The consulting firm apsolut, which specialises in SAP-based procurement, and the software company Archlet have agreed on a cooperation to implement customer-specific integrations between Archlet and SAP Ariba solutions. Customers can thus adapt intelligent tender analyses and scenarios to their system landscape and use cases in an even more targeted manner.

Archlet offers a sourcing, analytics and optimisation tool based on data science and machine learning that makes evaluating of tenders for strategic buyers significantly easier. Archlet intelligently transforms manual and time-consuming processes to make tedious and error-prone tender analyses in Excel spreadsheets completely obsolete. For companies using SAP and SAP Ariba procurement systems, apsolut develops system-specific interfaces to Archlet.

"In their mission to make strategic sourcing smarter and easier for users, apsolut and Archlet are very similar," explains Christoph Menne, Partner at apsolut. "For our customers, this partnership allows for an even faster, seamlessly integrated tender processes as well as enhanced award decision making."

The connection of the Archlet Sourcing Optimisation App to SAP enables customers to:

• Use existing information from ERP or other data sources.
• Significantly increase the data quality of tenders through automated error detection
• Reduce tender times through automated analyses
• Identify negotiation potential in real time
• Take holistic decisions that include internal and external award criteria

"The partnership with apsolut enables us to implement customer-specific integrations between SAP and Archlet even faster," confirms Tim Grunow, co-founder and CEO of Archlet. "Our customers can thus integrate Archlet into existing processes and system landscapes with an even more personalized approach in order to enhance intelligent sourcing decision making."