Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness
Pre-Deployment readiness is an overlooked necessity in planning for Day One of your SAP Ariba Deployment. This series is intended to help new and potential SAP Ariba clients understand how they need to prepare before their company’s deployment officially begins to prevent costly delays.
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Supplier and Catalog Enablement: Preparing for Your Ariba Deployment
Supplier and Catalog enablement are two of the most challenging aspects of deployment, yet they’re also the most misunderstood. That can cause major issues for supplier and catalog adoption. It…
Ariba Pre-Deployment Readiness: Common Threads
There are four factors that are critical to a successful deployment of your SAP Ariba solutions, or to any transformational project. Here is an overview of our series with a…
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…