With the foundation of SAP Ariba On Demand in place, Accenture continues to refine and enable content and look for opportunities to leverage new functionality, such as the Procurement Operations Desk. The solution improved the buying experience and increased procurement savings by intuitively directing Accenture buyers to goods and services with contracted pricing. SAP Ariba allows Accenture users to be faster, more compliant, and more cost-effective in their purchasing. The enhanced capabilities of the cloud-based SAP Ariba vastly improved the buying experience, especially for infrequent users, and has been key to shaping the buying behaviors for Accenture people. The deployment was one of the first and largest SAP Ariba Guided Buying instances globally. A global design allowed the team to develop and deploy 80 percent of the solution in the first deployment and greatly accelerated subsequent deployments. They also made high reuse of SAP Ariba-specific process documents, requirement templates, and configurations, enabling them to stand up solutions quickly. They used the Accenture SAP Cloud Platform Center of Excellence assets, agile methodology, and cloud experience.

From there, the team needed to determine how to innovate further to evolve procurement capabilities to become more streamlined, intelligent, and value-producing for Accenture.Īn expanded program team deployed SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, devoting six months on the initial go-live followed by a 12-month global deployment to more than 60 countries. The move to SAP Ariba’s Guided Buying capability on SAP’s cloud solution marked the beginning of a journey of creating a new generation of procurement. The program team’s initial challenge was to deploy the Guided Buying capability on SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing across Accenture to transform the buying process for 721,000 Accenture people. We and our global IT organization made the strategic decision several years ago to move Accenture’s on-premise SAP Ariba instance to SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), supporting Accenture’s IT strategy to be platform powered, cloud first, and intelligence driven. Our global Procurement organization uses SAP Ariba solutions to manage more than $5 billion of spend every year.

Accenture has the technology and human ingenuity to turn any kind of change into meaningful impact.

Sap ariba procurement process