SAP Ariba solutions
Your company’s procurement operations can drive innovation and business value. Take advantage of spend management, strategic sourcing and potential savings by reinventing your approach to procurement.
Digitally transform your procurement operations
From consultation through implementation of SAP Ariba solutions and IBM Watson®, we are your partner for digitally reinventing your procurement operations and contract management process.
IBM helps clients emerge stronger in procurement with the established platform of SAP Ariba and IBM’s own innovative solutions in the areas of AI, blockchain and RPA. Learn how to implement SAP Ariba solutions quickly and economically with our IMPACT for SAP Ariba accelerator and increase functionality with our Cognitive Procurement Platform.
Benefits
Improve source-to-pay
Our procurement solutions are integrated with IBM Watson, including robotic process automation for source-to-pay activities to handle purchase orders, send invoices, and receive payments.
Supplier management
The SAP Ariba Network provides a single point of integration to thousands of suppliers for more effective and efficient supplier management.
Intelligent procurement
Deep procurement expertise from IBM Services® includes extensive category and sourcing intelligence across all industries.
SAP Ariba solutions
SAP Ariba consulting and strategy
IBM customizes your cognitive plan based on consulting, analytics, insight and services for lowering costs with faster time to value.
Procurement readiness assessment
The proprietary Cognitive Procurement Readiness Assessment from IBM helps you lay out your personalized roadmap and business case for leveraging SAP Ariba solutions powered by Watson.
IBM Watson integration
IBM Watson integration offers multiple benefits including more effective sourcing events, reduced rogue spend, a more manageable contracting process, and a modernized and efficient procurement operation.
IBM supports procurement digitization with launch of SmartBuy: A program using SAP Ariba solutions
SmartBuy, designed and implemented by IBM, can help drive business value and provide a fast, intuitive experience for global technology company ABB's employees and suppliers.
Resources
Seizing the procurement opportunity with AI
Understand more about IBM’s next-generation cognitive procurement offerings including AI, blockchain and IoT, and how they can transform your procurement processes.
IBM and SAP announce new offerings to help companies' journey to the intelligent enterprise
The Evolution Partnership initiative intends to deliver new intelligent industry solutions to enable end-to-end processes that help companies accelerate the modernization of systems and workflows.
The new frontier: Industries navigate supply chain challenges quicker with demand sensing
Demand-sensing technology helps businesses understand disruption and economic risks in order to forecast demand and solve for specific supply chain problems. The technology provides clients with real-time insights into buying behavior.
Related solutions
Procurement Consulting and Managed Services
Reimagine your procurement operations from source to pay with data and emerging technologies to empower your teams.
IBM Watson
Watson is AI for business. IBM’s portfolio of enterprise-ready pre-built applications, tools and runtimes are designed to reduce the costs and hurdles of AI adoption while maximizing outcomes and responsible use of AI.
Services for SAP Solutions
The strategic pairing of IBM and SAP experts helps worldwide organizations, of all sizes and across all industries, with custom plans that lower costs, increase agility and improve results.
SAP S/4HANA Services
End-to-end consulting helps implement SAP S/4HANA to transform mission-critical business systems.
Supply Chain Solutions
Act with speed and confidence to mitigate disruptions and build resilient supply chain solutions.
IBM Garage
Co-create with IBM Garage™
Ideate, build, measure, iterate and scale solutions seamlessly with our end-to-end framework of design thinking, agile and DevOps practices. Achieve speed-to-value and adopt breakthrough technologies through the partnership created with your team and a diverse set of IBM experts in business, design and technology.
