SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management
Managing invoices centrally, natively, and seamlessly
Easing your accounts payable team’s workload lets them focus on more strategic activities, and nearly touchless invoice processing is a great way to get there. What’s more, with better visibility and efficiency, you can reduce costs and risks while improving compliance.
Process invoices faster and more accurately with SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management, a unified invoice solution built on SAP Business Technology Platform that provides a centralized view of all invoices from across your organization.
- Visibility into all invoices across all channels
- Paper and PDF invoice automation with embedded OCR
- Smooth integration deployed on SAP Business Technology Platform
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Key benefits
Improve invoice processing speed and accuracy
Quickly capture invoice data from multiple suppliers with a single, user-friendly solution for scanning, validating, and processing invoices.
View all invoices across all channels
Make invoices across all channels visible to your accounts payable team by sharing one common worklist and an automated invoice processing workflow.
Manage invoices natively
Process invoices with as little human effort as possible using machine learning, document information extraction, master data, and more services to come.
Key features
Embedded OCR capabilities
Invoice capture through embedded OCR using the Document Information Extraction service
Simplified drag-and-drop user experience for uploading invoice images
Automated PDF e-mail services
Centralized worklist
One single view for accounts payable team
Visibility of all invoices across all channels and the organization
Streamlined processing and approval, with prioritization based on status, company code, and workflow
Open, extensible, and future-proof platform
Intelligent technologies to manage invoices smoothly and natively
Services-based architecture, leveraging SAP BTP services, such as machine learning, document management, master data, OCR, and more
Single, extensible platform optimized for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (with other ERP optimizations planned)
Pricing
SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management
In blocks of 1000 Documents per year
Contract duration between 12 and 9 Month
Auto-Renewal
Has prerequisites
Features:
Included:
- Two non-productive tenants and one productive tenant.
- Invoices reception via email through a process automation bot.
- Receive and capture supplier invoices from multiple inbound channels (e-mail, manual upload, SAP Business Network, SAP DRC, API) using a single user-friendly solution, validating, and processing invoices in a centralized AP s.
- Seamlessly integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
Metric:
- This solution is priced by Documents per year.
- Document is a record of commercial transactional data managed via the Cloud Service.
- The metric has a yearly entitlement and depletes with usage.
Requirements:
- Solution is only available for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition customers.
Contract duration:
- For contracts that less than a year, the yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month.
Pricing structure and more contract duration details are available on request.
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Dive deeper into centralized invoice processing
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Visibility
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Extensibility
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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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