SAP SE announced Alkem Laboratories selected SAP® Ariba® solutions to help digitalize procurement and increase efficiencies in line with its growth strategy. To sustain future growth, the company is now focused on improving efficiency and optimizing costs across all processes, which will give Alkem a greater competitive advantage within a cost-conscious market. By digitalizing its source-to-settle process, Alkem expects to transform the buying experience with intelligent insights and better supplier collaboration as well as increase transparency and sustainability. With the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing portfolio, Alkem will be able to manage its sourcing, contracting and spend analysis processes across direct and indirect materials and services — all in one place. The SAP Ariba Snap program includes enterprise-class procurement offerings meant to help fast-growing midsize companies move quickly to the cloud. Alkem chose these SAP Ariba solutions because of their breadth, depth and reach: Breadth: End-to-end source-to-settle platform with native integration with SAP S/4HANA®; Depth: Best-price discovery with sourcing strategies and competitive bidding; Reach: Reduced crisis management through better supplier collaboration and order transparency.