WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP
SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced it is partnering with Amazon
Business to enable employees to tap into hundreds of millions of
items on Amazon Business directly from within SAP® Ariba® solutions
and assist with compliance with corporate purchasing policies.
With this partnership and technology integration, Amazon
Business becomes a source of supply for Spot Buy, a capability
within SAP Ariba solutions for users to purchase items from trusted
suppliers. Integrating Amazon Business into the guided buying
capability within the SAP Ariba solution experience helps simplify
the purchase of general business goods while providing users with
hundreds of millions of new items.
"Partnering with Amazon Business is a bold step aligned with our
strategy to make SAP Business Network more open so that users can
more easily and compliantly buy the goods required to do their work
and keep their businesses running," said Tony Harris, global vice president, Business
Network solutions, SAP. "Customers want choices, and SAP is
continually evaluating and onboarding new content sources for our
Spot Buy capability to provide the most value to them."
This new integration will utilize a real-time search API so
users of guided buying can search for items and receive results
from Amazon Business, along with other online stores, e-commerce
providers and direct sellers, directly within the SAP Ariba
solution. Amazon Business items selected for checkout will be
transferred to the shopping cart for automatic processing within
the SAP Ariba solution.
"We're excited to be working with SAP," said Alexandre Gagnon, vice president worldwide at
Amazon Business. "Making online procurement easier for customers of
all sizes and industries is among our top priorities and one we
share with SAP."
SAP is focused on delivering solutions that help customers align
spend decisions to business strategies in the networked economy.
SAP plans to roll out the integration to customers globally,
starting with early adopters in the
United States later this year.
"Employees continue to expect the convenience of online shopping
to spill over into their work lives," said Nick Heinzmann, analyst team lead, Spend
Matters. "And they want more than just a familiar interface: end
buyers also want the experience of being able to find 'everything'
in one place. The Spot Buy capability within SAP Ariba solutions is
moving toward exactly this kind of experience in B2B, building on
top of its current global integrations for external content to now
include Amazon Business. Allowing end buyers to find and select
Amazon Business content in the same native shopping experience they
use for their internal catalogs is a logical step toward delivering
the needed balance between the consumer-like experience today's
employees expect and helping improve the compliance and financial
results that procurement can deliver."
SAP also recently announced a new Amazon Business Integration
for the Concur® Expense solution, so Amazon Business purchases now
automatically appear in Concur Expense. For more information read
this blog.
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