More Than 75 New Customers, 240 Renewals and 200 Go-Lives

Organizations around the globe chose procurement solutions from 麻豆原创 in the first quarter of 2020, including Latin America鈥檚 No. 2 Coca-Cola bottler Arca Continental S.A.B. de C.V., German commercial bank Helaba, Japanese IT services provider Hitachi Systems Ltd., Mexican home appliance maker Mabe, U.S. energy company and U.S.-based PSEG Energy Holdings LLC.

During the first quarter, hundreds of companies completed new implementations of 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions, including these:

• Carlsberg Group A/S, a Danish global brewing company, went live with 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying聽and聽Invoicing and 麻豆原创 Ariba Catalog solutions as part of its migration from the 麻豆原创聽Supplier Relationship Management application to increase聽compliance and improve聽spend visibility聽and聽control, accounts payable聽automation and overall user聽experience.
• Vestas Wind Systems A/S, a Danish company that designs, manufactures, installs and services wind turbines across the world, continues to drive efficiency in its procurement operations with its latest rollout of 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing and 麻豆原创 Ariba Contracts solutions integrated with the 麻豆原创 Signature Management applications by DocuSign. The company is now expanding its digital transformation to streamline collaboration with suppliers and mitigate risk with 麻豆原创 Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers and 麻豆原创 Ariba Supplier Risk solutions.
• Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd., a Japanese high-tech manufacturing company with Latin American headquarters in Brazil, recently rolled out 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, automating and standardizing its sourcing and supplier lifecycle and performance processes. By digitally transforming its procurement function, Furukawa Electric expects to improve productivity and realize savings within a few months.
• Grundfos, a Danish provider of pumps for heating, air conditioning, irrigation and other uses, recently implemented 麻豆原创 Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers, with support from Accenture, to streamline processes, transactions and interactions with suppliers. Onboarding suppliers globally will continue in the upcoming years.

Network and Cloud-Based Solutions Match Supply with Demand

In response to supply chain disruption caused by COVID-19, 麻豆原创 opened access to the solution, allowing buyers to post immediate sourcing needs and permitting suppliers on Ariba Network to respond. Since the March 10 announcement, buyer postings and supplier responses increased by 58 percent and 404 percent respectively.

More than 25,000 new suppliers joined Ariba Network in the first quarter, bringing the total number of companies connected to 4.8 million and providing organizations with more sourcing options as they adjust supply chains in this state of disruption. More than US$3.3 trillion in global commerce flows annually through Ariba Network. Concurrently, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions added nearly 1 million new workers. More than US$55 billion in spend on external workforce flows annually through 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions.

鈥淭ogether with our customers and partners, we are navigating this new normal,鈥� said 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions President Chris Haydon. 鈥淲e will continue to break down barriers in matching supply with demand and give customers the visibility they need to make informed decisions faster so their businesses, and the global economy, continue to move forward.鈥�

The 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions group includes 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA-based offerings for operational procurement, delivering a comprehensive suite for goods and services procurement and external workforce management.

麻豆原创 Ariba solutions provide collaborative commerce capabilities from sourcing and orders through invoice and payment along with expertise to help customers optimize their spend. The solutions drive simple, intelligent exchanges between millions of buyers and suppliers across both direct and indirect expense categories.

麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions are market leading for external workforce management and services procurement, helping global organizations 铿乶d, engage and manage all types of 铿俥xible resources including contingent workers and services providers. 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions connect customers with approximately 6.7 million active external workers.

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While we are all grappling with a very different world right now, in time business and consumer confidence will return, bolstering transformation and ultimately driving growth. Many people are referring to the perfect storm; I see huge potential related to the outcomes of disruption. A force majeure like COVID-19 can be every bit as transformative as a financial crisis or other world events that have had global significance through the ages. Enterprises are rethinking their business models, their supply chains and changing their approaches to security, business continuity, and remote work. Governments are rallying their resources to get insights into the effects of the crisis and to get on top of the catastrophe.

There鈥檚 never been a better opportunity to help our customers deliver unique insights, and ensure agility, control and the ability to execute 鈥� not just now, but also post-crisis. People will need to work, and agile, transformative businesses will flourish. Companies that effectively navigate disruptions often succeed because they invest in their core customer segments early and anticipate behaviours.

So how can a company like 麻豆原创 become part of the global solution to the pandemic? For a start, we鈥檙e offering a slew of free technology tools and platforms to customers (and anyone else) to help them not only deal with pandemic-related issues but anticipate what sorts of opportunities the crisis will open up:

We鈥檙e helping companies redesign their supply chains, and find new sources of supply when existing supply chains are disrupted. We鈥檙e opening access to the network, so any buyer can post their immediate sourcing needs, and any supplier can respond to show they can deliver. It鈥檚 free to post, free to respond. Using this network, one 麻豆原创 customer that is building a new hospital in the US was able to find a supplier with 500 hospital beds in less than 30 minutes.

