SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management​

Using invoice processing software with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, can boost compliance and help cut costs and risks.
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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.

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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

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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

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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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Manage all inbound invoices in a single workspace

See how you can manage nearly touchless invoice-to-pay processes that are transparent, efficient, and compliant.

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Make invoice processing more intuitive and automated

Discover a unified invoicing solution that’s user friendly with automation throughout the settlement process.

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Dive deeper into centralized invoice processing

Review our FAQ to learn more about automated and compliant invoice processing, reducing processing costs, and more.

Technical and security information

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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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SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management​ is currently optimized for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Use with other ERPs is planned for future releases.