Hi All - How to import contract terms for legacy contracts. Header information can be imported by uploading contract.csv, contractdocument.csv, contractteam.csv and importprojectparameter.csv. but I dont know how to import contract terms, can anyone please let me know
Mangesh
Hi, Can anybody tell me does Ariba invoice can handle the taxes in Brasil? How to do it?
Is there any agent or consultant have experiances on this issue?
Thank you.
Hi Exchange,
Can you suggest a way for me to log Supplier safety performance? (OHSA related log question)
Help me with detailed steps please.
Thanks/Lalith
When i was new to Ariba, i was running from Pillar-to-Post to find out information about Ariba. Now with some self-exploration, i have found some interesting and perhaps 'UNDOCUMENTED ' points about Ariba
Watch this space, i will keep adding more and more information as i discover 
Feel free to add your easter eggs:)
See above
Hello everyone.
We are currently working on a big update of one of our template that contains most of our contract.
All of these are made on a test environment. It will be done again in the production environment when it's succesful.
We would like to reduce the amount of manual work which is, upload again the contract, recreate the clause in the clause library.
To do that, I would like to use the function in the clause Library to export a folder and the content and to import another one.
However, it does not seems to work as smoothly as expected. Did someone tried this kind of manipulation? And if it's the case, how so?
For reference, the action is available if you arein the clause library, in the document tab, click on a folder.
You have the option "Export This folder and content"
Just below, you have "Import Clause Library Content"
Thank you in advance. I will also keep you posted about my research on this subject.
Each line will have a different description/ part number / price etc.
Ideally a way to populate a spreadsheet template with the requisition line data and for a standard / non technical user / not an administrator- to be able to do this themselves.
SOurcing Event Roles and Permissions:
Can you tell me what group / permissions /roles I should use if I require a Team member to have the following functionality:
Ba Basically would like the team member in a sepcific group to see all activities pertaining to an event(read only),
but have no permissions to be able to write.
Thank you
I have been tasked with trying to implement the use of more reverse auctions within our organization. We have held many forward auctions but we seem to meet a lot of resistance around reverse auctions. I'm reaching out the Ariba community for some feedback on the usage of auctions. Below are some of my questions:
1) 1) On average how many eAuctions do you hold in a month?
3 2) When implementing the use of eAuctions did you experience resistance from others in your Procurement dept? Suppliers? Business Partners?
If yes, how did you overcome this in order to receive buy-in from these different parties?
4) 3) How do we increase the number of eAuctions?
5) 4) How do you determine what goes to eAuction? Do you auction both product and services?
6) 5) Do you generally hold an RFP before going to eAuction?
7) 6) How do you open your eAuctions for?
8) 7) From your experience what do you feel is the key to a successful eAuction?
9) 8) In terms of savings how successful do find eAuctions? Can you estimate how much more you’ve saved since implementing eAuctions?
Th
I would be interested to know how are other Ariba Sourcing users address the issue of training suppliers invited to respond to an RFP who are first time Ariba users. What best practices are out there. The reason for raising this issue is because there are still a large number of companies that have not used Ariba. This is particularly true in regions like Asia, where langauge barriers can add another level of difficulty. We have very limited resources in house. project owners have multiple responsibilites and to achieve the ROI on our Ariba solution and the efficiency leveles we promised we can afford task the project owners with holding supplier training sessions. We notice that a considerable number of suppliers decline to participate in our RFP due to lack of familiarity with the tool or, if they participate, they are not comfortable directing all communication and the entire proposal submission through the tool. This impacts the efficiency rates that we were expecting to achieve from use of Ariba as opposed to the traditional word and excel spreadsheet method.
I know that there are some companies out there that are still using the old method (from the time when eRFXs were pionered), that is holding training sessions for suppliers invited to RFp or setting up training events. As I said, this require a significant amount of resources, in my opinion.
Also, I found that some suppliers do not use or do not find the training videos very useful. Besides, to get to the guides and help menus you need to log in first and sometimes they can't even pass that stage and won't usually look for Help and guides once they are in as they are overwhelmed by RFP content, pre-requisites etc.