We鈥檙e helping managers check in with their employees. The world went virtual overnight, and any company that hopes to continue operating anywhere near normal levels will need to make sure their workers are okay, safe and healthy – and this doesn鈥檛 end in the first week they鈥檙e home. We鈥檝e seen a spike in the usage of our free聽, which enables companies to detect the sentiment of their employees since the crisis began. The mental health of their employees has to be on the mind of companies.

In Italy, our presales team developed a Coronavirus dashboard and offered it for free to customers, partners, our communities. The dashboard allows users to analyse the contagion spread in depth, compared to that one included in the Johns Hopkins CSSE dashboard.

We鈥檙e supporting the next generation of professionals and users with our best-in-class digital learning, by offering students and subject-matter experts safe and healthy learning environments to continue their education virtually. We鈥檙e offering them free access to select learning journeys for students at one of the 3,800 member universities of the 麻豆原创 University Alliances program, online courses allowing young learners to explore technology, as well as the massive open online courses (MOOCs) available on the open麻豆原创 platform.

Many businesses are taking advantage of the 鈥榣ocate鈥� feature within software to track employees stranded overseas. While business travel has abruptly ended, other business expenses tracked by 麻豆原创 Concur offerings confirm that activity in China is picking up a little.

Together with EY and Qualtrics, we鈥檙e helping governments around the world who are struggling to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes capturing and monitoring community concerns, tracking and reporting on the progression of the virus, providing accurate information on transmission and cure, directing people to the right resources for help, and communicating effectively with their citizens in a time of lockdown.

Our vision to help the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives has never been more important than in this current moment. We remain focused on our people, our customers, and our communities. Together, we will persevere.

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In a series of compelling video conversations, recognized industry experts, customers, and 麻豆原创 executives shared especially timely and no-nonsense insights into the business value of procurement agility, reliability, and transparency. The agenda featured thought-provoking geopolitical trend talks, lessons learned from customers, solution strategy updates, and product demonstrations. This is the first in a series summarizing the .

New Procurement Experience: Agile, Reliable, Transparent

First up was Chris Haydon, president of 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions, who assured listeners that 鈥渢ogether, we will get through all these challenging times.鈥� Acknowledging COVID-19, he said that its increasing impact mirrored our growing realization of how connected and dependent we are on each other.

鈥淭he pace of the world is demanding changes, and 麻豆原创 is uniquely positioned to help you manage those changes with intelligent spend management,鈥� Haydon said. 鈥淚ntelligent spend management is the reinvention of the procurement experience. It鈥檚 a thoughtful and deliberate realization that we need to move beyond only focusing on creating simple screens and user interfaces, and instead empower procurement to succeed amid today鈥檚 known disruptions and the unknown disruptions of tomorrow.鈥�

As an example of 麻豆原创鈥檚 procurement commitment, he mentioned the company鈥檚 decision to open access to , allowing buyers worldwide to post their immediate sourcing needs to which any of the 4 million suppliers on can respond with no fees through June 30, 2020.

鈥溌槎乖� is deeply committed to help you manage the complexities and mitigate the risks that disruption and accelerated change is inevitably bringing,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e hard at work with customers to help them understand how to use Ariba Network to identify supplies at risk, review supply chain data, and rapidly develop contingency plans.鈥�

Unlock Insights with Community of Intelligence

Haydon said that it was time for procurement to become the epicenter of ideas and collaboration, owning the intersection of innovation and commerce between organizations. He called this 鈥渁 profound and forward-looking change鈥� in how people look at procurement, using the technology for tasks that can and should be automated so that businesses can apply human expertise where it is needed for greatest impact.

鈥淭he only way to make this possible is to get the process out of the way and get more insights into the hands of you, your training partners, and every part of your business. That鈥檚 the ultimate goal of intelligent spend management鈥� reimagining processes to let intelligence do more work, so we can do more work better,鈥� Haydon said. 鈥淲e want to embed sustainability and risk context into every single supply chain event and reshape how we connect with trading partners by driving collaboration deeper into our supply chains and truly unlocking the power of community intelligence.鈥�

Committed to Customer-First Experience

Having walked in the customer鈥檚 shoes, Haydon said that he understood their challenges, and with its co-CEOS at the helm, 麻豆原创 was more focused than ever at 鈥渆nsuring the customer experience is the true measurement of our success.鈥�

鈥淎riba Network is the most powerful and effective network of its kind,鈥� he said. 鈥淪ensing the opportunity to combine, streamline, and make your businesses run even more effectively and efficiently, we鈥檝e pulled together 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass, and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA operational procurement under a single organization with one clear vision鈥� for intelligent spend management.鈥�

Haydon closed with the promise to continue collaborating with customers as early adopters and partners.

