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The Ariba Category Strategy methodology provides the framework to enable a marketing leading approach to developing and executing a spend management transformation program. It enables the creation, implementation, and best-in-class execution to end-to-end spend management processes across the desired amount of spend while minimizing the amount of internal disruption. The spend management marketplace has evolved over time from a simple reverse auction and transactional procurement paradigm to an end-to-end, closed-loop spend management paradigm. However, a "onesize-fits-all" approach to this process works well only for very simple categories and can limit achievable savings, manageable spend, and business unit adoption. Ariba's Category Strategy approach groups categories along common market and process characteristics to drive maximum realized savings and stakeholder adoption through increased speed, sustainability and coverage. Ariba's Category Strategy approach allows companies to go beyond software and services to develop an integrated and phased category approach to sourcing and procure-to-pay process enablement of their strategic spend categories. The category strategy approach combines together historical experience, savings benchmarks and spend management best practices to deliver both quantitative and qualitative results.

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