That’s exactly what you’ll get with SAP Ariba Sourcing solutions. To negotiate best-value sourcing agreements, the kind that provide sustainable savings, you need the right strategic sourcing environment - one that's connected to a powerful supplier network and built with superior tools, expertise and information. ✤ Streamline supplier on boarding process workflows and approvals.✤ Quickly identify and assess new sources of supply.✤ Assess compliance and manage supply risk.✤ Monitor and manage supplier performance with a centralized information portal.✤ Access a 360-degree view into supplier information.✤ Assess and qualify suppliers at the item, plant, or location level.Now, through a single, web-based platform you can: Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite helps you manage supplier information by helping ensure supplier information in your vendor master is accurate and up-to-date. Strategic Sourcing suite is bundled with the following solution modules: ✤ Reduce risk by finding better suppliers and innovation partners.

✤ Increase speed and drive up throughput across your teams.✤ Ensure that the savings you negotiate are fully realized.✤ Drive materials cost savings and optimization across all spend categories.

✤ Standardize source-to-contract processes across teams and business units.

✤ Gain visibility, segment spend, and identify savings opportunities.

✤ Aggregate and classify all purchases, company-wide.

Integrated into your execution and procurement processes, these solutions can help you to: With the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solution portfolio, you can manage your entire sourcing, contracting, and spend analysis processes for all types of spend – direct and indirect materials as well as services – all in one place. The result is a single, closed-loop, source-to-contract solution bundle for managing sourcing and suppliers across all spend categories. SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite extends the functionality of our industry-leading sourcing solutions into managing the more advanced requirements of direct materials sourcing.

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