One solution that I considered is to be able to attach some supplier user guides that I developed myself with screenshots and a login user guide to the invitation email. That way the supplier would get not only the link to the event/password reset but also a quick guide that at least will help him go through the first steps. The problem is that the email templates available in Ariba do not seem to accomodate that. This is also true with email messaging during an RFP where messages composed from Ariba do not go out with attachments. As a result, we still get a lot of calls from suppliers after we publish the event (in spite of "heads-up" emails we sent suppliers before publishing the RFP) and we end up doing a lot of micro-managing around RFP that eliminates any efficiencies we might have achieved.
I am interested in any other ideas, workarounds, best practices.
When i was new to Ariba, i was running from Pillar-to-Post to find out information about Ariba. Now with some self-exploration, i have found some interesting and perhaps 'UNDOCUMENTED ' points about Ariba
Watch this space, i will keep adding more and more information as i discover
Feel free to add your easter eggs:)
Hi there,
Have any of you found documentation, blogs, white papers, presentations or studies where Ariba Buyer (9r1 ideally) and SAP SRM 7 are being compared?
I have seen some interesting blogs on spendmatters.com, a Gartner study, some SAP links (distinct SAP flavor! :-)), but nothing on Connect or Exchange. Of course a big point for Ariba is the ASN; what are the others?
Seems the trend is to compare both options, and we are at the gathering input stage... :-)
Thanks!
Linda
Hi All - How to import contract terms for legacy contracts. Header information can be imported by uploading contract.csv, contractdocument.csv, contractteam.csv and importprojectparameter.csv. but I dont know how to import contract terms, can anyone please let me know
Mangesh
Hello Team,
We are planning to go for Ariba implementation but want to know on current version of SIPM, Contract and P2P module in Ariba. Also want to know where I can get information on Ariba to ECC interfaces. To integrate with ECC we have to use PI as middleware or direct integration ?
Hi,
I'm a SAP PI developer, Would like to connect the Ariba (Contracts) to SAP (ECC or SRM) using SAP Netweaver Process Integration. Can you send some how to's link or documentation that will help. If you need my email, please see it below.
Thanks in advance!
-Mitch
Hi, Can anybody tell me does Ariba invoice can handle the taxes in Brasil? How to do it?
Is there any agent or consultant have experiances on this issue?
Thank you.
Hi,
Can anybody explain the Bid Transformation functionality on Ariba Sourcing?
Regards
Nishanth
Good Afternoon,
We are getting some problems connectig sap PI 7.4 dual stack with the Ariba Network, but we can't identify why the connection is not working well.
We have updated the cxml adapter and all the steps to configure the scenario as it says at connect.ariba.com but when we send a message to Ariba the following error is been produced:
Message could not be forwarded to the JCA adapter. Reason: Error when sending message: Profile request failed for [Channel] CCT_OrderEnquiry_cXML_Receiver with the following [ERROR] Cannot connect to Ariba SN
This is the configuration made for the communication channel:
Could you please help us to know what is happening?.
If you need more information please let me know and I'll send you inmediatly
Thank you so much in advance.
Best Regards.
I have been tasked with trying to implement the use of more reverse auctions within our organization. We have held many forward auctions but we seem to meet a lot of resistance around reverse auctions. I'm reaching out the Ariba community for some feedback on the usage of auctions. Below are some of my questions:
1) 1) On average how many eAuctions do you hold in a month?
3 2) When implementing the use of eAuctions did you experience resistance from others in your Procurement dept? Suppliers? Business Partners?
If yes, how did you overcome this in order to receive buy-in from these different parties?
4) 3) How do we increase the number of eAuctions?
5) 4) How do you determine what goes to eAuction? Do you auction both product and services?
6) 5) Do you generally hold an RFP before going to eAuction?
7) 6) How do you open your eAuctions for?
8) 7) From your experience what do you feel is the key to a successful eAuction?
9) 8) In terms of savings how successful do find eAuctions? Can you estimate how much more you’ve saved since implementing eAuctions?
Th
Hi Exchange,
Can you suggest a way for me to log Supplier safety performance? (OHSA related log question)
Help me with detailed steps please.
Thanks/Lalith