A Journey Toward Streamlined Procurement: Your Reviews of SAP Ariba

⇨ Procurement and supply management are a top priority for supply chain professionals in 2024, with 60% of respondents emphasizing their importance in the SAPinsider report.

⇨ SAP Ariba automates the purchasing lifecycle for indirect goods and services, leading to streamlined workflows, improved inventory management, and enhanced cash flow for organizations.

⇨ Users report significant improvements in procurement operations and supplier collaboration after implementing SAP Ariba, highlighting its effectiveness for large and medium organizations with high procurement volumes.

In the current globalized climate, there is a trend of businesses pushing for a greater streamlined flow of procurement operations.  According to the recent SAPinsider ‘Building Resilient and Agile Supply Chains Leveraging Data, Analytics, and Automation’ Report, procurement and supply management stand as a priority focus for supply chain professionals, with 60 percent of respondents placing it in first place in 2024.

Here, management software that automates the purchasing lifecycle for indirect goods and services to streamline workflows, expedite approvals, and eradicate errors and exceptions really comes to the fore. SAP Ariba is one such option.

To find out more about customers’ experience with SAP Ariba, SAPinsider gathered feedback from individual users in TrustRadius, a buyer intelligence platform for business technology that serves as a partner for SAP’s Peer Review Program.

Users’ personal experience with SAP Ariba

The key wins that users mention regarding SAP Ariba are streamlined supplier and contract management, automation features, and integration with SAP.

“After implementing SAP Ariba, our procurement operations have improved significantly. We know what to order, when, how much to order, and the dollar value we will spend,” said Anuj Sant, Technical Supply Chain Professional at GVA Lighting, Inc.

“This helps us manage our inventory better and improve cash flow. Also, API enables us to integrate with external modules like logistics and freight booking and tracking.”

Other users reported that SAP Ariba helped to automate their procurement process and enable collaboration with suppliers in real-time, leading to better negotiation and cost savings.

On this point, Dipak Kapure, IT Executive at Origin Logistics pvt Ltd, shared that SAP Ariba “is well suited for large and medium organizations that have high volumes of procurement activities. It can not only help them streamline their procurement process but also enable them to cost saving. […]”

Similarly, Alok Kumar, Consultant at Deloitte, explained that the software has improved his clients’ experience and streamlined business processes:

“There was a time when [my clients] were using external tools to manage the sourcing and procurement step, and vendors were having a hard time keeping track of Inventory, notification of delivery, invoicing, Bill of Materials.

“Since the migration to SAP Ariba, […] we have seen a good turnaround for the past year. So, we [got] a lot better at client processes mapping using SAP Ariba.”

Do you have experience with SAP Ariba? If so, SAPinsiders can share their experiences by completing a ten-minute survey and many other SAP solutions here.

For each published review, it’s worth noting that TrustRadius provides a $25 Amazon gift card via e-mail to boot.