Ariba Reviews & Pricing

Key Features

• Buying and Invoicing: A configurable interface with built-in approvals keeps up-to-date with compliance and cataloging. Removes the difficulty in the procure-to-pay process by simplifying the management of each step and supports businesses agility and scalability through global spend and visibility tools. 
• Financial Supply Chain Management: Streamline operations by eliminating manual entry and applying automation to complex processes. Link purchase orders to invoices, improve metric capture, comply with tax regulations, capture payment discounts and more. 
• Strategic Sourcing: Integrates into procurement execution processes for increased visibility, more savings opportunities and spend segmentation. Enables teams to organize and standardize their source-to-contract tasks, as it aggregates purchase orders with proper classification. 
• Direct Spending: Integrates with all processes from product design to manufacturing and delivery, which helps: 
  •  Speeds up the time to market and provides a head start on the competition. 
  •  Boosts supplier collaboration by identifying product shortages before they become costly problems. 
  •  Increases supply chain visibility to increase fill rates and reduce overall inventory levels. 
• E-Procurement: Helps reduce bottom-line costs by delivering optimal negotiated savings rates. Decreases buying cycles by up to 50%, lowers supply costs by 10% and reduces processing costs by up to 60%. 
• Intelligent Spend: Users can simultaneously handle spend by category as well as coordinate spend policies for supply chain operations with a fully unified view of all spend processes. Supports all critical spend categories, including direct and indirect materials, external labor, travel and other expenses. 
• Buyer Services: Robust deployment services, solution consultations and adoption support enables a quick deployment and ensures that requirements are met right out of the gate. 

Limitations

•  Sending bulk generated data on emails is cumbersome. 
•  Enhanced support capabilities have a cost. 
•  Steep learning curve for new users. 
•  User interface lags sometimes. 

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