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SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
Overview
Centralized supplier management supports faster onboarding, up-to-date data, and compliant spending across your supply base.
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.
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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
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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.
Features
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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
Build a business case
Ten strategies for effective supplier management
Boost the effectiveness of your supplier-centric processes with ten strategies to unlock the power of your SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions.
How to strengthen the procurement/supplier relationship
Learn how companies are building resilience by building bridges between their internal procurement teams and external suppliers across every tier.
Make the case for change in your supply chain
Explore five questions every CPO should be discussing with their teams to build a case for procurement transformation.
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Visibility
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Integration
Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streamlining your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.
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Support
Explore the learning center, engage in discussion forums, and create service requests in SAP Ariba Connect for solution power users and digital support contacts.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Supplier lifecycle management is the strategy of managing the processes, interactions, and moments that span the lifecycle of your relationship with suppliers. The right supplier lifecycle management strategy can improve your working relationships with suppliers at virtually every touch point and improve effectiveness across your source-to-pay processes.
A supplier management system is most often a software solution that manages data and processes related to suppliers – all in one place. A supplier management system should simplify and streamline every step of the vendor management lifecycle and help your business create more successful relationships with suppliers. Increasingly, supplier management systems must be able to provide a single source of truth where all supplier data is stored and accessible. Using a supplier management system, your business can perform in-depth analysis on supplier data and explore important insights about supplier risk informing all stages of the source-to-pay process.
The number of phases in the vendor lifecycle varies by industry and depends on your company’s needs as well as the needs of your vendors. No matter how many stages there are in your vendor lifecycle, your strategy for vendor lifecycle management should put vendors at the center of your procurement processes.
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