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SAP and the Ariba Supplier Network How Plug-In Integration with Global Suppliers Quickly Multiplies the Value of SAP Investments

ARIBA的SAP供应商网络

SAP and the Ariba Supplier NetworkOVERVIEWSAP delivers a comprehensive range of enterprise software applications and business solutions within the context of an agile, services-oriented architecture (SOA) and a collaborative enterprise ecosystem. Its extensive partner program reflects the company’s dedication to end-to-end business solutions for complete life-cycle support and lower total cost of ownership. Ariba, a certified SAP partner, participates in the SAP world by providing a critical missing link in the end-to-end chain of business processes—namely, a simplified way to conduct business electronically with global suppliers through the Ariba Supplier Network. With over 160,000 participating suppliers, the Ariba Supplier Network is the largest supplier network in the world. Most organizations find that up to 30 percent of their preferred suppliers already participate, while the remainder can be enabled quickly and easily. The Ariba Supplier Network also provides simple, effective discovery features that facilitate and optimize the sourcing process over time. Furthermore, the Ariba Supplier Network provides integrated and automated network services across a broad range of core business processes, ensuring that one efficient platform addresses discovery-to-settle supplier collaboration needs throughout supply chain, procurement, accounts payable, treasury/finance and vendor management workflows. Many IT groups are currently wrestling with the challenges of either building their own supplier portal or adopting one or more existing gateway solutions from industry vendors. Designing and implementing a gateway from the ground up—especially in a typical transactional environment where suppliers present diverse types of business documents (EDI, XML, traditional fax methods, etc.)—can be costly, and the resulting systems are usually very difficult to maintain. Costs are often equally high for implementing a proprietary portal solution. Packaged gateway solutions typically focus on a limited set of business processes—for example, sourcing and procurement— forcing organizations to purchase, implement and maintain multiple dissimilar packages to ensure supplier integration across the enterprise, accommodating all departments and stakeholders. In today’s global economy, further obstacles include the high costs of supporting multiple languages and currencies for different regions and countries. Ariba eliminates all of these difficulties and costs, offering a plug-in solution that not only solves immediate technical and business problems, but also provides a secure, scalable platform for long-term growth. Special IT benefits with the Ariba Supplier Network include out-of-the-box SAP-specific integration functionality. SAP users can quickly implement network services that enable supplier links with minimum effort and expense. Typical time-to-deployment is only six to eight weeks, making it possible to achieve a very fast return on investment. Ariba’s open architecture provides flexible integration options, with broad support for SOA strategies. Ariba fully complements existing SAP environments, delivering the most effective means possible to seamlessly link internal SAP-based business processes with the external worldwide supplier community.2Copyright 2007 Ariba, Inc. All rights reserved.

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SAP and the Ariba Supplier NetworkCONNECTING WITH GLOBAL SUPPLIERSSupplier Enablement ChallengesMany organizations today have set ambitious goals for increasing efficiency throughout the enterprise in order to improve spend management and improve bottom-line results across multiple business processes. The goal is to optimize key business functions such as sourcing, procurement, contracts, invoicing, payment, and accounts payable, and to drive working capital benefits to treasury and finance. Top line objectives include increasing the amount of spend under management, improving the visibility of spend, maximizing contract compliance in order to stop leakage, and gaining greater capture of discounts. In each of these cases, supplier connectivity provides substantial benefits and in fact often provides the key to making these improvements possible. For example, to improve collaboration with suppliers and increase the amount of spend under management, an organization requires easy supplier enablement, automated transactions, and a reliable way to integrate suppliers into closed-loop processes that help prevent rogue spending. For enhanced contract compliance, organizations rely on electronic invoicing, accurate reporting and other automated features to minimize contract leakage and help eliminate overpayments that can result from unrealized contract discounts. Despite the obvious benefits of automated supplier collaboration, most companies today still communicate with suppliers using manual methods. Faxed invoices, telephone requests and confirmations, manually initiated emails, Web browsing to find suppliers, and so forth, are the norm. Industry observers estimate that accounts payable staff spend 75 percent of their time processing paper-based invoices. Contract leakage is estimated at .1 to one percent of total spend, with most organizations capturing only a small fraction of potential early-pay discount opportunities.LEGEND Content PunchOut PO Routing eInvoice Settlement SRMSupplier Supplier SupplierPortalSupplier Supplier SupplierIT OrganizationSupplierSupplierSupplierEDIProcSupplierSupplierSupplierSupplierSupplierSupplierProcurement OrganizationFaxSupplier Supplier SupplierSAPSupplier Supplier SupplierEmailHubSupplier Supplier SupplierAccounts PayableSupplierXMLCopyright 2007 Ariba, Inc. All rights reserved.3

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