SAP Ariba Reviews
What do you like best?
I like the fact that Purchase Orders can be entered into Ariba. This allows for approvals before making orders. The other thing is that invoices are received from the vendor directly into Ariba. They are then matched to the Purchase Order. The approvals in the Ariba system are then routed automatically through the system to the appropriate approval level. Also, the unit and account coding are already in the system based on the Purchase Order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Firstly, invoices can get held up in the system if all of the approving managers are not promptly logging into Ariba and approving the invoices through the system. There are a lot of screens in Ariba, and it can be difficult to find the information you want. Finally, Ariba is pretty expensive. In the past year, we ended up ending our use of Ariba based on cost. We are still running some invoices off of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
SAP Ariba is the best platform for seamless procurement. The best part of the e-procurement software is the network created between the buyers and suppliers. This makes work 10 times easier and helps review and update documents on the go. Creating sourcing projects, auctions and contracts have never been easier. With utmost simplicity and precision, the software helps every process go digital in the most effective manner possible. A few key add ons to the Software are-
1. Easy synchronisation with the ERP
2. Easy access from any part of the world hence best for Global Auctions and Global events
3. Easy and optimal transfer of data by means of seamless integration
4. Integration Tool Kit Provision which makes it very easy to transfer all required details and documents from ERP
5. Best in speed and effective UI/UX for an engaging software, user friendly and best form of supply chain digitization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
1. More options are required for better integration
2. APIs are limited and expensive to purchase
3. Processing of data needs to be faster
4. Difficulty in customizing, every small request should be raised to the Ariba Support Team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
_Potential_ to be great if you manage multiple locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
IMPOSSIBLE to get troubleshooting help if you are on standard plan. This gets particularly tricky if You want to get help in merging with potential existing ANID companies that you should have access to. The very unfriendly take on Ariba website on contacting support does not improve our take on the service provider.
A general support should be available for businesses that setup trouble, since the software is not a one-way street. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Its integration capabilities with SAP ECC and S4HANA and End to End Purchasing & supply chain collaboration functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The cost of licensing is a critical concern for SAP Ariba. The S/4 Cloud also needs to use SAP Ariba even though S/4 HANA purchasing itself is cloud based. It makes no sense to use two cloud based applicaiton to have cover full requirement of purchasing. SAP Ariba should be embeded or merged with S/4 Hana Purchsing to make one Cloud based application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I have been using the SAP ARIBA tool for over three years now .Spend analysis and RFX are the best parts. Also SAP Ariba has an organized platform for vendor review.
It is extremely valuable and useful for the source to contract cycle and help us in getting a complete idea of the end to end procurement process as a category analyst.
The invoice part is nothing short of helpful as we work on the source to contract cycle . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
nothing major comes across as a drawback to the tool however probably invoice details can be refined a bit more .
Otherwise the tool looks great from a user perspective
sometimes the link of the related tasks does not work
Also we have faced technical outage causing problems many a times
Not only but also , the frequent maintenance makes the tool not available at many critical circumstances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
It is very simple to use it, all suppliers are familiar with it's interface and outcomes. Easy to register new vendors, which automatically receive notification in case any changes done. I learned once how the system works and now can easily use the system in my everyday life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Sometimes it doesn't show enough description regarding to errors during work with the tool. It would be good to have some more advice while shoving errors. It would be good to have some links which will help to get feedback from the SAP website on such problematic cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Paperless no extra work required to complete project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Its not feasible for manufacturing facility as we dont have a feasibility to modified the process as reason from SAP Ariba team that its cloud base system. Alot of steps to complete process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Starting from Procurement Execution Strategy to Recommendation of award, SAP Ariba has all in one platform. Not only receiving responses from different suppliers across the world but also cross-functional evaluation can be done through Ariba. Logs help you to monitor all the activities easily. It is also helpful for negotiating prices for leveraged items without taking so much of time.
I have been working on Ariba for almost 3.5years and my overall experience with SAP Ariba is great so far. It is user friendly, reports are thorough, monitoring is very easy. All activities strategic sourcing can be done on single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Nothing till date as such. I have a lot to learn as this tool has variety of things available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
A stable Sourcing & Procurement platform for any business cater to the needs of both suppliers and buyers may find the tool they need in SAP Ariba. This online solution help businesses connect with their trading partners whenever and wherever. Use any device or application to efficiently manage the task. Users of SAP Ariba benefit from the software’s use of their Web-based trading community and its robust cloud-deployed solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Sometimes, as It's web-based, when the internet connection is poor its usage becomes distracted.
