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Intelligent Spend Management 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Intelligent Spend Management
Intelligent Spend Management
3.7
(18)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Intelligent Spend Management

Ariba spend management is a cloud-based solution for small to large businesses that helps automate all spend related activities, plan purchases, manage suppliers and receive payments as per the contracts.

Designed to integrate and automate expenses from source to payments, Ariba spend management offers a host of features including controlled purchasing, supplier collaboration, real-time contract creation with centralized storage, invoice capture, automated approvals and more. Additionally, it enables businesses to digitize sourcing, contracting and purchasing process to manage suppliers, invoices and payments.

Facilitating an interconnected end-to-end process, Ariba spend management allows to gather and analyze all spend data and gain spending insights across the organization to streamline workflow and supplier lifecycle.

The pricing of Ariba spend management suite is available on-request with online support.

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Intelligent Spend Management Pricing and Plans

Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

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    Intelligent Spend Management Features

    • Popular features found in Procurement
      Budgeting/Forecasting
      Catalog Management
      Contract/License Management
      Inventory Management
      Invoice Processing
      Purchase Order Management
      Sourcing Management
      Spend Management
      Vendor Management
    • More features of Intelligent Spend Management
      API
      Compliance Management
      Invoice Management
      Requisition Management
      Risk Assessment
      Supplier Management
      Vendor Master Data Management

    Intelligent Spend Management User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    3.7

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    28%

    4

    28%

    3

    33%

    2

    6%

    1

    6%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    3.3

    Value for money

    2.8

    Customer support

    3.2

    Functionality

    3.2

    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Information Technology and Services

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2019

    Ariba Spend Management Review

    5

    Overall my experience using Ariba has been positive and I enjoy using it. It is only the transaction search option that needs to be improved

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Ariba is very easy to use for managing and approving transactions. The software is somehow integrated with our financial institution making easy to track company expenses.
    Cons:
    The system is not "search friendly" and I find it hard to find certain credit card purchases. This is especially hard when the transaction is already approved or expired.

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    Jenny S.

    Verified reviewer

    Retail

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2020

    Ariba

    4

    I have been using this software with invoices to create Purchase Orders. It’s very easy to keep track of all of the invoices and their statuses. Depending on your company’s finance team, it takes a while for your pending invoices to be approved but are able to see who you need approval from to be able to follow up.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Submitting an invoice is fairly easy to learn and quite repetitive so a lot of copy and paste. You are able to keep track of everything
    Cons:
    Learning curve from different softwares. You have to learn the language of the system compared of others that are easier to understand but easy to use once you learn

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Mental Health Care

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2019

    Interesting Product

    3

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like the ease of use amongst modules. The Ariba Spend Management Suite makes the managing of spend easy and allows you to have a robust procurement offering for your organization if configured properly. It can be a pretty awesome application when everything is in sync.
    Cons:
    The customer support and sometimes the way that modules had to be configured didn't make sense. If you were an organization that wanted to use a particular feature sometimes you had to buy modules like P2P and Contract Management together to use feature even though you needed nothing else in the contract management module. The customer support was laughable when issues arise and talking with the front end support is usually futile. I'm also not a fan of their release procedures.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Consumer Goods

    10000+ employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed June 2019

    Easy way to follow business spends

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Best reporting and following programme for supply issues.
    Cons:
    Sometimes, Hard to find correct account line in programme. It can be automatized

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Consumer Goods

    201-500 employees

    Used weekly for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed June 2019

    Easy to intergrate and use

    5

    Great tool that I would highly recommend for expense and request tracking

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Easily collate software and business expense requests in an accessible location
    Cons:
    not much, some features can be tucked away in sub menus

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    Francesco P.

    Verified reviewer

    Oil & Energy

    5001-10000 employees

    Used weekly for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2019

    Useful but not so clear

    3

    Ariba Spend Management Suite is in general a good software. That's very useful to avoid any lack of information between the owner of the project and users and that's a good instrument to record all the messages exchanged between the parties. Let's say it can be used to do things in a right and fair way.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Ariba Spend Management Suite is a software that could be very useful to manage, for example, a tender. You can have there the whole information of the project divided by sections and the possibility to download contents or upload attachments. That's a good option to be always in touch with all the participants of the tender (as organizator) or to receive live updates for any change the tender could have.
    Cons:
    What it is not properly comfortable of this software is that, when the owner of the project modify something in Ariba Spend Management Suite (add some attachment, etc.), the user gets an email that simply say that "something as changed" but without no details regarding what exactly changed. This is quite unconfrotable because then the user needs to check the whole content of the project and compare it with what downloaded previously, in order to understand what changed. This is a huge waste of time IMO.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Financial Services

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2019

    Speed needs to improve

    3

    I could search a particular detail with ease as it has various filters to choose from.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    2
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    I can enter all the information before processing a payment and I am alerted if an important information is missing or isn't a routine.
    Cons:
    Software is a bit slow, there have been times where outages were experienced, thus increasing the work-load post outage.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Food & Beverages

    1001-5000 employees

    Used other for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed August 2020

    Have yet to meet or speak to anyone that recommends it

    1

    Overall, it's been an unpleasant one and I honestly dread having to use it. Me as well as several colleagues actually, try to avoid using it so much, that we tend to be under budget.

    Ratings Breakdown

    1
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    1
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Absolutely none. I've only been using the software for a little over a year and every single time I have to access it and use it, I dread it. And when I ask anyone else that is forced to use it, I receive eye rolls and "ughs". I have literally never met anyone that recommends it, let alone can list the pros. The one "pro" is that our team tends to be under budget because we'd prefer to not spend money so that we can avoid dealing with Ariba.
    Cons:
    How much time do you have? Because I can find several flaws with the software from the landing page to the punch outs to the customer service to the tedious amount of drop-downs and the incessant amount of detail you have to provide. You're basically having to write the code for the program yourself. I seriously feel like one of their software engineers every time I have to access Ariba.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Management Consulting

    51-200 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2019

    Buggy, Slow & Backwards

    2

    I have working with SAP Ariba for some time and unfortunately I cannot recommend the software to any of my clients, as it is very slow.

    Ratings Breakdown

    2
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    3
    Customer support
    2
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    - SAP Ariba is organized, well structured and quite OK for small companies
    Cons:
    - Major problem: It is very slow - It is hard to customize - Buggy UI - Does not work for big procurement projects (> 2000 parts for example)

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    Chris M.

    Utilities

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2018

    We are leaving this and moving our accounting to Maximo

    3

    We are leaving this software and will soon be using Maximo for all of our accounting purposes. It is always good to learn something new.

    Ratings Breakdown

    2
    Ease of use
    1
    Value for money
    1
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Only used it for accounting purposes and after a learning curve it was okay. I know it has more functionality that we used.
    Cons:
    The accounting system was not user friendly. No training by our company. I understand that it is a very expensive software.

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