AUTONOMOUS SPEND
Sourcing Assistant
Orchestrate end-to-end sourcing from supplier discovery and event creation to bid analysis and supplier negotiations.
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Overview: Deploy agents today. Unlock even more tomorrow.
The AI agents you stand up in SAP Ariba will lay the foundation for the future of procurement and they’ll hit even harder in next-gen SAP Ariba. That's because the SAP Business AI platform and Business Data Cloud significantly sharpen agentic decision-making, amplifying the value of everything you've already launched.
The Sourcing Assistant orchestrates the sourcing lifecycle from supplier discovery to award. It understands buyer intent, creates events grounded in contracts and past sourcing data, analyses bids with supplier risk and market inputs and generates counteroffers at scale. This results in agility through faster event launches and award decisions and cost savings through policy-driven negotiations.
Tasks this assistant can help with:
- Creating sourcing events using contractual, historical and supplier data
- Recommending qualified suppliers and discovering new suppliers from a network of millions
- Analysing bids across cost, quality and risk dimensions with market inputs
- Recommending awards with explainable trade-offs and reasoning
- Automating negotiation and counter-offer generation
Example use cases for this assistant:
- Reduced manual effort in event creation and bid evaluation
- Enhanced sourcing agility for urgent and high-volume events
- Improved decision quality for better total cost analysis and transparent trade-off analysis
- Automated negotiations that ensuring no savings opportunity is left on the table
Benefits
Faster time to award
Compress sourcing cycles through automated event creation, bid analysis and award recommendations.
Smarter supplier decisions
Analyse bids by supplier risk, market data and sourcing objectives with transparent reasoning.
Stronger negotiation outcomes
Generate counteroffers focused on price, payment terms and delivery levers based on competitive bid data.
Reduced manual workload
Eliminate event set-up and bid comparison tasks with recommendations grounded in past events, contracts, supplier data and deep research.
Agents used by this assistant
Use the Sourcing Assistant to orchestrate specialised AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or customised agents you create.
Sourcing Event Agent
Creates events through natural conversation with AI content grounded in past events and contract and supplier data.
Bid Analysis Agent
Executes multidimensional evaluation of supplier bid data with transparent trade-offs and reasoning.
Sourcing Negotiation Agent
Automatically creates negotiation strategies and counteroffers based on policy, market and bid data.
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