Procurement Content

Lack of up-to-date reliable content that users can access in a self-service mode greatly impacts the success of your eProcurement initiatives. The benchmark continues to move higher and at an ever-increasing pace with users now expecting a consumer website shopping experience from their procurement systems.

Ariba's best practices in content management have led us to develop the Ariba Procurement Content solution.

Business Needs
Procurement content requirements vary for every business. Inaccurate item data and frequent supplier catalog updates are costly to catalog managers in time and effort. Companies need a better way to handle the way they create, manage, and present catalog content.

• Catalog managers waste time and effort on frequent catalog updates to correct wrong data
• Employees are unable to find needed items or gain rapid approval to purchase
• Searching for items through multiple supplier catalogs and navigating multiple user interfaces is confusing to employees
• Reach employee compliance with monitoring purchasing rules, contract terms and pricing

Benefits
Ariba Procurement Content allows you to access a single content source for all commodities-ensuring procurement compliance, in an easy-to-use intuitive search experience.

• A rich eCommerce-like user interface allows users to easily search for goods and services
• Only approved content and active contract compliance
• Integration with one or more eProcurement systems
• On-going catalog maintenance services
• Support for multi-lingual catalogs, global deployment
• Rapid deployment
• Training and support
• On demand infrastructure

Proven Results
With Ariba Procurement Content, distractions of catalog management and compliance are eliminated with an end-to-end combination of proven technology, extensive domain expertise and expert services.

• Leverage investments in existing purchasing systems
• Minimize maverick off-catalog and off-contract purchasing with preferred suppliers of specific goods or services
• Save time and money by reducing manual processes, errors and oversights
• Enable proper catalog content to be displayed to the user
• Improve adoption and increase transaction volumes
• Consolidate purchasing into a single content system
• Gain productivity and visibility into spend process
• Consolidate spend reporting
• Cleanse data for improved search, comparison, selection and reporting

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