ARS413 – SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing: Advanced Features Part 2

Upcoming Schedule

Course	Date	Duration	Delivery Method
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing: Advanced Features Part 2 (ARS413)	To be announced	4 hours	ILT
	To be announced		VLC

Overview

This course explores advanced features in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, guiding learners through the full sourcing event evaluation and award process. Participants begin by locating and analyzing events using search tools, creating saved searches, and generating event reports.
The course then moves into grading and scoring, covering automatic and blind grading, team grading, and scoring-enabled event setup, as well as assigning weight points, grading responses, and adjusting consensus grades.
Next, learners focus on monitoring events, including tracking progress, modifying event durations, resending invitations, managing participant access, and placing surrogate bids.
Finally, the course addresses reviewing responses and award creation, demonstrating how to evaluate supplier bid submissions, work with award scenarios, leverage bid analysis, apply optimization techniques, and incorporate team grading results into strategic award decisions.

Goals

This course will prepare you to:

• Identify and evaluate sourcing events using search tools, saved searches, and event reports.
• Evaluate supplier responses using automatic, blind, and team grading, including adjusting consensus grades.
• Monitor event activity by tracking progress, modifying durations, resending invitations, managing access, and placing surrogate bids.
• Make informed award decisions by reviewing supplier submissions, creating award scenarios, leveraging bid analysis, and incorporating team grading results.

Content

• Find & Analyze Events
• Grading & Scoring
• Monitor Events
• Review Responses & Award Creation

Audience

• This course is designed for SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing users who want to leverage advanced functionalities to efficiently monitor, evaluate, grade, and award sourcing events.

Prerequisites

Essential:

ARS410, ARS411, ARS412

Recommended:

ARS410, ARS411, ARS412