{"id":4277,"date":"2020-03-10T22:46:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2020-03-11T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T14:38:44","slug":"pod_sourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/en\/pod_sourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Ariba Procurement Operations Desk for Sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Did you know that the SAP Ariba <strong>Procurement Operations Desk<\/strong> is not only available for <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P2P,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">but <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">also <strong>for Sourcing<\/strong>? The Procurement <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Operations <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Desk<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">is an integrated Dashboard where you can monitor and manage your business workload related to: Requisitions, Invoices, Contracts, Suppliers and also Sourcing projects.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this blog I want to focus on <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">use case where your organization has an Integrated Suite with SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Buying and Guided Buying and wants to use operational sourcing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4270\" src=\"https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview1.png 1886w, https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview1-1024x520.png 1024w, https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview1-1080x549.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Use Case Sourcing<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Your company wants to create an RFQ (Quote<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Request<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) for a new analytical device. For this purchase you want a quote from 3 suppliers as<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> it is a very expensive device which is not purchased often. You go to SAP Ariba Guided Buying and open the required form for this kind of product. Once\u2019s done<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> you submit the form and an RFQ is created in SAP Ariba Sourcing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (because of a high touch<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> policy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). Now a Sourcing Agent needs to pick up the RFQ to complete and publish it to the suppliers. The suppliers can submit a bid for the request and depending on the scenario the RFQ can be awarded to a supplier by a Sourcing Agent. The request is sent back to Guided Buying and you can create a Requisition from the RFQ.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Problem<\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At the moment you submit the form and an RFQ is created in SAP Ariba Sourcing a <\/span><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">notification is sent to the members of the \u2018Event Administrator\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">group. As this is a very powerful <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">group it has to be approved by Ariba before assigning to users. So, only a few <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">people will have this group assigned in your organization and will receive the notification about the ongoing RFQ.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sourcing Agents are <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">not<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> notified and need to <\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">run a manual search for the new created RFQ\u2019s which is very inefficient.<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Solution<\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ask your SAP Ariba DSC to log a Service Request to enable the \u2018Procurement <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Operations Desk for Sourcing\u2019. W<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e can help to make the most efficient configurations for this feature<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Many settings are possible, e.g. automatic reassignment of tasks to Sourcing Agents and SLA\u2019s for the tasks.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When the required users are assigned to the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tool<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hey will be able <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">o see, manage and re-assign the RFQ\u2019s to the correct Sourcing Agent. So no more manually searching for RFQ&#8217;s.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4272\" src=\"https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview2.png 2560w, https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview2-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview2-1024x389.png 1024w, https:\/\/compera.vanvlerken.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/overview2-1080x410.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The main benefit of this solution is that ALL the requests are monitored. None of the RFQ\u2019s will be lost in the system <\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">due to miscommunication between Event Administrators and Sourcing Agents. This will result in an efficient process and on-time responses from your suppliers.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Please contact Compera for additional information of this helpful feature.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the SAP Ariba Procurement Operations Desk is not only available for P2P,\u00a0but also for Sourcing? 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