Procurement
Cut costs, drive compliance, and gain visibility with e-procurement solutions
Move faster and spend better when you link all spend categories worldwide and use
intelligent technology to facilitate search and approvals.
Product Overview
Manage direct, indirect, and services spending for every market in one place, while automatically adapting to individual market requirements.
Invoice management
Enjoy touchless invoice processing with built-in rules that require suppliers to resolve errors before submission.
Guided buying
Guide employees to buy from preferred suppliers while complying with your procurement processes and policies.
Spot Buy
Enable users to make one-off purchases from vetted suppliers while you get built-in control over a custom B2B marketplace.
Procurement operations desk
Give your procurement team a scalable and collaborative way to validate, source, and approve special purchase requests.
Global market adaptability
Mitigate the complexity involved in managing procurement processes across multiple cultures and countries.
We’re bringing procurement to the next level of partner and value contributor within our organization and helping drive major spend decisions that are being made by the business.
Patricia Miller, Managing Director of Digital Transformation for Procurement Plus, Accenture
ERP integration for invoice management
Optimize your front-end procure-to-order processes while integrating with your ERP to support invoice and payment processing.
Guided buying
Guide employees to buy from preferred suppliers while complying with your procurement processes and policies.
Spot Buy
Enable users to make one-off purchases from vetted suppliers while you get built-in control over a custom B2B marketplace.
Procurement operations desk
Give your procurement team a scalable and collaborative way to validate, source, and approve special purchase requests.
Global market adaptability
Mitigate the complexity involved in managing procurement processes across multiple cultures and countries.
Using the Spot Buy capability, users were able to quickly find the items they needed in a matter of minutes that were policy-approved. This enabled our strategic sourcing managers to reduce the need for low volume suppliers for small company locations.
Head of Procurement, Operations and Processes, Evonik Industries AG
Catalog enablement
Employ full catalog enablement capabilities, including collection, validation, enrichment, classification, and approval.
Rich content
Deliver rich content by increasing the number and quality of filters users can apply to searches to improve search results.
API integration
Use open API integration and catalog 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 catalog creation process.
By moving to SAP Ariba solutions for indirect spend, we can focus on the work that matters most for our business and our clients. We have greater transparency and expanded vendor opportunities, as well as the integration we need for future innovation.
Luis Ferreira, Board Member and CIO, Trivalor SGPS SA
All-in-one command center
Centralize compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command center.
Unified requisitioning experience
Harmonize workflows and create requisitions centrally using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions.
Central demand aggregation
Bundle requisitions to take advantage of better volume pricing and create and publish central RFQs from external PRs.
Enterprise contract orchestration
Orchestrate global contracts for company-wide operations and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution.
Central analytics
Monitor the health of procurement processes by tracking global spend and drilling down to access operational details.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP Ariba Procurement solutions
Elevate the value of procurement
Connect all spend to actions and outcomes with SAP Business Technology Platform.
Additional Resources
Dive deeper into how innovative SAP procurement solutions can help you recreate and improve the buying experience for your organization.
Get a glimpse into how SAP can help you take procurement beyond the basic process, end to end.
Learn five key questions that every CPO should answer as they plan for digitalizing procurement.
Transform procurement by starting with SAP S/4HANA as your digital foundation and adding SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions.
Discover how software from SAP can help you strengthen collaboration between procurement and accounts payable.