They really have changed the look and feel of these apps to make them look very much more like consumer apps, with a more Amazon-like buying process. Muhammad Alam on stage at the SAP Spend Connect Conference.

Introduction of SAP Central Procurement, which lets customers manage processes like procurement, sourcing and contract management from a central UI without having to move in and out of different systems.

Integration between SAP Ariba and the Icertis contract management platform, which lets users author contracts in Icertis while automatically populating the contract with master data from SAP Ariba.

Other SAP Intelligent Spend updates include the following: 'It's predictive and personalized to the user and for sustainability first, because organizations are becoming more and more concerned about what they're buying and what that adds to their footprint,' he said. The capability will make purchasing recommendations based on data like the purchasing history, the purchaser's role and corporate priorities like sustainability. 'There's a set of deep user experience enhancements - essentially redesigned experiences - starting with the procurement application,' said Muhammad Alam, president and chief product officer of SAP Intelligent Spend and Business Network.įor example, SAP Ariba's guided buying feature will be updated with a capability called 'buying 360' that introduces a more personalized, predictive and consumer-like buying experience, Alam said.

The SAP Business Network integrates the SAP Ariba Network, SAP Logistics Business Network and SAP Asset Management Network under one umbrella. SAP Intelligent Spend includes SAP Ariba for procurement and supply chain, SAP Fieldglass for contract labor management and SAP Concur for travel and expense management. Improvements - unveiled at the SAP Spend Connect conference this week in Dallas - include new capabilities for guided buying in SAP Ariba and a centralized procurement UI.

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