Ariba, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARBA), the leading spend management
solutions provider, today announced that Swisslog Healthcare
Solutions, a world leader providing logistics automation for
healthcare markets, will leverage its on-demand offerings to drive
a strategic 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 more
efficiently 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 comprehensive 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 rapid access to meaningful 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 has the
technology, expertise and services needed to create effective
markets for a wide range of direct materials and indirect goods and
services and convert these savings into hard dollar results.
Leveraging Ariba Contract Management On Demand, Swisslog
Healthcare Solutions can ensure that the savings it identifies
actually reach the bottom line, using robust buy and sell side
capabilities to collaboratively create and manage contracts across
categories and functions and drive compliance with agreements on an
enterprise-wide basis.
With Ariba® Supplier Information Management™ Swisslog Healthcare
Solutions can quickly discover, assess, and on board new supply
partners, ensure their information is accurate and up-to-date and
continually measure and improve 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 Vice
President 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.”
About Swisslog
Swisslog is a global provider of integrated logistics solutions
for warehouses, distribution centers and hospitals. Its
comprehensive services portfolio ranges from building complex
warehouses and distribution centers to implementing Swisslog's own
software to intra-company logistics solutions for hospitals.
Swisslog’s solutions optimize customers’ production, logistics
and distribution processes in order to increase flexibility,
responsiveness and quality of service while minimizing logistics
costs. With years of experience in the development and
implementation of integrated logistics solutions, Swisslog provides
the expertise that customers in more than 50 countries around the
world rely on.
Headquartered in Buchs/Aarau, Switzerland, Swisslog currently
employs over 2,000 staff in about 20 countries worldwide. The
group’s parent company, Swisslog Holding AG, is listed on the SIX
Swiss Exchange (security number: 1232462, Telekurs: SLOG, Reuters:
SLOG.S). For more information, visit www.swisslog.com.
About Ariba, Inc.
Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of on-demand spend
management solutions. Our mission is to transform the way companies
of all sizes, across all industries, and geographies operate by
delivering software, service, and network solutions that enable
them to holistically source, contract, procure, pay, manage, and
analyze their spend and supplier relationships. Delivered on
demand, our enterprise-class offerings empower companies to achieve
greater control of their spend and drive continuous improvements in
financial and supply chain performance. More than 1,000 companies,
including more than half of the companies on the Fortune 100, use
Ariba solutions to manage their spend from sourcing and orders
through invoicing and payment. For more information, visit
www.ariba.com
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