The decision came at a chaotic point in the coronavirus crisis. “Signals out of Asia indicated it was time to act.” “We could see supply chains tightening,” Haydon said, recounting how SAP decided to make Discovery free. On March 10, SAP opened access to Discovery so any business could post immediate sourcing needs and any supplier could respond with no fee.

(See the org chart below.)Ĭhris Haydon, President of SAP Procurement Solutions, spoke with Spend Matters about how access to SAP Ariba Discovery showed quick results and helped blend the best of SAP’s human network with its digital capabilities. Concur has its own leadership outside of the Procurement Solutions unit. The structure has recently been refined to put all of the cloud-based procurement functions together into a unit called “SAP Procurement Solutions.” That unit now includes Ariba, Fieldglass and S/4HANA Operational Procurement, the procurement offering from SAP the parent company. The “SAP Intelligent Spend Group” had been the broad name used for the last year or so that put SAP Ariba, the workforce solution SAP Fieldglass and the T&E offering SAP Concur together. And on a corporate level, SAP’s realignment of its divisions is being honed and now offers the market a more focused view of its direction. Sometimes in a chaotic crisis, a sense of purpose takes shape and the way forward gets a little clearer.ĭuring the coronavirus disruption, SAP Ariba has been doing that for buyers and suppliers when it opened up its cloud-based service for matching business buyers and suppliers, SAP Ariba Discovery, as well as giving free access to Supply Continuity Pulse, a pre-configured solution to gain visibility into suppliers’ operational status.

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