Fujitsu Selects SAP Ariba to Help Deliver Innovation for its Customers

As part of Fujitsu’s ongoing strategic business transformation to continuously deliver innovation to its customers, the new SAP Ariba platform creates a single, integrated cloud solution, and introduces new, standardized processes. This will enhance profitability and create long term, sustainable advantage for Fujitsu, and expedite the procurement process for all stakeholders.

By implementing SAP Ariba, Fujitsu will transform its operational functions including finance, procurement, order and supply chain management. The solution will connect all systems, processes and trading partners to the Ariba® Network, enabling access from anywhere, at any time, and from any application or device. Procurement will become more sophisticated as there will be a unified view of all related activity across the company.

Steve Clayton, Chief Financial Officer at Fujitsu in EMEIA, says: “We chose SAP Ariba as it will enable us to provide our own customers with the best value. We are investing to optimize our systems, processes and the skills of our people for a digital future. In transforming our back office processes, it wasn’t enough to just have cloud-based applications, we wanted to transform the whole procurement journey into a strategic function to enable more streamlined, efficient procurement cycles that ensure collaboration with our suppliers to generate more value at every step.”

Paul Devlin, General Manager, SAP Ariba EMEA and MEE, comments: “Procurement in today’s digital economy has undergone its own transformation. It’s no longer about implementing a series of separate functions – rather it’s about creating value across the entire process from sourcing to settlement. We deliver this with an integrated, cloud-based offering that amplifies the power of enterprise applications by making them accessible from anywhere and by connecting them to the whole supply chain. Once the solution is implemented, Fujitsu will be able to manage the entire purchasing process, control spending, find new sources of savings and improve the supply chain.”

Detailed design and build of the SAP Ariba solution for Fujitsu will commence shortly and country roll-outs will be implemented progressively during 2018.

¹SAP Ariba is the world’s largest business commerce network. SAP Ariba combines industry-leading cloud-based applications with the world's largest Internet-based trading community to help companies discover and collaborate with a global network of partners. Using the Ariba® Network, businesses of all sizes can connect to their trading partners anywhere, at any time from any application or device to buy, sell and manage their cash more efficiently and effectively than ever before. Companies around the world use the Ariba Network to simplify inter-enterprise commerce and enhance the results that they deliver.