SAP Ariba Category Management
SAP Ariba Category Management simplifies external spend and supplier management for businesses. Built on the SAP Business Technology Platform, this extensible and integrated solution provides valuable market intelligence and category insights to category managers and procurement professionals. By seamlessly integrating with source-to-pay processes, SAP Ariba Category Management facilitates the development, execution, and monitoring of category strategies, ensuring long-term performance.
The launch of SAP Ariba Category Management represents a significant step forward for CPOs and category managers around the globe to have a centralized workbench to digitalize and streamline the development, execution, and monitoring of procurement category strategies.
With its advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and integrated frameworks and tools, SAP Ariba Category Management enables data-driven decision making, identification of strategic sourcing opportunities, and mitigation of risks.
Category management is back in the spotlight, and business leaders have made it clear: it’s time to move on from manual processes and go digital. The benefits go far beyond automation. Digitalization will transform category management from a disconnected, inconsistent state into a more strategic, agile, and fluid business function.
SAP Ariba Category Management streamlines the category strategy creation and management process. Process guidance, category information and analytics, frameworks as well as system recommendations allow teams to move towards intelligence driven category management. With SAP Ariba Category Management customers can spend more time on executing initiatives to deliver cost savings, reduce risks and achieve better business outcomes.
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Let SAP Ariba Category Management make your life easier. The solution assists you in creating a category strategy, step by step. Each step can be tailored to your company's business needs. Review the auto-generated spend profile for your category and easily access the embedded version of SAP Analytics Cloud for an in-depth analysis.
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