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Ariba needs your feedback!

May 8, 2013, 4:41 pm
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The User Experience Team at Ariba invites you to participate in upcoming research about our products. Participants may receive $100 or more, depending on the type of research! If you would like to participate, please tell us about yourself by completing this 2-minute survey:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElVdW1Yd0s2S2dtQWUwN0ZqVlJjZ0E6MQ

 

We encourage you to participate in user research as it is a great opportunity for you to have input on future designs. Research studies range from online surveys, to focus groups, and online usability tests. You will not need to do anything to prepare and you can participate remotely on your computer via WebEx.

 

Thank you for your support of our User Experience Research Program!

 

Regards,
Elisa Heiken
User Experience Researcher
eheiken@ariba.com

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Ariba needs your feedback!

May 8, 2013, 4:41 pm
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The User Experience Team at Ariba invites you to participate in upcoming research about our products. Participants may receive $100 or more, depending on the type of research! If you would like to participate, please tell us about yourself by completing this 2-minute survey:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dElVdW1Yd0s2S2dtQWUwN0ZqVlJjZ0E6MQ

 

We  encourage you to participate in user research as it is a great  opportunity for you to have input on future designs. Research studies  range from online surveys, to focus groups, and online usability tests.  You will not need to do anything to prepare and you can participate  remotely on your computer via WebEx.

 

Thank you for your support of our User Experience Research Program!

 

Regards,
Elisa Heiken
User Experience Researcher
eheiken@ariba.com

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Re: Ariba Easter Eggs - This thread is my 'Discovery' of Ariba P2O - On-Demand - Similar challenges most of the newbies would face

May 9, 2013, 1:37 am
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Vendor Blocking

Those who come from SAP background would miss this functionality in Ariba. Ariba offers only 'Delete' function.  If a supplier is blocked, a custom modification is to be performed in Ariba provided extraction program - ZARIBA_SSP_MASTER_DATA_PULL.

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Re: Ariba Easter Eggs - This thread is my 'Discovery' of Ariba P2O - On-Demand - Similar challenges most of the newbies would face

May 9, 2013, 2:30 am
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Ariba Provided Extraction Program ZARIBA_SSP_MASTER_DATA_PULL

 

This program needs a review from Ariba side. This is not 'Plug-n-Play extraction. A significant time is to be invested to modify the extracted files.

 

MACRO Level Important shortcoming/Limitation of the program:

Selection screen facility do not exist:

First and main shortcoming of this program is , it download ALL the information in the system. eg: if the program is executed for say G/L account, this would extract ALL the G/L accounts. For those who are from SAP background, you would miss the 'selection screen' functionality, where one can choose only selected company codes, or only selected G/L accounts ( same applies for company codes, plants, suppliers and so on)

Adjustments are to be done using  ZARIBTVARV / TVARVC tables, which is not actually a self intuitive.

 

Documentation :

At SE38, this program offers no documentation at all.

 

 

MICRO level Shortcomings:

Multiple problems exist in this extraction program

1. some of the extracts do not fetch all the columns mentioned in the data dictionary and some of the columns fetched by this program do not exist in Data dictionary

2. Some files which are generated with this extraction program, do not fetch correct value for the column heading. eg: for column BUKRS - company code, the program fetches Chart of Accounts /Controlling area as information in extraction

3. Some of the checkboxes extract 'multiple files'  as a result, there are 17 selection checkboxes for th program but the extracted files are more than 17. This is confusing to the new user.

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UNSPSC Codes Do Not Come Back to SAP SRM Shopping Cart

May 9, 2013, 7:28 am
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Hi all,

 

We are implementing catalogs with Ariba Procurement Content (APC) via a single OCI call set up from SAP SRM.  From SAP SRM Shopping Cart, we punchout to APC, find the items (either hosted or punchout items) and bring them back into SAP SRM cart.  So far, everything has been coming back correctly with the exception of UNSPSC code.  We can see the UNSPSC codes getting transferred back to SAP SRM through the trace under the following highlighted fields.  Per Ariba, APC's native commodity code is sent to  NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY OCI field while the commodity code that SAP SRM would understand is sent under the NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP OCI field. We have compared the trace to our currently working catalogs within SAP SRM and found that all UNSPSC codes are coming back under
NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP, confirming this is the correct field.

