Services likely account for half of your total spending, if not more. Still, they're hard to define, hard to see, hard to centralize, and thus, hard to control. Even so, you gotta find a way. Otherwise, you'll keep missing out on a sizable source of savings. The good news is that simply recognizing the problem probably puts you out in front of your competition, and halfway to a solution.
To make it all the way, rely on Ariba Services Procurement from the Ariba Commerce Cloud.
This SaaS solution can be integrated with your ERP procurement system to make it easier to use, and more productive. And it comes with access to the world's largest business commerce network. So through a single user interface, buyers across your enterprise can negotiate, manage, and deliver savings on any type of service, from consulting and contingent labor to marketing and printing.
By delivering complete visibility and organization-wide control, Ariba Services Procurement empowers you to finally bring all services spend under management, ensure compliance, and protect more company profits. And it's the only solution that can.
Learn how you can...
Gain visibility into services spend.
The next step toward getting control over services spend and conserving your cash is knowing who is buying what from whom. By integrating your ERP systems through a single interface, you can dramatically improve visibility into all category and supplier spend. You'll be able to aggregate current spending data and classify it for easy analysis. Then incorporate it into user-friendly analysis dashboards and reports to make the intelligence meaningful and actionable for all stakeholders.
Manage all services spend better.
Beyond some tools for helping with contingent labor, ERP procurement systems are not built to manage services spend effectively. Ariba's comprehensive solution enables you to handle all the services you need including, but not limited to: temp labor, consulting, marketing, mailing, legal, installation, and print services. And, Ariba's intuitive interface and tools help drive inter-department collaboration, a key factor in dramatically increasing your services spend under management.
Achieve compliance with processes, terms, and regulations.
Start by choosing a solution that people will use. Most ERP systems are not designed for walk-up use, and users will find a way around any system they don't like. Also essential is buyer-supplier collaboration, which lays the foundation for kept agreements. With integration to the Ariba Network, both parties have the means to negotiate, agree to, or change terms of demands and offerings. From there, automated processes and built-in tools help drive user choices that comply with rate cards, pricing targets, preferred suppliers, and payment policies.
Drive employee efficiency and productivity.
Managing services spend needn't mean spending a lot of money and time only to realize disappointing results. When you apply the broadest and most used spend management solution to the problem — one integrated with the world's largest trading partner network — you can speed up your cumbersome ERP procurement system and finally eliminate inefficient, labor intensive activities. Through a single sign-on and user interface, your team can employ user-friendly processes to procure any services you need. And, Ariba is at the ready with implementation, training, and consulting services as needed to ensure rapid system adoption.
Save on all services.
To reduce costs, encourage all departments across your organization to partner with their colleagues in Procurement to buy any services needed. Ariba's cloud-based technology, service capabilities, and community resources make the complexities of buying services easier. Now every department that buys services can stretch their budgets using a simplified ordering process that speeds delivery and time-to-fill. And for additional insights about procuring services, including marketing services, print, and contingent labor, be sure to review and share the webinar replays and white papers listed in the Related Resources sidebar on this page, or visit our Resource Library for even more choices.
Best of all, Ariba Services Procurement is delivered through the Ariba Commerce Cloud, a web-based platform that contains everything you need for more collaborative commerce. That means you can seamlessly integrate your goods and services procurement solution with a complete commerce management suite, including solutions for spend visibility, sourcing, contract management, procure-to-pay, supplier management, and more. Learn more.
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