Common payment terms in North America
Question that is going around in my company's Sourcing community here in North America, "What is the norm for payment terms in most companies here in North America?" Does anyone know?
View ArticleGot Brown or FedEx? Small Parcel Event that needs your help!
As a Customer Success Manager, I get asked strategic/tactical questions regarding event set-ups for Sourcing events. In particular, I have a customer interested in running a Small Parcel event. I...
View ArticleReverse Auctions
I have been tasked with trying to implement the use of more reverse auctions within our organization. We have held many forward auctions but we seem to meet a lot of resistance around reverse...
View Articlee-Sourcing Center of excellence
We are thinking of developing a centralised COE for running e-Sourcing events including e-RFx and e-Auctions for indirect sourcing. Do you have experience in setting up anything similar in your...
View ArticleTransportation Projects
Covidien is evaluating using Ariba Sourcing to support our logistics group source their freight (ground, air & ocean) and would be very interested in speaking with other Ariba customers that have...
View ArticleCost Break Down Quotations
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has successfully implemented cost break down quotations directly in the Ariba tool? What we are looking after is possibility to quote a list of part numbers and each...
View ArticleAriba SourcingPro and the iPad
HI There's no deny the iPad makes a great presentation tool for two or three person meeting; it's smaller than a laptop, so tends to be less in the way. Sharing PowerPoint on the iPad is easy with...
View ArticleIs there any way to retrieve a rejected Envelope
Hi Sourcing Community, By mistake, one of our Buyers forgot to select the name of few of the suppliers while opening an Envelope. As a result, their bids were rejected.To make the situation more worse,...
View ArticleIs there a way to calculate difference between 2 dates (e.g task end dates)...
I have multiple tasks in my sourcing projects which start in a sequence or sometimes in parallel. For eg. Some of the tasks could be bidder list approval, RFP publication, Bid Receipt, Techno -...
View ArticleProblem in creating Formula in RFP
Hi, I am trying to put a Formula wherein Extended Price gets multiplied by a Cost Term (I created) but I am unable to do so.Whenever I try to create Formula, I am not able to select that Cost Term...
View ArticleProject Management in Sourcing?
Hi, First post here. Our company is just starting to use Ariba Sourcing, and has yet to utilize the project workflow piece of the tool. I would like to create a sample project with standard project...
View ArticleSourcing Request Template
Hello! My company recently purchased Sourcing Professional and we expect to go live within a week or so (YIPPEE). For the past couple of months, we in the Purchasing & Procurement have been...
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Open Auction with display of Supplier Names - Yes / No?
We have been running auctions for over a decade now, but we have never done an auction, where suppliers would have confirmed knowledge on who is competing. Why not, is what we have been thinking...
View ArticleHow do you handle Q&A during RFP?
Hi, My company is just beginning with Ariba Sourcing. I'm wondering how other companies handle Q&A time during RFP? Do you factor this time into the total event time and make reference in the...
View ArticleImporting Vendor Master Data
We have just started our journey towards implementing Ariba Sourcing (prior to this we had a SAP backbone with a manual sourcing process) and we are looking to migrate all our existing suppliers to...
View ArticleCreating complex breakdowns for Drilling Fluids and Cementing
Hi I am using Ariba Sourcing Pro's RFP in the Oil and Gas sector for complex tenders such as Drilling Fluids and Cementing.In such tenders, apart from the commercial comparison there is quite a bit of...
View ArticleIs there an alternative to using envelopes?
Hi All, I am new to this community and relatively new to ariba too. It has been decided that we should not be able to view responses before an RFQ ends in my organisation. We know that we can use...
View ArticleEmbedded Worksheets with questions
Recently, we have heard from consultants (engaged in some of our sourcing projects) that embedded worksheets in eSourcing tools are a best practice. It seems odd that they would say that. Does anyone...
View ArticleCan a RFI be weighted and scored after it is published?
Can a RFI be weighted and scored after it is published?
View ArticleBest practice question: Including NDA (non-disclosure agreement) in the RFx...
Curious as to what whether other firms are including a NDA form (non-disclosure agreement) during the RFx process. Has anyone required the supplier download, sign and attach the NDA as a response to...
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