SAP Ariba Procurement Reviews

What is our primary use case?

I work in the digital strategy field for a financial services client. I mainly use Ariba to collect information and manage bills and other contractual information about vendors and contractors who work with me.

What is most valuable?

The best features are the ease of use and the workflow management that allows me to understand every step in the approval process so that I can forecast the time through my request and its approval.

What needs improvement?

Ariba Procurement tends to integrate best with other SAP products and is harder to work with if you have non-SAP products in your architecture. In the next release, SAP should add links to artificial intelligence or some other technology that makes it easy to calculate third-party and vendor risk. For example, it could be interesting to include a feature that allows monitoring of clients' processes to evaluate the risk of lock-in and other internal process risks.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Ariba Procurement for about a year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Ariba Procurement is very stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This is an SAP product, which means it's a blocked solution that relies on security. That means it's easier to scale if you have other SAP products in your architecture.

What other advice do I have?

I would give Ariba Procurement a rating of eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud