SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance

Centralized supplier management supports faster onboarding, up-to-date data, and compliant spending across your supply base.
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Strong supplier relationships build resilient supply chains

A unified and comprehensive view of your most important supplier information can help your business work with suppliers effectively to withstand disruption. Transform supplier management and enable better buying decisions with intelligent tools that keep you in control.

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The SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance solution provides tools to onboard, qualify, segment, and manage suppliers; automate and streamline supplier management; and align closely with procurement on consistent supplier data.

  • Cloud-based deployment
  • Integration with SAP Ariba solutions
  • Self-service portal for supplier-maintained information
  • Customizable qualification and segmentation workflows
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Key benefits

Drive spend to preferred suppliers

Manage suppliers based on specific parameters and integrate information with SAP Ariba solutions to guide employees to buy from preferred suppliers.

Eliminate savings leakage with visibility

Achieve greater transparency and control to help ensure employees buy the right products at the right price – and negotiated savings reach the bottom line.

Scale compliance across your supply base

Integrate with SAP Ariba solutions for more effective and consistent supplier management throughout your supply base and source-to-pay process.

Key features

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Two-way sync with SAP ERP

  • Establish bidirectional synchronization between the SAP ERP application and SAP Ariba solutions
  • Keep vendor data up to date

Integration with applications

  • Integrate with SAP Ariba solutions
  • Enable consistent supplier qualification and segmentation

Self-services for suppliers

  • Allow suppliers to maintain their own information
  • Foster confidence in the data

Matrix-based management

  • Employ a flexible matrix for supplier qualification and segmentation
  • Customize by category, location, and business unit

Pricing

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SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance

  • Metric:

    • This product is priced by users per month.
    • User is any individual authorized to access the Cloud Service. For this Cloud Service, individuals with unique active profiles are counted.
    • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

  • Contract duration details:

    • The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations less than a year.

  • Payment method:

    • Payment via invoice is supported for all countries.
    • Click on the "Buy Now" button to find out if payment via credit card is supported in your country.
monthly price
CAD 1,004.00
  • In blocks of 1 Users
  • Contract duration 3 to 60 months
  • Auto-renewal

  • Metric:

    • This product is priced by users per month.
    • User is any individual authorized to access the Cloud Service. For this Cloud Service, individuals with unique active profiles are counted.
    • The metric entitlement is not time-bound and does not deplete with usage, unless otherwise specified in the respective Product Supplement, Service Description Guide or Service Use Description.

  • Contract duration details:

    • The yearly price and quantity are pro-rated per month for contract durations less than a year.

  • Payment method:

    • Payment via invoice is supported for all countries.
    • Click on the "Buy Now" button to find out if payment via credit card is supported in your country.
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Procurement Benchmark Survey Insights

Use this report to facilitate digital transformation, assess outcomes from your source-to-pay solutions, or identify KPIs to improve performance.

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Ten strategies for effective supplier management

Boost the effectiveness of your supplier-centric processes with ten strategies to unlock the power of your SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions.

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How to strengthen the procurement/supplier relationship

Learn how companies are building resilience by building bridges between their internal procurement teams and external suppliers across every tier.

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Portfolio recognition and awards

SAP Ariba solutions are recognized for their multi-faceted industry leadership based on verified user reviews, ratings, and in-depth customer insights.

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.

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Integration

Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streaming your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.

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

Find out why SAP has been recognized as a Leader for our ability to execute and completeness of vision in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites.

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Frequently asked questions

Supplier lifecycle management is the strategy of managing the processes, interactions, and moments that span the lifecycle of your relationship with suppliers. The right supplier lifecycle management strategy can improve your working relationships with suppliers at virtually every touch point and improve effectiveness across your source-to-pay processes.

A supplier management system is most often a software solution that manages data and processes related to suppliers – all in one place. A supplier management system should simplify and streamline every step of the vendor management lifecycle and help your business create more successful relationships with suppliers. Increasingly, supplier management systems must be able to provide a single source of truth where all supplier data is stored and accessible. Using a supplier management system, your business can perform in-depth analysis on supplier data and explore important insights about supplier risk informing all stages of the source-to-pay process.

The number of phases in the vendor lifecycle varies by industry and depends on your company’s needs as well as the needs of your vendors. No matter how many stages there are in your vendor lifecycle, your strategy for vendor lifecycle management should put vendors at the center of your procurement processes.

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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