Information on the OK to Pay file or Payment information or the Transactional...
Team, We are palnning to implement Ariba OD solution to one of our customer and have a situation in hand. a)I require information regarding OK to Pay file. What this file is all about and how is this...
View ArticleTier 2, Pass Through or 'On Behalf Of' Spend
Hi - I have a long history of building spend management applications at HP - first for Direct Procurement and most recently for our Indirect and Services procurement orgs. There's a problem that we've...
View ArticleRouting approved requisitions to Buyers
Our company is adding a professional buyer to process non-catalog requisitions, and we're curious what other companies do to route approved requisitions to buyers. A. A Queuing Model Approved lines go...
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Supplier Profile Questionnaire - Looking for a balanced solution
The attraction of buyers and suppliers is simple and clear - suppliers have something to sell, and buyers have a need to buy. On the other hand, there is a division between [most] suppliers and buyers...
View ArticleHow do you deal with POs that you don't intend to receive fully?
I would like opinion of our user community on how they deal with POs that they don't intend to receive fully. For example, the PO is for $100 and you have received goods worth $30 against it. You don't...
View ArticleAdding 'Green' questions to RFx templates
Would anyone like to share their common Corporate Sustainability Responsibility & Ethical Procurement Practices questions that organizations include in their RFx templates within specific...
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 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 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 ArticleNew Aberdeen Group Study Examines Supplier Networks
Aberdeen Group, one of the leading technology research firms, is conducting a survey of buyers and sellers that are transacting and collaborating through commerce networks. I encourage you to...
View ArticleInvoiceDetailRequest URL
I'm modifying a supplier application to support Ariba punchout. Once an order is complete, I want to send the cXML document InvoiceDetailRequest back to Ariba, but how do I determine what URL to send...
View ArticleAriba P2P Setup - Best practices - Contract vs PO
What criteria does your organization use to determine when to set something up as a contract in P2P vs a regular requisition?
View ArticlecXML documentation / sample messages?
Hello,Hopefully this is the correct place to ask these questions. I am a supplier and we are working on integrating with Ariba via cXML. So far I haven't found a whole lot of supporting documentation,...
View ArticlePO Flip - Can Supplier Entered Invoice Number be Restricted?
Is there any way to restrict the format of the supplier invoice number? For example, must be less than 50 characters, must not use use certain special characters #,&,@ etc.
View ArticleHow do you track Diversity?
We are having difficulty tracking supplier diversity numbers from a sourcing perspective. Our goal is to be able to report on how many diversity suppliers have participated in sourcing events, and how...
View ArticleSourcing 9r1 CD and Construction/Real Estate Projects
Hello, I am seeking some information on how other users are running Sourcing events for construction projects. Have you experienced any limitations in the module itself (i.e., capacity issues for...
View ArticleSupplier Contract Breach ?
Does anyone have an automated solution for monitoring and reporting on Supplier Contract Breach ? Does Ariba have the functionality to manage this process?
View ArticleAriba ASN eInvoicing support for SAP "Limit" Order Types
We have hit a major obstacle in our implementation of Ariba 9r1 integrated with SAP on our ASN. We have discovered that the Ariba ASN does not appear to have any support for SAP "Limit" order type line...
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Testing Custom PunchOut Catalog
First, I am an Ariba newbie. We are looking to integrate our existing web application, that allows buyers to purchase services, with Ariba. Due to the custom nature of our services, we have...
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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