SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
Boost efficiency with strategic sourcing for manufacturers and retailers
Process manufacturers, retailers, and discrete manufacturers that rely on external manufacturers can capture more savings by improving source-to-contract processes and supplier collaboration with a sourcing suite that supports industry-specific processes and systems.
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite can help you integrate sourcing, contracting, and supplier management on a unified platform and source key spend types – improving cycle time while driving contract compliance and immediate savings.
Cloud deployment
Process management, workflows, and links to industry-specific systems
Supplier onboarding, qualification, and segmentation
360-degree view into materials and total landed cost calculations
Key benefits
Experience the advantages of a single platform
Upgrade the quality and performance of sourcing, contracting, and supplier management for industries while reducing costs.
Enhance your bottom line with strategic sourcing
Gain visibility, optimize segment spend, and identify savings opportunities while standardizing source-to-contract processes across teams and business units.
Support a closed-loop, source-to-contract process
Improve process efficiencies, capture more savings, and minimize supplier-selection risks with a single sourcing, contracting, and supplier management solution.
Key features
Explore how discrete and process manufacturers and retailers can benefit from the integrated processes of SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite.
Discrete manufacturing
Electronic RFx and bid comparisons
Use RFx and project management tools with workflows, document management, and approvals to get bids and award suppliers.
Outsourced manufacturing and BOM collaboration
Collaborate on bills of materials and engineering change notifications with manufacturing partners and easily compare bills of materials (BOMs).
360-degree view of supply
Increase transparency with a 360-degree view of material price history and trends, sourcing activities, and sources of supply.
Integration to PLM systems
Integrate with product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and systems for importing BOMs and engineering change notifications.
ERP integration with operational procurement
Achieve compliance with contracts and other follow-on documents by integrating with operational procurement processes.
Cost breakdown analysis
Identify potential savings by configuring cost breakdowns using complex costing information collected from suppliers.
Process manufacturing
Total landed cost calculation and governance
Calculate total costs – including logistics, import duties, and taxes – to compare prices with international commercial terms.
Greater quality through collaboration
Improve the quality of recipes, BOMs, and product specs by working directly with suppliers and external manufacturers.
Comprehensive process management
Use RFx and project management tools with workflows, document management, and approvals to solicit bids and award business.
Material 360
Gain insights into material price history and trends, sourcing activities, and sources of supply.
Cost breakdown analysis
Identify potential savings by configuring cost breakdowns using complex costing information collected from suppliers.
ERP integration
Generate compliant follow-on documents, such as purchase information records and documents with advanced pricing conditions.
Retail
Simplified RFx development
Create comprehensive RFQs in minutes by automatically populating attribute and category information from back-end systems.
Retail system integration
Integrate with key retail systems, including article master data with generic articles and variants and pricing conditions.
Automation of repetitive processes
Automate sourcing processes for fresh and perishable products that are regularly reordered, such as fruits and vegetables.
Improved sustainability performance
Gain greater visibility into suppliers’ operations to develop insights that help improve corporate responsibility compliance.
Electronic RFQ and bid comparisons
Help retailers find savings in private-label product production with RFQs and analyses that detail complex costing information.
Pricing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
In blocks of 1 Users per year
Contract duration between 3 and 60 Month
Auto-Renewal
Features:
Metrics:
- This service is billed per user per year.
- For this cloud service, individuals with unique active profiles are counted.
Included:
- Extension of the functionality of our sourcing solutions into management of the more advanced requirements of direct materials sourcing.
- Built-in contract and supplier performance-management functionality.
- Function with all spend categories and manages the entire source-to-contract process.
- One productive tenant and one test tenant of SAP Business Network.
- One productive tenant and one test tenant of SAP Ariba Supplier Management.
- One productive tenant and one test tenant of SAP Ariba Sourcing.
- One productive tenant of Unified Account.
Contract duration details:
- The yearly price and quantity are prorated per month for contract durations of less than one year.
Pricing structure and more contract duration details are available on request.
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360-degree supplier insight and event monitoring
Qualify suppliers, compare bids, and realize savings at scale with continuous, embedded event progress and price monitoring.
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Visibility
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Extensibility
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Integration
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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.
Resources
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