SAP Ariba Spend Analysis

What do you like best?

-Ariba provides a set of Prepacked Reports(available default to all clients) and this is very helpful to clients to understand the Ariba Reports and reduces the efforts to create a new one from scratch

-Ariba also provides a Statistical Analysis for reports in the form of various Graphs like Bar Graph, Pie Charts, etc.

What do you dislike?

By default, all the Ariba standard fields are not available in Ariba Reports and for enabling this standard fields for reporting, there is a commercial impact and client needs to spend additionally

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Any additional custom field to be available in Ariba Reporting will have a commercial impact and client needs to pay additional amount

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

-Ariba Spend Analysis helps to prepare reporting data across procurement, invoicing, sourcing and contracts

-Ariba provides a set of Prepacked Reports(available default to all clients) and this is very helpful to clients to understand the Ariba Reports and reduces the efforts to create a new one from scratch

-if the prepacked reports(Provided by Ariba) doesn't suffice the requirement for client, then Client can also create an Analytical Report (Custom Reports) as per the requirement

-By default, all the Ariba standard fields are not available in Ariba Reports and for enabling this standard fields for reporting, there is a commercial impact and client needs to spend additionally