I would like to see more reports coming out of Ariba and more insights because it has to work in connection with SAP. So unless I run SAP and Ariba, I have to run. I am not able to see the utility of Ariba.

The features I would like to see are, like, we have some of the vendors who are the authorization letters. They agree that the dealership's distributor shipping is valid for a certain period. So it should automatically when their name is clicked, it should show that this dealership is valid for this authorized user for this period of time. So it has to become more informative. It should give reports on the events which have happened in the last six months, the price essentially then between one event to the other. When I am doing the opportunity of procurement, it should come that this event was done in the last thirty days with a different vendor at a different price. Auto-prop should come. I should not have to read it.

I would like to see that the vendors are able to give their documents, the shipment documents, through Ariba. I would like Ariba to give online tracking, so I have a lot of expectations.

SAP could make it easier for people to become SAP Ariba consultants within the SAP ecosystem.

They should make the solution more user-friendly. The users have to download the files whenever they want to view the data for analysis.

Ariba Procurement tends to integrate best with other SAP products and is harder to work with if you have non-SAP products in your architecture. In the next release, SAP should add links to artificial intelligence or some other technology that makes it easy to calculate third-party and vendor risk. For example, it could be interesting to include a feature that allows monitoring of clients' processes to evaluate the risk of lock-in and other internal process risks.

The creation tool is for HANA, and I would like the solution to be more automatic.

The SAP portion of the procurement is not always obvious or user friendly. Things such as cost center can be prepopulated for items selected, but the vendor cannot. For larger shopping carts, this becomes somewhat tedious having to enter the vendor 20+ times.

Integration: SAP Ariba's integration has not matured yet, there is lot of scope for improvement in terms scenarios, error handling, data update intervals, etc.

Gaining access to the sourcing project by the supplier needs improvement. There is room for improvement when multiple users at the supplier have accounts on the Ariba Network. These suppliers will typically struggle gaining access to your sourcing event, which could cause confusion and could require additional resources on the buyer side to troubleshoot and plan for.