The real amazon.com experience
Recently, my colleague Marijn posted a blog about spot buying functionalities in SAP Ariba. As Compera specializes in SAP Procurement and not only SAP Ariba, I would like to introduce spot buying functionalities in other SAP solutions as well. What is spot buying?...
Guide one-off purchases with Spot Buy
You can usually rely on your procurement applications to help your company buy sourced items. But what happens when your employees need those one-off or emergency purchases that do not make sense for Procurement to source? Finding and buying these spot buy items from...
March 14th – Future of Procurement event
On March 14th, SAP Netherlands is hosting the Future of Procurement event for 150+ procurement professionals. Compera is proudly sponsoring this event. For the past 10 years Compera has helped many large customers to innovate and digitalize their procurement...
SAP Ariba – Integrated Third-party Logistics Providers
Third-party logistics providers (so called 3PL’s) are specialized in warehousing, transportation and integrated operations as for example Value Added Logistics (VAL). As of Q4 2016 these 3PL’s can participate on the Ariba Network in the logistic process flow between...
SAP Ariba: Light Enablement using Interactive e-mail – Order
]Is your company also struggling with their tail spend? Although you cover the majority of your spend through sophisticated purchasing processes with preferred suppliers, your companies tail spend is probably fragmented into many suppliers (Pareto principle: 80% of...
SAP Ariba: Ability to Select Multiple Catalog Search Filter Options
Currently, users of SAP Ariba can use different hierarchical filter to narrow the search. However, per hierarchical filter, a user can select only one filter. From Q3 2016 on a new SAP Ariba catalog search function is available. With this new feature, users will be...
New in SAP Ariba: Total RFQ Integration with SAP ECC!
Regarding the integration between SAP Ariba Sourcing and SAP ECC; it was already possible to create purchase orders or outline agreements from SAP ECC RFQ’s. For sourcing events originating in SAP Ariba this functionality was not facilitated. In Q3 2016 this new...
SAP Ariba Contracts Integration to SAP ECC
As of now this new Ariba Feature is available! Ariba Contracts can be sent to SAP ECC using a PI-layer between Ariba and ECC. Standard Ariba Contracts does not support Integration with SAP ECC. Due to this deficit customers are recreating the contracts in ECC which...
SAP Ariba Item Material Master Data Integration
Until now, you could not integrate your Material Master Data into Ariba, which hindered Strategic Sourcing and Contracting activities. Without Material Master Data in Sourcing events or Contracts, achieving operational compliance in Downstream systems (e.g. Ariba P2P...