Introducing SAP Ariba Buying

The SAP Ariba Buying solution offers an enhanced user experience that encourages compliance, so you can achieve greater efficiency and visibility in your procure-to-order process.

SAP Ariba Buying simplifies procurement by offering an intuitive platform for creating and managing purchase requisitions, accessing catalogs, and making compliant purchases from preferred suppliers.

With features like guided buying and catalog management, it enhances efficiency, user experience, and cost savings.

An Automated and Guided Buying Experience, Completing Purchases in Just a Few Clicks

A fast and flexible guided buying experience, a configurable interface, and streamlined catalogue maintenance can help you deliver rapid ROI.

Guided Buying Capability

A simple user experience guides employees to buy from preferred suppliers while complying with your procurement processes and policies.

Real-time guidance
Alert shoppers of policy violations in real time and establish rules that either let them proceed or require a different purchase.

Supplier collaboration
Buy from the right suppliers or request quotes from new ones through integration with SAP Business Network.

Internal collaboration
Provide instant access to the category expert in the user’s purchasing unit, based on the user’s need and location.

Persona-based dashboards
Streamline the buying experience with dashboards customised to align categories, forms, and permissions with each user.

Spot Buy Capability

With the B2B marketplace, you can make it simple for employees to buy non-sourced goods from trusted suppliers according to built-in controls.

Supplier vetting
Take advantage of a three-tier supplier vetting process to make sure that chosen vendors align with your purchasing policies.

Supplier risk assessments
Alleviate supply risk concerns by relying on thorough supplier risk assessments provided by global risk management solutions.

Customisable restrictions
Turn buying restrictions on and off based on parameters, such as supplier, manufacturer, category code, and price thresholds.

Enriched payment data
Get more visibility into purchasing card data with PO number, item, commodity code, amount, taxes, and shipping information.

e-catalogue Management

Provide employees with relevant and current procurement catalogue content while you monitor content quality with at-a-glance dashboard reports.

Local Catalogs
Authorized users can load, manage, and access catalogs and prices. SAP Ariba Catalog supports catalogs in both the catalog interchange format (CIF) and commerce extensible markup language (cXML) format and allows loading of catalogs from SAP Business Network.

Remote Catalogs
Users can access and procure items from catalogs hosted and managed by suppliers on selected third-party provider platforms.

Multiple Catalog Formats
SAP Ariba Catalog supports a wide variety of catalog formats such as CIF, XLSX, cXML, BMECat, and punchout. Suppliers can upload catalogs using SAP Business Network, which buyers can then access through SAP Ariba Buying.

Our Rapid Deployment Model with an Emphasis on Delivering Speed to Value

Fast track immediate value and results with SAP Ariba Buying, through our rapid deployment model. Our comprehensive six-step implementation approach ensures that your organizational requirements are effectively translated to a rapid, predictable, cost-effective solution, implemented with the emphasis on making you self-sufficient as quick as possible.