SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite: A Solution for Retailers
Discover how retailers can more easily source private-label products and fresh produce and related goods for resale products and services with SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite. Learn how it can help you qualify, onboard, and engage in strategic sourcing processes with suppliers. Download the DocumentSAP® Ariba® Strategic Sourcing
Suite: A Solution for Retailers
Benefits
With SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite,
you can:
• Accelerate time to market for private-
label products
• Digitalize information from the supplier
to the product information management
system
• Reduce source-to-contract cycles by up
to 50%, as reported by SAP customers
• Create comprehensive requests for
proposals in minutes by automatically
populating attribute and category
information from back-end systems
• Automate repetitive sourcing processes
for perishable goods, such as produce
and dairy, to increase the efficiency of
your buyers
• Capture more savings by increasing
spend under management
• Improve corporate social responsibility
compliance with greater visibility and
insight into suppliers’ operations
As consumer preferences rapidly continue to shift to e-commerce, retail businesses
must transform how they do business by digitalizing and transforming core processes.
They must also find ways to innovate and deliver new products faster to stores to
drive sales, customer loyalty, and higher margins.
For many retailers, this means introducing or extending their private-label assortment
– products manufactured by one company and offered under another company’s
brand. These products offer higher profits and build brand loyalty, but they also pose
new challenges and process demands such as:
• Selecting, qualifying, and onboarding suppliers to manufacture products
• Bringing products to market quickly
• Sourcing private-label articles
• Collaborating around relevant attributes with suppliers
Other types of merchandise spend, such as buying fresh produce and goods for
resale products, are often handled using continuous, time-intensive, and repetitive
sourcing processes. How can you meet these new demands with speed, agility,
and excellence?
OPTIMIZE THE SOURCE-TO-CONTRACT PROCESS FOR
PRIVATE-LABEL GOODS AND FRESH PRODUCE
As shown in the figure below, SAP® Ariba® Strategic Sourcing Suite helps you
more easily source private-label products and fresh produce and related goods
for resale products and services. Retail buyers can use the suite to qualify,
onboard, and engage in strategic sourcing processes with suppliers, using best
practices gleaned from leading global private-label retailers. It complements your
digital core, helping you achieve greater agility and productivity, reduce risk, and
better manage supplier relationships through integration with SAP S/4HANA® (as
well as earlier versions of SAP for Retail solutions, informally known as “IS Retail”)
and product information management (PIM) systems. Buyers can request and
compare bids from prospective suppliers and help ensure that key aspects of
goods for resale are consistently addressed in their bids, while suppliers can
quickly input the details.
Data Sheet | PUBLIC
SAP Ariba Solutions | SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
Figure: SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
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Benefits
With SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite,
you can:
• Accelerate time to market for private-
label products
• Digitalize information from the supplier
to the product information management
system
• Reduce source-to-contract cycles by up
to 50%, as reported by SAP customers
• Create comprehensive requests for
proposals in minutes by automatically
populating attribute and category
information from back-end systems
• Automate repetitive sourcing processes
for perishable goods, such as produce
and dairy, to increase the efficiency of
your buyers
• Capture more savings by increasing
spend under management
• Improve corporate social responsibility
compliance with greater visibility and
insight into suppliers’ operations
As consumer preferences rapidly continue to shift to e-commerce, retail businesses
must transform how they do business by digitalizing and transforming core processes.
They must also find ways to innovate and deliver new products faster to stores to
drive sales, customer loyalty, and higher margins.
For many retailers, this means introducing or extending their private-label assortment
– products manufactured by one company and offered under another company’s
brand. These products offer higher profits and build brand loyalty, but they also pose
new challenges and process demands such as:
• Selecting, qualifying, and onboarding suppliers to manufacture products
• Bringing products to market quickly
• Sourcing private-label articles
• Collaborating around relevant attributes with suppliers
Other types of merchandise spend, such as buying fresh produce and goods for
resale products, are often handled using continuous, time-intensive, and repetitive
sourcing processes. How can you meet these new demands with speed, agility,
and excellence?
OPTIMIZE THE SOURCE-TO-CONTRACT PROCESS FOR
PRIVATE-LABEL GOODS AND FRESH PRODUCE
As shown in the figure below, SAP® Ariba® Strategic Sourcing Suite helps you
more easily source private-label products and fresh produce and related goods
for resale products and services. Retail buyers can use the suite to qualify,
onboard, and engage in strategic sourcing processes with suppliers, using best
practices gleaned from leading global private-label retailers. It complements your
digital core, helping you achieve greater agility and productivity, reduce risk, and
better manage supplier relationships through integration with SAP S/4HANA® (as
well as earlier versions of SAP for Retail solutions, informally known as “IS Retail”)
and product information management (PIM) systems. Buyers can request and
compare bids from prospective suppliers and help ensure that key aspects of
goods for resale are consistently addressed in their bids, while suppliers can
quickly input the details.
Data Sheet | PUBLIC
SAP Ariba Solutions | SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
Figure: SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
Category
attribute
hierarchy
Advanced retail
private-label sourcing
Article
integration
Product
questionnaire
Automated
price requests for
perishables
API for PIM
integration
Article and
article variance
Analyze
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About SAP Ariba
Solutions
SAP Ariba solutions support the market-
place for modern business, creating
exchanges between millions of buyers
and suppliers across the source-to-pay
process. Our solutions enable companies
to simplify collaboration with their trading
partners, make smarter business decisions,
and extend their collaborative business
processes with an open technology platform.
More than two million companies use
SAP Ariba solutions to connect and
collaborate around nearly US$1 trillion in
commerce on an annual basis. To learn
more about SAP Ariba solutions and the
transformation they are driving, visit
us online.
