Category Expertise

Ariba's Category Expertise Services provide organizations with a broad range of support to build or expand Spend Management competency, introduce best practices, and build capabilities. For organizations with well-developed internal capabilities, Ariba offers as-needed category or supply market intelligence and operational or functional support to augment their in-house team.
Ariba is the world's preeminent sourcing organization, with extensive experience across a broad range of categories.

Highlights include:

• Expertise across 500 supply market categories
• Over 6,400 managed sourcing projects
• Over $74B in annual contract volume sourced

Ariba compliments extensive sourcing expertise with a diligent process for capturing, codifying and delivering category knowledge.

• World class knowledge repository system
• More than 450 Sourcing professionals
• More than 40-recognized Category Specialists

Knowledge Services
Some spend categories present challenges requiring outside assistance. Ariba Knowledge Services include:knowledgeable assessment resources from within our Consulting organization to help evaluate the many options available for selection.

• Category Playbooks containing category and supply market knowledge
• Tackling spend categories not appropriate for online auction
• Strategies for transferring traditional sourcing to an online environment
• Price and best practice benchmarking for categories
• Insights into changing market conditions
• Identifying and prioritizing sourcing opportunities

Category & Program Deployments
Ariba's Category and Program Deployment capabilities incorporate implementation experience into pre-packaged category and program solutions that allow customers a best practices framework to build upon.

As the expert in spend management solutions, Ariba Consulting has guided numerous customers through a transformation of their procurement organizations:

• Helping customers address pain points beyond the implementation of a technology solution
• Extending ROI by quickly implementing business processes that can maximize the value of Ariba tools and technology
• Providing packaged solutions and industry expertise based on best practices accumulated across Ariba's broad customer base