Procurement
Modern procurement
Delivering best-in-class procurement processes that increase purchasing power and drive sustainable savings
Improve decision-making, control, and efficiency company-wide with embedded automation and real-time analytics
Identify opportunities for cost savings, consolidate spend, and receive greater value from suppliers
Manage spend effectively with a thorough user-experience upgrade that boosts adoption, performance, and compliance
Enable procurement teams to adapt intelligent processes to their own needs
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Operational procurement
Efficient management of operational purchasing tasks and AI-assisted decision-making using Joule
Streamlined indirect material procurement
Experience simple, smart, and elegant purchasing processes with the SAP Ariba Buying solution across indirect material procurement areas.
Confident buying decision-making
Inform insights with consolidated analytics, upcoming tasks, and relevant information in a personalized procurement overview.
Optimized approvals
Streamline approval of purchase orders and requisitions with automatic reminders, notifications, and clear responsibilities.
Sourcing
Lowering the risk of human error while reducing workload and shrinking administrative costs
Controlled spending
Get better prices with the assistance of early visibility into forecasted production and access to historical pricing.
Cognitive sourcing
Compare bids and awards with one click by using predefined analytics and decision support.
Operations and contract compliance
Gain visibility into the use of purchase contracts and acquire insights on legal contracts.
Supplier management
Simplifying the maintenance of supplier relationships
Real-time supplier evaluation
Negotiate better terms with a powerful survey tool that quickly classifies, assesses, and calculates supplier performance.
Portfolio-level view of supplier relationships
Determine the right mix of suppliers and reduce overall supply risk with supplier classification and segmentation.
Sustainability goal achievement
Calculate a supply source’s carbon footprint by using existing data maintained in the SAP Sustainability Footprint Management solution.
Invoice management
Saving cost, time, and effort with automated and centralized invoice management.
Less time and effort
Enable accounts payable teams to drive higher volumes of invoices through electronic channels.
Reduced error
Capture and process invoices digitally to eliminate errors before they reach the accounts payable department.
Automated invoice management
Free up your resources by using conversational AI and machine learning to perform repetitive, low-value tasks.