SAP Ariba Reviews

User Review - SAP Ariba

Comments: - My impression is that SAP Ariba Represent the best solution of Suppliers Management, The software cover all the Suppliers needed Data ( Registration, Qualification, Performance, Pre-Risk Assessment).

Pros:

- Evaluate risks in the Supplier´s value chain in the following areas: a. Quality Management, b. Sustainability and integrity, c. Health / Safety / Environmental, d. Quality and Continuous Improvement, e. Operation Excellence and Supply Chain, f. Data Security - Supports the process for conducting a financial health review of the supplier. - Be efficient through the sharing of supplier qualification status and risk mitigation actions across the company

Cons:

- Prompt Assistance is needed form the support Team is needed especially on assisting the supplier who has troubles with registration in SAP Ariba.

SAP Ariba- the best Procurement automation tool you can have

Comments: Overall, its a great tool to solve all our 3rd party vendor communications. Though it may have a few downsides but still better in the industry.

Pros:

a. Effective lifecycle design for all procurements needs b. The comprehensive capability of encompassing every activity involved in procurement from pre-PO to vendor selection c. Excellent integration with inhouse tools for quick payment processing d. Safe and secure authorization/single sign-in methodology

Cons:

Very slow operations and the UI/UX is difficult to understand, need to put a lot of time to learn, feels outdated. There a bit issues in adding many 3rd party contractors. The capacity needs to be increased.

Secure Platform But Clunky and Disappointing

Comments: It's clunky and slow but large corporations use it for billing so it's a must have, the fees are disappointing.

Pros:

Connects buyers and sellers in a secure environment

Cons:

Fees, clunky interface, slow to update, duplication of accounts

best finance e-invoicing tool for fast process

Comments: SAP Ariba is one of the best tools in the SAP ecosystem. We can raise invoices in just a few minutes; we dont have to make long manual calculations, collect the physical invoices, or have to go to different departments for signings, approvals and stamps; we just have to raise invoice, it will be directly transfered ot to the concerned person, the person will approve the invoice, then will go to the next department as per the company defined flow and at last to the finance team which will approve and relase the payment, it reduced aoverall manual efforts of invoicg, you don't have to create physical files for keeping invoices, maintaining big records, all done easily in one go

Pros:

one of the best tools of already using any tool from SAP in your organization; it's mainly used for e-invoicing, payment approval, and processing. You dont have to raise physical invoices; just raise the invoice in ariba, it will go to the assigned person. After approval, go to the finance team, and then the payments will be released.

Cons:

Nothing to dislike; the finest tool for e-invoicing

SAP Ariba works

Comments: Access to clients in SAP Ariba is great, having everything in one platform is a huge win as well.

Pros:

Everything is in one place and not spread across multiple platforms.

Cons:

The functionality is not where it should be. As a new user it is hard to navigate and understand what to do.

Preferred by road warriors for reporting expenses

Comments: Ariba has been my favored method of reporting work related expenses. Accounts Payable was able to easily verify expenses and reimburse employees very quickly.

Pros:

It was super easy to enter travel expenses and get reimbursed very quickly.

Cons:

As it is with any SAP product, it really depends on how well Ariba gets deployed at your organization due to the extensive customization and automation options. But after we deployed it effectively, Ariba became effortless to use.

The Ideal Business Expenses Management Software

Pros:

With SAP Ariba, handling and managing business experiences is easy What makes it even better is the ease of integration with other SAP products.

Cons:

Well, SAP Ariba has been working well. No complaints.

SAP Ariba Review

Comments: It was okay. I think there is need for more clearer platform

Pros:

I like that you can see who needs to approve/check or modify an order before finalizing the Purchase Order.

Cons:

I didn't like that some functions or buttons are hard to find

A Practical Tool for RFPs, Though Not the Most Modern Option

Comments: My experience with SAP Ariba was positive. While it’s not the most modern or versatile tool, it gets the job done effectively for procurement and RFP management. It's user-friendly enough for most professionals to navigate without major issues.

Pros:

SAP Ariba helped me participate effectively in RFP processes. Its functionalities are practical and straightforward, making it accessible with some common sense.

