by Chad Stickel on October 12, 2011
What is the Ariba Supplier Network (ASN)?
We talk a lot about punchouts at CoreXpand and one of the most common PunchOuts we setup are for Ariba clients. But what is Ariba? And for that matter, what is the ASN all about?
To find out more information directly from Ariba, check here: http://www.ariba.com/about
You can find these facts on the Ariba website:
- Who uses Ariba? Sellers who serve large clients, including over 50% of Fortune 500 companies that use the Ariba commerce cloud
- Over $450 million worth of sales occur every 24 hours (over 100,000 transactions)
- Business save over $60 million in supply costs by using the Ariba eprocurement system.
- The ASN contributes to business growth… allowing suppliers to discover new business opportunities as well as negotiate contracts and secure financing
So how does CoreXpand help with Ariba?
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by Lake Furney on October 3, 2011
If you manage an e-procurement system like Ariba, PeopleSoft, SciQuest, Oracle, etc., then your life just got a whole lot easier.
CoreXpand has released functionality that takes care of two major problems faced by e-procurement and purchasing managers everyday.
You can read all about it in this recent press release.
But if you don’t work in purchasing but know someone who does, send them this blog post, or the link below.
Why? Because this breakthrough eliminates so much stress from the lives of purchasing professionals, you’ll be helping them more than you know. In fact, you might be their hero.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/purchasing/innovation/prweb8834905.htm
by Colette Marshall on July 22, 2011
Regardless of which eprocurement system buyers use, using a PunchOut catalog allows you to market your products more effectively to the buyer. It also allows the buyer to find your products more easily, in a warm and inviting way.
An Ariba CIF catalog (a.k.a. hosted catalog or line item catalog) limits your ability to market your product to your buyer, because the Catalog Interchange Format (CIF) is a standard protocol for a list format of products and services.
Example of a hosted catalog listing (Privacy Marked)
Because of the line item style, there is a limited amount of space to describe your product. It also requires significantly more dedicated resources to keep the data up to date for each buyer. (Discover more about PunchOut benefits and why your customers don’t like CIF in this free report).
That’s why CIF catalogs are, generally speaking, out of date and can be a source of contract compliance issues.
However, with an Ariba PunchOut, you can …
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