SAP Strategic Procurement solutions

Cost savings can be sustainable with AI-powered and integrated sourcing, contracting, and supplier management applications.
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What is SAP Strategic Procurement?

It’s an integrated SAP Business Suite solution bundling sourcing, contracting, and supplier management to streamline the source-to-contract process.

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By connecting the right people, processes, and information you can improve margins, cut costs, and reduce risks while strengthening control

  • Cloud deployment

  • Planning and execution of strategic sourcing programs

  • End-to-end orchestration of the contract lifecycle management process

  • Supplier selection and qualification with advanced, integrated features

SAP Business Suite webinar series

Explore how SAP Business Suite can help you balance cost, risk, and sustainability with intelligent insights and Business Suite packages for procurement.

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Key benefits

Improve spend coverage

Simplify content creation using features that run on AI and machine learning as you expand supplier connections and collaboration over SAP Business Network.

Realize sustainable savings

Enhance compliance and stop contract leakage by managing procurement and sales contracts with integrated supplier and contract management functionality.

Collaborate effectively with suppliers

Execute strategic sourcing events, use constraint-based optimization scenarios, and use event scoring and feedback to drive event competitiveness.

Key features

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Guided sourcing

  • Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP events

  • Manage events using artificial intelligence and a machine learning assistant

  • Enhance strategic sourcing project management with flexible tools, such as integrated workflows, document management, and approvals

Integrated contract management

  • Improve control and compliance with tools for authoring and approving contracts, a clause library, and workflows

  • Automate and accelerate the contract lifecycle while standardizing and controlling contract development and approval

  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and trading partners

Optimized supplier management

  • Assess and qualify suppliers based on category, region, and business unit

  • Manage supplier performance with a centralized information portal

  • Streamline supplier onboarding processes, including workflows and approvals, while assessing compliance and mitigating supply risk

Pricing

Choose a base plan

SAP Strategic Procurement

  • Included:

    • Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP events
    • Simplify contract creation with a questionnaire-based tool and built-in clause library
    • Assess and qualify suppliers based on category, region, and business unit
    • Manage supplier performance with a centralized information portal
    • Streamline the entire source-to-contract process through sourcing, contract management, and supplier lifecycle and performance management
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  • In blocks of 1 Users
  • Contract duration 3 to 36 months
  • Auto-renewal

  • Included:

    • Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP events
    • Simplify contract creation with a questionnaire-based tool and built-in clause library
    • Assess and qualify suppliers based on category, region, and business unit
    • Manage supplier performance with a centralized information portal
    • Streamline the entire source-to-contract process through sourcing, contract management, and supplier lifecycle and performance management

Add-ons to enhance your plan

  • SAP Ariba direct materials sourcing add-on

    Expand your usage and deployment of strategic sourcing solutions with a supplemental site
    • In blocks of 1 Users
    • Contract duration 1 to 5 years
    • Auto-renewal
    • In blocks of 1 Users
    • Contract duration 1 to 5 years
    • Auto-renewal

  • SAP Ariba e-tendering add-on for public sector

    Enables public authorities to manage mandatory, legally prescribedprocurement processes by delivering simple, streamlined digital processcontrols that address the requirements for publication, submission,selection, evaluation and award tendering wi...
    • In blocks of 1 Flat Fee
    • Contract duration 1 to 5 years
    • Auto-renewal
    • In blocks of 1 Flat Fee
    • Contract duration 1 to 5 years
    • Auto-renewal
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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 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.

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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.

See why SAP is a Leader 

The Hackett Group’s 2025 Procurement Agenda and Key Issues Study Results

Research reveals how procurement success can be achieved through AI, advanced analytics, real-time data visibility, and the right balance of ERP and solution integration.

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Services and Support

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SAP for Me portal

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*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce, Mike Lowndes, Yanna Dharmasthira, Sandy Shen, Penny Gillespie, Aditya Vasudevan, Jason Daigler, 21 August, 2023. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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