Brief

Training for Cloud with SAP Ariba in SAP Ariba Procurement focuses on equipping participants with the essential skills and knowledge to effectively utilize the cloud-based functionalities of SAP Ariba Procurement. This training covers various aspects of procurement processes, supplier management, sourcing, contract management, and purchasing within the context of SAP Ariba's cloud environment. Participants will gain proficiency in leveraging the platform's features to streamline procurement operations, enhance collaboration with suppliers, and optimize overall procurement efficiency.

Course Content

AR510 - SAP Ariba Procurement: Buying

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

AR530 - SAP Ariba Procurement: Invoicing

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

AR520 - SAP Ariba Procurement: Contract Compliance

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

AR540 - SAP Ariba Procurement: Managing and Maintaining Catalogs

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

AR610 - SAP Ariba Procurement: Standalone 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

AR720 - SAP Ariba Procurement: Administration

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

Audience

  • Application Consultant
  • Business Analyst
  • Business Process Architect
  • Business Process Owner / Team Lead / Power User
  • Technology Consultant
  • Trainer
  • User

Certification

C_ARP2P_2302 - SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Ariba Procurement

The "SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP Ariba Procurement" certification exam verifies that the candidate possesses the basic knowledge in the area of the SAP Ariba Procurement solutions. This certificate proves that the candidate has an overall understanding within the SAP Ariba Procurement application consultant profile and can implement this knowledge practically in projects under guidance of an experienced consultant. It is recommended as an entrylevel qualification to allow consultants to get acquainted with the fundamentals of the SAP Ariba product line. Please note that this version of the exam takes part in the Stay Current with SAP Global Certification program. Once you pass this version of the exam, make sure that you participate in the subsequent stay current process. You will be required to take the bi-annual Stay Current Assessment for all subsequent SAP Ariba Procurement solution releases via the SAP Learning Hub to maintain your SAP Ariba Procurement business consultant certification status and badge.

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