Procurement and Expense Solutions - Enterprise

As an integral part of Ariba Spend Management Solutions, Ariba Buyer securely automates the full buying cycle to improve cross-enterprise management and tracking of spend operations. Ariba Buyer helps you streamline the purchase of goods and services to reduce processing time and costs, improve management and leverage of spend, and maximize collaboration with a global network of trading partners. With Ariba Buyer, you'll achieve rapid cost savings by increasing the efficiency of the entire procurement process:

Ariba Buyer can be delivered as installed software behind your firewall, as a hosted application, or as part of an Ariba managed service solution.

Best practice purchasing organizations have realized that automation of the requisition-through-payment process is critical to achieving contract compliance, realizing sourced savings, and delivering value to the bottom line. Through Ariba Procure-to-Pay—the heart of the Ariba Procurement solution—companies can automate, improve, control and monitor procurement to realize immediate process efficiencies and cost savings. Built on robust and highly scalable application architecture, Ariba Procure-to-Pay provides full requisition-to-pay functionality for all users and commodities.

Ariba Procure-to-Pay delivers rapid cost savings by restricting maverick buying and increasing the efficiency of the entire procurement cycle. The solution delivers an intuitive self-service purchasing process with a 'walk-up' user interface that drives rapid stakeholder adoption across the organization. By extending the procurement automation process to suppliers via the Ariba Supplier Network, our solution reduces the req-to-check cycle and drives down transaction costs.

The Ariba Procure-to-Pay - Enterprise Package is designed for large organizations looking for a highly scalable solution that can map to complex business processes with multiple-ERP integrations and some customization.

	Enterprise
Technology Components
Procurement	+
- Requisition-to-pay for catalog purchases	+
- ASN access, supplier connectivity and limited document capacity	+
- Approval flow & workflow	+
- ERP integration for master data pulls and some transactional data pushes	+
- Multi-ERP integration	+
Catalog funtionality	+
- Access to Supplier Punch-out Catalogs	+
- Catalog search, administration, validation, views	+
- Catalog Kits, Partial items	+
Invoice & Payment	+
Procurement Operational Reporting	+
Procurement Analysis	+
Non-PO Based spend	+
Contract Compliance	+
Electronic Forms
- Limited set of eForms (pre-built)	eForms Add-On
- Custom eForms	eForms Add-On
Category Procurement	ACP Add-On
Expertise Components
Basic Deployment	+
Basic Product Support	+
Online Buyer and Supplier Training	+
Procurement Process / Workflow Setup	+
Prioritized Support	+
Catalog Management Service (Administration, Cleansing, Enrichment)	Option
Pre-negotiated Catalog Content	Option
Infrastructure	Hosted, Single-Tenant Application

Companies are increasingly pursuing bottom-line savings through effective management of a broad range of procurement spend categories. When evaluating category procurement options, you must ensure that a solution includes category-specific, best-practice processes to effectively execute purchases, services or other complex spend categories. Such a solution requires:

Ariba Category Procurement fulfills all of these requirements and much more. The solution enables procurement professionals and front-line users to capture and manage a broad range of spend categories throughout the procurement lifecycle. Using Ariba Category Procurement, many companies are able to double or even triple the amount of spend they currently capture and manage. Ariba Category Procurement enables companies to create a collaborative, closed-loop system that automates key steps in the spend management process, increases internal compliance to negotiated contracts in complex category areas, and ultimately reduces costs.

Ariba Category Procurement is available as an optional add-on to Ariba Buyer, delivered as installed software behind your firewall; or as an optional add-on to the Ariba Procure-to-Pay - Enterprise Package, delivered as a hosted application or as part of an Ariba Managed Service solution.

Ariba Category Procurement Add-on (Ariba Procure-to-Pay - Enterprise Package) Components

	Enterprise
Technology Components
Category definition framework	+
Category and item templates	+
Collaborative requisition	+
Milestone, service level, rate and time based contracts	+
Out-of-the-box categories	+
Milestone based fulfillment/reconciliation	+
Timesheet entry and invoice flip	+
Invoice against contracts	+
Multi-ERP integration	+
Reporting	+
Analysis	Option
Expertise Components
Implementation	+
Product Support	+
Strategy	Option
Prioritized Support	Opt
Infrastructure	Hosted, Single-Tenant Application

Organizations are continually seeking better ways to track and manage their unique spend processes. Using Ariba eForms, companies can leverage the flexibility of Ariba Spend Management Solutions by streamlining complex company-specific processes through automated workflow, alerts, and integration with other asset systems. Available in multiple languages and built on a configurable, interoperable infrastructure, Ariba eForms helps companies maximize compliance with corporate mandates and reduce paper-based manual errors.

