
Guided Buying Capability with SAP Ariba Buying (2NV)
The guided buying capability creates a simple, smart, and elegant purchasing experience that increases user engagement across all spend areas. Guided buying serves as a central place where all buyers can shop across all goods and services. It enables procurement and individual line-of-business owners to specify procurement policies and inform and guide users whenever there appear to be policy conflicts. These capabilities enable purchasers to collaborate directly with suppliers and other procurement users in the context of the procurement need, making procurement more efficient.
Users find items across catalogs, including partial items, forms, and suppliers in a single search box. All spend contracted through supplier-provided catalogs and punch-out catalogs is available for the user to search. Using online shopping as an example, users can filter items by price or manufacturer.
Key Process Steps Covered
- Access customized guided buying app and searches for items across catalogs, including partial items, forms, and suppliers in a single search box
- Get policy guidance as items are added to the requisition
- Perform budget checks in SAP S/4HANA Cloud before submitting the requisition
- Approve decisions as per the configured workflow
- Replicate approved requisition into SAP S/4HANA Cloud as purchase requisitions
- Create purchase orders automatically from those requisitions
- Receive and account for items in SAP S/4HANA Cloud with Goods Receipt app
- Receive and post supplier invoice in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Update the SAP Ariba requisitions with follow-on document record IDs for traceability
Benefits
- Increase employee performance with simple guided user experience
- Apply procurement policies automatically through the guided process, enforcing compliance during the purchasing process, not after
- Use flexible configuration to allow line-of-business-specific definition of forms, permissions, and system behavior at field level and for workflows, so each persona in the process only enters their respective data, avoiding clerical errors and streamlining purchasing for each LoB
Software Products
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Where is Guided Buying Capability with SAP Ariba Buying(2NV) being used?
This Scope item is used in the following way:
- As a core function of Operational Procurement within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group