Leading European Firms Drive Better Commerce with Ariba
Seven of eight winners of 2010 Procurement Leaders Awards use Ariba solutions to control costs, minimize risk and improve cash flow and operations
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2010 – In today's economy, it's all about doing more with less. And doing it faster, better and cheaper than ever before. It's a tall order. But with a little help from Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA), leading European firms are delivering on it. Of the eight winners of the 2010 Procurement Leaders Awards, seven rely on solutions from Ariba to control their costs, minimize risk and improve cash flow and operations, including: A.P Moller-Maersk, Sainsbury's, AstraZeneca, Siemens, BT and Johnson & Johnson.
"Over the last decade, procurement has proven its ability to drive savings and efficiencies using technology-based solutions and processes," said Mike Arenth, General Manager, Ariba, EMEA. "But to reach the next level, companies must attack the inefficiencies that remain between businesses to enable more effective collaboration among trading partners and fuel better commerce. The 2010 Procurement Leaders Award winners understand this and are tapping a new breed of solutions to help their organizations get there. We are honored to be working with so many of these visionary companies and congratulate them on their success."
Designed to recognize and reward excellence, innovation and leadership across the procurement, sourcing and supply chain community, the annual Procurement Leaders Awards aim to:
- Provide recognition to procurement departments and key individuals
- Promote procurement as a strategic contributor to the organization
- Enhance the profession in the eyes of senior management
- Highlight world-class achievements to a wider audience
- Help companies benchmark against other top performers
And the 2010 winners are:
Best use of Technology
A.P Moller-Maersk
Best Procurement Team
Sainsbury's
Best-Cross-Function Project
AstraZeneca
People Development
Siemens
CSR
BT
Procurement Leader
Hans Melotte, Johnson & Johnson
Innovation
Syngenta
Procurement Excellence
A.P Moller-Maersk
"The Procurement Leaders Awards have shown their capacity to leverage fresh ideas, approaches and strategies and we congratulate all organizations who entered this year's awards," said Alex Martinez, Managing Director, Procurement Leaders Network. "This year's winners represent an exclusive community of individuals who are spearheading innovation and leadership in the function and delivering to their organizations new worlds of excellence."
The 2010 Procurement Leaders Award winners are among the more than 300,000 companies who use the Ariba® Commerce Cloud to manage their business commerce activities. The Ariba Commerce Cloud is the most-efficient, effective, and universally adopted platform for global commerce between businesses and contains everything that's needed to drive it, including:
- Market-leading applications for Spend Management, Collaborative Finance Management, and Sales Acceleration Management – all delivered as scalable, cost-effective and burden-free cloud-based services
- The Ariba Network, the world's largest Web-based trading community, empowering more than 300,000 global businesses to discover, connect, and collaborate for better commerce
- Ariba Exchange, the industry-leading customer community where companies can network, share best practices, and collaborate with partners and peers
- Market, category, technical, strategic and other expert capabilities that can be accessed on-site or remotely via the Web as needed to support ever-changing business needs and objectives
Each day, businesses use the Ariba Commerce Cloud to:
- Buy and sell more than $450 million worth of goods and services – from raw materials and assemblies to IT equipment and complex business services
- Conduct more than 100,000 purchase and sales transactions
- Process more than 60,000 invoices and payments
- Manage a host of other commerce collaborations – from discovering new business opportunities to negotiating contracts to securing financing
Whether looking to control supply chain costs, increase sales, minimize risk, or enhance cash flow and operations, companies can do it better in the Ariba Commerce Cloud. To learn more about the benefits that it can deliver for your organization, visit: www.ariba.com/commercecloud
About Ariba, Inc.
Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Ariba enables more efficient and effective buying, selling, and cash management by combining industry-leading software as a service (SaaS) commerce technology with the world's largest web-based global trading community and expert capabilities and services to augment internal resources and skills – all as a flexible, cloud-based service. The Ariba® Commerce Cloud™ delivers everything needed to control costs, increase sales, minimize risk, and enhance cash flow and operations. More than 300,000 companies, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100, use Ariba's solutions to drive more efficient and effective inter-enterprise commerce. Why not join them? For more information on Ariba commerce solutions and the results they deliver, visit www.ariba.com
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