1. The Marketplace for
Modern Business
SAP® Ariba® is the marketplace for modern business, creating frictionless exchanges between millions of buyers and suppliers across the entire
source-to-pay process. Our market-leading solutions enable companies to simplify collaboration with their trading partners, make smarter
business decisions and extend their collaborative business processes with an open technology platform. More than two million companies use
SAP Ariba solutions to connect and collaborate around nearly one trillion in commerce on an annual basis.
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Customers
• More than 2 million companies
connected to the Ariba Network,
including 75 percent of the
Global 2000
• One new company joins every minute
• Nearly 10 million end users
Key Metrics
• Nearly a trillion in commerce on an
annual basis
• $3.7 billion in new business posted
• 32 million invoices processed
• $40 billion in payments using AribaPay
• 30 million purchase orders exchanged
Strategy
• Deliver enterprise-strong, consumer-
simple solutions that connect
companies to the digital economy and
enable them to manage all of their
commerce activities and the
connections that matter to them most
with greater simplicity than ever before.
Market Position
Overall Market Leader
• Market leader in eProcurement
(Forrester)
• Market leader in sourcing vendor
management (Forrester)
• Market leader in strategic sourcing
(Gartner)
Solutions for Efficient
Digital Commerce
SAP Ariba combines the connectivity and
insights of the world’s largest business
network with market-leading cloud-based
applications to fuel collaboration across
the entire source-to-pay process.
• Sourcing – analyzing spend,
identifying savings opportunities,
negotiating best-value agreements
• Supplier management – discovering
and qualifying new partners and
managing their performance and risk
• Source-to-pay – collaborating with
suppliers for all goods and services,
and processing every purchase from
requisition to reconciliation to
maximize control and compliance
• Payables management – automating
purchase orders, invoices and payment
transactions and enabling new,
network-based processes such as
dynamic discounting
We complement our core capabilities with
a host of value services, to ensure that
network members realize and optimize
results across their value chains and
deliver results, including:
• Lower costs – 1% - 8% reduction in
supply chain costs and a 60% reduction
in operating costs, on average.
• Greater efficiency – 50% - 75% faster
transaction cycles,with many customers
achieving >90% fully automated
(“touchless”) transaction processing.
• Real-time process transparency and
greater data accuracy – 60%
improvements in order accuracy,
reducing risks for stockouts or the
need to stockpile excess inventory.
• Improved working capital
performance – 50% improvements in
discount capture with suppliers and 20%
faster payment cycles with customers.
• Increased sales – 5% - 20% revenue
increase with new customers and
30%+ greater share of wallet with
existing customers.
• Better customer retention –
15% improvements in customer
retention rates.
Basic Facts
Headquarters:
3420 Hillview Ave
Building 3
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Employees:
3,733 employees across 45 countries
Website:
www.ariba.com