For new users it has a stiff learning path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Sap Ariba has leveraged new innovation along with intelligent enterprise which gives more advantage for exisiting ERP customers
Great UI and features for sourcing, contracts and supplier collaboration.
Ariba Sourcing for direct spend is really cool feature to make the complex source to procure cycle very easy and transparent to understand and execute which will have an advantage for manufacturing industries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
SAP ariba should improve on providing few more access for custom development.
Fewer options for business users who would have a business requirement to customise are disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Ariba features that are developed in the system awesome, this tool can be used for source to pay with greater features and control mechanisms on each level.
Also facilitated to both buyers and sellers on a cloud platform, users can select the technology on modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Ariba users facing difficulty with the user navigations.
Light account users not getting support from Ariba at right time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
How it is connected to SAP MM .Like Rate contracts can easily visible in ariba while creating catalogue PR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
It is not easy to understand errors occurred and if PR is fully approved by respective cost center owners and if it is going in composing mode then after resubmitting it should not go for re-approvals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
E -auction is highly effective and i extensively use Eauction for day to day purchases. if i want to recall i would like to quote one of the event i conducted last month in which I have achieved 200 Percent savings. It would be possible with ariba.
So far ariba e-auction is best available in the market and its modification is very user friendly and anyone with limited procurement knowledge can learn it quickly.
we are extensively using ariba for the entire P2P process and have streamlined the E-auction activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Sometime its take time to load and opening multiple window under the same browser is not possible which will lead to error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Impartialilty & IT solutions which makes submission of Technocommercial offers easy in separate technical & commercial parts.
Sap Ariba provides a very easy way for the procurement needs of our organization. Earlier we were using Scope platform which was too complex plus all the things not working correctly as required. Infact when vendor was reying to upload his Technocommercial offer in Scope many of the times even after providing their details but no such problems in SAP ariba no such issues are encountered till date. Very easy & the best part is technical & commercial offers can be submitted separately. Sap ariba has provided very transparent solution for all the vendors & the purchase people too. Overall feels good to move in such a platform which is very intuitive, transparent , impartial & easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Not as much user friendly, customization features missing not at the level of Sap hana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
"Solid , mature, procurement platform, fucntionality rich. Needs some work on UX and cloud versions"
What do you like best?
AS one of the oldest and most well-known procurement platforms it is solid, reliable and works well. Talks to all leading finance systems and has good reporting, analytics and purchasing functionality. Great for automating procure to pay processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
As a big company, it is sometimes difficult to get timely support. Some of the newer, cloud-native apps are more user friendly, but SAP is investing lots in playing catch up here. The supplier experience is often confusing and difficult, to the extent that some suppliers refused to use the platform. Controversially, SAP Ariba or their clients make some large volume suppliers pay to transact with buyers via the Ariba network.
Maintaining current contract pricing (via Contract Terms in the Source to Contract Module) is incredibly labor intensive 0 this badly need to be automated somehow! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
Deployment is quick and the tool has the ability to integrate with other ERP tools at ease.
It simplifies and smoothens our source to pay activities likes RFX, Negotiations, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and invoicing
Transparent workflows and approvals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
The user interface to be improved
Data customization takes time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
eAuction process and spend managment are quite good. There is a lot of different options for differnt type of eRFQ and eAuction this are quite good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Complex structure without proper documentation. This structure they showed reqiures some skill. without the training it is quite difficult to aquire those skills. a new comer would be sunk into ocean Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
I have worked in platforms purchasing programs but SAP Ariba is the most intuitive, easy to use, logical and well-designed solution. With Ariba you can easily search, order, pay, modify or cancel goods and services, catalog and non-catalogs items. In Ariba the purchasing and buying experience is as easy as ordering from popular consumer sites such as Amazon or Ebay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Although it is well connected with other ERP systems and external supplier catalos, these functionalities could be improved since sometimes (fixable) interface errors occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
User friendly, well defined process oriented without much delimitations. Almost any industry can adopt this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Not suitable for Financial industry. Especially for Market Data as a commodity this is not the tool made for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you like best?
The UI is very well designed. Fully web based. Using it regularly for both upstream and Downstream. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike?
Support is very bad. Also for any enhanced feature there is a cost you need to pay. The availability in German language in as issue for EMEA region. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.