SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
Boost efficiency with strategic sourcing for manufacturers and retailers
Process manufacturers, retailers, and discrete manufacturers that rely on external manufacturers can capture more savings by improving source-to-contract processes and supplier collaboration with a sourcing suite that supports industry-specific processes and systems.
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite can help you integrate sourcing, contracting, and supplier management on a unified platform and source key spend types – improving cycle time while driving contract compliance and immediate savings.
- Cloud deployment
- Process management, workflows, and links to industry-specific systems
- Supplier onboarding, qualification, and segmentation
- 360-degree view into materials and total landed cost calculations
Key benefits
Experience the advantages of a single platform
Upgrade the quality and performance of sourcing, contracting, and supplier management for industries while reducing costs.
Enhance your bottom line with strategic sourcing
Gain visibility, optimize segment spend, and identify savings opportunities while standardizing source-to-contract processes across teams and business units.
Support a closed-loop, source-to-contract process
Improve process efficiencies, capture more savings, and minimize supplier-selection risks with a single sourcing, contracting, and supplier management solution.
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite: A Solution for Process Manufacturers
Discover how process manufacturers can accelerate the sourcing process and optimize direct spend costs with SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite. Learn how it supports collaboration across recipes, ingredients, and product quality with external manufacturers and raw material and ingredient suppliers.
Key features
Explore how discrete and process manufacturers and retailers can benefit from the integrated processes of SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite.
Discrete manufacturing
Electronic RFx and bid comparisons
Use RFx and project management tools with workflows, document management, and approvals to get bids and award suppliers.
Outsourced manufacturing and BOM collaboration
Collaborate on bills of materials and engineering change notifications with manufacturing partners and easily compare bills of materials (BOMs).
360-degree view of supply
Increase transparency with a 360-degree view of material price history and trends, sourcing activities, and sources of supply.
Integration to PLM systems
Integrate with product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and systems for importing BOMs and engineering change notifications.
ERP integration with operational procurement
Achieve compliance with contracts and other follow-on documents by integrating with operational procurement processes.
Cost breakdown analysis
Identify potential savings by configuring cost breakdowns using complex costing information collected from suppliers.
Process manufacturing
Total landed cost calculation and governance
Calculate total costs – including logistics, import duties, and taxes – to compare prices with international commercial terms.
Greater quality through collaboration
Improve the quality of recipes, BOMs, and product specs by working directly with suppliers and external manufacturers.
Comprehensive process management
Use RFx and project management tools with workflows, document management, and approvals to solicit bids and award business.
Material 360
Gain insights into material price history and trends, sourcing activities, and sources of supply.
Cost breakdown analysis
Identify potential savings by configuring cost breakdowns using complex costing information collected from suppliers.
ERP integration
Generate compliant follow-on documents, such as purchase information records and documents with advanced pricing conditions.
Retail
Simplified RFx development
Create comprehensive RFQs in minutes by automatically populating attribute and category information from back-end systems.
Retail system integration
Integrate with key retail systems, including article master data with generic articles and variants and pricing conditions.
Automation of repetitive processes
Automate sourcing processes for fresh and perishable products that are regularly reordered, such as fruits and vegetables.
Improved sustainability performance
Gain greater visibility into suppliers’ operations to develop insights that help improve corporate responsibility compliance.
Electronic RFQ and bid comparisons
Help retailers find savings in private-label product production with RFQs and analyses that detail complex costing information.
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Fast, simplified, and scalable guided sourcing
AI-enabled guided sourcing helps you achieve sustained savings across your supplier network, all while creating sourcing events in half the time.
Intelligent recommendations and process automation
Get next steps with AI-enriched guidance and automatically correct and map event data from import files like Microsoft Excel.
Event creation and management from a single page
Improve usability and reduce learning curves by doing everything on one screen – from event setup to supplier collaboration.
360-degree supplier insight and event monitoring
Qualify suppliers, compare bids, and realize savings at scale with continuous, embedded event progress and price monitoring.
Scoutbee Discovery for SAP Ariba Sourcing
Scoutbee’s AI-driven, complex-criteria discovery tool integrates with SAP Ariba Sourcing to deliver high-value suppliers with less time and effort.
Smarter supplier identification
Quickly expand and optimize your entire supplier portfolio using AI-powered searches to find just the right suppliers.
Enriched supplier validation
Grasp the overall supplier landscape using AI to automatically verify supplier data points across diverse data sources.
Optimized supplier assessment
Thoroughly examine and assess supplier information such as capabilities, capacities, quality, certifications, and much more.
High-impact supplier sourcing
Improve performance, increase savings, and reduce risk by discovering newer, more qualified, and cost-effective suppliers.
Technical information
Use SAP Business Technology Platform with this cloud solution to gain visibility, extend applications, and integrate your source-to-pay processes.
Visibility
Unlock spend data with solutions that deliver total spend visibility, aid in planning and forecasting, and connect critical data from SAP and third-party sources.
Extensibility
Customize and extend the value of spend management solutions by eliminating inefficiencies, building new apps, enhancing existing apps, and providing personalized experiences.
Integration
Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streaming your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.
Data security
Help protect confidentiality and data integrity.
Business process security
Support compliance with regularity requirements.
Risk and threat mitigation
Drive continuous improvement across your operations.
Cloud delivery operations
Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.
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