Strategic Sourcing in the Digital Economy

The document discusses tips for a successful journey to the cloud based on lessons learned from benchmarking thousands of companies' cloud deployments. It provides five tips: 1) embrace configuration over customization, 2) prepare for process and people changes, 3) take an end-to-end approach to make an impact, 4) look broadly across your business, and 5) think ahead to avoid pitfalls. The document encourages readers to contact their SAP Ariba account manager to learn more about applying these lessons to their own cloud journey.

This document discusses invoice automation through SAP Ariba as a key component of digital transformation for purchase order and contract compliance. It highlights how SAP Ariba provides an invoice network that allows suppliers to submit invoices through a global portal. This enables 98% touchless invoice processing and reduces supplier inquiries. Implementing invoice automation improves compliance, provides visibility into spending, and standardizes processes.

Ariba was founded in 1996 to facilitate and improve the procurement process using the internet. It provides spend management solutions to help companies analyze, understand, and manage spending to achieve cost savings. Ariba offers solutions across the entire spend management lifecycle from analysis and sourcing to contract management, procurement, payment, and supplier management. It has a large customer base across many industries and competes against companies like SAP, Oracle, and Basware. Ariba generates revenue primarily from software licensing, auction commissions, advertising, and subscription fees.

This document discusses insights on procurement data analytics solutions from SAP. It introduces speakers from Vodafone and SAP and outlines an agenda covering executive dashboarding using Supply Watch at Vodafone, process mining using Celonis at Vodafone, and advanced analytics using SAP Fraud Management. The document provides details on each of these topics and opportunities for data mining in procurement organizations.

"Procurement executives are continually challenged to maintain sustainable savings, overall operational efficiency, and risk mitigation in today’s highly volatile commodity markets and risk-prone global supply chains. Organizations today look up to procurement teams to deliver value beyond tactical savings. Procurement is increasingly seen as the driver of business value through cross-functional collaboration within the enterprise as well as outside. During this session, we’ll hear about two successful transformation stories: • Murphy Oil, which was supported by Accenture in the implementation • SAP Global Procurement organization, describing how SAP’s internal procurement uses SAP Ariba solutions Learn how a truly integrated source-to-settle process in both companies offers a tremendous ROI, with spend analysis driving effective sourcing, well-managed suppliers, and contract-compliant purchases. We will share an overview of the journey, from the vision and business case through to deployment of technology, along with the necessary process change management."

One-time purchase? Non-catalog item? Looking for new vendors? Maybe it’s a product or service you haven’t purchased before, or you need to find local or minority-owned vendors. No matter the project size, timing, or amount, hear from a panel of customers who have used Ariba Discovery to fulfill a wide range of tactical spend and indirect purchases. This session will focus on the use cases and opportunities for indirect/tactical spend and the challenges buyers face in these scenarios. Caesars Entertainment will share their experience of standardizing Ariba Discovery to drive compliance and savings corporate-wide. Other customers will discuss why they chose Ariba Discovery and how it fits with their sourcing and procurement processes.

Want to speed up your sourcing process by finding and qualifying new suppliers faster? Want to improve your team productivity with SAP and SAP Ariba solutions humming together? Join this panel discussion to learn from Atos, a €12 billion global managed services and BPO consulting firm, for its distinctive insights. We will also discuss how Atos used Ariba Discovery to solve a key piece of its puzzle in finding new suppliers and eliminating single-source supplier dependencies.

Is invoice processing efficiency the exclusive focus of your payables automation program? If it is, you may be ignoring opportunities to support payment and working capital strategies that increase cash returns, enable supplier self-service, free up working capital, and improve free cash flow. Attend this session to learn how you can align procurement, accounts payable, and treasury when automating payables to enforce compliance with contracts, gain supplier support for electronic payments, and improve management of cash and working capital..

"Thinking about expanding your procurement solution? Seeking additional value and ROI? How do you get from here to there? What examples do you have? Many organizations start the digital journey with a partial solution to kick off a transformation process. Once you have experience with your revised operating model and SAP Ariba solutions, why not take the opportunity to maximize efficiency and ROI? Likewise, you may have a legacy on-premise SAP Ariba solution that is not meeting your requirements today in terms of scope and response time. Now is a great time to move to our new cloud solutions and realize lower TCO, a great user experience, and tremendous benefits."

While sourcing and contracting capabilities continue to mature, operational procurement, especially for services, remains a challenge. Complete services category management can help your organization reduce excess spend, inefficiency, and significant risk. This is where SAP Fieldglass solutions come in. Join us to learn how organizations can use these solutions to power the agile enterprise and streamline statement of work management.

This document discusses the benefits of suppliers joining the Ariba Network. It includes presentations from representatives of Bechtle, Misumi, and cSubs about their experiences as suppliers on the Ariba Network. Bechtle discusses the ease of use, scalability, and financial benefits of being on the Network. Misumi outlines their growth from $2 million to $4.1 million in transactions since joining in 2012. cSubs discusses how the Network acts as a force multiplier by allowing them to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with larger competitors and leverage SAP Ariba's marketing opportunities. All three representatives emphasize the Network's role in streamlining processes and providing transparency.

Quote automation is a new RFQ automation tool for faster supplier identification and bid execution, with a seamless process that joins together the power of ERP and the Ariba Network. Learn how this valuable tool, which can be implemented quickly and easily, increases savings while providing complete visibility and control for hybrid tactical spend.

What are the options for sellers and buyers collaborating on catalog content? Join a panel of leading sellers and buyers as they discuss their catalog strategies and preference for hosted CIF versus PunchOut catalogs. Learn how leading sellers use the Ariba Network to drive exposure of their product content to procurement organizations and individuals at their key accounts, while leading procurement organizations use online catalogs to drive up compliance to contract terms and to improve the user experience.

Gaining actual savings from the best-laid sourcing plans requires organizations to put in place a closed-loop strategy – one that addresses operational sourcing as well as the processes around it. An optimal plan would include cutting-edge analytics to drive better decisions, water-tight contract management to improve adherence, and disciplined supplier management to improve performance. Join this session to hear from the experts on how organizations can translate savings from paper to the bottom line through a tightly woven collaborative sourcing process.

Data is the "new oil." Spend data can unlock hidden opportunities to maximize savings, improve compliance, and mitigate supply chain risks. Without proper visibility into spend, suppliers, or market information, sourcing and procurement decisions can run counter to business objectives. Comprehensive visibility is the stepping stone to effective spend management. This session shares customer success stories and best practice insights to help you get the most from spend analytics initiatives.