Update site-wide company logo

Update enumerations

Update bidder agreement text

Access field configuration

Future-proofing: You may want to have multiple approvers in the future.

Ease of administration: It is easier to add/remove users to or from groups than it is to change the task.

Delegation: Users cannot delegate approval tasks to others unless they are in the same group.

Notifications: You can only configure the notifications for groups, not for users.

Notifications will need to be enabled

Content items must be set for offline responses

Alternative responses must be enabled

The template must be published and set to allow offline responses

The event must have bidding rules enabled for offline responses

Deactivate

Create

Update only

Load

A document sent to a supplier to obtain information prior to a sourcing event

A project that automatically becomes a full sourcing project upon approval

A copy of an existing sourcing project used as a staring point for a new sourcing project

A document that is used to ask the company authorized sourcing team to bid a product or service

Shared services;

An account executive

A partner consultant

Customer support

Suppliers can be restricted from participating in an action until they submit a starting price;

Suppliers can verify if they can supply the items at or below the starting price

Suppliers can see their rank before the auction opens

Supplier can verify if they can supply the items as designed;

Suppliers can review the number of suppliers participating in the auction

The business is commercially attractive

Raw material prices for suppliers are rising;

The supply base is competitive

There is wide variation in product standards

Sourcing Library

Sourcing Project

Project Manager

Sourcing Project Template

Verify the configuration in test and production sites

Ensure that the customers end users are fully trained on SAP Ariba Sourcing

Verify that core SAP Ariba functions are working

Validate the customer uniques configuration

There are many suppliers invited to the auction

The market for the product on auction is higly competitive

Price data is highly sensitive

You expect a wide variation in bids

Alternative bidding

Time periods

Translations

Cost terms

Price breakdown

Bid transformation

Total cost

Alternative responses

Visibility conditions

Envelope bidding

A prerequisite with an access gate

A prerequisite with restricted response submission

After publishing, while monitoring

On the summary step before publish

When a test event is set to YES

When the event is in draft status

Leave the Team section of the SAP Ariba template blank and train users to add users to the team

Set the default access control on the Ariba template to Private to Team Members and configure them accordingly

Create a different sourcing template for each business unit

Create custom access controls and assign them to the sourcing templates

User licence for each licensed solution

User licence applicable only to SAP Ariba Supplier information and Perfomance Management

User iD for each licensed solution

User licence applicable only to SAP Ariba Sourcing

To verify if suppliers can meet the specifications

To narrow the list of suppliers to invite to later events

To gain a preliminary bid from each supplier

To gather pricing and capability information

The customer provides the necessary resources for deployment

The customer leads the project kickoff session

The customer provides a single point of contract;

The customer selects one of the following language forall interactions with SAP Ariba: German, French, Italian or Japanese

Mass Edit Project

Signature providers

Import Legacy Contracts

Manage keywords