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SAP Ariba cloud Solutions

Worlds Largest Business to Business commerce Network

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Agenda

• Ariba Solution Overview

• Ariba Network
• Source to pay process in Ariba
• Ariba implementation methodology
• Ariba Roadmap (new Features)
• SAP Ariba Solution Dashboard Navigation
• Q&A

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Ariba Solution Overview

 Ariba was founded in late 1996 by Steve Krach along with 6 other people on the idea of using the Internet to enable companies to
improve the procurement processes in Sunnyvale, California.

 Ariba provides "Spend Management solutions" which help companies to analyze and manage their corporate spending to achieve
cost savings and business process efficiency.

 Ariba Solutions backbone is Ariba Network which is World’s largest B2B Network.

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 Ariba's main competitors includes GEP, PROACTIS, BravoSolutions, Oracle, Procurify, Zycus, TradeShift, Coupa and Emptoris etc…

 Ariba On-demand cloud solutions launched in 2009 with Ariba 9s1 version.

 Latest On-Premise Ariba is 9r2 and On Cloud it is 15s

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source : http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/ariba-inc-history/
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Ariba Network’s Key Characteristics

• Open to any ERP
• Open to any connection technology, vendor or Protocol

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• 1 million plus global trading companies
• Over Trillion Dollar transactions annually
• 190 countries and 172 currencies 60 languages

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Ariba is world’s largest Business to Business commerce network
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Standard Procurement Process

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Ariba Source to Settle
Procurement is act of acquiring goods and services.

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This is how Ariba helps in procurement
© 2012 KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”).
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Ariba Customer vs. Best in class

 100% electronically, controlled and

predictable spend to mitigate risk
 Companies achieve 10-20% direct
savings and 60% operational savings on
time and cost.
 80% PO operational cost reduction
 50% less sourcing operational cost

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 50-30% Sourcing cycle time reduction
 Ariba starts savings from day one
 Dynamic discounting
 Ariba Discovery
 Auctioning/Negotiation
 Quick supplier onboarding
 Any Where Access
 Cloud driven savings etc.…

In short, you get much more

than technology from Ariba.

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You get business results.

SAP Ariba Project Implementation Methodology
• Solution Demos
• Business Requirements
Workbook (BRW)
• Analyze business
landscape and Define
Requirements
• Get Requirements Sign
Off from Customer
• Advise on Best Practices
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• Lead on Designing and • Build and configure AN • Manage and execute • Work with customer to
documenting holistic Rules and other elements testing plan holistic cutover of all
solution which customer will have impacted systems and
• Identify test defects,
access. data
• User actions, resolve debug and
workarounds, admin and • Build and configure AN resolve them • Execute customer facing
support functions in Rules, Approval Rules and Ariba application cutover
• Help customer to
addition to system other configuration data tasks
conduct Ariba
functionality
• Build and configure all application and • Execute customer
• Review system required Interfaces on interface testing applications cutover tasks
configuration with Ariba • Post Go-Live support for
customer • Plan entire Testing plan two weeks
• Configure Ariba tools and• Develop customer specific
customer system to talk
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test cases and scripts
to one another
• Sign off on design
Note : Each phase has predefined deliverables/Processes for both parties (customer and project delivery team)
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Implementation stats & team structure

Best Practice for project Implementation:

Partner Program/ Project Customer Program/Project

 Supplier Enablement Manager Manager
 Customer Training Program
 Supplier trainings
Procure to Pay work stream Process Expert Functional
 Key User/Customized trainings Lead
 Sourcing best practice training to procurement
team Sourcing work stream lead Process Expert Technical
 Change Management activities
 Communication Management Supplier Enablement Lead
Enablement team

Catalog Enablement Lead

Training Lead
Education Services Lead

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System Admin/Designated
Support Contact
Change Management Lead

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Ariba latest released innovations
Network innovations:
• AribaPay Canada
• Working Capital & Payment Improvements
• Partial Confirmation of Service Line Items
• Brazilian Tax Invoicing – Support for Services Invoicing in Rio de
Janeiro Municipality
• Tax Invoicing for Mexico Enhancements
• Japanese Address Format Enhancements
• French Tax Invoicing Audit Reports
• Order Confimation Quantity and Delivery Date Tolerance
• Order Collaboration Returns Process
• CSV Upload for Forecast Commit
• Business Rules for Forecast Enablement
• Visual Renewal in Collaborative Supply Chain
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Application innovations:
• ERS & Automatic Invoice Creation for no-release contracts
• Advance Payments
• Demand Aggregation and Sourcing Integration
• Service Requisitioning
• Service entry sheet and Service Invoicing
• Support for Taxes and Charges in Requisitions
• Real-Time Budget Check and Funds Management
• Increased Event Limits for Large Capacity Events
• Field and Document Content Search Enhancements
• SAP ERP Integration for Contract Line Items
• SAP Material Master Item Data Integration
• Contract Line Items Document
• Disabling Event Notifications
• Encryption Enhancements
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• Creating Contracts that are Applicable to all SAP Company Codes
• Enhancements to N Bids and a Buy Policy
• Add Default Accounting Information to imported Requisitions and Invoices
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Ariba Roadmap

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Ariba Cloud Application
Ariba Network

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Demo / Glimpse of Ariba suite

Partner Demo system

https://partnerintg.invoicing.sales.ariba.com

Supplier Demo system

http://partnerintg.supplier.sales.ariba.com/ad/register/SSOActions?type=full

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