From there, the team needed to determine how to innovate further to evolve procurement capabilities to become more streamlined, intelligent, and value-producing for Accenture.Īn expanded program team deployed SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, devoting six months on the initial go-live followed by a 12-month global deployment to more than 60 countries. The program team’s initial challenge was to deploy the Guided Buying capability on SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing across Accenture to transform the buying process for more than 500,000 Accenture people. The move to SAP Ariba’s Guided Buying capability on SAP’s cloud solution marked the beginning of a journey of creating a new generation of procurement. We and our global IT organization made the strategic decision several years ago to move Accenture’s on-premise SAP Ariba instance to SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), supporting Accenture’s IT strategy to be platform powered, cloud first, and intelligence driven. Our global Procurement organization uses SAP Ariba solutions to manage more than $5 billion of spend every year.

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