Maximizing Strategic Spend with SAP Ariba Solutions

The client, a global leader in frozen and prepared foods, faced fragmented and manual supplier management systems that limited visibility into procurement and slowed onboarding processes. With more than 2,000 products in 112 countries and thousands of suppliers worldwide, the company needed a centralized solution. 

The client selected SAP Ariba solutions, including Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, Buying and Invoicing, Strategic Sourcing Suite, guided buying, and Spend Control Tower, to address these challenges. The implementation provided a single platform to register and onboard suppliers, manage purchase orders and invoices, and consolidate global supplier and transactional data. The self-service vendor portal simplified tasks from tax information collection to payment processing, enabling stronger vendor relationships and operational efficiency. 

As a result, the client was able to reduce supplier onboarding from three months to just seven days, accelerate purchasing, enable touchless invoice processing for accounts payable, and more. With more than US$800 million in spend processed through the system and AI-enabled insights from Spend Control Tower, the company is positioned to further reduce procurement costs, manage budgets, mitigate supplier risk, and maximize value from global vendor relationships. 

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