The Ariba Licensing Audit Guide.

Six learning outcomes from Ariba renewals.

1. The Ariba product stack and the four buyer subscription tiers. Ariba Buying, Procurement, Sourcing, and Contract Management — and the licence basis that applies to each.
2. Network fee architecture and the supplier-side economics. Subscription, transactional, and document fees on the Network — and the buyer-side leverage hidden in the supplier conversation.
3. Document subscription thresholds and renewal escalation. The volume tiers, the overage rules, and the negotiation language that contains the next escalation.
4. The Snap edition, the Sourcing Pro tier, and the upgrade path. The functional differences, the pricing gaps, and the contractual lock-in clauses to read carefully.
5. Guided Buying, Catalog, Punchout, and Discovery licensing. The five modules most often mispriced at renewal, and the comparison-shopping logic for each one.
6. Supplier Management, CLM, and the integration fee stack. The seven Ariba audit findings we see most often, and the audit-defensible responses we recommend.

Seven chapters. Forty-two pages.

Four audiences. One reference.