Course announcements

This course covers all of the functions of SAP Ariba Buying related to the creation of requisitions, the issuing of purchase orders, and receiving against purchase orders. The training material discusses the business processes automated by SAP Ariba Buying, and explains how to use each feature. A mix of lecture, demonstrations, and lab exercises facilitate the learning process.

Goals

This course will prepare you to

• Create purchase requisitions
• View and edit accounting details on a requisition
• Describe the requisition-approval process
• Manage purchase orders including change orders and order cancellation
• Describe the receiving process
• Use the SAP Ariba mobile application in requisitioning
• Search for documents such as requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, etc.
• Run pre-packaged reports for financial analysis and approvable status
• Collaborate with suppliers via SAP Ariba Buying
• Use the demand aggregration feature

Content

• Introduction
• The Dashboard
• Catalogs
• Requisitions
• Accounting
• Approval
• Managing POs
• Receiving
• SAP Ariba Mobile
• Searching and Reporting
• Collaboration
• Demand Aggregation

Course announcements

This course introduces the features and functions of the SAP Ariba On Demand Invoice Management. Through hands on labs and exercises, students learn how to enter and reconcile invoices. Configuration for automatic reconciliation, exception handling, and manual reconciliation are also discussed in the course. The course also covers how invoices and payments are processed. Additionally students learn about some of the core responsibilities and tasks performed by SAP Ariba administrators.

Goals

• This course will prepare you to:
  • Manage paper invoices
  • Describe PO-based electronic, Contract-based, Non-PO invoices and Credit Memo features
  • Explain the approval process including approving invoices using email notifications, and other approval features
  • Identify Invoice Reconciliation options
  • Describe OK2Pay and Remittance
  • Search for invoice status investigation and run pre-packaged invoice specific reports

Content

• Introduction
• Paper Invoices
• Electronic Invoices
• Service Invoices
• Contract-based Invoices
• Non-PO Invoices
• Credit Memos
• Invoice Approval
• Invoice Reconciliation
• OK2Pay and Remittance
• Searching and Reporting
• Invoice Conversion Service

Course announcements

This course covers the basic functionality of Ariba Contract Compliance. The training material discusses the business processes automated by the Ariba Procurement Solutions, and explains how to use each feature. A mix of lecture, demonstrations, and lab exercises facilitate the learning process. This course is focused on Contract Compliance in a Procure-to- Pay scenario.

Goals

This course will prepare you to

Create Contract Requests for release orders and direct invoicing

Content

• Unit 1: Introduction
• Unit 2: Contract requests
• Unit 3: Release Order Contracts
• Unit 4: No-release Order Contracts
• Unit 5: Managing Contracts
• Unit 6: Contract Workspaces

Course announcements

This course teaches the skills required to load and update Ariba catalogs. Using a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises, students learn about catalog, search functionality, catalog kits, and catalog administration. Students gain experience working with the tools required to administer catalogs including loading and validating catalogs, catalog subscriptions, customizing the catalog hierarchy, troubleshooting problems, and running scheduled tasks.

Goals

This course will prepare you to:

• Key catalog concepts
• Catalog search, catalog kits, and partial items
• Content files and their formats (CIF and cXML)
• PunchOut basics
• Catalog hierarchy configuration
• Catalog Validation and Versioning
• Ariba Network and static catalog subscriptions
• The catalog import process
• Catalog Manager workspace
• New Features

Content

• Introduction
• Using Catalogs
• Loading Catalogs
• Validation and Errors
• Catalog Hierarchy
• Catalog Views
• Content Management System
• BMEcat and CIF Fields
• Dynamic Filtering of Catalogs

Course announcements

This course teaches the skills required for using, implementing, and maintaining SAP Ariba catalogs. Using a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises, students learn about catalog architecture, infrastructure, search engine, search functionality, catalog kits, and catalog administration. Students gain experience working with the tools required to administer catalogs including loading and validating catalogs, catalog subscriptions, customizing the catalog hierarchy, troubleshooting problems, and running scheduled tasks.

Goals

This course will prepare you to:

• Key catalog concepts
• Catalog search, catalog kits, and partial items
• PunchOut basics
• Catalog hierarchy
• Catalog validation
• Ariba Network and static catalog subscriptions
• The catalog import process
• New features

Content

• Introduction
• Using Catalogs
• Importing Catalogs
• Validation and Errors
• Catalog Hierarchy
• Catalog Views
• Contract Compliance
• Content Management System
• BMEcat and CIF fields
• Dynamic Filtering of Catalogs

Course announcements

This course teaches the skills required for maintaining an SAP Ariba Procurement system. Using a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises, students learn about cloud infrastructure, data loads, catalog maintenance, approval rules, the Ariba Network, and new feature implementation.

Goals

This course will prepare you to:

Learn about the Ariba Cloud infrastructure and resources, data types and integration methods, how to maintain catalogs and approval rules, how to enable new features. 

Content

• Cloud Basics
• Integration Basics
• Master Data
• User Management
• Supplier Management
• Transactional Data
• Catalog Administration
• Ariba Network
• Approval Rules
• Receiving Types
• Optional Features
• Additional Resources

Audience

• System - Administrator
• Functional and Technical Consultants