SAP Business AI for procurement
AI procurement tools that boost your bottom line
Business flourishes when your team has what it needs to grow and innovate. SAP's AI-enabled procurement solutions help you harness valuable resources and services while optimising your time and budget.
Simplify spend management with AI-enhanced visibility and automation
Elevate your procurement processes with integrated generative AI capabilities from SAP. Data-driven spend analytics provide rich insights to help you anticipate market trends, minimise supply disruption, and build inflation resilience. AI-enabled sourcing solutions help avoid bottlenecks, mitigate risk, and generate recommendations. Productivity tools optimise purchasing while automating time-consuming tasks.
Reduce costs and save time on sourcing
Partner with recommended vendors, enhance supplier risk management, and accelerate e-procurement efficiencies.
Fill critical positions faster
Discover external and contingent workers with AI-assisted job and statement-of-work descriptions. Simplify the hiring process with automated job translations and intelligent resume analysis.
Increase productivity with AI and automation
Streamline processes with automated invoice management and contract management. Make better, faster decisions with AI-generated insights.
Adapt sourcing at the speed of business with Joule and SAP Ariba
Explore how Joule’s Sourcing Agent helps managers quickly refine sourcing events, navigate geopolitical risks, and stay ahead in dynamic supply chains.
AI that fits into your flow of work
Simplify work and accelerate results with AI-enabled scenarios that connect end-to-end procurement processes.
SOLUTION
Streamline category strategy development
Generate AI-driven strategies based on defined goals, segmentation, costs, and market data to help reduce cycle times, simplify onboarding, and grant instant access to cost structures and segmentation data.
USE CASE
Segment a market category easily with AI
Accelerate category strategy creation and process compliance by using AI to segment categories based on the widely used Kraljic matrix structure, which helps manage resources and suppliers, and balance risk and reward in sourcing.
USE CASE
Analyse market competition with AI insights
Create more impactful category strategies by gaining deeper insights into market nuances with our AI-enabled Market Dynamics Tool that uses the Porter 5 Forces framework.
USE CASE
Evaluate the cost structure of categories easily
Increase efficiency using AI to evaluate cost structures, analyse supplier data, uncover risks, and generate tailored strategies with relevant and reliable data.
Joule Agents
Discover ready-to-use Joule Agents for procurement that automatically plan and execute multi-step workflows connecting departments, speeding up decisions, and streamlining processes.
Create tailored RFPs fast using the Sourcing Agent that analyses data and past sourcing events, shortlists suppliers, and suggests questions so you can make real-time adjustments.
See how our customers are succeeding with SAP
Centralising and simplifying purchasing protocols
See how American Eagle Outfitters achieved high compliance rates by streamlining procurement and supplier management with SAP Business Network for Procurement and SAP Ariba applications.
Calculate your savings from SAP Business AI
Learn how SAP Business AI can deliver measurable value for your business.
Packages
Discover how Joule can help meet your spend management needs.
Joule Base
Baseline AI capabilities, included in all cloud subscriptions:
Provides free access to core AI functions
Supports tasks like finding information and navigating to task-relevant locations
Embedded in standard cloud licenses with solution-specific foundational AI capabilities
Joule Premium
Advanced AI capabilities tailored to your business needs. Includes everything in Joule Base plus:
Powerful organisation-wide or user-specific access to high-value AI services
Relevant Joule Agent capabilities and premium Joule capabilities, such as analytical insights and task automations
Price based on usage through AI units, billed monthly
Resources
White paper
How AI makes intake management a quick win
Find out why AI can help you unlock value from intake management software and simplify a complex buying landscape to give users one entry point.
LEARNING COURSE
Introducing SAP Business AI for Spend Management
Learn how AI supports procurement and spend management processes in this self-paced course designed to build foundational knowledge.
ANALYST REPORT
From chatbot assistants to strategic AI agents
Discover how AI enhances user experiences and streamlines processes to make interactions more intuitive and engaging.
ANALYST REPORT
AI for procurement and the broader business
Exhibit digital leadership to better integrate and infuse intelligence into the vast landscape of enterprise applications.