Cut costs, limit risks, and maximize the bottom line with scalable e-Sourcing platforms
Strategic sourcing gives you the single greatest opportunity to impact the cost, quality, and performance of your supply chain and your business. But globalization, economic volatility, and tightening supply markets can hold you back. What’s needed is an integrated solution that drives fast, sustainable results across the sourcing lifecycle.
Simplified Sourcing Activities
Guided Sourcing Processes
- Standardise processes and workflows with artificial intelligence and machine learning–based features
- Identify and qualify appropriate suppliers before onboarding
- Track savings to evaluate the effect of sourcing programmes and gain guidance on next best steps using intelligent recommendations
Supplier Discovery and Onboarding
Introducing SAP Ariba Sourcing
Manage spend more strategically and achieve new savings by using SAP Ariba Sourcing to discover and select qualified suppliers from a broad supplier network and automate, streamline, and track sourcing activities.
SAP Ariba Sourcing integrates patented RFX technology, process workflows, commodity intelligence, and supplier discovery, resulting in a flexible comprehensive sourcing solution that enables fast, sustainable bottom-line results.
When SAP Ariba Sourcing is deployed as part of our integrated strategic sourcing suite, which encompasses spend visibility, strategic sourcing, contract management, and supply base management, you can realize even greater value.
Fast, Simplified, and Scalable Guided Sourcing
AI-enabled guided sourcing capability within SAP Ariba Sourcing helps you achieve sustained savings across your supplier network, all while creating sourcing events in half the time.
Intelligent recommendations and process automation
Get next steps with AI-enriched guidance and automatically correct and map event data from import files like Microsoft Excel.
Event creation and management from a single page
Improve usability and reduce learning curves by doing everything on one screen – from event setup to supplier collaboration.
360-degree supplier insight and event monitoring
Qualify suppliers, compare bids, and realise savings at scale with continuous, embedded event progress and price monitoring.
Best-of-Breed Integrated Sourcing Model
Sourcing for a complex modern business demands a toolset that optimizes all aspects of the sourcing processes and integrates seamlessly into the wider operation. Keelvar combines and exchanges data with SAP Ariba, layering powerful optimization and automation capabilities onto SAPs established, industry-leading procurement platform.
By integrating Keelvar’s Sourcing Optimizer and Autonomous Sourcing solutions with SAP Ariba, businesses obtain a powerful sourcing tool capable of tackling the most complex events. The integration enables centralized sourcing event management, tracking, and analysis while leveraging advanced features to leverage flexible supplier data and bids, cost modelling, and advanced scenario analysis to determine the optimal award outcomes.
