Supply Risk - What is your company doing?
I have been doing some research with companies to hear how they have been tackling Supply Risk within their companies. I am interested in hearing about what your company is doing. At what points in...
View Article"Composing" Receipts I want to delete....
I have Receipts in "Composing" status that I want to delete. Anyone know how?
View ArticleClosing Orders and Accruals
Within Ariba Procure-to-Pay only the Purchasing Manager group can manually close purchase orders. The Purchasing Manager group also comes with many other permissions which we don't want a typical...
View ArticleBest practice question: Including NDA (non-disclosure agreement) in the RFx...
Curious as to what whether other firms are including a NDA form (non-disclosure agreement) during the RFx process. Has anyone required the supplier download, sign and attach the NDA as a response to...
View ArticleCan Account Assignments be filtered in Ariba ( so users would view and select...
Hi Ariba Experts, My client wants to filter the account assignment values, so the users can select the account assignments available for them.In SRM, account assignment codes can be assigned as user...
View ArticleHow do you define punchingroups.csv file?
I need to set up punchingroups.csv and import to define catalog views for my ASN realm. I can't find any documentation in Ariba Connect. Need to know a manual with the fields in the csv file or...
View ArticleProject Management in Sourcing?
Hi, First post here. Our company is just starting to use Ariba Sourcing, and has yet to utilize the project workflow piece of the tool. I would like to create a sample project with standard project...
View ArticleExcel templates vs usability
Hi, We are currently using xls template to upload events to Ariba. Most of the events are complex, containing a lot of questions. The issue we have is how templates are populated by the category people...
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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 findout information about Ariba. Now with some self-exploration, i have found some interesting and perhaps 'UNDOCUMENTED ' points about...
View ArticleMultiple Sessions?
Has there ever been thought on, if or how, a user can have open multiple 'sessions' to multi task and work on many projects at a time in Ariba?My current browser automatically logs me out of a seperate...
View ArticleEncouraging eSourcing use
What techniques, strategies, etc have you used to encourage, promote and recruit directors in your organization to use eSourcing tools?
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Create Contract Request is missing
Please see attached image regarding this. Have run the ContractRequestPull from inspector but only encounters an error because no file has been placed to the desired folder location but I don't have...
View ArticleHelp Defining a Global IT Procurement Organization
Hello, This is my first post on this site. I have a new CIO, and he wants me to come up with a presentation on what my role could/should be going forward, with a focus on providing IT financial...
View ArticleKeeping New Products and innovative Ideas Flowing
How would you bring 21 individual departments -- each playing separate roles in the innovation process -- together as one cohesive group focused on cost effective new product development? Steven...
View ArticleSingle Sign-on question
Hi, Is it possible to implement a single sign-on functionality to automatically log-in to a third party application which will be accessed inside Ariba? We need to somehow integrate a third party web...
View ArticleCommon payment terms in North America
Question that is going around in my company's Sourcing community here in North America, "What is the norm for payment terms in most companies here in North America?" Does anyone know?
View ArticleAriba and iPad screen optimization
I am deploying T&E to a work group that uses iPads. We found that more time is spent resizing the screen to see/select/update data than actually entering data. Does anyone know if it is possible to...
View ArticleHow do you define punchingroups.csv file?
I need to set up punchingroups.csv and import to define catalog views for my ASN realm. I can't find any documentation in Ariba Connect. Need to know a manual with the fields in the csv file or...
View ArticleCaterpillar Achieves 90% Global E-Invoicing with Ariba
Volcanic ash from the recent Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland stranded many global passengers, including some of our Ariba colleagues visiting the U.S. from EMEA, but the “VOG” didn’t slow business...
View ArticleUsing P2P Catalogs for internal requisitioning
Hello experts, question for you all. We have some internal business units that provide "services' or "products" for our company, for instance, a print shop that prints business cards and then charges a...
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