Cons:

The interface feels a bit outdated compared to more modern platforms. Additionally, there are more versatile alternatives available in the market.

SAP Ariba Is a Proper Billing and Invoicing Solution

Pros:

This billing and invoicing tool is easy to use. SAP Ariba has great capabilities.

Cons:

SAP Ariba is so powerful to use. No issues with SAP Ariba.

SAP Ariba Is Easy to Implement

Pros:

SAP Ariba has been so reliable and easy to use. The implementation of SAP Ariba is easy.

Cons:

I like the features of SAP Ariba. They are so amazing.

Stay away

Comments: worst system ever. System is broken. It is breaking people in my organisation.

Pros:

nothing - everything in the system that I've used is broken. I've had a different problem with every PO I've created.

Cons:

This is the worst software system I've ever encountered and I worked in government for 15 years. It is constantly crashing, the team buying function doesn't work, the system can't cope with changes to POs after they have initially been created. E.g. I want to break 1 payment into multiple at a later date - the system can't deal with this and now I'm left with cranky vendors who can't get their invoice paid. I manage over 30 contracts which are all multi-year. I can't get my colleagues access such that if I'm on leave they can't pay invoices for me. Some POs I've created never got sent to the vendor, even though other POs have gone. There are so many bugs in this system. Stay away from it if you are a large, complex organisation.

The best expense tracking system along the supply chain

Comments: SAP Ariba helps me manage my expenses and track and evaluate them to accomplish the best supply chain operations. It also keeps track of the accounts we have paid or need to pay, so you are completely aware of your contractual duties. The finest vendors and rates allowed us to simplify procurement operations and boost contract transparency.

Pros:

It is the best management program that helps companies expand, as it provides many services that allow new horizons for cooperation with others and contribute to increasing the company's ability to track spending. SAP Ariba provides complete transparency in the procurement process. Through its analytical tools, it is able to connect suppliers and buyers on a single platform, enabling them to complete all stages smoothly and flexibly. The user interface is attractive and easy to use, and it is cloud-based, enabling all parties involved in the operations to get the best fit for their services. I like the reports that I can get that show you consumption patterns and many data according to your interests, which gives you new horizons and gives you ideas that enable you to get the desired success.

Cons:

It has not many negatives. In terms of business as well as day-to-day dealings with suppliers, I find it to be a useful software that I can rely on for management needs. It requires some training to use its services effectively, and some apps have trouble connecting with it.

Not designed for sourcing managers’ needs

Comments: Good for process compliance folks, bad for sourcing managers and suppliers. Don’t buy, avoid. Really!

Pros:

It’s a compliance tool so it’s a way of ensuring that offers sent by suppliers, tender documents etc are captured centrally and survives even though an employee has left the org.

Cons:

I hate Ariba and I will have plenty of reasons to justify this. First, this was not designed to be user friendly or intuitive at all! It’s like a programmer decided to be a procurement manager and started introducing complicated steps to what is otherwise straightforward. Sending a tender document to suppliers by email takes 5 min vs sending by ariba which takes anything between 5 hours to set up to 5 days depending on approval gateways. Secondly, it’s very unforgiving. If you didn’t do something the right way, the only way to undo it is to start from scratch. Third, it’s user interface sucks. Nothing is connected or seamless. You literally have to memorise the series of tabs and drop down cells to run a tender. Fourth, it’s NOT customisable at all. Everything seems to be hard coded and if there’s any feature or function change it will take months even years to get implemented. Lastly, I’ve used ariba in a previous organisation 9 years ago and well… I’m using ariba in my new org now and NOTHING has changed. So you’re buying a junk car who will tell you that to turn right you have to steer your wheel one full turn first before you can turn right.

Powerful Vendor Management software

Comments: I would highly recommend this product for companies looking to manage a large number of properties with a large array of services and vendors that need to be managed.
Once you get all your properties, services and vendors setup, you will save so much time and have control over your service contracts.

Pros:

From a vendor side of this software, it was revolutionary. We got paid 10 times faster for our service contracts. Batch invoicing was easy and organized. It was easy to batch invoice monthly for our standard service contracts and also the functionality of specialty services that were not a part of the regular scope of the monthly services. As an account manager, Ariba actually helped me to manage our facilities maintenance service providers. Also, as a project manager, it was easy to submit specialty invoices. They would then be sent to the correct team of our client for review and easy approval.

