Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL)

Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL)

Connect your SAP S/4HANA digital core for Sourcing and Procurement to the Ariba Network and SAP Ariba Sourcing. This provides access to intuitive RFX tools (for requests for information, requests for proposals, and reverse auctions), connections to more than two million companies, quick and easy supplier discovery, and automated and adjustable negotiation procedures.

Ensure event success by using the SAP Ariba Sourcing support desk and event-day management assistance. Evaluate the total cost impact of sourcing decisions. Reduce the amount of time and effort spent on administrative tasks. Handy wizards and tools help you launch events, collaborate, and negotiate. With the most suppliers from which to choose, and up-to-date profiles, ratings, and assessments, you can easily develop a large supply base and back-up sources, reducing supplier risks. Once you subscribe to SAP Ariba Sourcing, you can simply activate this SAP S/4HANA scope item with guided configuration.

Note: This scope item uses SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway for the integration and covers the full functional scope of the Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (1A0) scope item.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Create a request for quotation (RFQ) for SAP S/4HANA purchase requisitions that don’t automatically find a single source of supply (purchaser)
  • Send the RFQ to the SAP Ariba Sourcing application; this triggers a sourcing request (purchaser)
  • Access your worklist and convert sourcing requests into sourcing projects (sourcing manager)
  • Monitor sourcing projects that result in (reverse) auctions, or requests for quotations, and provide these to suppliers on the Ariba Network (sourcing manager)
  • Monitor suppliers’ responses (sourcing manager)
  • Award one or more bids in SAP Ariba Sourcing (sourcing manager)
  • Send awarded bids automatically to SAP S/4HANA where forwarded bids, purchase orders, or operational contracts are created

Benefits

  • Enjoy fast time-to-value and low total-cost-of-ownership
  • Improve project management and compliance with advanced automated workflow and approval-routing
  • Integrate your SAP S/4HANA to SAP Ariba Sourcing by simple activation
  • Simplify and accelerate your configuration by taking advantage of built-in SAP Best Practices
  • Get predictable results fast as these best practices guide you through the integration process step-by-step

Where is Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing(4BL) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

  • As a management function of Sourcing and Contract Management within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group

Process flow of Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL)

Find below the process flow of the scope item Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing as it is defined for release s4h-2021.


Download Process Flow of Best Practice scenario Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL) - S/4HANA OP
Ref: Sourcing and Procurement of SAP S4H-2021
Best Practices related to S/4HANA*1) Yearly Updates are released per September of each year
*2) The Quarterly updates are released per Februari, May, August and November
Details of future releases can be found in the SAP Roadmap section of each product. Go to SAP Roadmap Product Finder.
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