Source-to-contract solutions
Drive savings and time-to-value in every source-to-contract cycle
Streamline sourcing and contracting processes
Standardize source-to-contract processes across the organization as you identify savings opportunities and find new sources of supply.
Improve spend coverage and sustainable savings
Empower sourcing managers to streamline the sourcing pipeline, negotiate better pricing, and integrate request for proposal (RFP) tools with contracts and supplier collaboration.
Digitalize and simplify the contract lifecycle
Identify revenue opportunities, prevent contract leakage, and ensure timely renewals. Negotiate the best-value agreements while improving compliance with automated tracking.
Manage direct materials source-to-contract processes
Speed up time to market through supplier innovations. Improve compliance with negotiated terms, manage price volatility, and collaborate for sustainable, competitive products.
Source-to-contract assistants
Enhance sourcing strategies, create advantageous contracts, and strengthen supplier performance with AI-powered completion of critical tasks.
Sourcing Assistant
Orchestrate sourcing workstreams and tasks from supplier discovery to award. Leverage AI to understand buyer intent, create events grounded in contracts and past sourcing data, analyze bids with supplier risk and market inputs, and generate counter offers at scale.
Procurement Contract Assistant
Automate tasks and integrate intelligence across the contract lifecycle to reduce risk, protect revenue, improve compliance, and maximize contract value from authoring through renewal.
Explore source-to-contract capabilities
Guided sourcing
Improve creation, monitoring, and awarding of request for information (RFI) and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.
Process and workflow management
Use powerful management and savings-tracking technology to speed up sourcing cycles, boost productivity, and reduce costs.
Support for multiple RFx types
Create “request for” events and competitive bidding environments to save time, compare choices, and make informed decisions.
Savings pipeline and tracking
Use an optional, integrated app for tracking and reporting savings for insight into what’s working and what’s not.
Collaborative negotiations
Make negotiations more efficient to accelerate contract cycles, identify revenue opportunities, and minimize revenue loss.
Centralized contract repository
Keep better track of your contracts with secure, electronic storage capabilities and search tools for on-demand access.
Contract processing workflows
Control contract authoring, negotiation, approval, and execution with automated workflows and a comprehensive audit trail.
AI-driven contract intelligence
Maximize contract value using advanced insight and monitoring from Icertis to align contract performance with business goals.
Automated project initiation
Enable demand and sourcing projects to be triggered by purchase requisitions acquired from multiple back-end systems.
Sourcing project management and automated negotiation
Create, manage, and execute projects and events for materials, including multiple renegotiation rounds and support for flexible pricing.
Access to material masters
Ensure that the automated creation of sourcing award documents, such as contracts and POs, complies with terms and conditions.
Supplier management and collaboration
Manage supplier lists to receive bids from the right suppliers and integrate with supplier portals to ease collaboration.
Guided sourcing
Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.
Integrated contract management
Improve control and compliance with capabilities for authoring and approving contracts, a clause library, and workflows.
Supplier management
Automate and streamline supplier lifecycle and performance management with tools to onboard, qualify, and segment suppliers.
Process workflows
Drive efficiency with flexible project management tools, including integrated workflows, document management, and approvals.
See our latest innovations
We’re making advances in AI-powered capabilities to help you and your teams make informed decisions that increase spending control and savings.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Realizing game-changing savings opportunities
Spend insights and analytics helped American Eagle Outfitters make more information decisions in the procurement process.
Making great sourcing possible
Source-to-pay capabilities plus SAP Business Network enables the supplier collaboration that keeps Adani humming.
See what analysts are saying about SAP
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.*
Resources
SAP Ariba Benchmarking Report
Explore key procurement benchmarks and best practices to improve source-to-pay performance and drive measurable business results.
Accelerate the Power of Strategic Procurement: Turn Insights into Action
Learn how procurement leaders turn insights into action to strengthen strategy, manage risk, and deliver greater business impact.
A real-world discussion of how much procurement can do
Discover how modern procurement teams improve processes, enhance experiences, and deliver greater value across the business.
Procurement project management for new product introduction
See how SAP Ariba helps plan and manage new product introductions to accelerate innovation and streamline sourcing programs.