The document provides an overview of Ariba Network cloud solutions for spend analytics, strategic sourcing, and supplier management that are designed for SAP customers. It discusses Ariba's spend visibility basic services for SAP Spend Performance Management, which provides data extraction, enrichment, and classification capabilities. It also summarizes Ariba Discovery for finding suppliers and Ariba Sourcing for running sourcing events, along with how Network RFQs can be used to drive sourcing events directly from SAP MM or SRM. The presentation concludes with key takeaways about how Ariba's cloud-based solutions are complementary to existing SAP investments.
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SAP Spend Performance Management
Best-in class comprehensive Spend Analytics solution
• Extractor Starter Kit (SAP)
• SAP BOBJ Data Integrator ETL
Tool (Non-SAP) – Included in
SPM License
• Web based
• Self-service data
management portal
• Aggregated Raw Data
Views
• Enriched and Classified
Views
• Analyze Savings
Opportunities
• Monitor KPIs
• Track compliance
• Assess Risk
Supplier Enrichment
• Supplier Normalization/
Rationalization
• Parentage
• Enrichment: SIC, Credit,
Revenue, Bankruptcy, Diversity*,
Green* & Risk Ratings*
P-Cards
GL/AP
Supplier data
Data Extraction/
Integration
Source Systems
Powerful, Actionable
and Easy to Use!
SAP SPM
Ariba Spend Visibility
Basic for SPM
OnDemand
Spend Reporting
SAP SPM
Commodity Classification
• Classified via best practice
combination of Knowledgebase,
Databases & Services
• Classification to UNSPSC & Ariba
Best Practice Taxonomy
• Custom Taxonomy supported
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
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SAP Spend Performance Management
Data Flow and Responsibilities
• As part of SPM Implementation
Customers use SPM Extractor
Starter Kit or other ETL process
to extract data from Source
systems
• Customers loads the raw
data into SPM and upon
Validation exports un-
enriched (raw) data from
SPM Data Management into
flat files in SPM Formats and
uploads them to Ariba
Secured Site.
• Customers download the
Enriched and Classified data
and Loads them into SPM.
• Any post Enrichment and
Classification process related
support will be provided by
Ariba PM
P-Cards
GL/AP
Supplier data
Data Extraction/
Integration
Source Systems
Powerful, Actionable
and Easy to Use!
SAP SPM
Ariba Spend Visibility
Basic for SPM
OnDemand
Spend Reporting
SAP SPM
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Quarterly
• Ariba team will pick up the files,
take them through SPM to ADE
transformation service, validates
the data and runs it through
Enrichment and classification
service
• Results of the service will be
validated as per SLA’s agreed
with customer, take them through
refinement process with
customer power user
involvement, export results and
transform to SPM formats.
Customer Responsibility Customer Responsibility Ariba PM Responsibility Customer/Ariba PM
Responsibility