Services Procurement

The economy is forcing businesses to rethink strategies and focus increasingly on the expense side of P&L. In particular, services spend is under greater and greater scrutiny. Businesses are responding by improving procurement processes, the compliance by which they are governed and the relationships with their closest suppliers.

Ariba Services Procurement (ASP) is Ariba's Spend Management solution enabling global businesses to control costs for services by category from requisition to invoice.

Services Procurement is critical to spend management

• Cost management - reduce costs from indirect category spend process
• Operating productivity and organizational performance - deliver more savings and higher value add with fewer resources
• Managing complex and non-traditional spend - enable additional cost savings by driving solutions at the frontlines
• Regulatory compliance/corporate governance (i.e. Sarbanes Oxley) - drive compliance through process and visibility

Ariba Services Procurement: a single solution to manage a range of complex spend categories

• Category specific procurement best practices
• On Demand or "behind the firewall" CD solution delivery
• Closed loop spend management
• Contract compliance, spend visibility and performance management
• Ease of use for "frontline" adoption and deployment
• Proven Multi-ERP integration
• Integration with Ariba Supplier Network consisting of over 165,000 suppliers and legacy systems

ASP is modular and flexible leveraging "best in class" procurement platform, Ariba Buyer - (see graphic below). Category drivers are provided "out of the box" which can be embellished with category specific, best practice capabilities. The category drivers can be configured easily to generate category definitions as per business practice and policy. A single platform investment is available as one procurement tool.

Ariba Services Procurement delivers impressive results

Savings

• Maverick Spend elimination which is 40% higher with indirect goods or 200% higher with direct goods
• Ease of use, increased productivity (front-line); aggregation of demand resulting in greater purchasing power
• Augmented pricing with suppliers through enhanced negotiation from better visibility
• Multi-ERP integration minimizes implementation

Control & compliance

• Regulatory compliance (i.e. SOX) or company procurement policy (i.e. use of preferred suppliers)
• Implemented to the front-lines with Co-employment policy reduces legal exposure

Increase complex spend managed

• Closed loop, integrated data visibility from contract, requisition, order to invoice;
• Visibility into category details improving monitoring and tracking; support for vendor neutral rate cards

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