The November 2020 release of SAP Ariba Sourcing reflects SAP’s commitment to bolstering its customers’ sourcing strategy.
COVID-19 has put extreme pressure on many organisations’ supply chain, especially on those who are dependent on global sourcing. As businesses ease into the coming year, the timing of the release of the new guided sourcing capabilities of SAP Ariba Sourcing solution couldn’t have come at the most opportune time.
In the November release of SAP Ariba Sourcing, the new guided sourcing capabilities and revamped, state-of-the-art user experience (UX) expedite and improve the creation, monitoring, and awarding of request for information (RFI) and request for proposal (RFP) sourcing events. Reflecting SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solutions’ goal of driving sustainable results through automation, the enhanced usability is anticipated to further increase adoption and generate even more savings across the essential sourcing process.
Furthermore, the need for training and change management efforts will be minimised with the simplified, intuitive user experience, which consequently lowers the total ownership cost of the solution efficiently.
Key Benefits
The new guided sourcing capabilities in SAP Ariba’s sourcing solution offers the following:
- In-app contextual guidance to reduce change management and drive user adoption
- In-app chat capabilities to improve collaboration between stakeholders and suppliers
- Efficient management of supplier communication and information without having to switch between applications
- Simple, modern UX with embedded intelligence to improve the time required for sourcing RFx creation and awarding (compared with the legacy solution)
- New live feed of user-specific sourcing activity updates to keep users informed in real-time
Enriching Procurement
The new guided sourcing underpins SAP’s strategy of becoming an Experience Company backed by the Intelligent Enterprise. The enhancement integrates the harmonised, next-generation user experience already adopted by other solutions within the source-to-pay suite.
In time for many organisations’ mapping of sourcing strategy post-pandemic, SAP offers comprehensive functionality to source and negotiate across all direct and indirect spend categories in a fully integrated environment through the recently released sourcing capabilities.
Organisations can leverage SAP Ariba’s tight integration to Ariba Network and connections to more than 5.3 million companies. Ariba Network is the world’s largest digital business marketplace where millions of buyers and suppliers, operating in more than 190 countries, transact over USD 3.75 trillion in business commerce yearly.
For procurement professionals and other end-users of the sourcing solution, SAP Enable Now is made accessible for additional in-application help and guidance to boost their productivity. SAP Enable Now provides online training and performance support to SAP users to improve user adoption and the efficiency of software programs across the enterprise with e-learning content development.
More about SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Portfolio
The SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solution portfolio empowers enterprises to manage the entire sourcing, contracting, and spend analysis processes for all types of spend– direct and indirect materials as well as services– on a single platform. Below are the sourcing solutions offered by SAP:
- SAP Ariba Spend Analysis
- SAP Ariba Sourcing Solutions
- SAP Ariba Contracts
- SAP Ariba Discovery for buyers
- SAP Ariba Savings Pipeline and Tracking
- SAP Ariba Start Sourcing