 

In addition, we did a test by punchout out to APC via SAP SRM Manual PO (ECDP) and UNSPSC codes did come back and were populated for items within the Manual PO.

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sap-ep-iviewhandle        0071565998152

sap-wd-configId               /SAPSRM/WDAC_I_FPM_OIF_SC_PROF

sap-ep-iviewid  pcdshort:/jYbB1OL3oQSDXrawEK0 jVsg3VE=

sap-ep-pcdunit pcdshort:/C5zIN7pBZZAxa9KB9GG6RrsU3b8=

sap-client            110

sap-language     EN

sap-accessibility               

sap-rtl  

sap-ep-version 7.0112.20120709100339.0000

sap-wd-tstamp 1367964043689

sap-explanation              

sap-cssurl                https://dpo.buw.bu.edu:443/irj/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata/themes/portal/buw_central_theme/ur/ur_nn7.css?7.1.12.0.1

sap-cssversion  7.11.10.1.0

NEW_ITEM-MANUFACTCODE[2]              SIGMA

NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY[2]  12352100[TT1]

NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT_ITEM[2]             

NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[1]         11100000[TT2]

NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[2]         12352100[TT3]

SAPSRM_RESUME_ID    SAPSRM_OCI

NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT[1]          

NEW_ITEM-SHOPPINGCARTID[1]             SH334

NEW_ITEM-EXT_CATEGORY[1]  11100000[TT4]

NEW_ITEM-PRICE[1]      10.000

NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[2]      MONOCLONAL ANTI-ENG

NEW_ITEM-PRICEUNIT[2]            1

NavigationTarget                pcd:portal_content/edu.bu.fl.BUworks/edu.bu.fl.SRM/edu.bu.fl.roles/edu.bu.rl.bu_procurement_shopper/fl_strategic_purch/fl_overview/com.sap.pct.srm.gp.ws_purchasing/fl_create_documents/com.sap.pct.srm.srm70.iv_create_sc

NEW_ITEM-MATNR[1]                   

NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT[2]          

NEW_ITEM-SHOPPINGCARTID[2]             SH334

NEW_ITEM-EXT_SCHEMA_TYPE[2]          unspsc

NEW_ITEM-PRICEUNIT[1]            1

NEW_ITEM-MANUFACTMAT[1]               

UsePost               True

NEW_ITEM-SERVICE[2]

NEW_ITEM-VENDOR[2]                10003926

NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT_1:132[] Chicken Cage, 20 x 30 x 50, non-tiered pricing

 

NavMode            3

NEW_ITEM-QUANTITY[1]            1.000

NEW_ITEM-LEADTIME[1]             1

NEW_ITEM-LONGTEXT_2:132[] MONOCLONAL ANTI-ENG

 

NEW_ITEM-PRICE[2]      178.500

NEW_ITEM-SERVICE[1]

NEW_ITEM-VENDOR[1]                10004480

NEW_ITEM-UNIT[1]       EA

NEW_ITEM-LEADTIME[2]             0

NEW_ITEM-EXT_PRODUCT_ID[2]             aaa9d79d-a84a-4abb-b246-d645a671c032|SAB4700258-100UG|CartId`67968001

NEW_ITEM-MATNR[2]                   

NEW_ITEM-VENDORMAT[2]      SAB4700258-100UG

NEW_ITEM-EXT_PRODUCT_ID[1]             jg20130318|BU5

NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]      Chicken Cage

NEW_ITEM-VENDORMAT[1]      BU5

NEW_ITEM-QUANTITY[2]            1.000

NEW_ITEM-MANUFACTCODE[1]             

NEW_ITEM-CONTRACT_ITEM[1]             

