Success Stories

We have very capable supply management people here at AMD, but had we done the projects on our own, it would have taken us two to three times longer than without Ariba’s expertise.

- Alex Brown, Vice President, Global Supply Management

Website: http://www.amd.com

With Ariba Sourcing, we have achieved savings from 15 to 40 percent. But one of the things that is most important to us is how the tool allows us to do business on a global scale for global projects, executed with global offices with global suppliers. With the advantages of speed, visibility and collaboration, what used to take four weeks now only takes two.

- Jeff Hoover, Strategic Sourcing Manager

Website: http://www.airproducts.com/

The services side of Ariba has been of tremendous value to Avaya educationally. They have a strong market background in various commodities that have been extremely advantageous to us.

- Joe Siciliano, Senior Manager of Avaya Procurement

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It is imperative to diligently manage expenses to maximize opportunities for growth. Leveraging Ariba's solution and expertise, we have implemented a more efficient process for sourcing. This has improved our productivity, lowered costs and brought significant change in the ROI.

Abhay Johorey, Director Transformation & Services, Aviva India

Website: http://www.avivaindia.com/

Ariba Spend Management is the best solution in the market for

Website: http://www.british-airways.com/

Thanks to the Ariba Spend

Website: http://www.cvs.com/

Our new tools have enabled us to be compliant and to manage the process of reporting across 10,000 users in 15 countries across every time zone in the world. The benefit is to not only be compliant but also to be able to report and manage the whole process and prove that we are compliant.

- Mark Rose,
General Manager of Procurement Technologies, Chevron Corporation

Website: http://www.chevron.com/

We use Ariba QuickSource and are very happy with its capabilities. We use Ariba Data Enrichment to take our global business warehouse application and classify it so we know what we spend where, how much, with whom, and why.

- Gary Abernathy, Director of Sourcing Strategy

Website: http://www.colgate.com

"Over a three-year period,

Website: http://www.danaher.com

The Ariba solution handles all our requisitioning, right from employees desktops, and provides a single system to approve, track, and receive orders, and then trigger payment. Among other benefits, including purchasing compliance and better visibility, we experienced a dramatic increase in process efficiencies which enabled a reduction of accounts payable headcount from 12 to two, freeing up those resources for more strategic projects within the department.

- Ms Gail Hart, General Manager Shared Services Division, The Department of Education and Training, State of Victoria, Australia

Website: http://www.det.vic.gov.au/det/

We want to drive to increased efficiencies and standardization in the RFx process and automate our control process. So we use Ariba to request proposals for everything we can, whether it's a single-source item or a competitive bidding event.

- Robert Kane, Director of Supply Chain Management for General Dynamics C4 Systems business unit

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The benefits of online sourcing go beyond cost savings. Ariba has the expertise to help us buy from the best suppliers at the best price.

- Russ Ross, Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning

Website: http://www.gianteagle.com

The benefits of e-sourcing go beyond cost savings. Real-time interaction drives efficient market pricing, better sourcing decisions, and delivers real value. Rigorous selection ensures the best quality from the best suppliers.

- Scott Allen, Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer

Website: http://www.heinz.com

If we have buyers in multiple locations working on the same project, now they can use the same process all at the same time. It brings synergy and makes it easy for everyone to work together—via teleconferences—even when they are located all over the United States.

- William Northup, Director of Sourcing

Website: http://www.hubbell.com

Early sourcing events resulted in savings of up to 24 percent, however we wanted to reap continuous savings, so we incorporated the sourcing solution into our daily purchasing practices. As a result we are seeing average savings between 14-22 percent from each sourcing event and have achieved our payback over a year ahead of schedule.

Antonio G. Coronel, Purchasing Manager, ICTSI

Website: http://www.ictsi.com/

Spend Visibility enables us to attack new areas of spend that we previously left unmanaged.

- Ed Williams, Vice President of Corporate Supply Chain, Johns Manville

Website: http://www.jm.com

These outstanding suppliers delivered quality products quickly and presented creative solutions to challenging problems. In a highly competitive marketplace that kind of support is critical.

- -Jose Mejia
President of Supply Chain Networks

Website: http://www.lucent.com/

The Objective at purchasing at Merrill Lynch is to rationalize the supplier base and leverage the company's immense purchasing power"

Neil Ostrower, first vice president and senior director, global purchasing services, Merrill Lynch

Website: http://www.ml.com

We have clear proof that when you use e-sourcing wisely, the savings are much higher than what you can do offline in some categories.

- Peter Koehler, e-Sourcing Lead for Nestlé North America

Website: http://www.nestle.com/

Before we implemented Ariba Buyer, our purchasing processes were entirely manual. Now, all

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It is all about transparency,

Website: http://www.pnc.com

With a 99.5 % service quality rate, Ariba permanently watches over the performance it provides to RTE for the sale of its energy transport capacities.

- Gerard Dahan, Marketing & Corporate Europe Director, Ariba, Inc.

Website: http://www.rte-france.com

"With Ariba Enterprise Sourcing we accelerated our negotiating cycle time from an average of 4 months to 6 weeks, and saved millions of dollars during the first six months of use, realizing a unit saving of 10-20 percent off baseline prices. eSourcing has positively influenced our private label margins. In addition, our eProcurement solution represents a centralized, compliance tool to help us realize those negotiated savings-directly affecting our bottom line."

- Management at Saks, Incorporated.

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We had no room for risk. Scientific-Atlanta offers highly technical products in a very competitive market. We could not afford to make an error.

- Rick DeHart, Vice President of Worldwide Procurement

Website: http://www.scientificatlanta.com/

"The overall adoption rate for the Ariba Buyer solution has been outstanding.With our buyers now working more efficiently,I've been able to refocus some of them to add more value to other parts of

Website: http://www.stpaul.com/

Cost reduction has become a way of life to stay competitive.

Mr. Ravikant, Managing Director

Website: http://www.tatamotors.com

Once you achieve your initial goals, you can then begin to see what else the system is capable of doing.

- Sam Barton, Senior Contracts Manager Information Systems

Website: http://www.toyota.com/

With increased contract visibility through instant, on-line access, Toyota is able to administer contract renewals more effectively, gain greater control over their spending and supplier performance, and eliminate unnecessary contracts.

"We are as committed to improving our financial performance as we are to serving our customers. Ariba is a strong complement to our strategic efforts. The benefits from this new tool are measurable and swift,"

Website: http://www.toyota.com

As government agencies continue to adopt technologies to better utilize our fiscal resources, we are hopeful that the public’s confidence in our stewardship of these resources will be further enhanced.

- Commander Steve Dollase

Website: http://www.navy.mil/swf/index.asp

With Ariba Buyer, we can now distribute the requisitioning and sourcing of indirect goods and services to all of our employees right at their desktops. That not only makes purchasing more convenient for them, but it also enables our procurement professionals to stop functioning as data entry clerks and start focusing on strategic sourcing tasks that will save us money.

-Thomas Neumann
Senior Director of Procurement, USi

Website: http://www.usi.com/

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