All news about Compera and our insights in our field “Procurement with SAP Ariba and SAP Procurement”
Finalist SAP Intelligent Spend Management Partner 2021
At the SAP Partner Awards 2021, Compera Consulting was awarded as finalist for the SAP Intelligent Spend Management Partner of the year!! Proud for the appreciation regarding our passion, focus and efforts in the area of SAP S/4HANA Procurement and SAP Ariba. A big...
Limit orders in Guided Buying
Is your organization, like many others, satisfied with the user-friendliness of Ariba Guided Buying? However, do you miss the possibility to easily place limit orders for example, the energy bill, lease or other ongoing services and goods? Then there is good news!...
SAP Ariba Queue management
Does your purchasing department have problems in keeping an overview of which purchaser is working on which request? Do you also have the problem that buyers are working on the same request without knowing it from each other? Then there is good news! To prevent this,...
Master Data Native Integration with SAP Ariba’s Cloud Integration Gateway
SAP Ariba buyers can now leverage from a standard interface using a data replication framework that offers flexibility in data filtering and extraction. The Master Data Native Integration (MDNI) framework is SAP Ariba’s latest Cloud Integration Gateway drug to avoid...
SAP Ariba Procurement Operations Desk for Sourcing
Did you know that the SAP Ariba Procurement Operations Desk is not only available for P2P, but also for Sourcing? The Procurement Operations Desk is an integrated Dashboard where you can monitor and manage your business workload related to: Requisitions, Invoices,...
User Management Automation and Integration for SAP Ariba
Although the procedure for creating and maintaining users in SAP Ariba is well documented, it remains a time-consuming activity which can also lead to errors. Changing and uploading the corresponding CSV-files relies on manual activities of your SAP Ariba support...
MORE IN CONTROL WITH SAP ARIBA’S INTELLIGENT CONFIGURATION MANAGER
In the first year that SAP Ariba uses a new naming convention for releases, the upcoming 2002 feature release brings a most wanted self-service feature to customers. SAP Ariba’s Intelligent Configuration Manager (ICM) lets you configure your Ariba site settings,...
Integrate Ariba Network with SAP Invoice Management through SAP Ariba CIG
Are you using SAP Invoice Management by OpenText (VIM) and are you processing invoices from suppliers that are on the Ariba Network? Than maybe you remember the integration methods that I explained in my blog from February 2016. The Ariba Network integration was...
Electronic Invoice Management in SAP Ariba
Did you know that invoice automation can lower processing costs by about 60 percent? In this blog we describe how you can benefit from ‘smart invoicing’ through the Ariba Network using only one digital channel for all your invoices. The Ariba Network is...
SAP Ariba Team Requisitioning
Are your requesters working in shifts or does your purchasing group needs to collaborate on the same request? How easy would it be if you can create a shopping cart and when you can’t finish it yet a colleague can take it over and order the goods or services for you?...
Compera is certified SAP Silver Partner
SAP Netherlands named Compera to certified SAP Silver Partner for Services. This achievement recognizes the quality, knowledge, and subject-matter expertise of Compera. Compera delivers SAP consulting services specialized in optimizing procurement business processes....
Making SAP Ariba procurement simple and accessible
Over the years, we have executed many successful Procurement projects among top tier customers. Procurement is what we do. This also means that we have been fortunate to build extensive experience with SAP Procurement and SAP Ariba implementations and according best...
SAP SRM 7 Customer influence program
Currently one of our current customers is setting up a new interface between SAP ECC and a third party solution, where as a result purchase requisitions are transferred to SAP SRM. The side effect of this process in earlier releases of SAP SRM, is that workflows...
SAP Ariba: Prevent unexpected rejection of orders by the supplier
SAP Ariba has made a number of improvements regarding the changes and cancellations of orders by suppliers. In this blog I would like to take you along with two of these improvements. Preventing rejection or cancellation of orders by the supplier. Preventing rejection...