鈥淵our voices, insights, and ideas are key in helping us reshape procurement. If we can combine the depth of knowledge in our collective minds and the depth of feeling in our hearts, and our understanding of this new world of rapid disruption and accelerated changes, there鈥檚 nowhere we can鈥檛 go together. We believe in a future where procurement sits at the heart of the business, and together we can make this future possible.鈥�

HPE: Path to Transformation

For a great example of intelligent spend management in action, I pivoted to Lucille Trickett, senior director of Global Solutions for the Office of Legal Affairs and Administration at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In her video, she shared how HPE is using a suite of intelligent solutions from 麻豆原创 to holistically view and manage multiple categories of spend from indirect, travel and expense, contingent labor, and service providers.

As a long-time 麻豆原创 Ariba customer and partner, Trickett said that HPE鈥檚 transformation to the cloud was originally slated for two phases, starting with source-to-contract and followed by procure-to-pay processes. The company then decided to bring in . The second phase coincided with an overall next-generation IT transformation at HPE that would also consolidate enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems on . One of the objectives was to dramatically simplify and consolidate the customer, vendor, and partner master data structure.

鈥淲e now have a holistic view of our relationship with an entity, regardless of whether they鈥檙e a customer, partner, supplier, or all of the above. We took the time and effort to clean up our vendor master database and the new one was optimized by 39 percent,鈥� said Trickett. 鈥淕iven the size and scale of the [procure-to-pay] project, it was absolutely imperative that the business unit and global functions within the HPE company be ready for these changes.鈥�

Trickett called the transformation journey an incredible experience for everyone involved: 鈥淣ot only did we deliver everything we had committed to deliver in a changing environment, but we also found opportunities to drive additional innovation as we delved deep to solve issues along the way. We also strengthened our partnerships and collaboration, not just internally within HPE, but more importantly with our 麻豆原创 family. I鈥檓 looking forward to working with the 麻豆原创 team to design and innovate in the procurement arena for the future.鈥�

Holistic Procurement View

During his introduction to Trickett鈥檚 talk, Haydon emphasized the importance of having a holistic view of procurement, because 鈥渋t can help identify opportunities for economies of scale, enable better spend decisions, and drive better business outcomes.鈥�

His thoughts were particularly relevant given fast-changing events in the world today: 鈥淲hen we at 麻豆原创 tout our innovations and our never-ending commitment to make the procurement process as efficient and effective as possible, we do so to help protect the continuity of your business, employee livelihoods, and economies. It鈥檚 a bold charge forward, but the times call for boldness.鈥�

To echo Haydon鈥檚 closing: Take care, stay healthy, and enjoy the 麻豆原创 Ariba Live virtual experience.

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According to Alicia Tillman, Global Chief Marketing Officer at 麻豆原创 Africa, all businesses are facing unprecedented challenges as the impact on the global economy continues. 鈥淏usiness travel is restricted; events are cancelled, and supply chains have been weakened. It is not business-as-usual in any sense of the phrase. As a purpose-led organisation 麻豆原创 is uniquely positioned to leverage its technology to support businesses at a time where supply chain and business travel disruption is a real concern.鈥�

麻豆原创 will open access to its 麻豆原创 Ariba Discovery solution for the next 90 days to enable any buyer to post their immediate sourcing needs, and for any supplier to respond if they can deliver. The solution will be free to anyone to use for posting and responding to sourcing requests.

Tillman says this will help buyers and suppliers to connect quickly and effectively, minimising the disruption caused by shipment delays, capacity issues and increased consumer demand in times of crisis. 鈥溌槎乖� operates the largest business network in the world, representing more than four million suppliers in over 190 countries and with $3.21-trillion in commerce via our Ariba network. By providing free access to Ariba Discovery we can help make the connections to keep the supply chain intact and ultimately minimise the impact on businesses and consumers.鈥�

The company has also announced that between March 13 and March 31^st, any individual traveler can sign up for TripIt and receive the Pro version for six months. TripIt forms part of 麻豆原创 Concur and processes hundreds of thousands of travel itineraries for people around the world, monitoring flights and alerting them to any changes or delays. Existing TripIt users will also get the premium service complimentary for six months.

鈥淭he 麻豆原创 Concur portfolio offers a tremendous pulse into the travel industry,鈥� says Tillman. 鈥淲e want to do our part to help those who must travel and face increasing schedule changes and cancellations stemming from Covid-19.鈥�

Tillman points to a prevalence of uncertainty and fear around the impact of Covid-19 around the world. 鈥淥pening access to 麻豆原创 technology is one way we can contribute to addressing global challenges and aligns with our commitment to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.鈥�

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