● Robert Karlsen, Repona

● Ariba ≠ ARIBA

● ARIBA = Associate of the Royal

Institute of British Architects (founded

1834)

● Ariba was started 1996 in California,

USA.

● Idea of using the Internet to enable

companies to facilitate and improve

the procurement process

What is Ariba?

What is Ariba?

● SAP purchased Ariba in 2012

● 3 733 employees in 45 countries

● The world’s largest marketplace for

business-to-business transactions

– connecting two million companies

• One new company joins every minute

• Nearly 10 million end users

– Nearly a trillion dollars in commerce each

year. (1012 , 1 million millions dollars)

• 30 million purchase orders exchanged

• 32 million invoices processed

75 % of

Forbes

Global 2000

Ariba Network

• Cloud solution

• Each company has a connection to Ariba Network

• Reach two million companies via one connection

Buyers Suppliers

Purchase Orders

Payments

Catalogs

Invoices

Upstream

Downstream

Ariba NetworkSourcing, Contracts and Catalogs

Purchase Orders eInvoices / Status

Order Confirmations Payments / Status

Shipment Notices Early Payments

1 Find source

Analyze Discover

Spend Visibility Ariba Discovery

3 Sign agreement

ContractTrack

Performance

Supplier

Performance Mgt

Contract

Management

2 Negotiate

PlanTender /

NegotiateAward

Sourcing & Supplier Management

4 Publish agreement

Manage catalog

Procurement content

7 Pay

Manage cash

Discount Pro

5 Buy

Request Approve Receive

Procure-to-Order (P2O)

6 Get invoiced

Process invoice

Invoice Pro

Procure-to-Pay (P2P)

Ariba On-Demand Solutions

Upstream example…

Downstream example…

Ariba Procure-to-PayCatalogCatalog

Requesters

Procurement ToolProcurement Tool

MarketplaceMarketplace

Accounts Payable

Invoice Mgmt ToolInvoice Mgmt Tool

Cloud

Name: Ariba Procure-to-Pay

AOn your

ERP(s)

→

CatalogCatalog

Requesters

Procurement ToolProcurement Tool

MarketplaceMarketplaceCloud

Name: Ariba Procure-to-Order

BOn yourOn your

ERP(s)

→Accounts Payable

Invoice Mgmt ToolInvoice Mgmt Tool

CatalogCatalog

MarketplaceMarketplaceCloud

Name: Ariba Procurement Content +

Ariba PO and Invoice AutomationC

On yourOn your

ERP(s)

→Requesters

Procurement ToolProcurement Tool

Accounts Payable

Invoice Mgmt ToolInvoice Mgmt Tool

MarketplaceMarketplace

Accounts Payable

Invoice Mgmt ToolInvoice Mgmt Tool

Cloud

Name: Ariba Invoice Professional

DOn yourOn your

ERP(s)

→Requesters

Procurement ToolProcurement Tool

CatalogCatalog

MarketplaceMarketplaceCloud

Name: Ariba PO and Invoice Automation

EOn your

ERP(s)

→Requesters

Procurement ToolProcurement Tool

Accounts Payable

Invoice Mgmt ToolInvoice Mgmt Tool

CatalogCatalog

What’s in the cloud?

B. Procurement & Network

C. Catalog & Network

D. Invoice Process & Network

E. Network only

A. Everything

● Ariba cloud is Software-as-a-Service

(SaaS)

● SAP manages hardware and software

– Accessed via web browser

● Updates are frequent and you can’t

stop them

● More standard – less Z-programs

– Adapt processes to what is possible within

solution

● Technical solution on Ariba side must

be considered

Cloud solution

● Cloud system master data is not on-line

with ERP system

● Master data is imported into Ariba as

CSV-files

– CSV = CommaSeparatedValues

● Standard files are pre-defined

– Dependencies between standard files are

checked when loaded

● Generic files

● FlexMasterData (FMD) for custom files

Ariba - ERP integration

● Ariba Cloud Integration (CI)

Ariba - ECC integration

Standard tools to

extract and transfer

data between

SAP ERP 6.0 or S/4

Hana and Ariba

● Cloud Integration

– Is designed to enable customer logic

– Not all CSV-files have standard extractor

– Some data needed in Ariba is not

available in ERP…

– CSV-files can be uploaded manually via

web browser or automatically sent e.g.

using Direct Connectivity (PI/PO).

Ariba - ECC integration

Ariba Administration

KONTAKT

TELEFON 046-333 400

MAIL info@repona.com

WEBB www.repona.se

ADRESS Magle Stora Kyrkogatan 7,

223 50 Lund

● Threshold– Five or more documents and 44 600 EUR in one customer yearly � Fee

● Fees

– Transaction fees

• 0.155% of your total annual transaction volume across all customer

relationships

• Annual cap 15 500 EUR for each buyer-seller relationship

– Subscription fees

• Determined based on the number of documents you transact

annually as well as your technology usage

• 0 – 4 900 EUR

Ariba Network