SAP Business AI for procurement

Optimize spend, reduce risk, and maximize supply chain efficiency with AI.
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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 optimizing your time and budget.

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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, minimize supply disruption, and build inflation resilience. AI-enabled sourcing solutions help avoid bottlenecks, mitigate risk, and generate recommendations. Productivity tools optimize 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.

See what your ROI and savings could be with SAP Business AI

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Accelerate progress with AI-enabled procurement

Empower your team with the value-rich resources they need to drive down costs and discover new opportunities.

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Analyze market competition 90% faster*

Make market research and supplier selection more efficient. Boost actionable insights and create category strategies faster.

Process informational searches 95% faster*

Use Joule’s intuitive natural language interface to accelerate informational searches throughout SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Category Management, SAP Ariba Buying, SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, and SAP Fieldglass.

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Expedite external job descriptions by 85%*

Simplify external hiring through automation. Turn bullet points into comprehensive job descriptions and translate them into over 20 languages. Leverage intelligent screening tools to identify top talent.

Create statement-of-work descriptions 71% faster*

Untangle back-and-forth vendor communication by quickly turning initial ideas into detailed statements of work using AI and automation tools.

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Additional solutions

Simplify catalog searches and purchasing

Provide quick and easy access to buy from your preferred suppliers. Use AI to recommend relevant items based on your organization's purchasing trends, streamlining and enhancing the overall shopping experience.

Boost accuracy with automated invoice classification

Streamline your invoice process from start to finish with automated data extraction, accurate mapping, and validation tools to improve efficiency.

Maximize opportunities with spend insights

Leverage spend insights from all your systems—consolidated, enriched, and categorized—to anticipate market trends, mitigate supply disruption, drive ESG goals, capture savings, and combat inflation.

Featured customer story

Centralizing 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.

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From chatbot assistants to strategic AI agents

Discover how AI enhances user experiences and streamlines processes to make interactions more intuitive and engaging.

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A simpler way to buy and stay compliant

Learn how guided buying with AI-driven item recommendations speeds the purchasing process, driving down expenses while ensuring compliance standards.

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AI for procurement and the broader business

Exhibit digital leadership to better integrate and infuse intelligence into the vast landscape of enterprise applications.

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Build a contingent workforce faster

Empower your hiring managers to build the workforce your organization needs to succeed with AI-enabled resume screening and skill-matching capabilities.

Frequently asked questions

AI can significantly enhance procurement processes by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and aiding better decision-making. It can analyze purchasing data to identify spending patterns, uncover cost-saving opportunities, and help optimize procurement strategies. AI can also automate contract analysis by extracting essential terms and conditions, ensuring compliance, and identifying potential risks and opportunities. By integrating AI into procurement, organizations can make more informed decisions and streamline processes for improved operational efficiency.

AI is used in procurement to optimize spend, enhance efficiencies, and provide a better employee experience. Key solution areas include:

  • Category management: Create category strategies faster with enriched market data and cost information to boost actionable insights and optimize spending

  • Sourcing: Receive recommended suppliers, enhance supplier risk management, and accelerate e-procurement efficiencies

  • Buying: Make it easier for your users to shop by simplifying the experience with your company's catalogs

  • Invoicing: Automate data extraction to ensure accurate and swift processing

  • External workers: Transform a few bullet points into comprehensive job descriptions and localize them

  • Services procurement: Turn initial ideas into detailed statements of work

  • Spend analytics: Unlock insights and opportunities with all your company’s spend consolidated, enriched, and standardized to key categories

* Numbers assumed for consumer products company with €1 billion in revenue and 2,000 employees. Annual benefits result from one or more value drivers. Source: SAP Value Management.

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