Procure-to-pay software

Drive visibility and control across all types of spend-related processes and make sure your negotiated savings reach the bottom line.
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View and manage all your spend through a unified procure-to-pay process

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Achieve better compliance and cost control

Digitalise and automate your procurement process with procure-to-pay software solutions from SAP. Streamline buying and invoicing, ensure compliance, and enable full spend visibility.

Guide compliant purchasing

Empower employees to make smart purchasing decisions with a consumer-grade buying experience and AI-generated recommendations from a centralised catalogue.

Centralise invoices

Gain visibility, reduce errors, and accelerate approvals with automated invoice processing and a centralised view of all invoices from across your organisation.

Control spend with confidence

Unify processes, track spend in real-time across multiple ERP systems, and improve decision-making with AI and ML automation.

Manage external services spend securely

Track the who, what, where, when, why, and how of each project to streamline processes, reduce risk, and meet business goals.

Explore procure-to-pay software capabilities

Deliver spend control and compliance with guided buying, catalogues, and centralised management with SAP Ariba procure-to-pay solutions.

AI-powered single front door for demand intake

Context-aware AI assistant that captures requests, asks the right questions, and guides users seamlessly through the process.

Intake dashboard

A simple, intuitive way to submit and track procurement requests in real time—with no guesswork or chasing e-mails.

Seamless procurement orchestration

Orchestrate workflows across systems and stakeholders, streamlining processes, removing manual effort, and accelerating the process.

No-code, AI-powered process builder

Build and adapt intake-to-procure workflows on the fly with drag-and-drop simplicity. No coding. No heavy IT lift.

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Guided buying

Guide your employees to make smart purchasing decisions with a simple user experience.

Network-based collaboration

Cut costs and boost efficiency by connecting with your suppliers on SAP Business Network.

Catalogue content

Provide a wide range of catalogue channels and monitor content quality with dashboard reports.

Invoice management

Improve accounts payable efficiency and compliance with automated invoicing reconciliations and regulatory consistency.

Catalogue enablement

Employ full catalogue enablement capabilities including collection, validation, enrichment, classification, and approval.

Rich content

Increase the number and quality of filters users can apply to searches to improve search results.

API integration

Use open API integration and catalogue APIs to automate tasks such as lookup data uploads and enterprise software system updates.

Intuitive user experience

Drive adoption with a user-friendly interface that helps simplify both purchasing and the catalogue creation process.

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All-in-one command centre

Centralise compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command centre.

Unified requisitioning experience

Harmonise workflows and create requisitions using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions.

Central demand aggregation

Bundle requisitions for better pricing and create and publish central requests for quotes from external purchase requisitions.

Enterprise contract orchestration

Orchestrate global contracts for company-wide operations and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution.

Automated invoice processing

Receive, process, and pay your invoices digitally, including non-PO invoices and invoices for recurring and complex services.

Cloud-based invoice workflow

Use a workflow builder to build, test, and deploy new workflows, or modify rules using drag-and-drop functionality.

Preconfigured templates

Manage approvals, apply cost codes, and resolve invoice exceptions using built-in workflows with best-practice templates.

Financial reporting invoice monitoring

View specific invoices and invoices-in-aggregate and track by supplier, cost centre, commodity code and more.

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Embedded OCR capabilities

Use embedded optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities to capture data automatically from invoices emailed in PDF format.

Centralised worklist

Streamline invoice processing and approvals using a single view of all invoices across all channels in your organisation.

AI and ML automation

Reduce data entry errors and ease team workloads by automating key invoice capture and processing stages.

Open, extensible, and future-proof

Use a single invoice-to-pay solution that integrates smoothly with existing landscapes and follows a rapid innovation road map.

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Collaborative digital workspace for services spend

Operationalise contracts and SOWs to ensure that deliverables comply with terms, milestones, service quality, and budget.

Real-time data and analytics

Use end-to-end data intelligence to reach the right balance of service quality, cost, and speed for better business outcomes.

Intuitive, AI-assisted user interface

Customise the solution with self-service tools and reduce complexity with an intuitive interface and AI-enabled functionality.

Built-in tax and labour compliance

Comply with regional and local tax and labour regulations and meet government mandates across 180 countries and in 21 languages.

Greater savings, faster

Deploy in as few as 12 weeks and quickly begin automating processes that speed up purchase orders and improve cash flow.

Better compliance

Help employees make smarter buying decisions and control spending with increased visibility and tracking that spans processes.

Stronger supplier relationships

Quickly on-board new suppliers from a vast supplier network and collaborate with them in real time on early-payment discounts.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Delivering visibility, control, and compliance

Rich Products fostered key supplier relationships through a single standardised process and platform.

See what analysts are saying about SAP

SAP Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites

Find out why SAP has been recognised as a Leader for our ability to execute and completeness of vision.

The Hackett Group’s 2025 Procurement Agenda and Key Issues Study Results

Read how success can be achieved through advanced analytics, data visibility, AI technology, and the right balance of integration.

Resources

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites, Micky Keck, Kaitlynn Sommers, Balaji Abbabatulla, Cian Curtin, Lynne Phelan, Chaithanya Paradarami, Martin Shreffler, 24 March 2025.

 

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