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Ariba Spend Visibility Solution

The global recession created opportunities for strategic sourcing professionals to shine.Overstocked inventories of supply and dwindling demand made sourcing and renegotiating withexisting suppliers relatively easy. And savings in many categories reached levels never beforeseen. As the economy continues to improve, how can companies continue to create value througtheir sourcing initiatives?

One way is to bring more spend under management. This is often easier said than done, howevWith spend data obscured in disparate purchasing and payables systems, it is difcult to buildeffective sourcing strategies and identify savings opportunities. Compounding the challenge,when opportunities are identied, sourcing organizations often lack the expertise in less-strategicategories to prioritize and source effectively.

Ariba Spend Visibility is a unique solution designed to help companies overcome these barriers

Why Ariba Spend VisibilityA unique Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, Ariba Spend Visibility combines an industry-leading knowledge classication base with advanced technologies and an integrated database ofmore than 150 million suppliers to enable rich and accurate classication and enrichment of speacross all categories, systems and divisions. Ariba Spend Visibility offers an integrated spendmanagement dashboard for a 360-degree view of all purchasing activity and data. The solutionincorporates the powerful yet easy-to-use Ariba Analysis reporting engine with comprehensivdata enrichmentproviding deep and ongoing visibility into both internal purchasing as well asexternal supply and sourcing market dynamics.

Aribas visibility offerings deliver an improved view of spend across a number of critical areas: Commodity classications - Ariba Data Enrichment leverages a range of advanced

classication technologies to ensure spend is consistently classied over time and across datsources so that decisions can be made with condence. Forecast information can be loaded tracked across other Ariba modules for the most-comprehensive view of purchasing in the m

Supplier enrichment - Understanding your supply base is critical to minimizing risk, as wellas decreasing costs and meeting other targets. Where do supplier linkages exist that canincrease your spend leverage? Where does inherent risk exist in your supply base? Whichof your suppliers are diverse? Through a fully integrated, global database of more than 150million suppliers that is constantly updated through a partnership with D&B, other sources anproprietary research, you can answer all of these questions, and many more.

Sourcing market visibility - Aribas proprietary Category Experience Database (CED) illustrthe results of Ariba-led sourcing activities by commodity, helping you to prioritize moreeffectively. Commodity price indices go beyond traditional market data to show how prices auctuating, offering the ability to identify opportunities in comparison to your historical trendPeer spend proles through an opt-in program permit you to compare your spend prole toothers in your industry.

To help you make the most of your technology investments, Ariba provides skills and capabilitiethat are unmatched in the spend analytics industry. From extensive and ongoing training, to bespractice deployment guidance, to assistance in nding savings opportunities, Aribas experts arethere to assist in ensuring that your investment results in signicant return on investment.

Benets Accelerated savings through

more-informed sourcing decisions,better contract terms, and reducedpremium payments

The ability to focus on analysisand planning, not gathering andprocessing data

A consolidated view of data frommultiple systems, source types, andcategories across the organization

Market visibility providing a viewinto market dynamics for betterprioritization and decision-making

Supplier visibility for risk, diversity, andother supplier enrichment attributes

Reduced maverick spending througheffective monitoring, enabling fullrealization of sourcing savings

Increased savings and improvedservice through supplier rationalization

Best practices spend analysisthrough pre-packaged reports andcustomized taxonomies

According to AMR Research, companiesthat do not utilize spend visibilitysolutions manage less total spend andrealize less savings on the spend they domanage as illustrated in the followingbenchmarks. Companies withoutadequate spend visibility: Have an average of 55 percent of

spend that is not strategically managed Neglect 10 to 15 percent in

savings categories that are notstrategically managed

Realize at least six percent lessin savings per category that isstrategically managed

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FeaturesTechnology Integrated, role-based spend management dashboards Streamlined data warehousing Easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface Multi-dimensional data enrichment approach Forecast and variance analysis

Flexible classication to a custom, standard or Ariba taxonomyCommunity Pricing and peer spend proles in order to assess, plan, and modify buying strategies Largest community of spend analysis customers for best practices sharing and

networking opportunities

Capabilities Market intelligence information providing visibility into external market dynamics in order to

prioritize opportunities Supplier enrichment attributes providing additional details on supplier linkages, nancials/ris

diversity status and more Expertise and best practices delivered via a exible delivery model focused on delivering RO

Ready to Get Started?More than 170 companies currently use Aribas visibility solutions to manage their spend. Whynot join them? To learn more, visit http://www.ariba.com/solutions/spendvisibility.cfm, whereyoull nd numerous informative resources like white papers and case studies. Or, contact youraccount executive.

About Ariba, Inc.Ariba, Inc. is the worlds businesscommerce network. Ariba combinesindustry-leading cloud-based applicationswith the worlds largest web-basedtrading community to help companiesdiscover and collaborate with a globalnetwork of partners. Using the Ariba

Network, businesses of all sizes canconnect to their trading partnersanywhere, at any time from anyapplication or device to buy, sell andmanage their cash more efciently andeffectively than ever before. Companiesaround the world use the Ariba Networkto simplify inter-enterprise commerceand enhance the results that they deliver.Join them at: www.ariba.com

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