Office 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 ArticleAriba is a scam: Forced to pay thousands for services I do not need in order...
The Buyers are unaware this is taking place. Companies such as UPS and others have no idea that Ariba is forcing Sellers to pay Thousands of dollars a year for services they do not need just to get...
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 Articlegovernment reverse auctions
Hi,My question is, does this site handle government reverse auctions and if so how do they work.Thanks
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Risk Analysis Tool possible in Ariba?
We would like to model a Risk Assessment Tool, where we will have a list of provisions with their corresponding standard requirement and fallback positions. For example:StandardRequired...
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...
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...
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Ariba for begginers
Hello Community, I am very new to the exchange community. I am an SAP SRM Consultant and would like to gain knowledge on SAP Ariba Procurement, Sourcing, Contract solutions and catalog. Can some one...
View ArticleLooking For Best Practice: Tracking Contract Cycle Times
Looking for Best Practice where a company is capturing the end-to-end visibility from Business Partner Request to Contract Execution Lifecycle to measure and report Supply Chain Management performance...
View ArticleBid decrement/lot level
Hi all. When I create an eAuction I often use lots with many line items. I choose then mainly "Bid at Item level, compete at Lot level" - it has many advantages. But my concern is that bid decrement...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between SPM and SIPM ?
Please explain the difference between SPM and SIPM?
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 ArticleMicrosoft 2010
Hi My company has recently upgraded to Microsoft 2010. However, you may have noticed on the discussions or your trawls through other company's enhancement requests that 2010 is not yet supported by...
View ArticleReverse Auction Demo (video or podcast)
Hello! I have searched the Ariba website and exchange, but can not find any demo's of a Reverse Auction (video or podcast). If anyone has one available, cleansed of their company data (or a mock...
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...
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Open Auction with display of Supplier Names - Yes / No?
We have been running auctions for over a decade now, but we have never done an auction, where suppliers would have confirmed knowledge on who is competing. Why not, is what we have been thinking...
View ArticleHow to Use SOAP Web Service to Create Requisitions in P2P?
Hello, I'm trying to find information on how to create requisitions (for non catalog items) in P2P using the SOAP web service. Specifically I'm wondering which URL and port I would connect to, where...
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 ArticleSIM as Master Supplier
HiWe have a client that wants to use SIM as there master Supplier Database, so new or update to suppliers are performed in SIM and this is then fed into there Financial DB's. There is also an approval...
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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