


The program, as part of India’s Vison 2020, aims to empower Indian MSMEs on their digital transformation journey through innovative sourcing solutions, digital skilling for the workforce and transforming business processes.Bidders who are interested in submitting their bids should click on “Respond to Posting” and accept and submit Prerequisites to this Sourcing Event in order to view the complete Sourcing Event.

Much like the Japanese government’s efforts to boost SMEs, recently in India, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) also leverage the open access to SAP Ariba Discovery through SAP India’s recently launched Global Bharat program. Aside from the open-access extension, the removal of the supplier response fee relieves the SMEs’ concern on costs and will further enable SME suppliers in Japan to expand their sales channels overseas and find new buyers. It was recently announced that the open access to SAP Ariba Discovery is extended until 31 December 2020 to continue to help businesses mitigate the impact of the pandemic on their supply chain. SAP has urgently heeded the need to address the supply chain disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic by offering select solutions, including SAP Ariba Discovery, at zero cost. SAP Extends HandĪs businesses continue to be resilient in these trying times, SAP remains to be a partner ensuring businesses run better with e-commerce solutions. Ariba Network, the world’s largest B2B network, is a dynamic marketplace for buyers and suppliers to collaborate easily on transactions, strengthen their relationships, and discover new business opportunities. Over 4 million companies use SAP Ariba solutions, which support the marketplace for modern business, creating frictionless exchanges between millions of buyers and suppliers in the Ariba Network across the entire source-to-pay process. Japanese SMEs can also leverage SAP Ariba solutions’ collaborative commerce capabilities from sourcing and orders through invoice and payment as well as help customers optimise spending. In the 2017 Whitepaper on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Japan, SMEs recorded were approximately 3.809 million accounting for 99.7.
