Contract management and SAP ERP integration
What level or degree of integration is recommended with Contract Management module and SAP ERP systems? What integration points are deemed critical vs nice to have? Anyone willing to share lessons...
View ArticleUNSPSC Codes Do Not Come Back to SAP SRM Shopping Cart
Hi all, We are implementing catalogs with Ariba Procurement Content (APC) via a single OCI call set up from SAP SRM. From SAP SRM Shopping Cart, we punchout to APC, find the items (either hosted or...
View ArticleAriba & SAP
I am new to Ariba. I would like to know the difference between Ariba & SAP R/3. Is it integrated with MM/SRM?? Can you pls. explain in brief or share some documents??
View ArticleOffice Furniture RFP
Looking for tips or templates for an Office Furniture RFP. How do you bid hundreds of items and keep everyone "apples" to "apples." Any feedback would be appreciated.
View ArticleWebservice for sending contract line item details and pricing conditions from...
Hi, We are integration Ariba on-demand contract management to SAP ECC/SRM and Oracle Apps, we are not using Ariba p2p. I would like to know the webservice details for sending contract line items...
View ArticleHow do you handle Q&A during RFP?
Hi, My company is just beginning with Ariba Sourcing. I'm wondering how other companies handle Q&A time during RFP? Do you factor this time into the total event time and make reference in the...
View ArticleReverse Auction with 2 bidders? How often is it done?
I'm interested to know the success rate of a 2 supplier eAuction. Winner take-all scenario so a very large 'at stake' proposal for the lowest bidder. Is this used often? If yes, any guidance?
View ArticleSourcing Medical Insurance
Any feedback on a Sourcing Event (RFI, RFP, Auction) for an employee medical insurance plan. Would love to hear about how to structure such an event, challenges, successes, failures, etc
View ArticleDifference between RFP with Price Breakdown and RFP With Total Cost
I am creating an RFP where the supplier will be able to enter the breakdown of their Product cost (e.g. Material price, Freight, Tax, Admin fee, etc.). I find that the options of "RFP with Price...
View ArticleTraining for suppliers invited to respond to RFPs
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....
View ArticleHow do you define or measure eSourcing success?
Hi We're talking about metrics or targets in the office right now. How do you define and measure eSourcing (eRFx and eAuction rather than P2P)? Is it an event count? Is it percentage of addressable /...
View ArticleTracking user activities
Question: for security reasons it is important for us to track user activities on all contract workspaces. Is there a possibility to monitor these activities?
View ArticleItem level integration of Ariba Contract from Ariba to ECC
We are looking at line item level integration from Ariba to ECC? Do we have standard integration around this? Also we have a scenario where a contract is distributed to multiple Purchasing Organization...
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cXML
We are a supplier and I want to fetch new purchase orders from Ariba by polling. The documentation in the Ariba help for "cXML PEnding Queue" (https://uex.ariba.com/node/413) says "You can configure...
View ArticleDifference between RFP with Price Breakdown and RFP With Total Cost
I am creating an RFP where the supplier will be able to enter the breakdown of their Product cost (e.g. Material price, Freight, Tax, Admin fee, etc.). I find that the options of "RFP with Price...
View ArticleUNSPSC Codes Do Not Come Back to SAP SRM Shopping Cart
Hi all, We are implementing catalogs with Ariba Procurement Content (APC) via a single OCI call set up from SAP SRM. From SAP SRM Shopping Cart, we punchout to APC, find the items (either hosted or...
View ArticleSpend Classification - What if you have a category that does not map to...
Our custom category taxonomy has several entries that do not map to any of the 22,000+ entries in the ARIBA ACT/UNSPSC taxonomy. They tend to be company or industry specific categories. For example:...
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On-Demand session terminated due to changed IP address
My company uses Webroot, a cloud-based internet proxy and content filter. Because they are cloud-based, when they perform load balancing our traffic may be routed through other servers in their farm....
View ArticleAriba Sourcing Integration with SAP ECC through SAP PI
Hi all, I am currently working on the task to integrate the Ariba Sourcing with SAP ECC system through SAP PI middle ware.I cant seem to find any document in the internet or Ariba connect on how to do...
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