Ariba

Company overview

Ariba is the leader in collaborative business commerce, with the world’s largest web-based trading community that helps companies discover, connect, and collaborate with a global network of partners – all in a cloud-based environment. We help more than 600,000 organizations around the world buy, sell, and manage cash more efficiently and effectively every day. These trading partners rely on our unique combination of technology, service capabilities, and community to lower transaction costs, reduce business risk, and optimize their working capital.

Ariba Collaborative Finance Solutions transform the accounts payable function from a cost center to a profit center. They're scalable, cost-effective, and easily integrated with your ERP and back office systems. And our solutions are thoroughly tested to ensure continuous, secure, and reliable service delivery.

Commerce is simply better with Ariba technology, whether you're looking to drive sales, control spending, or manage cash.

Solution highlights

Ariba e-Invoicing  – Supports collaborative processes that automate accounts payable, eliminate paper, dramatically reduce invoice processing costs, and drive buyer-supplier collaboration. It’s the only smart invoicing solution integrated with the Ariba® Network—the global commerce network handling the largest volume of e-invoice transactions for business. With Ariba smart invoicing, Ariba customers are reducing invoice exceptions by as much as 98 percent, capturing more early payment discounts, complying with country-specific e-invoice rules and regulations, and collaborating more effectively with suppliers. Odd are, many of your suppliers are already part of the Ariba Network. With no technical barriers for participation, you can enable any supplier for e-invoicing regardless of size or location for electronic invoicing.

Ariba Invoice Conversion Services – Complements Ariba e-invoicing with a service for converting paper invoices to an electronic process that includes validation, process, and exception-based workflow. As an outsourced service, it eliminates the high costs of scanning and OCR equipment, mailroom and storage while creating a standardized process that improves control of invoice capture, ensures more consistent data
entry, provides insight into supplier performance, and dramatically reduces invoice exceptions.

Ariba Payment Management – Allows you to extend your back office systems to transmit ACH payments to your suppliers’ banks and detailed remittance information to your suppliers. In addition, the solution provides your suppliers with leading-edge tools they can use to monitor payments and perform their own account maintenance.

Ariba Working Capital Management – Empowers your accounts payable staff to manage payables, cash, and DPO with greater precision, control, and visibility. The solution allows you to maximize returns and reduce investment risks on your short-term capital, enforce pre-negotiated contracts and discount terms established by procurement, and optimize discount penetration across targeted suppliers, spend, and invoices. With innovative tools offering greater cash visibility and liquidity, the solution also strengthens supplier relationships and their financial stability.

Ariba Supplier Enablement –  Brings expertise that few organizations have at their disposal to effectively target and onboard thousands of global suppliers. Ariba provides outsource-service capabilities and self-service tools to automate the enablement process for any supplier anywhere in the world. Ariba supplier enablement experts can help you match your vendors to existing Ariba Network suppliers and onboard new suppliers, or you can use our self-service automation tools to manage the supplier enablement process on your own.

Ariba e-Archive Service – Powered by Ariba business partner Logica, this service helps you address the stringent e-archiving requirements of the European Union. Delivered as a cloud-based service, it is a proven solution for short- or long-term digital archiving and on-line retrieval of invoices and other business documents as well as electronic signatures, digital certificates and verification protocols for document validation.

Ariba Network Open Adapter – Links your ERP and other back-office systems to the Ariba Network so you can effectively collaborate with key suppliers and trading partners. This adapter is a valuable asset for organizations lacking middleware or internal IT resources to enable Ariba Network integration on a global basis. With the Ariba Network Open Adapter, you can extend your existing infrastructure without any additional hardware or software and support your preferred applications, standards, and protocols. Delivered through the Ariba Commerce Cloud, the Ariba Network Open Adapter makes integration fast and easy with minimal IT involvement.