Run Simple Buy Simple For Retail Industry

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Run Simple, Buy Simple

Streamline Procurement and Optimize Expense and Merchandise Spend with SAP® Ariba® Solutions for the Retail Industry

The future of retail requires simplification


In the digital retail economy, simplification and business innovation matter more than ever to maintain pace with consumers. To succeed in modern retail,
you need a unified, comprehensive solution that gives you the information, real-time insights, predictive analysis, and logistics flexibility to:
• Source, contract, and procure in a way that ensures compliance across all spend categories
• Address immediate consumer needs by leveraging responsive procurement networks
• Track merchandise across the value chain for end-to-end transparency

When it’s time to remove complexity and Run Simple, trust SAP® Ariba® solutions designed for the retail industry.

How do SAP Ariba solutions help with this new retail reality? The value of simplification
Greater Control with the Internet of Things Reduce Expense Spend
Leveraging real-time data from sensors in
logistics to avoid stock-outs and loss of
Driving effective category management with
ongoing sourcing events to ensure quality
47%
revenue. merchandise at the most competitive pricing. Higher average annual savings for
retailers that have more-mature sourcing
processes*
Improve Forecast Accuracy Mitigate Risk with Merchandise Suppliers
Delivering forecasted demand across the Using real-time visibility to actively monitor
entire supplier base for increased accuracy, and manage risk in your supply base to avoid
confirming the right merchandise is delivered
to the right location at the right price.
costly disruptions and help ensure business
continuity.
13%
Lower procurement cost where
Take Days Out of Inventory Increase Margins procurement plays a strategic role*

Connecting internal merchandising and Integrating country-specific payment


ordering systems with Ariba Network for capabilities to free up working capital and
better control, visibility, and supply chain take advantage of dynamic discounting.
agility.

What are the benefits? Customer spotlight


With SAP Ariba solutions, retailers can expect: ► American Eagle Outfitters stays on
• Strategic benefits: increased supply chain agility for faster time to market trend and on budget
• Risk and compliance benefits: enhanced product compliance and better-qualified sources of supply at lower cost ► Groupe Auchan gains control over
• Measurable benefits: reduced inventory levels, improved working capital, and lower off-balance-sheet liabilities to strategic spend
protect margins in highly competitive markets

Why SAP Ariba solutions? Let’s work together


Digital technology is changing procurement and supply chain processes. Leading retailers can respond quickly ► Benchmark your performance
and profitably to volatile demand and supply. Real-time retail companies can be reimagined with Ariba Network,
our business-to-business network, and SAP Ariba solutions, next-generation software, to deliver on this new
reality and to determine what merchandise to buy, when, and how.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. I Studio SAP I 51473enUS (17/05) *SAP Performance Benchmarking

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