SAP Ariba Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical SAP Ariba Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any SAP Ariba related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated SAP Ariba specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the SAP Ariba Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SAP Ariba improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:


1. Do you want your teams sourcing efforts to be spent on strategy, analytics, and driving improvement, or formatting data in spreadsheets due to existing sourcing tool deficiencies?
   
   

2. Is that something you are seeing at Ariba, as well that the business Network, helping procurement move from a transactional cost equation to a much richer set of services?
   
   

3. How do you anchor that with a problem and a framework and a connectivity that enables someone to more successfully navigate the new environment and new opportunities?
   
   

4. How can procurement professionals continue to increase savings, shore up supply, and improve performance in the face of scaled down resources and shrinking budgets?
   
   

5. What are you doing at SAP Ariba to help bring that right decision making almost anticipating where the user needs to go into the actual applications and services?
   
   

6. Where should you expect to see technologies reduce the complexity and help companies identify the right workforce, and the workforce identify the right companies?
   
   

7. Is a real time budget check available as part of standard SAP Ariba solution functionality, or is it an extension to existing functionality?
   
   

8. Which benefits are offered by SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management and SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance?
   
   

9. Does a customer need to procure a new SAP Cloud Platform Integration license/ tenant to use SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway?
   
   

10. Does a customer need to procure a new SAP Cloud Platform Integration license/tenant to use SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the SAP Ariba book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your SAP Ariba self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the SAP Ariba Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which SAP Ariba areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough SAP Ariba Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage SAP Ariba projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step SAP Ariba Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 SAP Ariba project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Network Diagram: What is the lowest cost to complete this SAP Ariba project in xx weeks?
   
   

2. Source Selection Criteria: Which contract type places the most risk on the seller?
   
   

3. Initiating Process Group: Do you understand the quality and control criteria that must be achieved for successful SAP Ariba project completion?
   
   

4. Activity Cost Estimates: Review – what are some common errors in activities to avoid?
   
   

5. Roles and Responsibilities: Are governance roles and responsibilities documented?
   
   

6. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next SAP Ariba project?
   
   

7. Procurement Management Plan: Are software metrics formally captured, analyzed and used as a basis for other SAP Ariba project estimates?
   
   

8. Risk Audit: What are the risks that could stop you from achieving your KPIs?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: Does a process exist to identify which qualified resources may be attainable?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Are advantages and disadvantages of in-house production, outsourcing and Public Private Partnerships considered?


 
Step-by-step and complete SAP Ariba Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 SAP Ariba project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 SAP Ariba project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 SAP Ariba project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 SAP Ariba project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 SAP Ariba project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 SAP Ariba project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any SAP Ariba project with this in-depth SAP Ariba Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose SAP Ariba projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in SAP Ariba and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make SAP Ariba investments work better.

This SAP Ariba All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.