Wende Burgess
Wende Burgess is an Associate Partner at CCP Global. She has led multiple global SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA and ECC programs related to Source-to-Pay solutions, Supplier Management, Sourcing & Contract Management, and Change Management. Wende formerly worked for SAP Ariba, where she was tasked with ensuring the success of high-risk deployments and re-deployments of SAP Ariba. She also was the product owner for Supplier Management Solutions at EY before coming to CCP Global.
Categories
- Ariba Change Management (7)
- Ariba Managed Support (AMS) (14)
- Ariba Post-Deployment Success (5)
- Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness (8)
- Ariba Quarterly Updates (12)
- Guided Sourcing (3)
- SAP Ariba News (5)
- SAP Ariba Solutions (11)
- SAP Ariba Spend Management (3)
- SAP Business Network (1)
- SAP S/4HANA (9)
- Supply Chain Process Improvement (1)
Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG)
If you have Ariba, you must move to Ariba’s Cloud Integration Gateway, or CIG, before Dec. 31, 2023. There will be no additional maintenance provided by Ariba for CI9 after…
SAP Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness: Buying and Invoicing
In the previous articles in this series, we’ve examined preparing for your deployment as it applies to SAP Ariba upstream modules. Now we’ll look at the Ariba downstream modules related…
SAP Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness: Supplier Management
Supplier management is the most complex solution to prepare for from a deployment standpoint. It’s also the most crucial because your suppliers are quite literally the backbone of your SAP…
SAP Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness: Contract Management
In this article, we delve into preparing for your SAP Ariba Contracts Deployment. The key is to identify your goal before you start preparing for deployment. There are decisions that…
SAP Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness: Sourcing
SAP’s Activate methodology has five foundational phases: Prepare. Explore. Realize. Deploy. Run. We’d like to add one more that we call Phase Zero: Initiation. In part one of this Pre-Deployment…
SAP Ariba Best Practices: Are They Best for You?
When one of our CCP Global consultants arrives on “Day One” to assess a new client's current SAP Ariba environment, they often hear this, “We don’t want a deep dive…
Creating A Procurement Roadmap
A procurement roadmap is a way to map out the journey to reach your final destination of procurement transformation. It bridges the gap between strategy and operational execution. This is…
Adoption and Stabilization: A Timeline
There are several factors that may affect how long the post-Hypercare phase of your SAP Ariba deployment lasts. Those include company size, how many modules were deployed, and if it…
Ariba Deployment: What Happens after Go-Live?
There are a couple of important phases immediately after your SAP Ariba solution is deployed that are critical to its long-term success. The first is Hypercare, which starts on Day…
Six Ways to Avoid Ariba Post-Deployment Failures
Many companies don't understand the importance of putting the right support and administration people in place post Hypercare to increase their chances of a successful SAP Ariba integration. Find out…
Ariba Post-Deployment Challenges: Adoption and Stabilization
It’s no secret: Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes millions, to purchase and deploy their SAP Ariba solution. Then it turns out to be much more complex to…