SAP Ariba Sourcing, standard and base editions
Boost your bottom line by improving sourcing efficiency and agility
With margins under pressure, keeping control of costs is key. By streamlining access to a global network of suppliers and increasing spend visibility, you can speed up your sourcing cycles, adapt to evolving organizational needs, and discover valuable savings opportunities.
Manage spend more strategically and achieve new savings by using the standard edition of SAP Ariba Sourcing to discover and select qualified suppliers from a broad supplier network and automate, streamline, and track sourcing activities.
Key benefits
Improve spend coverage across categories
Help sourcing managers create and manage the sourcing pipeline to rationalize the supply base, negotiate lower pricing, and respond to demand.
Execute your desired sourcing outcomes
Catalyze your sourcing strategy using a range of advanced RFP and auction tools.
Realize sustainable savings
Enforce negotiated savings when you integrate sourcing with contracting, supplier management, operational procurement, and analytics processes.
Key features
Simplified sourcing activities
Guided sourcing processes
Supplier discovery and onboarding
Fast, simplified, and scalable guided sourcing
AI-enabled guided sourcing helps you achieve sustained savings across your supplier network, all while creating sourcing events in half the time.
Intelligent recommendations and process automation Get next steps with AI-enriched guidance and automatically correct and map event data from import files like Microsoft Excel.
Event creation and management from a single page Improve usability and reduce learning curves by doing everything on one screen – from event setup to supplier collaboration.
360-degree supplier insight and event monitoring Qualify suppliers, compare bids, and realize savings at scale with continuous, embedded event progress and price monitoring.
Optimize supplier choice and savings with AI in SAP Ariba Sourcing
Built-in SAP Business AI capabilities help you quickly match top suppliers to your unique needs, and supplement sourcing requests with helpful input.
In the video, see how sourcing managers use AI to:
Scoutbee Discovery for SAP Ariba Sourcing
Scoutbee’s AI-driven, complex-criteria discovery tool integrates with SAP Ariba Sourcing to deliver high-value suppliers with less time and effort.
Smarter supplier identification Quickly expand and optimize your entire supplier portfolio using AI-powered searches to find just the right suppliers.
Enriched supplier validation Grasp the overall supplier landscape using AI to automatically verify supplier data points across diverse data sources.
Optimized supplier assessment Thoroughly examine and assess supplier information such as capabilities, capacities, quality, certifications, and much more.
High-impact supplier sourcing Improve performance, increase savings, and reduce risk by discovering newer, more qualified, and cost-effective suppliers.
Get started in as little as a week with our sourcing base edition
Fast track immediate value and results for your business with SAP Ariba Sourcing, base edition. It’s a lighter, lower-cost version of the full solution, giving you quick access to the core functionality used by thousands of companies worldwide to achieve bottom-line success.
With a largely self-guided deployment and preconfigured capabilities, the base edition of SAP Ariba Sourcing is designed to radically reduce the time and effort required to achieve sourcing excellence.
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