To realize the targeted savings and productivity gains from sourcing and spend management initiatives, buying organizations must treat supplier enablement as a self-sustaining, full lifecycle process. The supplier enablement lifecycle involves constituencies within the buying organization, the entire supplier base, and any third-party service firms assisting the buyer organization.

Aravo OnDemand Supplier Enablement was built to address the full supplier lifecycle, from identification and assessment to enablement and ongoing management. Role-based dashboards deliver visibility and control over all phases of the supplier lifecycle, eliminating manual processes, and distributing work to the right people at the right time, and supports the complex many-to-many relationships and variations that invariably exist between buyers and suppliers across geographies, subsidiaries, or organizational hierarchies. The resulting acceleration in time-to-enablement and increase in spend under management allows buying organizations to finally realize the expected cost savings from their spend management efforts.