
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