Supplier management software
Optimise the supplier relationship management process for procurement
Drive spend to preferred suppliers and reduce risk
Ensure compliance across your procurement function through supplier onboarding, qualification and segmentation, and performance management with SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions.
Centralise supplier data and insights
View supplier information in one place for real-time insights into performance, risk, and relationships so you can make faster, more informed sourcing and procurement decisions.
Improve supplier performance
Assess and embed supplier performance data for data-driven decision making to help ensure a more resilient supplier base.
Promote supplier collaboration
Foster stronger, more transparent supplier relationships with SAP Business Network. Collaboration leads to increased efficiency and responsiveness across the procurement function.
Mitigate supplier risk
Identify, assess, and proactively manage supplier risk with integrated tools for monitoring performance, compliance, and sustainability.
Supplier Management Assistants
Improve efficiency and outcomes with self-driving processes and continuous intelligence to guide supplier discovery, screening, monitoring, and more.
Supplier Management Assistant
Streamline supplier lifecycle management using orchestrated AI agents to unify supplier data, assess performance, deliver risk-aware intelligence, and automate collaboration—resulting in highly informed decision-making and more resilient sourcing and procurement processes.
Explore supplier management capabilities
Manage the entire supplier lifecycle, proactively address risks, and work more collaboratively with your suppliers for improved decision making across procurement.
Supplier performance evaluations
Add more flexibility to your evaluation process with granular KPIs and scoring, improving performance with decisions based in data.
Native procurement suite
Manage and share supplier information in-context across SAP Ariba procurement solutions.
Self-service capabilities for suppliers
Boost confidence in supplier data by allowing suppliers to access and update their own information via SAP Business Network.
Two-way sync with SAP ERP
Keep supplier data up-to-date and consistent with bidirectional synchronisation between SAP ERP and SAP Ariba solutions.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Improving supplier relationships with SAP Ariba
Rich’s is managing its vendor relationships so it can on-board suppliers more quickly and maintain supplier data all in one place.
Reinventing procurement as a strategic capability
With standardised processes, Smith+Nephew is reshaping its procurement operations as part of an ambitious sustainability strategy.
Uncovering new business potential via procurement
Pony.ai is centralising access to accurate data, digitalised sourcing, and supplier performance management in the cloud.
See what analysts are saying about SAP
SAP named a Market Leader in supplier management
This Ardent Partners report highlights SAP’s robust supplier management capabilities and focus on innovation.
Resources
SAP Ariba Supplier Management: Ten strategies to boost your program effectiveness
Learn 10 strategies that can help you unlock the power of SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions. Read how these strategies make it easier to boost your organisation’s supplier-management effectiveness.
Supplier Management: The Integrated Advantage
A new Ardent Partners survey of CPOs and procurement executives from large global enterprises shows that the choices procurement organisations make in how they approach, prioritise, and automate their supplier management programmes can directly impact bottom-line savings and overall performance.
Decoding Confidence in the Procurement Function
The Economist Impact surveyed of 500 C-suite executives to identify how businesses are transforming procurement and managing challenges such as risk, rising costs, growing macroeconomic uncertainty, and increasing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) expectations.
Building Bridges: How to strengthen procurement/supplier relationships
Economist impact procurement survey data, concentrating on supplier management data.