![]() In this case the user clicked on ‘Facilities Services’ on the main guided buying screen and saw a list of the services specific for their location, such as cleaning services, building services, workspace setup, infrastructure services, etc. ![]() The system guides them through the right process depending on a personalized context like user’s location or department and what they are trying to buy. ![]() More importantly, the user does not have to read manuals or‘procurement guides’ to understand the buying process. This enables a single set of policies to be created and enforced across all purchasing systems, simplifying purchasing policy management and ensuring more consistent compliance. To solve this, SAP Ariba is building a front end ‘guided buying’ solution to provide one single place to buy - a common starting point for all purchases, regardless of which system the purchase is ultimately made on (including non-Ariba systems). They might have one system for buying office supplies and equipment, another for facilities request, another for IT services, and so forth. Larger companies often have multiple procurement systems. SAP Ariba Live showed big changes afoot that just might enable them to get there. By 2020, they want to increase the annual volume of transactions flowing through the Ariba platform to $5 Trillion (up from $1 Trillion today), and grow the network to 5 million suppliers (from 2 million today), 50 million users, and $2 Trillion in payments. SAP Ariba has set themselves some big goals for the next five years.
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