Spend management software

Fuel your transformation with a suite of solutions to strategically manage spend across all categories.
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Explore spend management solutions from SAP

Optimize direct and indirect procurement, travel and expense, and external workforce and services spend for greater insight, control, and savings.

Sourcing and contracts

Optimize cost, manage risk, and ensure the savings you negotiate are realized with SAP strategic sourcing solutions.

  • Aggregate and classify all company purchases
  • Gain visibility to identify sources of savings
  • Standardize source-to-contract processes
  • Drive materials cost savings and optimization
  • Increase speed and throughput across teams
  • Reduce risk by finding better suppliers

Spend analytics

Turn data into action, from cutting costs to driving initiatives, with AI-powered analysis of all your spend data in a single source.

Sourcing

Choose either the standard or base edition of our solution to combine leading sourcing and negotiation technology with access to a global network of suppliers to simplify sourcing events.

Contract management

Speed up contract cycles and reduce administrative and legal costs when you rid yourself of paper and ink.

Category management

Digitalize and streamline category strategy development, execution, and monitoring to increase productivity, savings, and profits.

Source-to-contract suite

Create efficiencies, capture more savings, and improve supplier selection to minimize risks with a closed-loop digital process.

Strategic sourcing suite

Accelerate time to market, shorten source-to-contract cycle times, and reduce direct spend costs to increase revenue and profits.

Sourcing for Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing

Equip sourcing and commodity management teams in automotive and industrial manufacturing to create high-value sourcing agreements.

Supplier discovery

Drive bids for your business up and your costs down when you find new suppliers with this free buyer-supplier matching service.

Procurement

Recreate the buying experience by connecting spend categories and boosting supplier collaboration to move faster and spend better.

  • Tackle direct, indirect, and services spend
  • Improve the experience with guided buying
  • Achieve greater efficiency and cost control
  • Remove barriers between buyers and suppliers
  • Share data, get insights, and manage workflow
  • Adapt automatically to market requirements

Procure to pay

Drive visibility and control across all spend-related processes and make sure your negotiated savings reach the bottom line.

Catalogs

Define, validate, and enrich catalog content with enterprise-grade content management tools and give employees a simple way to buy.

Procure to order

Automate your buying process from procure to order, integrated with your back-end system to let your ERP handle accounts payable.

Centralized procurement

Improve compliance and reduce costs with visibility across company-wide purchasing processes, without jumping in and out of multiple systems.

Invoice and payment

Automate your payables processes to help cut costs and risks and turn your invoices into strategic assets.

  • View all invoices across all channels
  • Digitalize invoice capture and approval
  • Strengthen control of payables and cash
  • Improve processing speed and accuracy
  • Optimize working capital
  • Collaborate with suppliers on discounts

Invoice management

Eliminate exceptions and enforce compliance to unlock value trapped inside your payables.

Centralized invoice processing

Use a common worklist and an automated workflow to see and manage all invoices in one place.

Supplier management

Manage lifecycle, performance, and risk all in one place to get the right products from the right suppliers at the right time.

  • Drive spend to preferred suppliers
  • Integrate supplier management with procurement
  • Manage with a unified supplier record
  • Scale risk management across your supply base

Supplier lifecycle and performance management

Manage suppliers based on specific parameters by using a single, up-to-date supplier record with information maintained by suppliers.

Supplier risk management

Help buyers make smarter decisions prior to purchase by making risk due diligence part of the procurement process.

External workforce and services

Drive better business outcomes with a single platform to find, engage, and manage your global external workforce.

  • Automate the entire end-to-end process of procuring external workers and services
  • Gain visibility across your entire extended workforce and track their quality of work
  • Build a stronger external workforce and talent ecosystem
  • Leverage robust analytics and machine learning capabilities to engage and manage top talent
  • Track and report on all external workers with master worker records
  • Onboard, manage, and pay multiple resources for multiple assignments with one solution

Comprehensive external workforce management

Initiate, engage, manage, and offboard your global contingent workers and services providers with one cloud-based solution.

One master record for all global external workers

Manage and track your entire global external workforce efficiently with standardized worker records in one place.

Global SOW-based services provider management

Simplify how projects with external services providers are initiated, engaged, managed, and completed.

Centralized management of all workers

Onboard multiple external workers, assign to one or more job orders, and create a service entry sheet that integrates with your ERP.

Travel and expense

Connect travel, expense, and invoice management for total visibility and greater control.

  • Automate and speed up spend processes
  • See spend in a unified view
  • Submit and approve expenses anywhere
  • Simplify business travel
  • Connect vendor invoice processes
  • Pay vendors on time

Expense management

Automate expense management and take control of spending, wherever it happens.

Travel management

Simplify travel management and let employees book business travel on their own, at the best rates, and within spending policies.

Invoice management

Automate AP management to be more efficient, increase profitability, and get more visibility into spending.

Midsize and growing companies

Solve specific spend management challenges without tackling your entire source-to-pay process with individual SAP solutions that grow with you.

  • Achieve visibility and control of spending
  • Find new supplier sources to reduce risk
  • Simplify contract management and approval
  • Guide users to buy from the right suppliers
  • Eliminate invoicing exceptions
  • Improve cash flow and optimize working capital

Sourcing

Choose either the standard or base edition of our solution to combine leading sourcing and negotiation technology with access to a global network of suppliers to simplify sourcing events.

Contract management

Centralize contract storage, boost compliance, and automate and accelerate the lifecycle of any type of contractual agreement.

Goods and services procurement

Control spending with prepackaged, preconfigured procurement solutions designed to be up and running in 12 weeks or less.

Supplier lifecycle management

Qualify and bring suppliers onboard quickly, rely on up-to-date information, and make sure users buy from preferred suppliers.

Supplier risk management

Make risk assessment and due diligence part of procurement to mitigate supply risk and potential supply chain disruption.

Services procurement

Manage services procurement and automate the service engagement lifecycle with a cloud solution that maximizes business value.

Meeting today's strategic priorities with our spend management solutions

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Can procurement be made sustainable?

Yes, with SAP Ariba solutions that help you make smarter and safer decisions, buying goods and services that align with your sustainability goals.

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What is total workforce management?

It’s what you achieve when you manage employees and contract labor seamlessly with SAP Fieldglass and SAP SuccessFactors solutions.

Explore our latest innovations

SAP Ariba Category Management

Create cost structures by importing data from market intelligence data providers into SAP Ariba Category Management and mapping application functions to product classifications and custom codes to purchasing categories.

SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management

Configure approval workflows for supplier invoices according to your requirements to ensure accuracy and minimize exceptions before posting to connected systems.