C_ARSOR_2208 SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Ariba Sourcing Questions and Answers

Ensure a sourcing request was created before the sourcing project

Ensure the user is assigned to the Sourcing Approver system group

Ensure the user is assigned to the Sourcing Agent system group

Ensure the user is assigned to the Project Owner group within a sourcing project;

Prepare and participate in weekly status meetings and ask/issue meetings

Provide recommendations and best practice for configuration design;

Load master data into the client test and production realms

Work with the client to understand current business processes

When creating a large number of lots

When a supplier reports a technical issue and CANNOT submit their reponse

When loading translations to event content

When an individual needs to contribute to content creation but does NOT have an SAP Ariba account

Identify the strategy for awarding the business

Initiate the supplier performance management process

Complete supplier outreach and data collection

Conduct practice events for internal stakeholders and suppliers

Negotiate contract terms with the suppliers

After publishing, while monitoring

On the summary step before publish

When a test event is set to YES

When the event is in draft status

View supplier qualification data

Order direct materials from a supplier

See supplier inventory in an external application

Send pricing information to external applications

Worksheet Descriptions

Appendix tab for enablement languages

Instructions

Company logo & Custom Messages

Staggered

Dutch

Parallel

Serial

50

40

255

300

Grade for consensus

Grade by participant

Grade by content

Grade offline using Excel

Grade by team membership

Custom help tip txt are available for all header fields but translation is NOT supported

Custom help tip txt are available for most standard header fields and all custom fields and translation is supported

Custom help tip txt are available for all custom header fields but translation is NOT supported

Custom help tip txt are only available for standard header fields but translation is supported

They submit technical qualifications only with no pricing data

They watch the buyer increase the price periodically and bid at their lowest acceptable price

They read the buyers specifications and submit their best price

They submit progressively lower bids to beat their competitors

Custom offline responses

Overtime rule

Review period

Starting gate

SAP direct connectivity

Mediated connectivity (Customer middleware)

Batch file channel transfer with the integration toolkit (ITK)

Web services (SOAP)

A document sent to a supplier to obtain information prior to a sourcing event

A project that automatically becomes a full sourcing project upon approval

A copy of an existing sourcing project used as a staring point for a new sourcing project

A document that is used to ask the company authorized sourcing team to bid a product or service

Bid decrement

Protect lead bid with front buffer of

Protect lead bid with back buffer of

Bid guardian percentage

As part of the kickoff meeting

After the project charter is complete

Any time before the design is complete

During the pre-kickoff phase

Project kick-off

Project go live

End-of-project quality review;

Onsite project management

Question

Requirment

Lot/Lineltems

Attachment

Ability to assign conditional expression

Ability to apply conditions to specific suppliers

Ability to use fields from the sourcing project header

Ability to include multiple questions

Create project announcements

Review quick links

Mark the project complete

Add a task

Upload a document

Customers can specify time periods for which they need a quote

Customers can schedule Simple RFx events for materials

Customers can capture pricing information on an ongoing basis

Customers can use Simple RFx event within auctions

Supplier can specify for how long are their quotes are valid

The business is commercially attractive

Raw material prices for suppliers are rising;

The supply base is competitive

There is wide variation in product standards

Dates are set relative to the completition of the previous task

Fixed dates are manually set by the project owner;

Dates are set relative to the start of the parent phase

Dates are set relative to the start of the project

Use one of the existing header fields, such as Departments.

Create a custom header field and make this field reportable.

Add a new question to the full sourcing project template.

Use the Ship To data for the creator of the sourcing project.

It syncronizes responses from suppliers

It exports reports directly to MExcel

It streamlines document revisions;

It generates content in the Sourcing library

User ^V

Condition;

Group

Project group

Index-based

Bid transformation

Total cost

Price breakdown

RFI events

inRFP events

Large-capacity events

Auctions

To transfer updates from an ERP system to SAP Ariba in real time

To transfer updates from an ERP system to SAP Ariba on scheduled basis

To eliminate the need to manually update data in Ariba to match ERP

To ensure data is synchronized across all SAP Ariba applications

Different version of the same BOM

Two distinct BOMs

Designed BOM and finished BOM

BO Ms imported from the ERP and those created via CSV import

Allow participants to see scoring weights

Enable blind grading on participant responses

Default grading method

Enable scoring on participant responses

Include in Cost: None

Apply to cost for: Per unit

Include in Cost: Adder

Apply to cost for: All units

Include in Cost: Adder

Apply to cost tor: Per unit

Include in Cost: Total Cost

Apply to cost for: Quantity

Source Data

Pivot Layout

Refine Data

View Report

Each line item awarded to a different supplier

All line items in the lot split by percentage

Only a partial percentage of the lot awarded

All line items in the lot split by a quantity

RFY Data Collection Template

Process design Matrix

Custom Header Fields

Eneblement Workbook

Leave the Team section of the SAP Ariba template blank and train users to add users to the team

Set the default access control on the Ariba template to Private to Team Members and configure them accordingly

Create a different sourcing template for each business unit

Create custom access controls and assign them to the sourcing templates

Set Enable scoring on participants response to Yes and delegated; Set allow partcipants to see scoring weights to Yes and delegated

Set Enable scoring on participants response to No and Read only Set allow partcipants to see scoring weights to No and delegated

Set Enable scoring on participants response to Yes and Hidden; Set allow partcipants to see scoring weights to Yes and delegated

Set Enable scoring on participants response to Yes and delegated; Set allow partcipants to see scoring weights to No and Read only

Search for suppliers using the Ul (Invite Participant button)

Added automatically from a test event

Added automatically from an SAP Ariba Discovery posting

Added manually vie Excel import

Runs over a short period of time

Expected low competition between strategic and preferred suppliers

Price is the most important factor

Contains high price variance

Actively monitor all events

Delete bids

Assist with test auctions

Extend and reduce timing

Surrogate bid

Integrate you PLM and ERP systems

Improve supplier qualification

Source directly from a bill of materials

Eliminate home grown portals

Increase fill rates

Adding new rows

Editing the column headers

Sorting and filtering the excel file

Creating a system ID for new rows

Editing the tab labels

Notifications will need to be enabled

Content items must be set for offline responses

Alternative responses must be enabled

The template must be published and set to allow offline responses

The event must have bidding rules enabled for offline responses

SAP Ariba reports

Sourcing requests

A Microsoft Excel file

Past sourcing events

Shared services;

An account executive

A partner consultant

Customer support