SAP Ariba Course Content

1. Ariba Introduction

• About Ariba & Ariba History
• Ariba cloud system Architecture
• Product evaluation of Ariba
• Ariba solution bundles
• About Ariba Network
• Basic navigation and self service menu

2. Supplier Life cycle & performance (SLP)

• Supplier Request
• Supplier Registration
• Supplier Qualification
• Preferred Supplier

3. Ariba Upstream (Sourcing):

• Getting Started with Ariba sourcing
• Event Management: Creating RFI, RFP and reverse Auctions
• Guided Sourcing
• Award Scenarios and Awarding Sourcing Event
• Full cycle of Bidding Process
• Bidding Rules setup
• Supplier Invitation
• Hands on workshop

4. Ariba Upstream (Contracts)

• Getting Started with Ariba Contracts
• Integration with Ariba Sourcing
• Ariba Contract Management: Creating Contracts
• Hierarchy Type
• Contracts Attributes
• Contract Release Order
• Contract based invoice
• Hands on workshop

Ariba Downstream Contract Compliance

• Contract Terms Creation
• Contract automatic Subscription Creation

5. Ariba Downstream: Buying/Procurement

• Ariba Procurement solution features
• The Request-to-Receive Flow
• Full End to End Procurement Process (PR, Approval Flow, PO, GR, invoice , Payment)
• Ariba Procurement: Creating and Managing Invoices
• Invoice: Different Types
• Hands on workshop

6. Ariba Guided Buying

• About Ariba guided buying
• Landing Pages and tiles
• Full End to End Procurement Process (PR, Approval Flow, PO, GR, invoice , Payment)

7. Integration (Online)

• Integration Overview
• Integration Landscape
• Integration Manager & Configurations
• Ariba Integration with CIG
• CIG usage Scenario
• Basics about CIG portal & CIG portal configuration

8. Administration/Core administration

• Template Management & Configurations
  • Sourcing template & contract template configuration
  • Set-up bidding rules
  • Condition set-up to display documents
  • Display of document
  • Project group vs system groups
  • Approval rule set-up
  • Task assignment
  • Team set-up
• Approval workflow Configurations
  • Serial approval configuration
  • Parallel approval configuration
  • Custom approval configuration
  • How to assign work flow
• Site Manager & Configurations
  • About site manager
  • Initial data upload such as purchasing unit
  • How to verify the upload data
• User Management & Configurations
  • Creation of New User
  • Delegation of authority
  • Creation of Groups
  • Purchasing unit assignment
• Catalog Manager & Configurations
  • Creation of catalog item
  • Catalog validation
  • Error debug
  • Catalog view restriction
• P2P Manager & Configurations
  • Invoice Exception types
  • About receiving types
• Project Manager
  • Process steps during migration of Legacy Contract to SAP Ariba
• Supplier Manager
  • Supplier set-up for purchasing
  • Concept of partitioned supplier
  • How to set up partitioned supplier
• Customization Manager
  • About enumeration
• Commodity manager
  • Mapping of commodity code with material group.

9. Reporting

• Reporting – Customization & Configuration
• Reporting – Scheduling Background job
• Reporting – Personal vs public workspace

10. Implementation

• Implementation approach and different phases
• Role of Ariba Consultant
• Documentation
• Hyper Care Support