About Ariba Spend Management Solution

Ariba delivers capabilities across four key success points that are essential to effective spend management:

• Speed. Extensive services, intelligence, and rapidly deployable solutions support faster rollout and greater traction in under-managed spend areas-generating results in weeks instead of months or years. Expert data cleansing and enrichment paired with exceptional category knowledge enables fast, accurate identification of new savings and spend opportunities.

• Sustainability. Superior information transparency drives improvements in companywide spend performance. Platforms and systems with built-in best practices and templates help organizations capture and institutionalize crucial spend management processes and knowledge, facilitating widespread compliance and self-sufficiency and ensuring that identified savings can be realized far into the future.

• Coverage. Broad category coverage and expertise join powerful technology to drive efficient sourcing and procurement from supply markets across the globe, regardless of category complexity. Integration to multiple ERP and legacy systems-along with outstanding visibility and control-expands spend management value to all users and transactions across the organization.

• Flexibility. Ariba offers new levels of choice in the way companies adopt spend management-and in the way they can deploy, expand, and purchase their spend management programs to achieve powerful bottom line results.