Leading Supply Chains Rely On Ariba
Sunnyvale, CA - What do many of the world's premier supply chains share in common? They rely on Ariba, Inc. to help them drive business excellence and deliver results. Nearly half of the companies named to the recently released AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 use Ariba solutions to drive their supply chain initiatives, including: AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and Nokia. They are joined by other leading organizations who leverage Ariba's technology, category expertise and services, including seven of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500 list.
"When it comes to spend management, leading companies know that it takes more than technology to achieve success," said Kevin Costello, Chief Commercial Officer, Ariba. "The companies named to this year's AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 are reshaping the way that supply chains work by leveraging technology to enable people and processes that can improve profits, reduce risk and drive competitive advantage. We congratulate our customers who have been recognized for their innovation and leadership and are transforming procurement into a strategic function that drives operational excellence and bottom-line results."
Designed to identify manufacturers and retailers that exhibit superior supply chain capabilities and performance, the AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 ranks companies across basic metrics related to execution, including return on assets, revenue growth and inventory turns. It also factors in opinions from peer companies and AMR Research staff.
"The importance of this leadership is hard to overstate," said Kevin O'Marah, Senior Vice President of Research at AMR Research. "Companies in this year's Supply Chain Top 25 are able to respond quickly and efficiently to opportunities arising from market or customer demand. It is not simply a matter of cutting costs."
Ariba provides comprehensive solutions that combine technology, commodity expertise and services in innovative ways to help companies manage their spend from end-to-end. More than a tactical process, spend management is a journey. Some companies start with a single solution, such as sourcing of direct materials, to drive savings. Others leverage Ariba to centralize their procurement/sourcing strategy and build competencies in specific categories. And many, including the AMR Top 25, take a comprehensive approach to spend management that enables them to drive organizational change and operational excellence.
Regardless of where they start, Ariba provides solutions to support companies of all sizes along every step of the way. Offered in a variety of delivery modes, including hosted, on-demand, and on premise, Ariba's solutions are fast, easy, and affordable for companies to adopt and quickly realize the return on their spend management investment.
More than 550 companies leverage Ariba's solutions to source more than $120B in direct and indirect materials, services, and MRO each year. To date, these companies have identified average annual savings in excess of 15 percent. Companies using the Ariba Supplier Network manage more than $170B in annual procurement spend. With more than 140,000 registered suppliers in 115 countries engaging in transactions worth more than $95 billion a year, Ariba Supplier Network is one of the world's largest business transaction networks, used to process more than 2.5 million documents per month and one purchase order every two seconds.
SOURCE: Ariba, Inc.