Streamlining Supply Chain Management with SAP Ariba

Client

A top-selling American food company specializing in dairy products, yogurt, and creamers.

Key Challenges

• Decentralized sourcing materials mechanism, causing time-consuming and error-prone order tracking
• Limited insight from existing reports and dashboards
• Inefficient reporting
• No single solution to accommodate all suppliers

Our Solution

• Upgraded SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration solution to leverage industry best practices and deployed SAP's Supplier Collaboration Platform
• Implemented standard Purchase Order, Purchase Order confirmation, Advance Shipping Notification, Goods Receipt Notification, Vendor Invoice, and Payment Status
• Enabled client to maintain both portal and B2B channels depending on supplier readiness

Business Benefits

• Phased onboarding of suppliers to the SAP Ariba Platform, providing a single source of information for both the client and suppliers
• SAP Ariba's standard dashboard offering, which allows users to customize tracking and reporting requirements, enhancing efficiency.