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Optimize procurement and purchasing with SAP Ariba
The cloud-based SAP Ariba Suite helps companies efficiently digitalize their purchasing and procurement processes. The AI-driven Next Gen SAP Ariba integrates intelligent features into business workflows from scratch. The SAP Ariba team at valantic supports customers throughout their projects. Best practice driven. Business first.
The Transformation of Procurement
Next-Gen SAP Ariba – Procurement in the age of AI
From an operational back-office function to a key driver of business success – successful procurement must be agile and capable of innovation. This is where the next generation of procurement digitization with SAP comes in: powered by a platform and AI, Next Gen SAP Ariba Procurement is ready for the era of artificial intelligence.
These are the key features:
AI by design
Integrated artificial intelligence enables automation throughout the entire source-to-pay process, provides predictions, and supports data-driven decisions.
Seamless integration
The tight integration with other SAP solutions and third-party systems via open APIs ensures end-to-end consistency and performance.
Ease of use
Higher productivity and efficiency thanks to a user-friendly application design, featuring personalized dashboards, workflows, and customized insights.
Guided setup
Step-by-step guides and low-code/no-code setups simplify implementation and configuration.
Scalable platform
Ready for growth, evolving requirements, process optimization, and innovation through a modern platform approach.
Focus on Business Network
Greater efficiency in transaction processing, information exchange, and collaboration with trading partners.
Modern procurement platform
Positioning Procurement for the Future with Next-Gen SAP Ariba
Procurement ensures that companies are supplied with materials, goods, and services of the right quality and at competitive terms. At the same time, demands are increasing due to dynamic market conditions, supply bottlenecks, and regulatory requirements. Modern IT solutions provide the necessary transparency, efficiency, and control.
Digitizing procurement and purchasing with SAP Ariba enables companies to ensure consistently more efficient, partially automated processes and direct connectivity with suppliers. This improves collaboration, increases spending transparency, strengthens compliance, and reduces costs.
SAP Next-Gen SAP Ariba expands on these strengths with AI-powered automation, intelligent analytics, and a modern user experience. Companies identify risks earlier, make more informed decisions, and respond more quickly to changes in the market and supply chain.
With over 30 years of experience, valantic supports companies in implementing tailored SAP Ariba and SAP Next-Gen SAP Ariba solutions—offering in-depth technology and process expertise from a single source.
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
Core solutions from SAP Ariba – 360° Procurement
SAP Ariba Spend Control Tower provides companies with a centralized view of their spending and procurement processes. The solution consolidates data from various systems and presents it in clear dashboards and analyses. This gives procurement organizations comprehensive visibility into spending, suppliers, and procurement activities, enabling them to make informed decisions to optimize their procurement strategy.
With integrated analysis and monitoring functions, the solution helps companies identify savings opportunities, improve compliance, and strategically manage their spending.
Key benefits of SAP Ariba Spend Control Tower:
- Transparency into spending and procurement data
- Consolidated analysis of data from various systems
- Real-time dashboards and reports
- Identification of cost-saving opportunities and optimization potential
- 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
- Readiness Next-Gen
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Implementation
- Design
- Implementation
- Test support
- Training
- Cut-over
- Go-live
- 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
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E2E portfolio
- Project Management (Hybrid Agile Approach)
- Change Management
- SAP Consulting
- Cross Agile
