SAP Certified Associate - Implementation Consultant - SAP Ariba Supplier Management

Managing Supplier Requests

Explores the supplier request process — characterizing requests, running duplicate checks, creating internal requests with and without D&B lookup, handling external creation, approving requests, and following the request status flow.

Managing Supplier Registrations

Walks through starting internal and external supplier registrations, completing questionnaires and to-do tasks, approving and restarting registrations, transferring internal registrations, and tracking the registration status flow including updates.

Managing Modular Questionnaires and Supplier Certificates

Focuses on the standalone modular questionnaire process and supplier certificate management — inviting suppliers, approving new and updated external questionnaires, and navigating the questionnaires and certificates areas of profiles.

Managing Supplier Qualifications and Miscellaneous Processes

Teaches process projects for qualifications, disqualifications, and discontinuation — the project workflow, states and statuses, internal forms and questionnaires, status decisions, renewals, and cancellations.

Managing Preferred Suppliers

Explains the preferred-supplier management process — the preferred area of supplier profiles and requesting, approving, and removing preferred category statuses.

Getting Started with SAP Ariba Supplier Risk

Introduces foundational supplier-risk concepts — how risk factors into procurement decisions, what risk exposure means, and the outline of the supplier-risk workflow.

Monitoring Supplier Risk

Shows how to monitor overall and individual-supplier risk using the dashboard, supplier profiles, and email notifications — following suppliers, working with alerts and settings, natural-disaster monitoring, and third-party evaluation.

SAP Ariba Running Reports

Introduces the reporting basics shared across SAP Ariba applications — running prepackaged and saved reports, saving reports, scheduling background reports, and exporting results.

SAP Ariba Creating Reports

Covers building custom reports — report elements and field operations, multi-fact reports with aggregation by common dimension, and compound reports using filters and mapped fields.

Running SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Reports

Explains reporting on supplier-management projects and activities — identifying reporting methods, creating supplier data snapshots, running prepackaged lifecycle reports, and building analytical reports.

Running SAP Ariba Supplier Risk Reports

Teaches reporting on supplier-risk projects and activities — identifying risk reporting facts, creating analytical reports, running the risk control summary report, and describing administration reports.

SAP Ariba Supplier Management: Supplier Performance Management Projects

Covers the supplier performance management process and functionality — creating and managing SPM projects through their planning, monitoring, and closing phases, and using scorecards, surveys, and SPM reports to track results.

SAP Ariba Supplier Management: Monitoring Supplier Risk

Explores monitoring risk scores and risk data for suppliers — the business case and core processes, dashboard use and alerts, control-based engagement risk assessments, issue management, residual risk, contract integration, reporting, and template upgrades.

Configuring a New Strategic Sourcing Realm

Covers administration within a SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing realm — data imports and master data, users and groups, supplier-management options, project and event features, and site customizations and parameters.

Managing Project Templates

Helps administrators create and manage project templates — template types and workflows, ownership and access, creating, publishing and revising templates, template groups and team members, approval rules, documents, and template questions and conditions.

SAP Ariba Supplier Management: Configuration and Administration

Provides an overview of the Supplier Lifecycle solution and its templates — user groups and personas, configuration parameters, master and supplier data, migration and partitioned data, template configuration, integration, and project administration.

SAP Ariba Supplier Management: Supplier Risk Configuration and Administration

Provides an overview of supplier-risk configuration and administration — setup and production cutover, user groups, the unified vendor model, risk-exposure models, data enrichment, third-party providers, engagement risk and issue-management setup, and administrative reports.