Ariba offers various spend management solutions including strategy, visibility, procurement, sourcing, managed services, and supplier management. Under the strategy solution, Ariba uses mappings to integrate organizational areas and resources to develop and sustain improvements. The visibility solution creates a consolidated view of organization data to help managers across departments identify opportunities to reduce spending through increased collaboration. The sourcing solution assists with recruiting employees, suppliers, and processing functions through access to Ariba's extensive supplier database.

1. ARIBA Spend Management Solutions

2. Spend Strategy Visibility Procurement Sourcing Managed Services Supplier Management

3. Under the strategy solution, Ariba offers the use of mappings to bring the various areas and resources of an organization together to create and sustain improvements. Development planning provides timelines for deployment of plans Define practice strategies Strategy

4. “Make knowledge management a core operating component in every aspect of the spend management process “ In other words, everyone has access to the data that they need to make good management decisions for the organization as a whole. Strategy

5. The visibility solution from Ariba can create a consolidated view of all the data across an organization. So if we have a manager in one department that is ordering a component from a certain purveyor, and another manager in a different department also ordering items from this same purveyor, then Ariba offers a way for these managers to see the orders of each other and possibly save time and money by having this knowledge. Visibility

6. Because the management team can see the organization as a whole, better decisions can be made in contracting, purchasing and resource planning. With the increased visibility solutions, the organization is able to identify bottlenecks and problem areas. Visibility

7. The sourcing solution helps with recruitment of employees, suppliers, and helps with the processing function of the organization. Because Ariba is so well connected to the business market, they have a huge database of suppliers that are easy to connect with. Sourcing

8. Procurement solution replaces a paper driven, error prone purchasing process, with flexible applications and services. These help reduce and prevent maverick spending, while providing an atmosphere to make meaningful improvements. Procurement

9. The managed services solution is a way for organizations to effectively outsource parts of their operations. Outsourcing can be a difficult challenge, with many facets that must be monitored to achieve spending goals. Ariba feels it can reduce total costs to manage spend, achieve better pricing on goods and services, and attain higher service levels Managed Services

10. Emphasize the global connections to suppliers, and the large catalog databases. Under the supplier management module of Ariba, they offer supplier profiles, and education to suppliers on how they can improve to meet each organizations demands. Supplier Management