Guided buying capability
Get this built-in capability with SAP Ariba Procurement solutions
Increased user adoption
The guided buying capability provides a single self-service gateway for procurement requests and low-dollar, high-volume purchases. You can configure tiles, categories, forms, and permissions for each user to make the guided buying experience intuitive and user-friendly. The capability makes collaboration simpler, too. Supplier collaboration and price quotes are facilitated through integration with other SAP Ariba solutions, and users can access category experts based on their needs and location.
What’s more, an exclusive help community channels targeted content to users and encourages knowledge sharing.
Improved compliance to reduce costs
Available at no additional cost with SAP Ariba Procurement solutions, guided buying helps employees intuitively follow procurement guidelines and best practices. Users can see immediately if a purchase would violate a policy, rather than finding out after submitting a request. In addition, you can set rules that either allow or disallow the exception.
Supplier-risk functionality highlights risk levels for noncatalog requests and requests for quotes. Meanwhile, with cost savings resulting from stronger compliance and supplier collaboration, you can allocate more funds to strategic initiatives.
Features
Real-time guidance
While buying, users are alerted if a purchasing policy may be violated. If they are required to choose a different item, SAP Business AI can recommend options that keep them in compliance.
Cost savings
Through greater compliance, less savings leakage, and easier supplier collaboration, significant savings can be allocated to more strategic organizational initiatives.
Supplier management and collaboration
Integration with other SAP Ariba solutions facilitates both supplier management and collaboration on one-off purchases, with the ability to select preferred suppliers as well as request quotes via SAP Business Network.
Internal collaboration
Based on what the user is buying and where the user is located, guided buying gives instant access to the category expert in that user’s purchasing unit.
Persona-based dashboards
The guided buying capability can be flexibly configured to align forms, permissions, and system behavior for each user, presenting them with customized tiles and categories to streamline purchasing.
Help community
Exclusive guided buying help community provides the framework to provide targeted help content to users and make it easy for them to collaborate efficiently during their purchasing process.
Simpler, compliant spend with guided buying facilitated by AI
The guided buying capability in SAP Ariba Procurement solutions uses AI to deliver item recommendations that are tailored, cost effective, and compliant.
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