Solution Deployment

Once you decide on a solution that will help achieve your spend management objectives, you need to ensure a high-quality, on-time implementation of your new technology that will maximize the value of your investment. Your implementation provider must be able to meet your unique time, budget and expertise requirements through flexible delivery models, specialized teams and proven methodologies based on best practices from leading projects. In addition, they need to be easy to work with by serving as your single point of contact and by guiding you with their expert advice throughout the implementation.

This is precisely the value that Ariba offers as your implementation services partner: high-quality, on-time delivery and collaborative ease.

Software Implementation
Coupling our unique and proven implementation methodology (SMART) with more than 100 certified consultants, Ariba can tailor implementations to meet specific requirements leveraging best practices and lessons learned from hundreds of previous projects.

The Ariba implementation advantage:

• Ariba certified consultants with superior domain knowledge and expertise
• Proven methodology blending best practices from more than 400 implementations globally
• Global delivery model leveraging onsite, near-shore and offshore resources for low cost and high quality
• Preferred access to Ariba Engineering, Support and Product Management teams
• Efficient processes using standardized, reusable solution components

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

Pre-packaged Solutions
The Ariba Solution Implementation organization has developed and launched multiple new solutions to provide our customers with the ability to deploy new functionality and best practices resulting in accelerated ROI.

Ariba currently offers several Ariba Spend Management Extensions (ASME's) that have helped customers worldwide solve many of their business challenges:

• Electronic Order Execution
• Demand Aggregation
• Savings Tracking
• Enhanced Receiving
• PDA Approval

On Demand Deployment Consulting Support
Many organizations leverage Ariba Consulting's capabilities to provide additional skills, knowledge and abilities during their deployment of an On Demand solution.

GSO and Ariba Consulting help organizations build On Demand success. Our combined team has the ability to help you:

• Rapidly implement and deploy the Ariba On Demand solutions - streamlining time to benefit for customers and implementation of best practices
• Deliver Focused Results - Ariba Consulting has adopted a carefully planned approach, which leverages a cross-functional team and a formal On Demand methodology to ensure onsite/offsite project team tracking and focus on success
• Drive On Demand change and integration across the customer organization and to your internal customers, external customers, and business trading partners

Supplier Enablement Services
The success of any spend management solution depends on wide supplier adoption. Ariba Supplier Enablement Solutions comprise a broad range of products and services that help you rapidly attract target suppliers and enable them to manage business transactions and content via the Ariba Supplier Network. Our easy-to-use, web-based solutions address the needs of small suppliers; sophisticated, cXML-based solutions are ideal for suppliers looking to grow their eCommerce infrastructure.

• Benefits to buyers. Ariba helps you develop customized tools and methodologies that ultimately make you the expert in managing and enabling your suppliers. If you prefer, we can manage this process on your behalf. Either way, you benefit through visibility and tracking of supplier performance and through efficient supplier transactions and communications
• Benefits to suppliers. The Ariba Supplier Network enables suppliers to vastly reduce the cost of managing orders, maintaining catalogs and managing receivables by providing an easy-to-use, 24x7 hub for buyer-supplier communications. Through Ariba PunchOut, suppliers can link their existing eCommerce storefront to the Ariba Supplier Network and provide custom, dynamic content that most effectively meets their customers' needs
• Vendor Management Service. Most companies store critical vendor information in disparate systems that are difficult to efficiently manage and update. Ariba offers a flexible, scalable combination of tools and services that help automate the vendor management process by providing buyers with clear visibility and easy access to the right supplier data
• Content Management Service. Ariba provides a robust combination of content tools and services that help suppliers create, syndicate, and manage their product and service information. Better content information results in expedited processing and reconciliation of purchase orders, shipment progress, receipts, invoices and payments. And buyers can drive end-user adoption and compliance against contracts by offering end-users access to the most up-to-date products and services

Enablement and Transaction Service. Enablement and transactions through the Ariba Supplier Network promote rapid payment, smooth cash flow, and positive customer relations. Leveraging our Network, suppliers can reliably and securely receive, process, and transmit business documents in the format of their choice. They can automate and streamline the order fulfillment process to ensure that products and services meet their customers' exact requirements. And they can provide buyers with real-time visibility through status updates and shipping information.