Case Study
Leading Beauty Retailer: Driving a Supply Chain Makeover to Improve Control over Merchandise Spend with the Ariba Network
Leading Beauty Retailer: Driving a Supply Chain Makeover to Improve Control over Merchandise Spend with the Ariba Network
| SAP Ariba Business Transformation Study Retail Picture Credit | SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany. Used with permission. 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. © The supply chain is the lifeblood of a retail business. Delays or errors relating to orders and shipments can disrupt business operations and negatively impact revenues. That’s why a leading beauty retailer replaced its electronic data interchange (EDI) network with the Ariba Network. With its legacy EDI network, the retailer could ® not easily link orders and invoices to contracts to enforce compliance. In addition, the EDI network could not effectively manage key transaction documents, making it difficult to track orders and shipments and process invoices. The Ariba Network has fixed those blemishes to the