Go live is just the beginning. Attend this session to hear from customers as they describe their ongoing Ariba journey, including expanding usage across new commodities, business units, and regions. Learn how to use Ariba reports to gauge success, access resources to adjust your Ariba configuration to evolve with the business, and maintain adequate staffing to keep your Ariba solutions running smoothly.

1. Implement and Grow: How to Evolve Your SAP Ariba
Solution to Match Business Needs
Stephen Sinnott, Purchasing Operations Manager, Caesars Entertainment Corporation
Tina Jerzyk, Senior Consultant, Ariba Change Management / March 16, 2016
Public

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Welcome BACK to Las Vegas and The Cosmopolitan Hotel!

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Welcome – Caesars Entertainment Corporation
Caesars Entertainment Corporation is the world's most geographically diversified
casino-entertainment company. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 75 years ago,
Caesars has grown through development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions, and
now operates casinos on three continents. The company's resorts operate primarily under the
Harrah's®, Caesars® and Horseshoe® brand names. Caesars also owns the London Clubs
International family of casinos. Caesars Entertainment is focused on building loyalty and value
with its guests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed
distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars is committed to
environmental sustainability and energy conservation and recognizes the importance of being
a responsible steward of the environment. For more information, please
visit www.caesars.com.

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• Set Critical IT Infrastructure
• Develop Training Content
• Align Rollout & Procurement
Resources
• On-Board Key Vendors
• Rollout Purchasing Capability
• Track Operational KPIs
• Centralize Purchasing Org.
• Increase Spend Automation
• Implement CapEx Allocation & Cost
Tracking
• Implement Contract Request
• Offshore Low Value Activates
• Monitor Spend Compliance
• Grow Sourcing Purview
• Increase Velocity / Efficiency
• Improve Category Management
Implementation is complete...now what?
2013
Configure System
Organizational Alignment
2014 - $100M Savings
Rollout Base Functionality
Purchasing Org Optimization
2015 – 73% Spend On PO
Rollout Advance Functionality
Monitor Compliance
2016 – Holistic ROI
Go Lean
Scale Scope of Service
Laying a Foundation for Success
Strong Foundation = Leverage To Drive Change
Single Platform To Engage
•I Need Funding
For…
Capital
Request
•I Need To
Buy…
Purchase
Request
•I Need To
Contract…
Contract
Request
Access To Category Experts &
Category Strategies
System Managed
No Touch
Offshore Team
Low Cost
Domestic Team
Junior Category Expertise
Sourcing
Category Expert
Balanced Service Delivery
Model

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Evolving better serve the enterprise
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System functions driving strategic initiatives
Capital Expense Request
~$102M Additional Spend Engaged
Contract Request
~$515M Additional Spend Engaged
Spend Automation/Offshoring
70% Reduction Cost Per Transaction
Highly Manual Process for Requesting Capital Fund
Limited insight into status or Budget Lifecycle
Contracting Process Takes Too Long & Is Confusing
High Level of Non-Compliance
Increased demand for Sourcing oversight with same
level of resources
• Ariba eForm Manages CER Process
• Single, Online Platform for Request
intake, approval, Tracking
• Automated Engagement
• System Controls prevents overspending
• Simplifies Sourcing & End User Experience
• Single Point of Entry for Sourcing & Legal
• Users Provide information online
• System manages request routing
• Provide transparency into statusing
• Track and Segment Cycle Time to drive process
improvement
• Reduce Low Value Add Touches
• Simplify the Process
• Drive Category Strategy Compliance
• Increase No-Touch Transactions, Improve
Customer Experience
Strategic Sourcing saves 8% (2.8% EBITDA) of every dollar engaged
Increase Spend Engaged Cost to Manage Spend

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Leveraging action-driven data to improve performance
Monitor Responsiveness & Capacity Utilization
Procurement Operations Performance
Provide Retime Visibility Into Full Budget Lifecycle
• Budget Owners gain real-time insight into full budget lifecycle
• Enables Department and Project managers to proactively prevent
overspending
• Drilldown capability allows manager to access transactional data through
rollup reporting
Budget Management Reports
• Action-Driven Data
• Tracks KPIs at various
hierarchical levels
• Allows managers to identify
& react to under/over
utilized resources
• Proactive insights prevent
process failures

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Grow with your peers.
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