Sourcing and Contracts
Reduce costs and mitigate risks while fully realising negotiated savings
Standardise source-to-contract processes across the organisation as you identify savings opportunities and find new sources of supply.
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Product Overview
Guided sourcing
Expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of RFI and RFP sourcing events with streamlined processes.
Process workflows
Drive efficiency with flexible project management tools, including integrated workflows, document management, and approvals.
Category management
Define the project processes, activities, and tasks you need, given the category, geography, and business units involved.
Integrated contract management
Improve control and compliance with capabilities for authoring and approving contracts, a clause library, and workflows.
Integrated supplier management
Employ capabilities to qualify suppliers, streamline onboarding, monitor performance, and mitigate risk on a single platform.
SAP Ariba solutions help us leverage every opportunity to take cost out of the business and help drive value to the bottom line.
Tom McKee, CIO, Kennametal Inc.
Project management tools
Use electronic, template-based tools to get bids and issue awards with integrated workflows, approvals, and documentation.
Materials dashboard
Monitor sourcing needs with innovative and configurable dashboards for materials and bills of materials (BOMs).
PLM and retail solution integration
Share data smoothly by uniting product lifecycle management (PLM), material and product information, and vendor management.
BOM and recipe collaboration
Collaborate with key suppliers to boost innovation, improve design for manufacturability, and control costs.
Integrated contract and supplier management
Create contracts automatically, qualify vendors, streamline onboarding, and manage supplier risk on a single platform.
Automated project initiation
Enable demand and sourcing projects to be triggered by purchase requisitions acquired from multiple back-end systems.
Sourcing project management
Facilitate project and event creation, management, and execution for materials that are part of available material masters.
Automated negotiation processes
Achieve greater efficiency with options for multiple rounds of renegotiation and support for flexible pricing conditions.
Access to material masters
Help ensure the automated creation of sourcing award documents, such as contracts and POs, complies with terms and conditions.
Supplier management and collaboration
Manage supplier lists to receive bids from the right suppliers and integrate with supplier portals to ease collaboration.
Collaborative negotiations
Make negotiations more efficient to accelerate contract cycles, identify revenue opportunities, and minimise revenue loss.
Centralised contract repository
Keep better track of your contracts with secure, electronic storage capabilities and search tools for on-demand access.
Contract processing workflows
Control contract authoring, negotiation, approval, and execution with automated workflows and a comprehensive audit trail.
Powerful search and reporting
Avoid missed deliverables and milestones while eliminating maverick and redundant contracts.
Electronic signature management
Go ink- and paper-free and watch your savings, revenue, and productivity grow by eliminating the need for manual signatures.
Commodity classifications
Collect and combine spend data and classify it with taxonomies based on customised terms or industry standards unique to SAP.
Enriched supplier data
Gain insight into your supply base, find sourcing opportunities, and optimise negotiations based on Dun & Bradstreet data.
Built-in machine learning
Enable fast, accurate supplier enrichment and commodity classification with large data volumes, as well as ongoing refreshes.
Fast analysis and reporting
Achieve faster data loading and accelerate reporting without data-size barriers by using SAP HANA.
Integrated services
Maximise your ROI with application, project management, and adoption support and guidance from deployment strategists.
Everything is driven by the fact that SAP solutions let us define KPIs and track them. This is because, what you can't measure, you can't control – and what you can't control, you can't improve.
Manuel Salomon, Strategic Supply Manager, Grupo México – División Minera AMC
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Advanced contract lifecycle management across your source-to-pay process
Improve contract turnaround times, realise the full value of every contract, and effectively manage risk by extending contracting capabilities with Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba solutions.
Additional Resources
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