There are always opportunities to improve your spend management program. If you have your eye on areas of spend, but if you're not certain how to tackle them, this session is for you. We explore different ways of buying with SAP Ariba solutions, and discuss which categories of spend are best suited to each. You’ll leave the session well-armed to take on projects for invoice against contract, spot buy, non-PO invoicing, and more, maximizing the value your company derives from SAP Ariba solutions.

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Amina Anderson, Christophe Denysiak, Martin Kotula, SAP Ariba (SAP)
June 13, 2017
More Ways to Buy Means More Savings:
Maximizing the Value of SAP Ariba Solutions

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How Digital Is Your Procurement?
7 Buy Processes in SAP Ariba Solutions
 Catalog (Demo)
 Spot Buy (Demo)
 Contract-Based Requisition
 Invoice Against Contract (Demo)
 Collaborative Requisition (Demo)
 Non-Catalog Requisition
 Non-PO Invoice
Future of Procurement
Q&A
Agenda

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Retail giant Amazon.com has made its
first drone delivery to an actual customer,
dropping off one of its Fire TV streaming
devices and a bag of popcorn to a house
in the English countryside 13 minutes
after receiving an online order.
An airdrop of popcorn makes Amazon drone
delivery history

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How digital
is your
procurement ?

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40%
have a clear digital strategy
Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2017
26%
Have a clear digital strategy aligned
with the needs of the wider
organization
60%
Procurement does not have a clear
digital strategy
Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2017
22%
Have not even started

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Many CPOs invest heavily in technology
45%
70%
43%
Self Service Procurement Mobile Technologies
23%
42%
26%
Cloud based solutions
2014
2015
1.6x
1.8x 1.7x
Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2016

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If you want to streamline your process
Have appropriate
content
One landing
page
Reduce
free text
Sufficient
workflows
Right, simple buying
processes
Electronic
data
Mobile access Advanced
technology and software
Change
management
Supplier
collaboration

8. Buying Processes

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Different methods are used to support different purchase
needs:
 Groceries 
Weekly, amount varies, paid with credit card or cash
 Mortgage 
Monthly, regular amount, scheduled auto-payment through online bank
 Gas and electric 
Monthly, amount varies, paid manually through online bank
 Household products 
Regular frequency, auto-purchased using subscribe and save
 Home improvement projects 
infrequent and large amounts, billed by milestone, paid by online bank
Personal examples of buying processes

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A procurement solution must be able to
support different types of purchases
 Office supplies
 Promotional products
 Building rental or lease
 Computer equipment and software
 Marketing services
 Business process outsourcing
 Consulting
Corporate purchase examples
25%of organizations truly use the full functionality of
their e-procurement solutions*
* Source: The Hackett Group, “Understanding e-Procurement Part I,” (2014)

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Buy processes in SAP Ariba solutions
Buy process Description Best used for
Catalog Buyer selects items from a company-specific catalog for purchase.
SKU-based items such as office supplies, promotional products,
noninventoried MRO, IT hardware and peripherals
Spot buy
Buyer selects items from a public marketplace catalog (for example,
eBay, Grainger) for purchase.
Infrequent, one-off purchases fulfilled through public marketplace e-
catalog; can include nonsourced categories
Contract-based requisition
Buyer selects item from a company-specific catalog linked to a contract
based on item, commodity code, or supplier (for example, volume-based
discounts).
Materials and services that include facilities maintenance, items on
consignment, items with tiered pricing
Invoice against contract
Contract pricing terms are entered into the application without the need
for a PO. These terms are available for the supplier to invoice.
Simple and complex services for recurring, milestone, or fixed-fee
activities that include consulting, professional services, snow removal,
janitorial services, rent
Collaborative requisitioning
Collaborative requisitioning takes place between buyer and supplier,
supporting clarification on specifications, spot quotes, and three bids and
a buy.
Simple and complex products and services that require collaboration
between buyer and supplier to include materials with variable pricing,
marketing services, and temp labor
Noncatalog requisition
Buyer enters information manually into requisition, in many cases with a
supplier quote attached.
Infrequent, one-off purchase; sourced through existing suppliers for
materials and services not in a catalog
Non-PO invoice
AP group creates invoice in system for payment, or supplier creates
invoice and routes to buyer for payment
Infrequent, one-off, and low-dollar purchases such as catering
services, employee reimbursements, and charitable contributions

