Strong supplier relationships build resilient supply chains

A unified and comprehensive view of your most important supplier information can help your business work with suppliers effectively to withstand disruption. Transform supplier management and enable better buying decisions with intelligent tools that keep you in control. The SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance solution provides tools to onboard, qualify, segment, and manage suppliers; automate and streamline supplier management; and align closely with procurement on consistent supplier data.

• Cloud-based deployment
• Integration with SAP Ariba solutions
• Self-service portal for supplier-maintained information
• Customizable qualification and segmentation workflows

Key benefits

Drive spend to preferred suppliers

Manage suppliers based on specific parameters and integrate information with SAP Ariba solutions to guide employees to buy from preferred suppliers.

Eliminate savings leakage with visibility

Achieve greater transparency and control to help ensure employees buy the right products at the right price – and negotiated savings reach the bottom line.

Scale compliance across your supply base

Integrate with SAP Ariba solutions for more effective and consistent supplier management throughout your supply base and source-to-pay process.

Key features

Two-way sync with SAP ERP

• Establish bidirectional synchronization between the SAP ERP application and SAP Ariba solutions
• Keep vendor data up to date

Integration with applications

• Integrate with SAP Ariba solutions
• Enable consistent supplier qualification and segmentation

Self-services for suppliers

• Allow suppliers to maintain their own information
• Foster confidence in the data

Matrix-based management

• Employ a flexible matrix for supplier qualification and segmentation
• Customize by category, location, and business unit