Every transaction will require approvers to complete it. Roles:Īny staff (employee) with a UW Net ID and password can access Ariba and begin a transaction. Like many systems, there is a vocabulary used for the Ariba system. To get to know some of these common terms, click here.

Ariba provides sellers with the ability to manage catalogs, bids, purchases and invoices, and it provides buyers with the ability to search for suppliers, negotiate savings, procure goods and services, and track their spend. Once an event is created, its status can be easily monitored, the bids received can be reviewed and analyzed, and award scenarios for selected items can be compared.Ariba is the University's electronic procurement system to manage all ordering, purchasing, receiving, invoicing, sourcing, payments and reporting with a single point of entry. The latter option allows users to easily create tenders using a customized pricing document in the form of an Excel sheet, from which SAP Ariba will automatically map the imported data to the correct system conditions. You can prepare an entire event from scratch (from a template), copy an already existing one, or use the smart import feature from Microsoft Excel. The buyer has several options for setting up a new event. Buyers also see a summary with the number of events by status and quick links to events, contracts and actions to be performed. This dashboard provides a view of real-time updated event statuses and direct insight into recently created or revised procedures. It’s the main place to create, review, monitor and reward sourcing events. Guided Sourcing users get access to a new dashboard – For You. Setting up and managing the event is done all the time from the same screen. Guided Sourcing allows users to create electronic purchasing events – there is no need to navigate through different application tabs.

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