Services Procurement
The economy is forcing businesses to rethink strategies and focus increasingly on the expense side of P&L. In particular, services spend is under greater scrutiny. Businesses are responding by improving procurement processes.
Ariba Services Procurement is Ariba's spend management solution that enables global businesses to control costs for services by category from requisition to invoice.
Services Procurement is critical to spend management
- Manage more spend –enable additional cost savings by managing services such as contingent labor, projects, print, legal, marketing, direct mail, promotional items, installations and more
- Bottom line savings –Realize the savings anticipated from your sourcing events
- Collaborate for increased savings and value – Services are not the same as comparing pencils get the right service at the right value
- Drive compliance to process –deliver more savings and higher value add with fewer resources
- Regulatory compliance/corporate governance (i.e. Sarbanes Oxley) –drive compliance through process and visibility
Ariba Services Procurement: a single solution to manage a range of complex spend categories
- Online collaboration with suppliers speeds the evaluation process and delivers immediate opportunities for increased savings
- Category-specific procurement best practices
- On Demand or "behind-the-firewall" CD solution delivery
- Closed-loop spend management
- Contract compliance, spend visibility and performance management
- Ease of use for "frontline" adoption and deployment
- Proven multi-ERP integration with SAP, Oracle and others
- Integration with Ariba Supplier Network consisting of over 200,000 suppliers
Ariba Services Procurement is modular and flexible, leveraging the Ariba "best-in-class" procurement platform (see graphic below). Category drivers, Temp Labor, Projects, Print, Market Research and Universal, are provided "out of the box" and can be configured with category-specific, best practice capabilities. You can now use a single solution to procure all your indirect spend for both goods and services.
What Services Can You Manage?
- Hourly Services – Called a Vendor Management System (VMS) in the workforce industry, temp labor requisitions, approvals, time cards and expenses can be managed directly as well as through staffing agencies or Managed Service Providers (MSP). Ariba also features the Temp Labor Channel, a pre-configured catalog with more than 1,000 job descriptions providing industry best practices along with quick enablement.
- Web to Print (W2P) – W2P can deliver up to 30 percent savings in the print procurement process. From pre-press to production, configure the parameters and rate cards such as, stock, color, geography and job complexity to realize maximum print savings.
- Project-Based Services – Fixed fees, milestones, and expenses can all be tracked throughout the project and payment process. Any project such as a Statement of Work (SOW) can be brought under compliance and realized savings.
- Marketing Services – Marketing needs a variety of services including market research, print, projects, and consultants along with temp labor. Ariba delivers one-stop shopping for all of marketing’s requirements for both goods and services.
- Every Service – With the Ariba Universal Driver, any service can be configured to your exact requirements such as:
- Direct mail
- Promotional items
- Call centers
- Legal services
- Facilities
- Repair
- Installations
Ariba Services Procurement delivers impressive results
Savings
- Reduce maverick spend, which is typically 40 percent higher with services than indirect goods
- Ease of use, increased productivity (front-line); aggregation of demand resulting in greater purchasing power
- Better pricing from suppliers through enhanced negotiation and collaboration from better visibility
- Multi-ERP integration provides centralized control and reporting with flexible configuration
Control and Compliance
- Enforce required/preferred suppliers
- Guarantee contract compliance during the requisition process
- Ensure workflow and approval processes comply with company guidelines
- Implement to the front-lines with Co-employment policy to reduce legal exposure
Increase Complex Spend Managed
- Closed loop, integrated data visibility from contract, requisition, order to invoice
- Visibility into category details improving monitoring and tracking; support for vendor neutral rate cards
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