WHY RETAILERS ARE CHOOSING SAP ARIBA STRATEGIC
SOURCING SUITE
Retailers using SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite can take advantage of:
• Total landed cost calculations that simplify comparisons by including logistics
costs, import duties, taxes, and International Commercial Terms (Incoterms)
• Configurable, complex price-breakdown requests for proposals and analyses that
detail complex costing information to help you identify potential savings in private-
label product production
• Easier award splits across multiple suppliers
• Integration with SAP S/4HANA (and earlier versions of SAP for Retail solutions,
informally known as “IS Retail”) and its master data, with the inclusion of article
master data with generic articles and variances, as well as support for pricing con-
ditions, to simplify the creation of sourcing events and contracts for goods to resell
• Integration with the SAP ERP application and SAP S/4HANA to smoothly transfer
results from sourcing events and contract negotiations to procurement systems
used to generate follow-on documents and facilitate compliance with pricing and
terms
• Two-way integration with retail PIM systems to collaborate with suppliers on
product- and quality-related characteristics
• Automated processes that include product- and quality-related attributes in
sourcing events and transfer this information into contract documents
• Special strategic sourcing capabilities to support mixed case and display unit
negotiations
• Product questionnaires to explore supplier equitability, inclusiveness, and
sustainability
A CLOSED-LOOP, DIGITALLY TRANSFORMED SOURCING
SOLUTION FOR YOUR NEEDS
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite supports your contracting, merchandise and
nonmerchandise supplier management, and sourcing processes for goods, whether
or not they’re for resale. It also supports a closed-loop, digital, source-to-contract
process for your sourcing needs.
Contract Management Capabilities
With this suite, you can reduce the risks and lost savings associated with misplaced
and mismanaged paper contracts. You can:
• Manage procurement and sales contracts, IP licenses, internal agreements,
and more
• Accelerate the contract lifecycle with automated contract authoring, review,
and approval
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and trading partners
• Integrate article data, vendor master data, and contract data to and from sourcing,
ERP, and other back-end systems
Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Management Capabilities
Support the supplier management lifecycle using a single, Web-based platform that
enables suppliers to register and collaborate with you. You are able to:
• Register, qualify, and segment vendors based on category, location, and business
unit
• Integrate qualified and preferred vendors smoothly into the source-to-contract
process
• Access a 360-degree view of vendor information
• Monitor and manage vendor performance with a centralized information portal
• Utilize automated, standard alerts and reports to assess compliance and manage
vendor risk
LEARN MORE
To learn more, visit us online.
www.ariba.com
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Solutions
SAP Ariba solutions support the market-
place for modern business, creating
exchanges between millions of buyers
and suppliers across the source-to-pay
process. Our solutions enable companies
to simplify collaboration with their trading
partners, make smarter business decisions,
and extend their collaborative business
processes with an open technology platform.
More than two million companies use
SAP Ariba solutions to connect and
collaborate around nearly US$1 trillion in
commerce on an annual basis. To learn
more about SAP Ariba solutions and the
transformation they are driving, visit
us online.
WHY RETAILERS ARE CHOOSING SAP ARIBA STRATEGIC
SOURCING SUITE
Retailers using SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite can take advantage of:
• Total landed cost calculations that simplify comparisons by including logistics
costs, import duties, taxes, and International Commercial Terms (Incoterms)
• Configurable, complex price-breakdown requests for proposals and analyses that
detail complex costing information to help you identify potential savings in private-
label product production
• Easier award splits across multiple suppliers
• Integration with SAP S/4HANA (and earlier versions of SAP for Retail solutions,
informally known as “IS Retail”) and its master data, with the inclusion of article
master data with generic articles and variances, as well as support for pricing con-
ditions, to simplify the creation of sourcing events and contracts for goods to resell
• Integration with the SAP ERP application and SAP S/4HANA to smoothly transfer
results from sourcing events and contract negotiations to procurement systems
used to generate follow-on documents and facilitate compliance with pricing and
terms
• Two-way integration with retail PIM systems to collaborate with suppliers on
product- and quality-related characteristics
• Automated processes that include product- and quality-related attributes in
sourcing events and transfer this information into contract documents
• Special strategic sourcing capabilities to support mixed case and display unit
negotiations
• Product questionnaires to explore supplier equitability, inclusiveness, and
sustainability
A CLOSED-LOOP, DIGITALLY TRANSFORMED SOURCING
SOLUTION FOR YOUR NEEDS
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite supports your contracting, merchandise and
nonmerchandise supplier management, and sourcing processes for goods, whether
or not they’re for resale. It also supports a closed-loop, digital, source-to-contract
process for your sourcing needs.
Contract Management Capabilities
With this suite, you can reduce the risks and lost savings associated with misplaced
and mismanaged paper contracts. You can:
• Manage procurement and sales contracts, IP licenses, internal agreements,
and more
• Accelerate the contract lifecycle with automated contract authoring, review,
and approval
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and trading partners
• Integrate article data, vendor master data, and contract data to and from sourcing,
ERP, and other back-end systems
Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Management Capabilities
Support the supplier management lifecycle using a single, Web-based platform that
enables suppliers to register and collaborate with you. You are able to:
• Register, qualify, and segment vendors based on category, location, and business
unit
• Integrate qualified and preferred vendors smoothly into the source-to-contract
process
• Access a 360-degree view of vendor information
• Monitor and manage vendor performance with a centralized information portal
• Utilize automated, standard alerts and reports to assess compliance and manage
vendor risk
LEARN MORE
To learn more, visit us online.
www.ariba.com
Studio SAP | 73951enUS (23/09)
© 2023 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.
See Legal Notice on www.sap.com/legal-notice for use terms,
disclaimers, disclosures, or restrictions related to SAP Materials for
general audiences.