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The recently proposed European Commission directive COM(2011) 895 would mandate that all European Union (EU) procurement is conducted electronically.  The goals are admirable - to increase efficiency, reduce costs, increase transparency and enable better supplier discovery (including supporting sustainable and local suppliers by increasing their visibility to buying organizations).  As such, it appears to be a favorable step forward, and a way to nudge otherwise incalcitrant organizations into the 21st century.  However, the devil is of course in the details. The timeframe will certainly cause pain for those organizations that are not prepared.  Organizations need to review the details and start building a plan to address any gaps.  Even better, engage in the debates taking place to help shape the final directive.

 

One way to learn more is to attend Ariba LIVE in Barcelona from May 29-31, where André Hoddevik, PEPPOL Project Director will discuss this topic in a session entitled:

 

The European Union eProcurement Initiative – Will you be ready within 2 years?

 

Learn more at www.aribalive.com


Kurtz’s Korner:  Smart Invoicing Business Rules

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with many of our on-premise customers about their use of the Ariba e-Invoice solution.  While I was happy to hear about the overall increase in usage and adoption of the solution, one piece of consistent feedback involved the number of exceptions that AP organizations continue to process.  On average, companies find errors and exceptions in 28% of their invoices.

I consulted some experts on the Ariba team, and we discovered a disturbing trend.  Many of our on- premise Ariba e-Invoice customers are not taking advantage of the “smart invoicing” business rules available on the Ariba Network to validate invoices.  These rules are divided into 3 main categories, which you can use for reference. They are:

  1. Level 1 – Header or field- level validation to make sure that all required fields on an invoice have data in them, regardless of whether that data is correct.  If a required field such as price, date, ship-to-address or invoice number is blank, the software can reject the invoice.
  2. Level 2 – Looks at line-item detail inside these mandatory fields and ensures that the data conforms to the buyer’s business rules. This is where the Ariba Network catches discrepancies such as an incorrect price or quantity, incorrect business unit listed as the receiver, etc.
  3. Level 3 – Checks the invoice against other documents or accounting data such as the advance ship notice, the purchasing contract, account coding, taxes, etc. to catch discrepancies and non-compliance.

    

The Ariba Network now features more than 70 business rules, which can be leveraged to drive auto-post rates – no required Accounts Payable touch -- of invoices into a customer’s ERP as high as 98%.  To hear Ariba customers discuss the value they are receiving from what we call smart invoicing, visit this web page:

  1. www.ariba.com/go/e-invoicing_success

So, what can you do?  What should you do next?

  • Track the number of errors and exceptions your Accounts Payable organization is handling today and include the reason codes for each error and exception
  • Contact your Customer Engagement Executive and ask for an assessment of your use of the Ariba Network’s business rules

    

If you’re a seller on the Network:

  • Track the number of errors and exceptions you receive while submitting invoices to your customers.
  • Collaborate with your customer on opportunities for applying business rules in the Ariba Network to avoid these errors and exceptions going forward
  • Monitor your Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) for the customers you’re sending invoices to via the Ariba Network
  • Benchmark the Ariba Network DSO to your other DSO statistics

Effective use of the Ariba Network business rules will go a long way to maximizing your results from Ariba e-Invoicing. Please let me know your thoughts on this topic, and share your experiences using our business rules to improve your  straight-through invoice processing rates.

Jason Kurtz
Vice President and General Manager, Ariba Network and Financial Solutions

jkurtz@ariba.com

The Ariba Analytics Center (AAC) offers strategic analytics spanning the entire customer lifecycle; all the way from research to scoping to evaluation to planning to adoption and value realization. Analytics is a key success factor in a spend management transformation program. Our analytics are a methodical, well proven, and tested way to scope, justify and execute a spend management transformation program. We help prospects and customers in (a) identifying the right scope and opportunities for a spend management transformation project; (b) building internal justification for the above through a business case backed by benchmarks and experience; (c) preparing a detailed plan for success against established goals; and (d) executing against the plan to realize savings and goals on a continuous basis. We have a dedicated and experienced team of specialized analysts focused on spend management analytics, as we have conducted ~3000 diagnostics in the last 6 years at over 1000 clients. We also run the most comprehensive benchmarking program in spend management (600+ customers on buy side and 2500+ on sell side covering all spend management solutions with over $400B spend). We have an extensive database of best practices and savings benchmarks; and automated and standardized processes for client engagement. Please note that all our programs and services are free of cost and are an investment that Ariba makes to ensure your success.

