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SAP Ariba Central Procurement
Effective, center-led procurement requires visibility and control over company-wide spend across multiple ERP systems.
What is SAP Ariba Central Procurement?
It's a procurement command center that provides control over requisitioning, purchasing, sourcing, and contracts through a single user interface.
Data is unified and procurement processes are orchestrated across multiple ERP systems—without the cost or complexity of changing them.
Native integration with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Ariba solutions
Standard APIs for third-party ERP integration
A clear view of requisitions, orders, spending, and payments
Global control and visibility while transacting in local ERP systems
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Key benefits
Achieve companywide visibility
Orchestrate core procurement activities from a single, centralized command center and provide visibility into purchasing processes based on roles and permissions.
Gain a clear view of spending
Get a comprehensive and accurate view of demand, requisitions, orders, and spend, supporting compliance, more-effective negotiations, and demand aggregation.
Improve productivity
Reduce redundancy and bring global consistency to key steps of the procurement process without disrupting day-to-day work and systems within each business unit.
Reduce procurement costs
Efficiently aggregate company-wide demands to leverage purchasing power and ensure compliance with globally negotiated contracts, preventing value leakage.
Guard against market fluctuations
Implement index-based contract pricing to mitigate risks from commodity market volatility.
Enforce policies and best practices
Effectively enforce supply-assurance policies and sustainability best practices through centrally governed contracts.
Streamline supplier engagement
Leverage a center-led model to effectively manage strategic relationships, driving cost savings and fostering innovation.
Mitigate talent risks
Organize for economies of skill by deploying scarce talents on high-impact categories and strategic activities.
Accelerate S/4HANA transformation
Realize short-term savings to fund your ERP transformation program.
Key features
All-in-one command center
Centralize compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command center
Deliver global control and visibility while transacting in local back-end systems
Manage procurement responsibilities centrally
Unified requisitioning experience
Free up purchasers’ time by reducing repetitive tasks through a powerful automation framework
Create requisitions centrally for all connected back ends using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions
Harmonize workflows for approvals, confirmations, and returns
Central demand aggregation
Aggregate and bundle requisitions to take advantage of better volume pricing
Create and publish central RFQs from external PRs
Generate follow-on back-end POs or central contracts from quotations
Enterprise contract orchestration
Negotiate and monitor global contracts for legal entities across your enterprise
Orchestrate operational contracts for direct and indirect materials company-wide and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution
Enable contract distribution at a header or line-item level
Central analytics
Monitor the health of your procurement process for continuous process improvement
Track central purchase contract consumption and global spend
Drill down to get a quick and accurate look at operational details and monitor requisition metrics, such as cycle times and touchless rates
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Frequently asked questions
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Technical and security information
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Visibility
Unlock spend data with solutions that deliver total spend visibility, aid in planning and forecasting, and connect critical data from SAP and third-party sources.
Extensibility
Customize and extend the value of spend management solutions by eliminating inefficiencies, building new apps, enhancing existing apps, and providing personalized experiences.
Integration
Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streaming your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.
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.
AI guidance with SAP Ariba Central Procurement in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
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Make better purchasing decisions faster in a simplified, optimized process
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Save time and effort across business teams with recommendation alerts
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