NEW_ITEM-CURRENCY[2]            USD

NEW_ITEM-UNIT[2]       EA

NEW_ITEM-EXT_SCHEMA_TYPE[1]          unspsc

NEW_ITEM-CURRENCY[1]            USD

NEW_ITEM-MANUFACTMAT[2]                SAB4700258

sapsrm_mode   CREATE

sapsrm_botype                BUS2121

sapsrm_tx_context_id  SC_PROFESSIONAL_PURCHASER

sapsrm_portalbaseurl    https://dpo.buw.bu.edu:443/irj/portal

sapsrm_pcdlocation                pcd:portal_content/edu.bu.fl.BUworks/edu.bu.fl.SRM/edu.bu.fl.roles/edu.bu.rl.bu_procurement_shopper/fl_strategic_purch/fl_overview/com.sap.pct.srm.gp.ws_purchasing/fl_create_documents/com.sap.pct.srm.srm70.iv_create_sc

  sapsrm_kw_id  L45E4F27A003573B1E10000000A11466FS0A037E25C16A40BD98CD31069DD145F9 

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We do not use the Catalog Enrich BADI.  However, we do have a few document check and change BADIs.  We have deactivated, activated, put in break points to troubleshoot if these were in fact the root cause but we didn't find any issues from these test.  We hide the majority of UNSPSC codes within SAP SRM so shoppers won't have to scroll through a list of several thousands for selection (this hiding does not affect catalog items) and thought this could also be the issue.  However, we unhidden these codes and still UNSPSC codes didn't come back from APC into our SAP SRM cart.

 

Does anyone else have this issue with transferring catalog items from APC to SAP SRM 7?  Any thoughts or advices on what else we can try on our end would be appreciated?


Thanks,
Tiara

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Re: HI. Has anyone out there found a solution to hide all 20,000 UNSPSC and only show the requisitioners a subset of these?

May 9, 2013, 7:37 am
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Are you using SAP or are you trying to hide USNSPC in Ariba?

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Re: Sending a Supplier Survey to Multiple Customer Participants

May 9, 2013, 11:28 am
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Under the Help menu click Product Documentation and download the Ariba Supplier Management Guide

Chapter 7 Managing Supplier Performance - explains how to build surveys and scorecards.

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Re: Sending a Supplier Survey to Multiple Customer Participants

May 9, 2013, 3:13 pm
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I sent a survey to a participant group that contained one user.  At first, the user was assigned soley to the participant group, so the user could not view the survey.  I was informed that the user did not have the permissions necessary to view a survey and that such permissions are included in the "Internal User" group.  After I added the user to the "Internal User" group in addition to the participant group, the user could view the survey.  Unfortunately, the user can now view more information than I would like (e.g., W9 and ACH).

 

I want to send a survey to multiple participants (some with existing Ariba access and some without), and I want these participants to have access only to the survey (unless they already have greater access assigned to them).  Is there a permissions setting or group that will allow access to the survey only?  Or is there an easier way to send a survey to multiple participants (in case I am overcomplicating the process)?

 

Ideally, I want to send them a survey link, and I want them to be able to launch the survey with relatively few steps in between (understanding that they may need to set up a password, etc.).  I have screen shots of what I have done.  Would it be possible to send them to you?  Please let me know.  Thanks!

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Re: Sending a Supplier Survey to Multiple Customer Participants

May 10, 2013, 7:03 am
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Re: Ariba Easter Eggs - This thread is my 'Discovery' of Ariba P2O - On-Demand - Similar challenges most of the newbies would face

May 10, 2013, 7:21 am
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Goods Receipt

 

Ariba allows posting of negative quantity in GR, however, if you are using webmethods, then the export file do not have the necessary parameters to post a '102 movement in backend SAP.

 

A 'mix' of positive and Negative quantity of GR i.e. GR and reject, if entered on Ariba, the GR is posted in Ariba, however, thre is no document created in backend.

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Re: Ariba needs your feedback!

May 10, 2013, 7:30 am
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Hi Elisa,

 

I have started a thread here called - Ariba Easter Eggs- to share the 'undocumented features' , Limitations and 'not so good surprises' we are facing during our implementation of Ariba..

