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SAP Ariba Spend Analysis

Making informed sourcing decisions requires visibility into spend that unlocks insights about purchases, suppliers, and costs.

Maximize spend visibility and turn data into actionable intelligence

The better you understand your spend, the greater your opportunity to improve sourcing efficiency, reduce risk, and reveal new savings opportunities. Data classification and enrichment can help you gain even more insight.

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Make trusted, faster, and more confident buying decisions – and negotiate with greater clout – with the SAP Ariba Spend Analysis solution. Powerful analytics reveal spending insights and categorize the commodities you buy from each supplier.

  • Cloud deployment
  • Enriched supplier data
  • Advanced machine learning
  • Fast analysis and reporting

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Make trusted, faster, and more confident buying decisions – and negotiate with greater clout – with the SAP Ariba Spend Analysis solution. Powerful analytics reveal spending insights and categorize the commodities you buy from each supplier.

  • Cloud deployment
  • Enriched supplier data
  • Advanced machine learning
  • Fast analysis and reporting

Key Benefits

Maximize sourcing savings

Increase spend under management, improve your sourcing pipeline, discover new sourcing opportunities, and find out exactly where your money is going.

Reduce procurement costs

Discover supplier linkages to boost spend leverage and get the most from your supplier base while expanding visibility into price indexes and discount leakages.

Improve contract compliance

Gain insight from spending reports that identify maverick, off-contract, and non-PO-based spending while guarding against fraud and other noncompliant activity.

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Key Features

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Detailed view of commodities spend

  • Classify your spend data using industry standards and custom taxonomies
  • Perform up to six levels of commodity classification using machine learning–based algorithms, supplier intelligence and custom mapping, and rules engines 
  • Discover category insights hidden within your unstructured spend data

Enriched supplier data

  • Enhance your supplier data with industry codes and business information from the Dun & Bradstreet database
  • Integrate and map enriched data automatically to your supplier data 
  • Discover cost-saving and sourcing opportunities and track supplier diversity and sustainability initiatives

Fast, powerful analytics

  • Accelerate data loading and reporting using SAP HANA to analyze spend data
  • Run complex, user-defined analytics with no time-outs or limits on data size
  • Gain deeper insights, identifying opportunities to yield faster savings with existing contracts and processes

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Detailed view of commodities spend

  • Classify your spend data using industry standards and custom taxonomies
  • Perform up to six levels of commodity classification using machine learning–based algorithms, supplier intelligence and custom mapping, and rules engines 
  • Discover category insights hidden within your unstructured spend data

Enriched supplier data

  • Enhance your supplier data with industry codes and business information from the Dun & Bradstreet database
  • Integrate and map enriched data automatically to your supplier data 
  • Discover cost-saving and sourcing opportunities and track supplier diversity and sustainability initiatives

Fast, powerful analytics

  • Accelerate data loading and reporting using SAP HANA to analyze spend data
  • Run complex, user-defined analytics with no time-outs or limits on data size
  • Gain deeper insights, identifying opportunities to yield faster savings with existing contracts and processes

Build a business case

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Get a clear view of spend – all in one place

Gain 360-degree visibility into your spending and suppliers with the clarity you need to make trusted, confident decisions.

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Make the case for change

Review the five key questions every CPO should be asking their teams as you make your case for procurement digitalization.

Technical Information

Use SAP Business Technology Platform with this cloud solution to gain visibility, extend applications, and integrate your source-to-pay processes.

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, streamlining your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.

Get Started

Jump-start your SAP solution implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.

Services

Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.

Support

Explore the learning center, engage in discussion forums, and create service requests in SAP Ariba Connect for solution power users and digital support contacts.

Security and compliance

Focus on your business and customer relationships, while keeping your data safe and reliable. SAP takes a proactive, predictive approach to maintaining compliance and data security in the cloud and within an on-premise data center.

Questions? Get in touch!

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