12. Demo of Catalog and Spot Buy

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Buy processes in SAP Ariba solutions
Buy process Description Best used for
Catalog Buyer selects items from a company-specific catalog for purchase.
SKU-based items such as office supplies, promotional products,
noninventoried MRO, IT hardware and peripherals
Spot buy
Buyer selects items from a public marketplace catalog (for example,
eBay, Grainger) for purchase.
Infrequent, one-off purchases fulfilled through public marketplace e-
catalog; can include nonsourced categories
Contract-based requisition
Buyer selects item from a company-specific catalog linked to a contract
based on item, commodity code, or supplier (for example, volume-based
discounts).
Materials and services that include facilities maintenance, items on
consignment, items with tiered pricing
Invoice against contract
Contract pricing terms are entered into the application without the need
for a PO. These terms are available for the supplier to invoice.
Simple and complex services for recurring, milestone, or fixed-fee
activities that include consulting, professional services, snow removal,
janitorial services, rent
Collaborative requisitioning
Collaborative requisitioning takes place between buyer and supplier,
supporting clarification on specifications, spot quotes, and three bids and
a buy.
Simple and complex products and services that require collaboration
between buyer and supplier to include materials with variable pricing,
marketing services, and temp labor
Noncatalog requisition
Buyer enters information manually into requisition, in many cases with a
supplier quote attached.
Infrequent, one-off purchase; sourced through existing suppliers for
materials and services not in a catalog
Non-PO invoice
AP group creates invoice in system for payment, or supplier creates
invoice and routes to buyer for payment
Infrequent, one-off, and low-dollar purchases such as catering
services, employee reimbursements, and charitable contributions

14. Demo of Invoice Against Contract and
Collaborative Requisition

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Buy processes in SAP Ariba solutions
Buy process Description Best used for
Catalog Buyer selects items from a company-specific catalog for purchase.
SKU-based items such as office supplies, promotional products,
noninventoried MRO, IT hardware and peripherals
Spot buy
Buyer selects items from a public marketplace catalog (for example,
eBay, Grainger) for purchase.
Infrequent, one-off purchases fulfilled through public marketplace e-
catalog; can include nonsourced categories
Contract-based requisition
Buyer selects item from a company-specific catalog linked to a contract
based on item, commodity code, or supplier (for example, volume-based
discounts).
Materials and services that include facilities maintenance, items on
consignment, items with tiered pricing
Invoice against contract
Contract pricing terms are entered into the application without the need
for a PO. These terms are available for the supplier to invoice.
Simple and complex services for recurring, milestone, or fixed-fee
activities that include consulting, professional services, snow removal,
janitorial services, rent
Collaborative requisitioning
Collaborative requisitioning takes place between buyer and supplier,
supporting clarification on specifications, spot quotes, and three bids and
a buy.
Simple and complex products and services that require collaboration
between buyer and supplier to include materials with variable pricing,
marketing services, and temp labor
Noncatalog requisition
Buyer enters information manually into requisition, in many cases with a
supplier quote attached.
Infrequent, one-off purchase; sourced through existing suppliers for
materials and services not in a catalog
Non-PO invoice
AP group creates invoice in system for payment, or supplier creates
invoice and routes to buyer for payment
Infrequent, one-off, and low-dollar purchases such as catering
services, employee reimbursements, and charitable contributions

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“SAP Ariba solutions put all of our spend in a
central location and automated our processes.
This simplifies our procurement organization.”
Adriana Miranda
Customer Service Supervisor
Dole Food Company
buyer supplier

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What’s next? Do we need an operational procurement system anymore?
Robotic process
automation
Machine
learning
Smart
workflow
Cognitive
agents
Natural language
processing
McKinsey identified 5 major trends in source-to-pay
 Simple rules
 Repeatable tasks
 No interpretation
Examples: enter invoice
capture, copy data into
systems; simulation
 Complex rules
 Pattern matching
 Judgments
 Recommendations
Examples: negotiations,
spend classification,
“what others buy,” trend
recognition
 Simplifies
 Guides
 Extracts insights
 Converts voice
Example: shopping cart
through voice „Ariba…
I need a new headset“
e.g. SIRI or ALEXA or
recognizes free text
 Dynamic
 Smart
 Governs
 Learns
Examples: recognizes
and analyses context,
focuses on impact, such
as warranty case vs.
shopping cart
 Chatbots
 Direct support
 Structured help
 Guides
 Predictive
Examples: chatbox for
direct end-user help;
dialog boxes

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Benefits of e-procurement have been strategic for EQUATE
Our Journey towards electronic procurement is just the beginning.
With SAP Ariba [solutions] we started our successful journey to
transform our procurement and to Run Simple. The early
technological adoption was risky for us – especially as one of the
early adopters in MENA – but this paid off. However …
… the development does not stop and we have to act since new
technologies emerge faster and faster…!

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