Benefits of Participation
Achieve Higher Sales and Lower Costs as an Ariba Network Supplier
As an Ariba Network supplier, you're part of the world's largest trading partner community. One in which we've invested heavily - over 75 million USD last year alone - to provide you with the best platform for discovering, connecting, and collaborating with your customers. Count on rapid and flexible supplier enablement; local delivery of professional services; global, round-the-clock phone support in eight languages; and advanced functionality to achieve:
- Higher sales: Besides finding new customers, you can increase wallet share with existing ones because your participation supports their efforts to drive compliance and reduce maverick spend.
- Lower process costs: You can automate order management processes to ensure term compliance. Get paid faster. And use self-service tools for instant visibility into orders, invoices, and payments.
- Better cash flow: Customers are more likely to pay on time and according to your terms when you use automated e-invoicing to reduce errors
- Greater customer retention: Boost customer satisfaction and become a supplier-of-choice by supporting customers' e-commerce initiatives and saving them time and money. Boost customer satisfaction and become a supplier-of-choice by supporting customers' e-commerce initiatives and saving them time and money.
- Enhanced visibility: Gain real-time visibility into customer orders, change orders, invoices, and payments via flexible connectivity options that link your systems and processes with theirs.
Benefits in Action
Some examples of how these benefits have manifested for Ariba Network suppliers:
- An office supplies provider reduced order processing costs by 75% through system-to-system automation.
- A major MRO provider increased order accuracy by 83% through the use of electronic catalogs, and achieved a 95% success rate in posting valid invoices and getting customer approval.
- A pharmaceutical supplier experienced a 30% reduction in DSO after its customer adopted Ariba and stopped invoicing manually.
- A major MRO supplier reduced DSO to an average of 9.5 days with Ariba (compared to 37 days for hardcopy invoices).
- A large office supplies provider experienced a 15%-20% DSO reduction after deploying EDI; they now save 5.6 days in DSO across their customer base.
- A major MRO supplier increased order accuracy by 83% through use of electronic catalogs.
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