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Ariba Components/Products
Dear All, My first discussion in the community I am relatively new to the Ariba world. After going thróugh a lot of Information regarding the various components of Ariba, I came out with the following...
View ArticleContract Request Process
Hello. Has anyone used the Contract Request Procurement form to essentially act as an official client request for a contract? In other words, instead of clients in the company sending an email to the...
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 ArticleBusiness practice on approval flow
Our policy requires signatures on SOW/ Contracts over $X. The business associate then routes a requisition in Ariba for approval and create a PO off the SOW.Our challenge is to reduce the need for...
View ArticleCost Break Down Quotations
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has successfully implemented cost break down quotations directly in the Ariba tool? What we are looking after is possibility to quote a list of part numbers and each...
View ArticleReverse Auctions
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...
View ArticleSourcing - Roles and permission to use for specific team member.
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:- receive all participant...
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 ArticleWhat do you do with Ariba's reporting functionality?
Ariba Education is developing a new course to teach Ariba customers how to run, edit, and build reports. Ariba has a pretty good selection of canned reports, but as part of this course, we were hoping...
View ArticleScoring & Grading System, some doubts!!??
Can anybody explain me in sourcing how to use the supplier grading system effectively, how the below table works in supplier scoring in RFI stage. when I increase the importance automatically overall...
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Cannot enable DFS feature in IE11 browser
Hello Ariba Experts, I am not able to enable DFS feature in IE11 browser even after following below DFS troubleshooting steps and Ariba system struck in below screen after installation of ActiveX...
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SAP/ Ariba integration for split accounting on PRs
Hi, Came across limitation on SAP & Ariba integration for split accounting. When PR cost is split among different cost objects (amount based) and the amount has decimal points (of course). It gives...
View ArticleDFS Troubleshooting
I wanted to see if anyone has any experience in troubleshooting Desktop File Sync. My company recently implemented contract management and our users can't get DFS to work. I have been working on this...
View ArticleHow to migrate data from SAP ECC to Ariba Spend Visibility?
Hi I need to extract the historical data of 3 years from different sources( SAP ECC and other Third party systems) and then load it to Ariba Spend Visibilty. I am looking at extracting the files from...
View ArticleDFS (Desktop File Sync)
Ariba function DFS (desktop file sync) helps to make it easy to work with files offline. However it names the folder for each project like WS12345678. This means that when you are involved in several...
View ArticleProject's Reports
Hello everyone,can anyone tell me why I'm not able to create a report that show me : Name of projects that are scheduled ...and their date of start/end scheduled ?I'm only able to create a report who...
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Ariba Easter Eggs - This thread is my 'Discovery' of Ariba P2O - On-Demand -...
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...
View ArticleAriba modules
Hi,Ariba is offering our client below modules for downstream procurement. Could you please provide details of what all is included in these? Ariba Discount ProfessionalAriba Collaborative...
View ArticleContract 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 ArticleAbriba Integration with SAP PI
Dear Experts, I am SAP PI consultant. currently i am working on integration requirement with ARIBA. where we need to upload ARIBA Spend Analytic .CSV files into Ariba. We can achieve this by...
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