Ariba eForms leverages Ariba workflow and a powerful approval flow engine to route and manage authorizations for virtually any business process. It significantly reduces the time required to manage processes such as requesting time off, managing user and supplier information, managing materials maintenance, and requesting checks.

Ariba eForms is an optional add-on to Ariba Buyer. It can be delivered as installed software behind your firewall, as a hosted application, or as part of an Ariba Managed Service solution.

Now more than ever, business line managers and travel managers are being challenged to minimize their total travel spend. With increasing travel costs and decreasing budgets, companies are looking for methods to meet their business travel requirements and not over-extend their estimates.

Ariba Travel and Expense delivers a comprehensive travel spend management solution that gives travel managers visibility into detailed spend activities and lets them monitor and enhance their travel strategy through a single, easy-to-use interface. The solution includes professional resources to help companies realize bottom line results and ensure the success of their travel spend strategy.

Ariba Travel and Expense can be delivered as an On-Demand offering (Travel and Expense - Enterprise Package) or as a CD (Ariba Travel and Expense) for deployment behind the firewall.

	Enterprise
Technology Components
Dashboard	+
Compliance & Audit	+
- Policy guidelines setup	+
- Corporate governance and compliance alerts	+
- Audit management	+
Expense Report management	+
- Expense report create/submit	+
- Workflow routing for approvals	+
- Receipt imaging	+
- Pre-populate ER line items from charge cards	+
ERP / Legacy accounting package integration	+
Travel authorizations	+
- Out of the box travel booking provider	+
Reporting and analytics	+
- Operational reports	+
mForm support	+
Custom receipt imaging vendor setup	+
Custom travel booking provider	+
Expertise Components
Basic Implementation	+
Basic Product Support	+
Online employee training	+
Travel benchmark data	+
Receipt scanning and management	+
Prioritized Support	+
Travel sourcing services	Option
Auditing services	Option
Travel spend analysis	Option
Outsourcing services	Option
Infrastructure	Hosted, Single-Tenant Application

As companies continue to expand outsourcing of non-core functions, their business contracts with other organizations are multiplying and becoming increasingly complicated-specifying not just price but also performance criteria, rebates, charge-backs, and other terms. Ariba Contract Compliance streamlines and optimizes the handling of complex commodity, long-term contract, and strategic negotiated purchases.

Ariba Contract Compliance seamlessly integrates with Ariba Spend Management Solutions to provide comprehensive, enterprise-wide management of the entire contract lifecycle. It eliminates traditional inefficiencies in transaction reconciliation, improves compliance levels, and accelerates contract renewal and negotiation. Ariba Contract Compliance provides a centralized repository of contracted products and services. Here buyers can create, search, amend, and re-source contracts, as well as monitor contract usage and supplier price compliance.

Ariba Contract Compliance provides the tools to:

In conjunction with Ariba Buyer, Ariba Contract Compliance can be delivered as installed software behind the firewall or as part of an Ariba Managed Service solution.

In a typical organization, the invoice and reconciliation process within an Accounts Payable department is the most laborious, time-consuming, and error-prone step of the procurement cycle. Ariba Invoice and Settlement replaces manual and paper-intensive activities with efficient electronic invoicing that enables companies to minimize the costs of manual data entry and streamline invoicing and reconciliation processes.

Ariba Invoice and Settlement proactively and accurately manages payment terms, automates vendor disbursements, and drives additional discounts and cash forecast visibility. Leveraging the capabilities of Ariba Spend Management Solutions, Ariba Invoice and Settlement provides an intuitive user interface, robust workflow-based exception handling, and real-time supplier communication to boost time, resource, and cost efficiencies.

Through the Ariba Supplier Network, buyers can use Ariba Invoice and Settlement to automate supplier interactions and further deepen existing supplier relationships. They can schedule and batch payments, optimize vendor discounts, and share remittance details with suppliers on the Network. In conjunction with Ariba Travel and Expense, Ariba Invoice and Settlement provides compelling value and ROI by automating accounts payable and financial operation processes.

Ariba Supplier Connectivity combines world-class technology and global service delivery capabilities to support 120,000 e-enabled suppliers and $67 billion in annual transactions. With the Ariba Supplier Network as its backbone, Ariba Supplier Connectivity ensures that you can connect and transact reliably with your entire global supplier base. Our Supplier Connectivity offering enables you to:

Ariba Supplier Connectivity offers an integrated, bundled solution comprised of the following components:

Ariba Invoice and Settlement can be delivered as installed software behind your firewall, or as part of an Ariba Managed Service solution.