The Power of SAP and Ariba Solution Integration

Editor's Notes

• #5: And that’s exactly what today’s leading businesses are doing. more and more firms are looking to adopt cloud applications, infrastructure, database, and platforms – basically everything as a service. As you can see here, the level of investment and interest in the Cloud among companies is higher than ever. But the motivation for embracing the Cloud is far different than it was in the past…
• #6: You’ve probably heard a lot about the TCO benefits of the Cloud. And while the Cloud certainly offers a cost advantage, the real benefit the Cloud brings to business comes in two flavors: innovation and agility.   That’s exactly why companies are turning to the Cloud. With rapid innovation cycles, the Cloud delivers new functionality several times per year, enabling you to request and get new enhancements to advance your business. Releases are immediately available to every customer – with no lengthy upgrade cycles, no consultants, and no long training or change management projects required. And with agile Cloud Platforms, you can quickly develop industry-, process-, or company-specific extensions to any SAP applications to achieve new, innovative business processes that advance your business. In short – Cloud is no longer either/or…it’s not even AND…it’s AND BETTER!!! By extending your OP assets with the Cloud, you can enable new business processes, gain new insights, and unlock new value for your business. In fact, I’d argue if you are merely moving to the cloud to enable the same old process through a new delivery or pricing model – don’t do it. Move to the cloud to enable new capabilities. New innovation. And new agility.
• #30: Getting deeper into the offerings, the Ariba Network is the first main component to discuss. Again, no matter what systems you might run for your financials or source-to-pay, the Ariba Network works seamlessly to support the collaborative elements of the process. With over 1 million trading partners and over $450B in annual spending flowing through the network, Ariba supports more than 60% of the Global 2000 for inter-enterprise collaboration. There are two main packages that are offered to customers who want to leverage the Network: Collaborative Commerce, and Collaborative Finance. Collaborative Commerce includes collaboration on business documents related to orders – purchase orders, confirmations, ASN’s, receipts, etc. The Collaborative Finance package covers the monetary portions of the process such as Invoice Mgmt and dynamic discounting. For all customers who invest in a network package, customers receive: - a single point of collaboration for all suppliers, on all spend-related doc types, with flexible enablement options for suppliers so that none are left behind, not even the smallest shop that wants to receive faxes or emails. Ariba has time-tested approaches and service offerings to get your suppliers fully and rapidly enabled to collaborate on the Network.
• #37: Speaker notes/talking points Sample/typical business process mapping to type of supplier relationship: Start with Categorizing suppliers …in alignment with replenishment strategies/related process chosen along with Collaboration Channels needed. Depending on complexity required to support l advanced algorithms and planning features with strong application logic, recommendation is to use SNC along with Ariba Network for message collaboration. For simpler collaboration for high volume relationships use Ariba Network with direct integration to source systems.