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Introducing Guided Buying
A simple experience for employees to buy goods and services. 

Bringing you a buying experience that is simple, smart and elegant! SAP Ariba is innovating how both casual users and “functional buyers” purchase goods and services. This new capability allows organizations to guide the user to the right item and the preferred supplier through the right process. By providing built-in compliance and process guidance, the user can achieve their purchasing needs without having to know procurement process or policy in advance. This capability, along with SAP Ariba Spot Buy, will help manage both core categories of spend as well as ‘tail spend’. 

• Make the buying experience easy and efficient by providing one place to buy goods and services
• Smart guidance to direct users to the right items, policies and preferred suppliers
• Intuitive user experience that delights the users
• Enable in-context collaboration with suppliers and procurement experts

Introducing Supplier Management
Manage supplier information, lifecycle, and risk in one place.

Many companies still face vexing challenges with supplier management, such as inconsistent supplier onboarding, qualification, segmentation, out-of-date vendor master, and ad-hoc supplier risk due diligence. It’s time to free your supplier management processes and leverage the power of cloud. SAP Ariba’s major innovations in supplier management address these challenges head on, allowing you to drive spend towards preferred suppliers and reduce risk, so that you can:

• Integrate consistent supplier qualification and segmentation with other procurement processes
• Keep your vendor data up to date by allowing suppliers to manage their information in the cloud
• Scale risk management and compliance to your entire supply base

Introducing the latest in Direct Materials Sourcing
Optimize product costs and manage risk from design to production.

Yes, SAP Ariba supports direct materials. While many of our customers have been using our strategic sourcing solutions to help manage direct materials for a long time, SAP Ariba recognizes the need for greater integration to PLM and ERP and more advanced capabilities in the sourcing, contract, and supplier management processes. The innovations in this solution area are numerous, including deeper integrations with materials masters, costing of multi-level bills of materials, support for larger numbers of line items, final product costing, and more!

• Smart sourcing with full multi-level BOM support for product costing
• End-to-end supplier lifecycle management integrated with sourcing
• Contract lifecycle management for direct materials, including integration to execution systems
• Rich, clean supplier segmentation, qualification, and risk data incorporated into sourcing processes
• Easy and seamless integration to ERP, PLM, and operational procurement systems

Introducing Extension Studio
Take a look at the Forms Builder that can cater to your business needs

Ever wonder how to extend your procurement and sourcing solutions to suit your business needs? Extension Studio from SAP Ariba provides the tools and templates to help you quickly modify or extend a user interface, business process flow, or data type to cater to your needs. With the Forms Builder, part of Extension Studio, creating a procurement form to support a process – like a check request or supplier onboarding – is as simple as creating an e-vite. This feature can help you to:

• Create a standalone form using simple, easy-to-use, drag-and-drop tools and widgets
• Use pre-existing templates for most business processes
• Export the forms and data to integrate with other applications
• Enable new business processes and flows to be supported by SAP Ariba sourcing and procurement applications