Ariba Provides Spend Management Offering to Swisslog Healthcare Solutions

Ariba, Inc., a spend management solutions provider, announced that Swisslog Healthcare Solutions, a provider of logistics automation for healthcare markets, will leverage its on-demand offerings to drive a spend management initiative aimed at lowering costs, increasing efficiencies and improving competitive advantage.

"At Swisslog, we've built our business and reputation on the concept of efficiency," said David Marantes, Chief Procurement Officer, Swisslog. "By implementing Ariba's solutions, we can manage our spend, deliver savings that positively impact our bottom line and enhance our position in the competitive global market."

Swisslog Healthcare Solutions will use a range of Ariba's on-demand spend management solutions to achieve these goals, including: Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contract Management , Ariba Supplier Performance Management and Ariba Supplier Information Management.

Through Ariba Spend Visibility, Swisslog Healthcare Solutions can gain access to intelligence on its spend, supplier performance and procurement processes across all categories, systems and divisions and identify opportunities for savings. With Ariba Sourcing On Demand, the company said it has the technology, expertise and services needed to create markets for a range of direct materials and indirect goods and services and convert these savings into hard dollar results.

With Ariba Supplier Information Management, Swisslog Healthcare Solutions said it can discover, assess, and on board new supply partners, ensure their information is accurate and up-to-date and measure their performance. And through Ariba Supplier Performance Management, the company can define, measure, aggregate and act upon the performance metrics of its supply base.

"When it comes to driving efficient processes, few organizations do it better than Swisslog," said Daryl Rolley, Senior VP and General Manager, North America and Asia Pacific Operations, Ariba. "With Ariba's on-demand solutions, Swisslog Healthcare Solutions has access to technology, expertise, services and best practice processes it can leverage to streamline its sourcing and procurement processes and enhance and accelerate the results that they deliver."

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