Most important, a free model is an important step forward for Ariba and its customers, who are increasingly looking for new ways to enable smaller suppliers and the long “tail” of spend.
But buying organizations do have the advantage (when they use it) of having all transactions and documents recorded in their system as if the supplier had been formally registered and on-boarded in the Ariba network. Still, don’t expect anything but “Light.” It is what it says it is.Īlthough the new Light Enablement capability is free for suppliers to interact and do business with buying organizations, it lacks nearly all of the features in relation to what is offered through standard enablement through the Ariba Network. Yet Ariba is taking a step in the free direction with its recent release of Light Enablement, which offers a free connectivity solution to low-volume suppliers. SAP Ariba would find it difficult to fully shift a supplier-funded business model that makes a material contribution to SAP’s top line - and one that in, Ariba’s defense, engages and works with suppliers more directly than competing P2P providers.
Is the Ariba Supplier Network going “free”? Yes.
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