With guided sourcing, a procurement team can: It also introduces efficiencies that can accelerate event creation so team members have more time for risk mitigation or securing on-time delivery. It offers a more intelligent and intuitive solution for managing strategic processes and RFx events to help ensure you source the exact materials you need, when you need them.
The guided sourcing capability can meet the needs of these unique times. The improvements are arriving at an ideal time, as global trade restrictions and supply chain issues have made eSourcing more challenging and even threaten business continuity. Major updates and new functionalities to the SAP Ariba Sourcing solution, specifically to the guided sourcing capability, is modernizing eSourcing. But like a favorite shirt or a well-loved belt, the time is right for a makeover that restyles eSourcing with improved user experiences, more intelligence, and improved efficiencies for the 2022 world.
Strategic buyers, sourcing analysts, category managers, and other decision-makers have trusted the familiar interface for their sourcing needs, and it has served them well. For details about the terms, refer to "Service items and service hierarchies" in About the Definitions tab (Item Definition templates).SAP Ariba Sourcing has sported the same look and feel for years. You can also add terms for service lines and service specifications in the template. The event template must have Service Line and Service Specification defined. Your administrator can set this parameter in Ariba Administrator under Intelligent Configuration Manager Manage Configurations. To roll up pricing of service hierarchies in alternative bids, the parameter Roll up term values in alternative bids () must be set to Yes.
Have your designated support contact file a Case (SR) to enable this feature. The feature CUP-15731: Services hierarchy support in Sourcing and Contracts must be enabled on your site. You must be the event owner or have project owner capabilities for the event. Your site must have guided sourcing enabled and you must be a member of the Category Buyer group. The SAP Ariba Sourcing classic user interface also supports service hierarchies refer to Event service items and service hierarchies. This feature adds support in guided sourcing for service hierarchies. This feature is supported only in the guided sourcing user interface.