SAP Ariba Contracts
Automated contract management smooths the contract lifecycle
Contracts are complicated enough. It’s time to cut the manual, paper-based processes that slow down your business. Digitalize everything from contract requests, authoring, and workflows to negotiation, approval, and execution for lower costs and improved relationships.
The SAP Ariba Contracts solution creates a single integrated view of contract data and standardizes related processes, helping your business realize negotiated savings, identify opportunities, pinpoint leakages, and much more.
The SAP Ariba Contracts solution creates a single integrated view of contract data and standardizes related processes, helping your business realize negotiated savings, identify opportunities, pinpoint leakages, and much more.
Key Benefits
Increase revenue and reduce costs
Identify revenue opportunities, prevent contract leakage, renew contracts on time, and save on shipping by using e-signatures.
Realize negotiated savings
Negotiate best-value agreements with timely approval and connect with suppliers throughout the contract process to improve efficiencies and lower costs.
Enable stronger compliance
Bring more spend into compliance and stay informed about off-contract activity with controlled processes, automated tracking, and a full audit trail.
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Key Features
Centralized contract repository
Preapproved templates and a clause library
Real-time monitoring
Centralized contract repository
Preapproved templates and a clause library
Real-time monitoring
Build a business case
Accelerate time to value and innovation
Discover how you can start partnerships faster using fewer resources and negotiate best-value agreements with timely approval.
Dive deeper into SAP Ariba Contracts
Learn how our contract management software addresses two components of the contract lifecycle to create best-value agreements.
Connect contract intelligence to business processes
Explore how SAP and Icertis are ushering in a new era for organizations seeking world-class contract lifecycle management.
Technical Information
Use SAP Business Technology Platform with this cloud solution to gain visibility, extend applications, and integrate your source-to-pay processes.
Visibility
Unlock spend data with solutions that deliver total spend visibility, aid in planning and forecasting, and connect critical data from SAP and third-party sources.
Extensibility
Customize and extend the value of spend management solutions by eliminating inefficiencies, building new apps, enhancing existing apps, and providing personalized experiences.
Integration
Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streamlining your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.
Get Started
Jump-start your SAP solution implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.
Services
Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.
Support
Explore the learning center, engage in discussion forums, and create service requests in SAP Ariba Connect for solution power users and digital support contacts.
Security and compliance
Focus on your business and customer relationships, while keeping your data safe and reliable. SAP takes a proactive, predictive approach to maintaining compliance and data security in the cloud and within an on-premise data center.
Frequently Asked Questions
The contract management process focuses on centralizing contract storage, strengthening compliance, and automating the creation, execution, and management of any type of contractual agreement.
Contract management software enables companies to create, share, modify, approve, and execute any type of contract online. The software helps eliminate inefficient, costly, and lengthy contract cycles.
A good contract management system eliminates misplaced and mismanaged paper contracts along with their related risks and lost savings. Advanced systems help users efficiently create contracts, maintain a single integrated view of contract data, and enforce compliance, so companies can realize negotiated savings and minimize risk exposure.
Choose a contract management system with features that help users:
- Replace cumbersome, paper-based systems with cross-functional automated processing
- Ensure compliance with supplier commitments and industry regulations
- Realize the full potential of current contracts
- Maintain a clear overview of contracts and a contract audit trail