SAP Ariba Sourcing software

Enhance sourcing outcomes and improve business performance with automation, AI, and cross-solution connectivity.
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What is SAP Ariba Sourcing software?

SAP Ariba Sourcing software helps navigate rising economic pressures and supply chain challenges by streamlining sourcing with AI, automation, and integration for faster, smarter, and sustainable outcomes.

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Simplify sourcing events, reduce costs, and scale with confidence. SAP Ariba Sourcing software offers:

  • AI-driven automation with an intuitive experience through Joule, SAP’s copilot.

  • Seamless sourcing integration with broader procurement processes.

  • A vast global supplier network for choice, competition, and innovation.

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Key benefits

Boost savings and continuity

Easily create and manage your sourcing pipeline, optimise your supply base, negotiate lower pricing, and cut costs through comprehensive event format support.

Simplify the entire sourcing process

Streamline event and content creation through automation and get AI-driven supplier recommendations to reduce cycle times and minimise administrative overhead.

Create a connected procurement ecosystem

Integrate processes with SAP and third-party solutions to support strategic continuity, collaboration, and intelligence sharing across source-to-pay processes.

Key features

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Streamlined sourcing processes

  • Capture sourcing project information and requirements easily with an intuitive intake form.

  • Increase competitiveness with smart scoring.

  • Optimise awards using advanced simulations.

  • Visualise and compare bids instantly with historical data, user-defined ranges, and advanced filtering capabilities.

Accelerated sourcing with Joule

  • Streamline workflows with AI features to qualify suppliers, manage event creation, and deliver intelligent next steps.

  • Quickly navigate key sourcing workflows such as requests, project creation, and task management.

  • Automate bid reminders, approvals, and process steps with intelligent in-system automation.

Supplier discovery and onboarding

  • Search for suppliers by industry, item, or service needs.

  • Connect and collaborate directly with suppliers through integration with SAP Business Network Discovery.

  • Access trusted profiles with certifications; environmental, social, and governance (ESG data); and assessments.

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Portfolio recognition and awards

SAP Ariba solutions are recognised for their multi-faceted industry leadership based on verified user reviews, ratings, and in-depth customer insights.

Technical and security information

Discover how our cloud solutions fuel your spend strategy with SAP Business Technology Platform and protect your enterprise with built-in security.

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

Customise and extend the value of spend management solutions by eliminating inefficiencies, building new apps, enhancing existing apps, and providing personalised experiences.

Integration

Centralise data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streaming your source-to-pay process with pre-built connections.

See what analysts are saying about SAP

SAP Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites

Find out why SAP has been recognised as a Leader for our ability to execute and completeness of vision in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites, Micky Keck, Kaitlynn Sommers, Balaji Abbabatulla, Cian Curtin, Lynne Phelan, Chaithanya Paradarami, Martin Shreffler, 24 March 2025

 

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