Get this built-in capability with SAP Ariba Procurement solutions

Increased user adoption

The guided buying capability provides a single self-service gateway for procurement requests and low-dollar, high-volume purchases. You can configure tiles, categories, forms, and permissions for each user to make the guided buying experience intuitive and user-friendly. The capability makes collaboration simpler, too. Supplier collaboration and price quotes are facilitated through integration with other SAP Ariba solutions, and users can access category experts based on their needs and location. What’s more, an exclusive help community channels targeted content to users and encourages knowledge sharing.

Improved compliance to reduce costs

Available at no additional cost with SAP Ariba Procurement solutions, guided buying helps employees intuitively follow procurement guidelines and best practices. Users can see immediately if a purchase would violate a policy, rather than finding out after submitting a request. In addition, you can set rules that either allow or disallow the exception. Supplier-risk functionality highlights risk levels for noncatalog requests and requests for quotes. Meanwhile, with cost savings resulting from stronger compliance and supplier collaboration, you can allocate more funds to strategic initiatives.

Features

Real-time guidance

While buying, users are alerted if a purchasing policy may be violated. If they are required to choose a different item, SAP Business AI can recommend options that keep them in compliance.

Cost savings

Through greater compliance, less savings leakage, and easier supplier collaboration, significant savings can be allocated to more strategic organizational initiatives.

Supplier management and collaboration

Integration with other SAP Ariba solutions facilitates both supplier management and collaboration on one-off purchases, with the ability to select preferred suppliers as well as request quotes via SAP Business Network.

Internal collaboration

Based on what the user is buying and where the user is located, guided buying gives instant access to the category expert in that user’s purchasing unit.

Persona-based dashboards

The guided buying capability can be flexibly configured to align forms, permissions, and system behavior for each user, presenting them with customized tiles and categories to streamline purchasing.

Help community

Exclusive guided buying help community provides the framework to provide targeted help content to users and make it easy for them to collaborate efficiently during their purchasing process.