Cons:

At the start is was difficult to learn. But during the course of using the software, Ariba upgraded features and once we learned how to utilize all the features, the benefits prevailed.

Procurement and contract management made easy with SAP Ariba

Comments: We streamlined the process of procuring the hardware and pheripherals at enterprise and employee level

Pros:

Its end to end integration of supply chain ecosystem from RFQ to final invoicing.

Cons:

User Interface looks little confusing and experience little slow apart from that product wise it was awesome.

Overall Ariba is a useful

Comments: Very useful and easy

Pros:

Very easy to use and understand. It makes managing the approval of invoices really easy.

Cons:

finding past invoices is not easy. Inputs of budgets are still slow and highly manual.

Long time User

Comments: Great tool for e sourcing, online bidding events for cost reduction initiatives

Pros:

It is the go to tool for onlinebidding. Vendors are familiar with the tool. Buyers have another strategy for cost savings

Cons:

It has so many features that sometimes creating a bidding event can take some time and effort to set up.

Not optimized for mass invoicing purposes

Comments: Trying to upload invoices. For one invoice, there is a lot of steps, literally rekeying in all the info on the invoice and then attach the invoice. When you have to upload more than 300 invoices per month, that is another story. Please work on a mass upload feature. I could be optimized. For now, I do not recommend Ariba for supplier invoicing.

Pros:

Good for PO tracking and for the customer's end

Cons:

No invoice mass upload feature A lot of steps to submit the invoices Redundant to resubmit the invo

Ariba Commerce Cloud

Pros:

The community linked to the tool. It has a lot of features that can be customized too.

Cons:

no ease of use. Can be tricky to use, not friendly enough

Not easy to use and quite time consuming

Pros:

There is not much about Ariba that I like except the email notifications where they send you alerts for leads/ RFPs do work.

Cons:

This is the first sourcing/ procurement software that I've ever used, and I've spent an unnecessary amount of time on it because of the lack of user-friendliness. For example, I was completing my company's profile for a RFP, and the button to show which blanks should be filled didn't work at all, there was just no response. Until after a while later, I figured out that I would try turning my adblock off, then it worked. Still, the whole process consisted of filling in the same information multiple times.

I get what Ariba is trying to achieve but it hurts small businesses

Comments: There has to be a way to waive charges for small businesses

Pros:

Integration with SAP. I suppose it helps big corporations manage their stock levels in a systematic way.

Cons:

When small businesses are forced to use it, it adds a significant cost of operation without any gains.

User of product

Pros:

Emailed Reminders so approvals are done and not past due.

Cons:

It is to generic when it comes to specifications . Small companies arer required to carry all the same HR related policies as big ones. Hard to navigate.

Terrible for small suppliers

Comments: No benefits for us as a supplier, just creates more work for us.

Pros:

Nothing, no intention of using this program for anything beyond being forced to by a customer.

Cons:

Being forced to use this program by 1 customer for non product related supply that only occurs randomly throughout the year. I am forced to duplicate the work I produce on my own accounting system to enter into my customers system. In other words, I am doing their work for them for no financial gain.

SAP Ariba - Spend Management

Comments: At first glance, SAP Ariba can be a bit confusing. There is lot going on within this software, especially if you are coming into it with little or no previous purchasing software experience. However, after using the software for a little while it becomes second nature as to how the software is laid out and where to go to find things.

Pros:

SAP Ariba is the primary purchasing system that my company uses. Primarily it is used for inputting spot buys as well as guided buying. The guided buying is especially convenient because it is much quicker turnaround time to get a purchase order issued than it ever has been before because all items in guided buying are essentially pre-approved and therefore require a much shorter approval workflow before a PO is issued.

Cons:

SAP Ariba was so different than the previous purchasing system that my company used, that getting the hang of SAP Ariba took a little longer than I would have expected. Good training would help with this however. Like anything else, once you use it for a while you get used to the layout of things and the software becomes second nature.