2020: More consultants seeking work + less vacancies = greater expectations and lower rates/salaries Here at bluewaveSELECT we saw an increase in available SAP Ariba Consultants rise by 47% from 2019 whilst available jobs fell 68% from 2019. As such the expectations of Hiring Managers has gone up in line with the daily rates/salaries for roles coming down. The fall out of this stalling of projects moving forwards in 2020 was an increase of highly skilled SAP Ariba Consultants, Managers and Architects entering into the jobs market coinciding with a significant fall in vacancies for these skills.

It’s these metrics of procurement performance that will allow the procurement teams to identify cost-savings opportunities moving forwards. That is, how and why companies should be assessing what they are spending their money on, assessing the agreements they have in place with existing suppliers, analysing the performance of these suppliers and ensuring that there is a mature procurement solution in place to enable an accurate and useful visibility across spend. I guess you may have noticed a certain virus made an appearance (don’t mention the “c-word”) and caused a number of purported big SAP Ariba implementations to be paused or even cancelled.īecause of this I had many a conversation with frustrated Procurement Directors where we discussed the importance now more so than ever of ensuring companies focus on their spend management.

And this is largely due to a significant period of inactivity across planned SAP Ariba projects last year. It’s been a while since I last put aside some time to write to my network and address the state of the SAP Ariba market. Jan’21 A monthly update by Tyler Watts – SAP Ariba Recruitment Delivery Manager at bluewaveSELECT

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