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Optimize procurement and purchasing with SAP Ariba
Comprehensive digitalization of purchasing and procurement processes – the cloud-based SAP Ariba suite offers solutions tailored to the needs of medium-sized and large companies.
Improving efficiency and compliance with custom-tailored procurement solutions
Procurement and purchasing keep companies running. These strategic functions provide materials, goods, and services of the right quality and at the calculated cost. This is a complex task in the face of dynamic conditions, including global supply bottlenecks, fluctuating raw material prices, and increasing legal requirements. Specialized procurement solutions help meet all the requirements. Both medium-sized and large companies can use SAP Ariba to digitalize procurement and purchasing, automate processes, and network with suppliers. The software enhances collaboration with partners, increases transparency in spending, improves compliance, and reduces costs. With over 30 years of consulting and implementation experience, valantic can develop a custom-tailored SAP Ariba solution for your company. We support our customers with comprehensive technology and specialist expertise in all aspects of procurement.
How SAP Ariba supports procurement and purchasing
Procurement combines strategic and operational elements into a complex range of tasks. Key topics include careful selection and assessment of suppliers, prudent contract management, precise inventory management, and efficient order processing. Quality assurance, cost optimization, risk management, and fulfilling sustainability criteria and compliance standards also play crucial roles. Integrating innovative technology, maintaining strong supplier relationships, and responding promptly to market changes are equally essential for effective strategic sourcing.
The offerings of SAP Ariba
The cloud-based SAP Ariba platform digitalizes procurement, purchasing, and invoicing processes for medium-sized and large companies. This comprehensive suite of solutions supports the procurement of direct and indirect materials and services. It consists of various modules for specific functional areas.
Strategic procurement
- Applications for price inquiries, tenders, and auctions
- Applications for managing existing contracts, creating contracts, collaborating with suppliers, including digital signatures
- Applications for supplier control: Registration, qualification, and performance management
- Applications with comprehensive risk assessment and monitoring capabilities
Operational purchasing of indirect materials and services
- Applications for managing processes related to the purchase of indirect materials, such as office supplies and IT equipment, as well as services using catalogs, free text forms, and spot-buying (e.g., Amazon Business), including the exchange of relevant information (e.g., order confirmation, delivery advice).
Processing of purchase-related invoices
- Automatic checking of subject matter and content of invoices using the 3-way match procedure (testing of invoice, order, and goods receipt)
- Dedicated digital approval processes for invoice deviations
- Receive and process electronic invoices via the business network
- Connection options for OCR solution to read PDF and paper invoices
- Automated allocation of tax codes for supplier invoices is possible
Supplier collaboration on direct materials
- Document exchange with suppliers via the SAP Business Network
- Joint forecasting with suppliers
- Quality management
- End-to-end order collaboration from requisition to invoice, including subcontracting and service orders
Solutions for SMEs at a glance
Easily find optimal sources of supply thanks to numerous pre-configured functions.
- Manage existing contracts
- Create contracts from procurement projects (central contract management)
- Collect approved presentation templates & clauses
- Create contracts in digital exchange with suppliers, including final digital signature (DocuSign/Adobe license)
- 360-degree view of all relevant supplier master data
- Supplier self-service for master data maintenance
- Onboarding and central qualification of suppliers
- Regular supplier assessment
- Bidirectional synchronization with the SAP ERP system
- Monitoring and evaluation of flexibly defined risk categories
- Risk assessment
- Structured recording and monitoring of risk mitigation measures in coordination with suppliers
- Optimize indirect purchasing with guided buying (catalog-based shopping, free-text ordering, etc.)
- Intuitive interface for occasional users
- Integrated procurement guidelines and approval processes
- Complete invoice processing
- Rapid implementation within 12 weeks
Digital document exchange related to ordering of direct materials/delivery schedule calls
Execute and monitor commodity group strategies for fast, efficient commodity group management in procurement
Digital document exchange related to indirect materials and services, including performance recording
Solutions for corporate groups at a glance
- Digitalize and simplify the entire procurement process: End-to-end exchange with suppliers, for example, for price inquiries, evaluation of digital quotations with questionnaires, and smart templates for controlling
- Configure auctions and multi-stage consecutive procurement projects
- Manage existing contracts
- Create contracts from procurement projects (central contract management)
- Collect approved presentation templates & clauses
- Create contracts in digital exchange with suppliers, including final digital signature (DocuSign/Adobe license)
- Monitor and evaluate flexibly defined risk categories
- Risk assessment
- Structured recording and monitoring of risk mitigation measures in coordination with suppliers
- 360-degree view of all relevant supplier master data
- Supplier self-service for master data maintenance
- Central onboarding and qualification of suppliers
- Regular supplier assessment
- Two-way synchronization with the SAP ERP system
- Optimize indirect purchasing with guided buying
- Intuitive interface for occasional users
- Time savings thanks to integration of procurement policies and approval processes
- Processing of service orders with and without performance sheets
- Budget checks
- Complete invoice processing
- Digitally exchange documents for direct material orders, delivery schedule calls, consignment, subcontracting, etc.
- Provide transparent forecasts to trading partners, including manufacturing capacity
- View supplier managed inventory (SMI)
- View quality issues and complaints, and synchronize with trading partners for quick solutions
Execute and monitor commodity group strategies for fast, efficient commodity group management in procurement
Simplify near-real-time information exchange and improve visibility into procurement processes. This reduces costs and reduces the risks associated with working with your suppliers.
Comprehensive support from valantic
Our team digitizes procurement and purchasing in your company with SAP Ariba
valantic’s SAP Ariba team has extensive experience in SAP consulting across the entire value chain and various industries. Our experts are skilled in developing and implementing applications that optimize purchasing and procurement. We provide comprehensive services to help you establish the optimal solution for your company’s requirements – from strategy and roadmap development to implementation, application operation, and support.
Our Services
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Diagnostic services
- Analysis of the actual situation
- Alignment with best practice processes
- Derivation of alternative actions
- Definition of a roadmap
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Implementation
Design, implementation, test support, training, cut-over, go-live, and post-go-live of SAP Ariba solutions
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Application Management Support
- Provide AMS support at all levels (1-3) based on pre-defined SLAs
- Coverage of different time zones
- Near & offshore capabilities
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Supplier Enablement
Support for onboarding suppliers to the SAP Business Network
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Change management
- Comprehensive assistance in case of organizational changes
- Measures to promote acceptance through targeted involvement of employees
- Ensuring of a smooth transition and efficient use of the solution
