Swisslog Healthcare Solutions Takes Procurement to New Level with Ariba

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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