Ariba® Ready Platinum: Achieve Best-in-Class eBusiness Capabilities and Increase Market Reach
Ariba® ReadyTM Platinum is the most comprehensive program that Ariba offers to help suppliers as they invest in the B2B eCommerce channel and solutions on Ariba® Supplier NetworkTM. When you become an Ariba Ready Platinum supplier, you join an elite team of top suppliers with exclusive access to strategic, technical, and marketing resources designed to help you take your eCommerce strategy to the next level - and ensure you are recognized as a best-in-class supplier.
Program Highlights
As an Ariba Ready Platinum supplier, you can leverage Ariba's Supplier Consulting Services to strategize, benchmark, and expand your B2B eCommerce capabilities. You are granted access to exclusive marketing opportunities that make it easy for buyers to identify you as a supplier with best-in-class capabilities. You are also assigned an Ariba Strategic Supplier Account Manager to help you develop proactive B2B eCommerce and marketing strategies. Access to Ariba Supplier Technical Support helps you maintain a world-class technical infrastructure to support your customers' collaborative procure-to-pay processes. Our goal is to help you gain competitive advantage as you market and deliver services to buyers on the Ariba Network.
As your strategic partner, Ariba also grants you:
- Enhanced consulting and technical support, which helps you strategize, troubleshoot, and refine your eCommerce infrastructure.
- Access to a test version of Ariba Buyer, a valuable resource for closed-loop testing, internal training, and marketing initiatives.
- Solution validation and testing that's included in the Ariba Ready Program (including Catalog, PunchOut, eInvoicing, Express Content, and Level 2 PunchOut categories).
- Use of Ariba Ready Platinum logos for supplier web sites, collateral materials, business cards, and other marketing materials.
- Speaking opportunities at customer-facing events, such as Ariba LIVE.
- Membership to the Supplier Steering Committee, giving you visibility into the Ariba product roadmap, benchmarking data, and the ability to participate in panels and global forums that help shape the direction of Ariba solutions.
- Access to supplier resources only available to Ariba Ready Platinum members, such as free technical support, marketing programs, and consulting services.
