed-loop, integrated processes - Ariba captures knowledge and provides cost-saving process visibility that ensures that identified savings become realized savings
- Difficult-to-configure solutions - Ariba adapts to your unique business needs
- Inability to support your international operations - Ariba's global presence, multi-language and multi-currency capabilities, and global expertise offerings support worldwide sourcing activities
Ariba Sourcing Solutions
Ariba offers a wide variety of sourcing solutions to meet the needs of all sizes and types of businesses. Our Sourcing Solution packages include:
- Ariba Sourcing Basic - Provides a foundation in RFX capabilities, including reverse auctions, requests for proposal and information, total cost auctions and forward auctions
- Ariba Sourcing Professional - Offers additional RFX capabilities, as well as process management, advanced analysis tools, savings pipeline and tracking, and supplier performance management. Ideal for organizations that want greater process standardization and collaboration
Ariba Sourcing Basic and Professional solutions are offered On Demand via the Internet (SaaS)
- Ariba Sourcing CD, Hosted and Installed - Delivers advanced RFX, process management and supplier performance management capabilities. Perfect for companies that want to source and evaluate more complex categories of spend and assess supplier performance
- Empowerment Package - All On-Demand solutions include the Empowerment Package, which provides Product Support, Sourcing Support Desk for RFX development and execution assistance, Event Day Management and Site Administration services. Ariba recognizes this as an integral component in ensuring suppliers and buyers successfully transition to online sourcing
- Sourcing Expertise - time to value, achieve savings results and enable our customers' sourcing and procurement organizations to maximize their capabilities. We focus on providing:
- Global Supplier Expertise
- Category Sourcing Expertise
- Sourcing Operations Expertise
- Buyer Enablement Expertise
- Advanced Sourcing Expertise
Impressive Results
Ariba Sourcing Solutions enable businesses to shorten the time from opportunity identification to realized savings. Our streamlined, automated processes have helped businesses achieve immediate and lasting results:
- Analysts recognize Ariba for both capability and vision
- More than $300 billion is sourced through Ariba Sourcing Solutions annually
- Ariba sourcing experts have sourced more than $74 billion on behalf of our customers
- The Ariba Supplier Network provides access to 160,000 pre-enabled suppliers
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