 

Overall, the product is poorly documented and with a significan inconsistencies between the available documented information.

Though it is now a SAP product, the integretion with SAP is at best 'POOR'

We have Ariba consultants helping us for the project and they are really knowledgable, however, the product fails to stand on its own two feet .

 

Regards

Rahul

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Re: cancel hook on Purchase Order

May 12, 2013, 9:24 pm
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Hi Amit,

 

Nice option, but my requirement was to stop these for a specific partition, and only certain set of Orders satisfying the criteria.. we have already achieved it now.. thanx for your suggestion...

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Re: Has anyone encountered OutOfDateException in logs?

May 12, 2013, 9:32 pm
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Hi Sohail,

 

This is an interesting way of closing PO's in SAP, can you please explain the high level design of this.

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Which P2P Customers Want The Ability To Mass Close Purchase Orders By Uploading A File?

May 13, 2013, 12:37 pm
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In the next P2P release due out in a few weeks, Ariba is going to have a new feature that allows customers to more easily close orders.  It can be done by setting a configuration based on the age of a PO and it can also be done by looking up PO's through a search and bulk closing them.  I'm sure that for some companies, this is a welcome enhancement.  For my company, this doesn't work.  Our Finance Department has their own process for assessing which orders should be closed, and unfortunately they don't fit nicely into a specific age or into some other criteria that makes it simple to search for them and close them.  We need to have the ability to upload a file into the system that contains all of the POs we wish to close, and have the system close them all out in bulk.  I know that many of you share this same need.  I'd appreciate it if you could express your support for this by posting back to this discussion thread.  Also, my company's enhancement request on Ariba Connect is 1-BFX4JJ.  Please feel free to submit your own ER and reference mine.  Thanks for your support!

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Re: Which P2P Customers Want The Ability To Mass Close Purchase Orders By Uploading A File?

May 13, 2013, 12:54 pm
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Receiving in the Buyer for invoicing

May 13, 2013, 1:09 pm
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     HELP - Has anyone found an easy way to convince customers that buy to receive inside the tool of buyer. We have auto receipt turned on for $100. I am really looking for another way to systmeatically do the reciepts, noone seems to care about receipting until the supplier doesnt get paid, and then they get all excited about that part of the process.

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implement budget checking, start to use P2P to purchase capital items

May 14, 2013, 6:38 am
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My Company is iin the process of adding Capital Procurement to our P 2 P solution which we currently use for Indirect purchases only. Our back end ERP Ssystem is SAP. We are considering budgeting at the Internal Order level in the P 2 P Soluton.

1. Are there any other customers using P 2 P for all capital purchases (PP & E and computers)? If so, can yo uelaborate on the wins and challenges you faced?

2. Are the any customers using the Budget check functionality in P2 P?

 

Thanks in advance for considering and responding

 

Donna

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Re: implement budget checking, start to use P2P to purchase capital items

May 14, 2013, 6:44 am
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We built two custom eforms to handle some IT and some Facilities capital spend.  The eform is a request for funding.  Once approved, that funding creates a budget (loaded into Budget Check).  Requisitions are then debited from that budget.

 

This process has been ok, but not ideal for us.  We don’t have a way of handling complex financial calculations, such as depreciation formulas, which is what our finance people would want to see during the approval process.  So a separate Excel sheet is still required.  Also,  since eforms can be designed to do virtually anything, there really isn’t good reporting that is fully integrated through the life cycle of the project (funding request to order to invoice), but we can do a lot of it.  Also, it would be nice if some of the data from the eform was able to prepopulate onto a requisition, but I don’t believe that is possible so there is some minimal double entry.

 

Hope that helps.

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Media Placement RFP

May 14, 2013, 11:32 am
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Anyone create an RFP for media placement: billboards, radio, television, etc.  I'd be interested to hear your successes and challenges.

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Office Furniture RFP

May 14, 2013, 11:26 am
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Looking for tips or templates for an Office Furniture RFP.  How do you bid hundreds of items and keep everyone "apples" to "apples."  Any feedback would be appreciated.

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