Sourcing

Strategic sourcing provides the single greatest opportunity to impact the cost, quality, and performance of your supply chain. Yet, increased globalization, soaring energy and commodity costs, and tightening supply markets have kept many companies from achieving their full sourcing potential.

That is, until now. Ariba helps you overcome these challenges by delivering best-in-class sourcing and negotiation technology together with award-winning strategy and category expertise, and access to a global network of suppliers.

This unique total solution approach enables companies of any industry, size, or geography to drive fast, sustainable results across the sourcing lifecycle:

• Develop Strategy - Identify savings opportunities, assess market dynamics, and develop an informed sourcing strategy
• Source and Negotiate - Identify and qualify suppliers, negotiate best-value agreements, derive the optimal award allocation, and drive project collaboration, process standardization, and knowledge management across the sourcing lifecycle
• Monitor and Manage - Quickly implement supplier agreements, track and realize savings, and manage supplier performance

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Features

Ariba delivers a unique, total sourcing solution that combines a comprehensive sourcing software platform with strategic sourcing and category expertise, and a global supplier network for discovery and assessment of new sources of supply. Ariba Sourcing solutions empower companies to streamline and improve the complete sourcing lifecycle, including:

• Opportunity analysis and strategy development - develop successful sourcing strategies by analyzing total spending to identify sourcing opportunities and accessing embedded Ariba global sourcing and category expertise
• Supplier discovery and assessment - easily discover and qualify new sources of supply with access to more than 250,000 global suppliers on the Ariba Supplier Network
• Sourcing project and knowledge management - manage and track collaborative projects and share knowledge across the sourcing lifecycle
• RFx and negotiation - quickly set up and execute all full range of RFx and competitive negotiations, including Dutch auctions, Total Cost auctions, Forward auctions, Reverse auctions, & Sealed Envelope auctions
• Optimization and analysis - quickly analyze multiple, constraint-based award scenarios across a myriad of line items, parameters, and cost-factors to determine best-value awards
• Supplier implementation and savings tracking - rapidly implement and track savings implemented from your best-value agreements and forecast new opportunities
• Supplier management - gain a holistic supplier record, evaluate and manage vendor performance, and drive continuous improvement and corrective actions programs

Ariba solutions are available in flexible On Demand or CD versions, support integration with all major ERP and business systems, and support multi-language, currency, and regulatory requirements. In addition, Ariba consultants and category experts deliver a host of service and support options - from opportunity analysis and sourcing project management to low-cost country sourcing and International Purchasing Office (IPO) development - to ensure rapid and sustainable results from your strategic sourcing program.

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Benefits

Ariba Sourcing solutions deliver the best benefit of all: rapid and sustainable results. Hundreds of companies around the globe use Ariba sourcing technology, expertise, and global supplier network to drive bottom-line benefits:

• More than $350 billion is sourced through Ariba Sourcing Solutions each year - resulting in over $30 billion in savings for our customers
• Ariba sourcing and category experts source more than $74 billion on behalf of ourcustomers
• Ariba Network Discovery provides access and assessments of 250,000 global suppliers

Companies using Ariba Sourcing solutions have reported the following additional benefits:

• Negotiate best-value supply agreements
• Standardize and enforce disciplined sourcing best-practices across the enterprise
• Elevate sourcing skills and knowledge across the organization
• Accelerate sourcing cycles and throughput
• Extend strategic sourcing to all spend categories
• Capitalize on low-cost-country opportunities
• Minimize supply risks
• Optimize and align sourcing decisions with strategic business objectives

Ariba's total solution approach, global reach, and flexible delivery model make Ariba Sourcing solutions accessible to companies of any size, industry, and geography.

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