SAP Ariba: Quote Automation Enhancements
As I described in one of my previous blogs; the RFQ integration between SAP Ariba and SAP ECC makes it possible to create RFQs in SAP ECC and replicate them to SAP Ariba. This functionality is now enhanced with some new features. In this blog, I will explain these new...
New Payables Features in SAP Ariba Procure-to-Pay
Because of my background as a financial business consultant, I have worked in several positions at accounts payable departments for different customers. Even when I started working as a SAP Ariba Procurement Consultant at Compera, I continued to take an interest in...
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...
SAP Ariba Contracts digital signature
When finalizing contracts with your supplier you will probably recognize the following problem: the final documents are not or incompletely signed by your supplier. Then, the contract needs to be returned to the supplier and the entire process must be performed again....
New website live!
The time has come! We have a new website! Our new website is fully responsive, so also easy to read on phone or tablet. We are currently working on the content and the translation to English language. We will continue our blogs on news and developments in SAP...
Even more friendly user usability in the SRM User Interface Add-on!
In the last couple of years SAP has a full focus on User Experience with the SRM User Interface Add-on. This User Interface, developed using HTML5 technology (SAPUI5), has been a great improvement in relation to the ‘old’ SAP Web Dynpro screens. Despite of this...
Ariba S(I)PM – Supplier Performance Management
Is het bij u ook zo lastig? Om inzicht te krijgen en houden over de prestaties van uw leveranciers? U heeft gekozen voor verschillende soorten leveranciers, omdat u het beste product of dienst wilt leveren en uw organisatie goed wilt ondersteunen. Dat betekent dat uw...
New SAP ONE Support Launchpad brings it all together
There is some exciting news for all SAP enthusiasts. Recently SAP has launched the new SAP ONE Support Launchpad, bringing together all your relevant SAP information and documentation together in one place. Completely in line with what you would expect, the Launchpad...
Punch-out catalogi via the ARIBA Network
Do you have a B2B webshop and are you looking for more customers? Do you have customers who order via an Ariba or SAP system? Do you need more branding and control on your products? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then probably offering a punch-out...
New: Push notifications with SAP Fiori
You'll probably recognize it. Looking at today’s modern apps, receiving instant notifications is one of the things that changed the way how we are informed about breaking news and tasks. Now this is also possible with SAP Fiori. If we look it from a procurement...
New ARIBA feature: Catalog Home Page Custom Content
Just as in my previous blog about promoted catalog items, imagine you are a catalog manager. This time you have just added a new catalog for the end users. You would like to inform them about the new content and also share some other latest news regarding the catalog...
Demo movie: Dynamic web forms (eforms) through the SRM UI5 Add-on
Would you like to use eForms for the more complex purchase requisitions? So you can guide your requesters in the right way through the purchase requisition process? That can easily be done through the Dynamic Web Forms. These eForms are supported by SAP OSS (OSS Note...
New in ARIBA: Promoted Catalog Items
Imagine, you are a catalog manager and you have a range of products that are frequently searched for and bought. Or you have received a request from a buyer to promote some items because a great deal has been made, but only if you buy a specific amount…. As of the...
Ariba Network integratie with SAP SRM
Probably you heard already about it as a SAP Procurement and Ariba adept; since April 2015 the Ariba Network Adapter for SAP SRM has been on the market. This enables the exchange of PO's and PO confirmations between SAP SRM and the Ariba Network in cXML format. In the...
Compera is Ariba Partner & SAP Extended Business Member via Quinso
Since March 2015 Compera Consulting has been an official Ariba Partner. Sinds that time Compera has also been SAP Extended Business Member of Quinso. Through the Ariba / SAP EBM partnership Compera can fully support customers with the implementation of the Ariba cloud...
Ariba Contract Management: Control, Collaboration and Content – Part 1
Since SAP went into the Ariba cloud, you surely heard about Ariba Contract Management (ACM) replacing SAP Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM). In fact ACM already bypassed CLM as the preferred legal contract application with the richest contract functionality. I wrote...
