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Aspen TechnologyAspen Technology Extends SAP Ariba Across Source to Pay
Aspen Technology, an information technology organization in the United States, uses SAP Ariba from SAP to support source to pay for procurement and AP.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Capability | Source to pay stays visible to adjacent teams through SAP Ariba |
| Capability | Procurement and AP work from the same SAP Ariba record for procurement and payables |
| Capability | Procurement and payables can be reviewed without waiting on a personal export |
Story
Inside Aspen Technology, source to pay used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in information technology groups working out of the United States. Procurement and AP needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Aspen Technology uses SAP Ariba from SAP as the working layer for procurement and payables. SAP is the global leader in enterprise resource planning software, with S/4HANA, business technology platform services, and industry cloud applications. The practical change is simple: source to pay has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Aspen Technology gets from SAP is a durable place to run source to pay and a way for procurement and AP to see the same procurement and payables at the same time.