 

This year, similar to the last 3 years, we will be hosting our booth at Ariba LIVE Barcelona from 29th May to 31st May in the Collaborative Commerce Pavilion. The booth will provide self-service tools that will help you find out more about yourself; allow you to sign up for our various analytic programs and services; provide access to rich content about our programs and services; as well as give you a chance to WIN an iPad/iPod in our raffle. The key themes for our booth this year will be:

   

  1. If you are a buyer prospect, you can know where you are today in terms of spend management performance before you embark on your spend management journey. You can participate in a 10 minute discovery session at the end of which you will receive a performance scorecard along with a simple value statement. You can also sign up for post-discovery business case analytics which we will conduct in collaboration with you over the weeks following Ariba LIVE.
  2. If you are a buyer customer of Ariba, you can know how your adoption of our solutions today fares vis-à-vis your peers. You can walk up to our monitors and upon clear authentication of your company credentials, we will instantly print a simple benchmarking report (sourcing, P2P and network) showing how your adoption fares vis-à-vis your peers. If you are not a current participant in our benchmarking programs, you can sign up for these programs at the booth upon which you will start receiving benchmarking reports on a periodic basis.
  3. If you are a buyer customer of Ariba, you can also know what you can do further to better leverage Ariba assets. You can walk up to our monitors and upon clear authentication of your company credentials, we will instantly print a whitespace value statement showing how much value you are getting from Ariba’s assets today and the "money left on the table". This will help you decide the future course of action (i.e. what gaps to fill). You can also sign up for our flight planning and tracking analytics to help close the gaps identified from above which we will conduct in collaboration with you over the weeks following Ariba LIVE.
  4. If you are a supplier customer or prospect, you can get a supplier centric network benchmarking report and a business opportunity report. The latter report will show the net new business opportunity available to you both ON and OFF the network based on business conducted by the AN buyers with your relevant industry codes ON and OFF the network. You can also sign up for our FREE flight planning and tracking analytics to drive process efficiency and stickiness on your existing
    business; which we will conduct in collaboration with you over the weeks following Ariba LIVE.

 

Anyone who participates in one of our discovery sessions, prints a benchmarking/whitespace report, and/or signs up for our various long-term analytic programs and services will get an exquisite gift (a sandalwood keychain) and be allowed to participate in a raffle which will be drawn on May 31st with a chance to win an iPad or an iPod.
You can also take home datasheets as well as browse through the Ariba Analytics Center Portal which hosts rich content (presentations, recordings and sample outputs) on our programs and services. Experts from the Ariba Analytics Center will be waiting to greet you at our booth, answer your queries and guide you on how you can harness the power of analytics to kick-start and guide your spend management journey. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Below is a link where you can review a recent webinar presented by Ariba's CMO and the Best Practice Center entitled Contracts Reporting Overview.  The Webinar description is as follows:

 

This session is designed to show you how to create and run some of the common reports that are useful once you have a Contract Management system in place. In this session we will talk about some of the common metrics that people measure with their contracts, and how to use the system to report on these metrics. You will get the most out of this session if you attend the sessions for “Creating a Contract Workspace” and “Managing a Contract Workspace” prior to attending this Webinar. Topics in this session will include:
     - Common Reporting Requirements in Contracts
     - Running Reports in Ariba
          o Prepackaged Reports
          o Analytical Reports
          o Saving Reports and Adding them to your Dashboard
          o Emailing and Scheduling Reports

 

https://aribawebinars.webex.com/aribawebinars/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=59192502&rKey=46654eb47724357d

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