Next-gen SAP Ariba
What is next-gen SAP Ariba?
Next-gen SAP Ariba is an advanced, AI-centric set of solutions that offers new levels of agility to help you thrive in today’s uncertain environment. Capabilities will roll out starting in Q1 2026.
Anticipate, respond, and adapt to changes with modern procurement solutions that help you:
Unify navigation, tasks, and insights with a personal launchpad.
Centralise the starting point for any task with a single spend request front door.
Work smarter and faster with AI assistants in Joule.
Rapidly innovate with solutions built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).
Inform every action with AI-native intelligence
Make smart decisions faster with AI-based assistants that anticipate your needs, offer insights, guide choices, and complete tasks across source-to-pay processes.
Connect solutions and systems seamlessly
Orchestrate spend across processes through built-in integration of SAP Ariba solutions with SAP Business Suite and third-party ERP systems using open APIs.
Boost engagement with a best-in-class user experience
Enhance productivity and consistency across applications through personalised dashboards, at-a-glance insights, and prioritised action items embedded in workflows.
Launch quickly with guided deployments
Shorten time to value with low-code and no-code setup for end-to-end processes, plus trial environments with built-in testing and go-live support.
Improve agility with a modern, extensible platform
Streamline processes and benefit from rapid innovation and adoption enhanced by high security, extensibility, and reliability.
Accelerate results with business network–centricity
Gain immediate access to efficient transaction exchange, information sharing, and collaboration with trading partners across the globe.
Achieve resilience with spend management innovations
Watch this Spend Connect keynote introducing next-gen SAP Ariba to see how our AI-based solutions can help you navigate challenges in an AI-ready era.
Key features
Innovative contract management
Streamline, standardise, and upgrade contract lifecycle management through intelligent contract authoring, an AI assistant for contract creation, obligation management, risk monitoring, and other advanced capabilities supported by Icertis Contract Intelligence integrated with SAP Ariba Contracts.
Intelligent and automated sourcing
Revolutionise your sourcing process with an AI-driven engine that aggregates demand, analyses bids, and manages complex scenarios. New supplier capabilities make participation easier, leading to more competitive events.
Holistic, AI-driven supplier management
Manage suppliers more efficiently with enhanced supplier 360 profiles, performance evaluations, action plans, and AI-based risk analysis, making it easier to build resilient and successful partnerships.
Reimagined buying experience
Benefit from agentic AI infused into purchasing and policy management processes, enhancing the user experience for tracking, receiving, and approvals. Improve your catalogue management processes through capabilities that deliver powerful catalogue ingestion, indexing, marketplace connectivity, and search functionalities.
Upgraded invoice management
Optimise your results through a wide range of next-gen invoicing capabilities, including intelligent fraud detection and exception management, agentic invoice creation, smart optical character recognition, and invoice matching.
See what analysts are saying about SAP spend management solutions
SAP a Leader again in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites
See why SAP has again been named a Leader in this year’s report, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision in source-to-pay suites.
Raise your hand for a quick start
If you’re already using SAP Ariba solutions and want to discuss plans to adopt next gen as quickly as possible, let us know.