Tweaking SAP Invoice Management by OpenText
I noticed it in my SAP career several times and maybe you recognize it too: Sometimes we forget that implementing and/or activating a small functionality in a system, can result in a major improvement. There are various reasons why these features are not implemented,...
Ariba On-Demand Solution: Hands on Experiences
The acquisition of Ariba by SAP has raised some questions for some time now. This applies to both SAP SRM consultants and purchasing professionals within companies. By now it is clear that SAP has positioned Ariba as its "On Demand" solution while SRM has been...
integrate Ariba in SAP Invoice Management by Opentext
Do you already have plans of moving to the Ariba cloud and do you scan your invoices currently by SAP Invoice Management by OpenText? Then you are aware of the multiple advantages of digitally receiving invoices and probably ask yourself how this can be integrated...
Get more out of SAP Procurement with SAP Fiori
Does it get any better? As of the 3rd of June, SAP Fiori is included for free within underlying licenses of SAP software. So it's about time to write a hands-on blog regarding if and how you can use Fiori right away to improve your procurement processes. Like I...
Integrate SAP Invoice Management from OpenText with SAP SRM!
Do you recognize these exceptions upon processing invoices within SAP Invoice Management by OpenText (VIM)? Goods receipts are missing for SRM related purchase orders; Invoices having quantity discrepancies for SRM related purchase orders which requires confirmation...
Central Contracts in SRM 7.0
SAP has introduced a renewed concept for contract management in SRM 7.0: Central Contract Management. At first sight there doesn't seem to have changed too much. For instance, just like in SRM 5 contracts can be distributed to the desired backend(s). Also contracts...
Unknown, unloved sap supplier lifecycle management
Suppliers play a vital role for any company to achieve their goals. They form an important link in the supply chain. The success of the company depends in part on the extent to which its suppliers are able to deliver the purchased goods and services on time in...
Cross Catalog Search in SRM User Interface Add-On 1.0
SAP is heavily developing in the area of User Interaction and User Interfaces: SAPUI5. It’s SAP’s new way of presenting applications to the end-user. In this context SAP developed for SRM the SRM User Interface Add-On 1.0. Its main advantages are: Improved usability...
Punch-out catalogi via the ARIBA Network
Do you have a B2B webshop and are you looking for more customers? Do you have customers who order via an Ariba or SAP system? Do you need more branding and control on your products? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then probably offering a punch-out...
Ariba SI(P)M – Supplier Information Management
Do you find it also troublesome? Getting and keeping insight in the performance of your suppliers? You have chosen different kind of suppliers, because you want to have both the best product / service in the market and support for your organization. That means that...
Invoice Payment Plans available in SAP SRM
In the last couple of years our customers have been asking us for a solution to support Invoicing Payment Plans within SAP SRM. And perhaps you'll remember the restriction: Only customers who are using the Procurement for Public Sector (PPS) scenario could make use of...
Procurement: Fiori Launchpad as central app hub
Do you recognize the following situation? You use several procurement software like Ariba, SAP SRM, FieldGlass and/or the SAP SRM User Interface Add-on. After all, hybrid processes are trending nowadays. And you would like to give your procurement process a boost with...
Ariba APC And SRM UI Add-On
SAP offers two main solutions for Self-Service procurement, SAP SRM UI Add-on (User Interface Add-on) and Ariba’s APC (Ariba Procurement Content). Together with a colleague I have been working since beginning this year with Ariba and next to that Compera implemented...
SAZ SRM UI 5
St. Anna Zorggroep Since Monday, September 29 2014, St. Anna Zorggroep (hospital) has been live with the SRM User Interface Add-on which is installed on top of SAP SRM 7.03. It’s the first live deployment of the SRM UI5 Add-on in the Netherlands. The St. Anna Hospital...