What is SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing?

With advanced tools to automate manual processes and support close collaboration with suppliers, the SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing solution can help you streamline procure-to-pay processes across your organization.

This user-friendly, cloud-based solution can help you make procurement faster, reduce errors, boost productivity, and cut costs for a rapid ROI.

• Streamline the purchasing experience for professionals and casual users with intuitive interfaces
• Realize sustainable savings by building procurement policies and budget checks into the shopping and approval process
• Enhance visibility and control through spend analysis, guided workflows, and reporting, even when using multiple ERP systems
• Bring spending on non-sourced, one-off, or emergency purchases under management with the Spot Buy capability

Features

Guided buying capability

A simple user experience guides employees to buy from preferred suppliers while complying with your procurement processes and policies.

• Real-time guidance. Alert shoppers of policy violations in real time and establish rules that either let them proceed or require a different purchase.
• Supplier collaboration. Buy from the right suppliers or request quotes from new ones through integration with SAP Business Network.
• Internal collaboration. Provide instant access to the category expert in the user’s purchasing unit, based on the user’s need and location.
• Persona-based dashboards. Streamline the buying experience with dashboards customized to align categories, forms, and permissions with each user.

Spot Buy capability

With our B2B marketplace, you can make it simple for employees to buy non-sourced goods from trusted suppliers according to built-in controls.

• Supplier vetting. Take advantage of a three-tier supplier vetting process to make sure that chosen vendors align with your purchasing policies.
• Supplier risk assessments. Alleviate supply risk concerns by relying on thorough supplier risk assessments provided by global risk management solutions.
• Customizable restrictions. Turn buying restrictions on and off based on parameters, such as supplier, manufacturer, category code, and price thresholds.
• Enriched payment data. Gain more visibility into purchasing card data with PO number, item, commodity code, amount, taxes, and shipping information.

Productivity tools

You can enhance team efficiency, save money, and free users to focus on more strategic activities with a diverse array of tools and capabilities.

• Procurement workspaces. Access data and documents within a single repository, including requisitions, sourcing details, contracts, POs, and invoices.
• Analytics and reporting. Monitor spend based on multiple parameters to improve performance, identify savings opportunities, and evaluate outcomes.
• Invoice management. Expedite invoice reconciliation using network-based rules that require suppliers to fix errors before they send you invoices.

Global market adaptability

By managing suppliers and compliance in multiple countries and currencies, you can do business worldwide and deliver what you need, where it's needed. Worldwide support Implement this solution in more than 190 countries and 24 languages and deploy it through 13 global data centers. Regulatory compliance Build regulatory requirements into the solution to make it easier to comply with international and regional mandates. Tax support Align with regional requirements, adding tax and other local charges on requisitions, POs, invoices, and reconciliations.