SAP Ariba Payables

What do you like best?

As it relates to their "Payables" platform, we use it for a Dynamic Discounting solution which allows our companies to pay our suppliers early in exchange for a discount on their invoice. We like that the solution is:

- Flexible. It supports early payment offers on an invoice-by-invoice basis or those that apply to all of the invoices from a particular supplier.

- Requires little oversight by AP. We setup the offers and the suppliers decide whether to participate. It's 100% up to them.

- We can easily pause the offers as needed based on our cash position.

What do you dislike?

- It took a little longer than expected to get the solution integrated with our payables solution.

- The suppliers can traverse transactions up and down the supply chain, from the original PO to the final remittance for payment. All the transactions are connected and in one location.

- The system sends a lot of emails to suppliers. The suppliers can turn them off, but often don't know how to.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Flexible cash flow management for both our company and our suppliers.