Over the past few months, Ariba (and SAP) have actively shared a number of procurement technology and infrastructure roadmap elements with clients, prospects, and partners. This includes focusing on, among other areas, the continued delivery and development on many (but not all) common products, platforms and application environments (e.g., cloud vs. on-premise) between the two companies. At LIVE last week, Ariba shared several specific areas of investment and development in the their network and application offerings, including leveraging SAP’s in-memory database, HANA, to power its own spend analytics application.
围绕现场的许多其他公告代表了利用现有的阿巴尔平台和基础设施的增量改进。这包括扩大对阿里巴网络交换的发票和文件的监管合规和国家覆盖范围，并为发票而利用阿里巴网络基础设施的发票提高了文件验证规则。它还包括某种内容对科尔特拉（下一代D＆B竞争对手和信贷/风险分数提供商提供者提供者提供的东西，通过为这些公司提供类似客户/买家可能已经与业务提供业务的建议，通过其共享网络和智能。
Similarly, Ariba is now using its Discovery tool to recommend suggested suppliers. According to Ariba, this “Suppliers You May Like” capability “helps guide buyers to qualified suppliers based on a host of inputs, including buyer requirements, supplier capabilities and performance ratings, and how often other buyers on the network have awarded business to them.” This back-to-the-future moment for Ariba reminds me – albeit in a less engineering-centric manner – of what FreeMarkets had originally tried to do over a decade ago for direct materials using parametric part data, attribute information and MRP data to match engineering, demand and procurement specifications with supplier capability profiles and capacity (a failed experiment at the time).
这种新功能有很多用例，包括有时被称为现货购买和尾部花费的采购方案。对于Ariba P2P用户来说，这些是项目（或一系列物品）可能或可能不在目录（或在麦式出局）的情况下，但无论如何，美元量足以保证至少一些竞争的竞标通过eProcurement购买而不是简单地授予供应商的申请。Ariba还在LIVE上宣布，他们的新现货购买能力与他们的P2P和发现申请集成，以使前线买家能够在征用范围内更轻松地驱动竞争（或将“购买”达到采购或类别管理资源）将RFP爆炸到网络上的其他供应商。
Such activity is certainly not a replacement for strategic sourcing. But as the Hackett Group shared at LIVE, “roughly one-quarter of overall indirect spend is sourced tactically, however on an activity basis, over half of sourcing is tactical.” Simply, such activities are likely to benefit significantly from added competition even if it is only a single round competitive bid without feedback given to the market. For companies looking to make the business case for this type of “tactical sourcing” with Ariba P2P, Discovery, and the new Spot Buy integrated capability, Hackett data shows that the procurement ROI for tactical sourcing (defined by annual cost reduction as a percentage of sourced spend) is greater than 3.5X, compared with an ROI of 3.5X for traditional strategic sourcing activity. In other words, there’s untapped low-hanging sourcing fruit in them thar tactical sourcing/spot buy hills!
We’ll continue to explore the latest from SAP/Ariba including the latest from Ariba Spend Visibility (and related cleansing/classification services) and integration with SAP Spend Performance Management. We’ll also look at the impact of the HANA in-memory database on spend analysis analytics performance.
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- The Future of the Ariba Network with SAP (Part 1)
- The Future of the Ariba Network with SAP (Part 2)
- The Future of the Ariba Network with SAP (Part 3)
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- SAP和ARIBA：客户和潜在客户含义 - 电子发票（第1部分）
- SAPand Ariba: Customer and Prospect Implications – Sourcing, Spend Analysis, Supplier Management and Contract Management
- SAPand Ariba Procurement Customers: Hints at a Directional Solution Focus and Recommendations to Take Advantage of Acquisition and Post-Merger Uncertainty
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