Ariba Supplier Enablement Services
The success of any spend management solution depends on wide supplier adoption. Ariba Supplier Enablement Solutions comprise a broad range of products and services that help you rapidly attract target suppliers and enable them to manage business transactions and content via the Ariba Supplier Network. Our easy-to-use, web-based solutions address the needs of small suppliers; sophisticated, cXML-based solutions are ideal for suppliers looking to grow their eCommerce infrastructure.
- Benefits to buyers. Ariba helps you develop customized tools and methodologies that ultimately make you the expert in managing and enabling your suppliers. If you prefer, we can manage this process on your behalf. Either way, you benefit through visibility and tracking of supplier performance and through efficient supplier transactions and communications.
- Benefits to suppliers. The Ariba Supplier Network enables suppliers to vastly reduce the cost of managing orders, maintaining catalogs and managing receivables by providing an easy-to-use, 24x7 hub for buyer-supplier communications. Through Ariba PunchOut, suppliers can link their existing eCommerce storefront to the Ariba Supplier Network and provide custom, dynamic content that most effectively meets their customers' needs.
- Vendor Management Service. Most companies store critical vendor information in disparate systems that are difficult to efficiently manage and update. Ariba offers a flexible, scalable combination of tools and services that help automate the vendor management process by providing buyers with clear visibility and easy access to the right supplier data.
- Content Management Service. Ariba provides a robust combination of content tools and services that help suppliers create, syndicate, and manage their product and service information. Better content information results in expedited processing and reconciliation of purchase orders, shipment progress, receipts, invoices and payments. And buyers can drive end-user adoption and compliance against contracts by offering end-users access to the most up-to-date products and services.
- Enablement and Transaction Service. Enablement and transactions through the Ariba Supplier Network promote rapid payment, smooth cash flow, and positive customer relations. Leveraging our Network, suppliers can reliably and securely receive, process, and transmit business documents in the format of their choice. They can automate and streamline the order fulfillment process to ensure that products and services meet their customers' exact requirements. And they can provide buyers with real-time visibility through status updates and shipping information.
