Procure-to-pay software
View and manage all your spend through a unified procure-to-pay process
Achieve better compliance and cost control
Digitalize and automate your procurement process with procure-to-pay software solutions from SAP. Streamline buying and invoicing, ensure compliance, and enable full spend visibility.
Guide compliant purchasing
Empower employees to make smart purchasing decisions with a consumer-grade buying experience and AI-generated recommendations from a centralized catalog.
Centralize invoices
Gain visibility, reduce errors, and accelerate approvals with automated invoice processing and a centralized view of all invoices from across your organization.
Control spend with confidence
Unify processes, track spend in real-time across multiple ERP systems, and improve decision-making with AI and ML automation.
Manage external services spend securely
Track the who, what, where, when, why, and how of each project to streamline processes, reduce risk, and meet business goals.
Procure-to-pay assistants
Speed and streamline buying, receiving, invoicing, and more with autonomous tools that drive intelligent actions and decisions.
Buying Assistant
Identify spend leakage, get recommendations for optimal suppliers, and generate short names for catalog items. Automate analysis, receive actionable recommendations to optimize spend, reduce manual effort, and streamline catalog quality management, enrichment, and normalization, enabling faster, more consistent purchasing decisions and an improved end-user experience for buyers.
Receiving Assistant
Radically simplify the goods receipt, service entry sheet, return, and quality tracking processes by automating tasks, simplifying steps, streamlining workflows, and guiding users through the optimal path when required. Enhance purchase order and contract compliance with built-in adherence to procurement policies.
Invoicing Assistant
Fully automate accounts payable (AP) workstreams, minimizing or eliminating human intervention during invoice processing and payment scheduling.
Integrate comprehensive spend data from SAP source systems and enable AI agents to detect fraud across suppliers, POs, invoices, and expenses, as well as identify unusual employee behaviors. Deliver a fast, compliant AP process while enhancing financial accuracy and security.
Explore procure-to-pay software capabilities
Deliver spend control and compliance with guided buying, catalogs, and centralized management with SAP Ariba procure-to-pay solutions.
AI-powered single front door for demand intake
Context-aware AI assistant that captures requests, asks the right questions, and guides users seamlessly through the process.
Intake dashboard
A simple, intuitive way to submit and track procurement requests in real time—with no guesswork or chasing e-mails.
Seamless procurement orchestration
Orchestrate workflows across systems and stakeholders, streamlining processes, removing manual effort, and accelerating the process.
No-code, AI-powered process builder
Build and adapt intake-to-procure workflows on the fly with drag-and-drop simplicity. No coding. No heavy IT lift.
Guided buying
Guide your employees to make smart purchasing decisions with a simple user experience.
Network-based collaboration
Cut costs and boost efficiency by connecting with your suppliers on SAP Business Network.
Catalog content
Provide a wide range of catalog channels and monitor content quality with dashboard reports.
Invoice management
Improve accounts payable efficiency and compliance with automated invoicing reconciliations and regulatory consistency.
Collaborative digital workspace for services spend
Operationalize contracts and SOWs to ensure that deliverables comply with terms, milestones, service quality, and budget.
Real-time data and analytics
Use end-to-end data intelligence to reach the right balance of service quality, cost, and speed for better business outcomes.
Intuitive, AI-assisted user interface
Customize the solution with self-service tools and reduce complexity with an intuitive interface and AI-enabled functionality.
Built-in tax and labor compliance
Comply with regional and local tax and labor regulations and meet government mandates across 180 countries and in 21 languages.
Invoice management flexibility
Capture invoices from e-mail, networks, or Joule AI and benefit from embedded multi-model AI data extraction innovations for increased accuracy.
Central worklist
Streamline invoice processing and approvals using a single view of all invoices across all channels in your organization, seamlessly integrated to SAP ERP.
Touchless invoice processing
Benefit from the latest innovations in invoice automation, processing, and AI on a modern, secure, extensible, and self-service platform.
Catalog enablement
Employ full catalog enablement capabilities including collection, validation, enrichment, classification, and approval.
Rich content
Increase the number and quality of filters users can apply to searches to improve search results.
API integration
Use open API integration and catalog APIs to automate tasks such as lookup data uploads and enterprise software system updates.
Intuitive user experience
Drive adoption with a user-friendly interface that helps simplify both purchasing and the catalog creation process.
All-in-one command center
Centralize compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command center.
Unified requisitioning experience
Harmonize workflows and create requisitions using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions.
Central demand aggregation
Bundle requisitions for better pricing and create and publish central requests for quotes from external purchase requisitions.
Enterprise contract orchestration
Orchestrate global contracts for company-wide operations and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution.
Automated invoice processing
Receive, process, and pay your invoices digitally, including non-PO invoices and invoices for recurring and complex services.
Cloud-based invoice workflow
Use a workflow builder to build, test, and deploy new workflows, or modify rules using drag-and-drop functionality.
Preconfigured templates
Manage approvals, apply cost codes, and resolve invoice exceptions using built-in workflows with best-practice templates.
Financial reporting invoice monitoring
View specific invoices and invoices-in-aggregate and track by supplier, cost center, commodity code and more.
Greater savings, faster
Deploy in as few as 12 weeks and quickly begin automating processes that speed up purchase orders and improve cash flow.
Better compliance
Help employees make smarter buying decisions and control spending with increased visibility and tracking that spans processes.
Stronger supplier relationships
Quickly onboard new suppliers from a vast supplier network and collaborate with them in real time on early-payment discounts.
Meet e-invoicing mandates with built-in compliance
Collaborate with your suppliers over SAP Business Network to ensure compliance with mandates in more than 40 countries.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Delivering visibility, control, and compliance
Rich Products fostered key supplier relationships through a single standardized process and platform.
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.*
The Hackett Group’s 2026 Procurement Agenda and Key Issues Study Results
What key trends, priorities, changes and resources will have transformational impact on the procurement agenda over the next five years? Find out in this must-read research report.
Unlock the value of services spend
Watch our webinar replay to discover how leading companies transform services spend from a blind spot into a strategic advantage. Learn to boost speed, compliance, and ROI with automation and AI.
Resources
Procurement at a Crossroads: The C-Suite View in 2026
New research from Economist Enterprise — what 2,648 C-suite leaders say about procurement, AI, and the year ahead.
Managing uncertainty: Six strategic actions for finance and procurement executives
Discover six strategic actions you can take to manage uncertainty, strengthen resilience, and drive value. Based on research and best practices, this framework supports collaboration, digital transformation, and improved profitability and efficiency.
AI and Procurement: Why intake management is a quick win
See how AI-driven intake management delivers fast, measurable value by improving visibility, control, and efficiency at the front door of procurement.
Driving growth in volatile times: Five ways procurement can be a growth engine
Learn how procurement can improve agility, manage risk, and drive growth despite disruption, rising costs, and supply uncertainty.