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 ArticleOrganizing parametric fields
I'm loading a new catalog in which the items are going to be partial items with parametric fields. I've update the SystemParametricType file to add the new parametric fields. Is there anyway to set...
View ArticleAriba Glossary
Is there a glossary for Ariba terminology, specifically for Sourcing and Contracts? Thanks. Eva.
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 ArticleHave a question to add? Join the "After Party" Discussion on How to Transform...
Let's continue the conversation with Ariba’s strategy specialist on turning your eCommerce experience into a highly optimized sales channel. Please use this discussion to share your thoughts, technical...
View ArticleBuyer 9r1 - Delegate Authority Behavior
Does 9r1 'Delegate Authority' allow the Delegatee to change my existing Requisition (PR) documents and create a new version?
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 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 ArticlePros and Cons of using OCI and cXML in PunchOut.
Hi Guys.. Please help me out regarding the Pros and Cons of using OCI and cXML in PunchOut. Which is better out of these? Others parameters like features, usability, Licences, Training. Why OCI not...
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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 ArticlePunchout Pricing
Does anyone have suggestions for enforcing pricing on a punchout? Since punchouts have 1,000's of items on a supplier's site (controlled by them), it's difficult to know if we're getting the best...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between SPM and SIPM ?
Please explain the difference between SPM and SIPM?
View ArticleResearch: Users of electronic reverse auctions
Dear procurement professionals, I am doing a research for my master thesis for the Erasmus University (Rotterdam School of Management) on the buyer side of B2B electronic reverse auctions. Thus, this...
View ArticleTrouble with Main Agreement Bookmarks?
We have recently implemented contract management and have a main agreement and are using the clause library. We have done only a handlful of new workspaces using our main agreement - and have had...
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 ArticleLooking for an on demand SIPM user group?
I have an on demand SIPM customer that is looking to join a user-run SIPM user group. If you currently run or participate in an on demand SIPM customer user group and would welcome a new member,...
View ArticleQuery in Inspector
How to Query for a vector field in Inspector? for eg: How to query for a User with 0 Roles?
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 ArticleRFP Savings
Hi, Could you please let me know what is the average percentage of savings through Ariba RFP and also let me know where can I find the supporting documents. Thanks,Murali
View Articled Forms is Sourcing Pro? What are some suggestions on what to use for?
We are nearing the finish line of our Sourcing Pro deployment and we are on the topic of dforms. We are not getting a whole lot of guidance on best practice uses and I wanted to check with the...
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