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Your Guide to Important Ariba information
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2. Success is a journey…..not a destination!
Customer Success
This guide has been compiled to help you successfully navigate Ariba and our wealth of information.
Use the links to navigate to various useful sites and sections available to you as an Ariba Customer.
Success is a journey…..not a destination!
Community + Capabilities + Technology =
Better Commerce!
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3. Collaborative Business Commerce: There is a better way3
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4. Community
Ariba Exchange - an interactive platform where you can share questions, best practices, trends, opportunities and ideas.  The goal of Ariba Exchange is to facilitate communication among our customers, prospects and Ariba subject matter experts:
Customer Success Portal on Exchange – On the site you will find a weekly TIP of the WEEK, a Customer Reference calendar, Customer Success Lunch 'n Learn replay, Ariba Knowledge Nuggets, upcoming events, and much more:
Discovery - Matches Buyer’s Needs with Qualified Suppliers:
Visit the Ariba resource library for White Papers, Webinar Schedules, Content, & much more:
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5. Capabilities Help@Ariba (Support)
Customer Support can be contacted via Webform or phone.  When in the Ariba site, Click on the Help link in the upper right corner of any Ariba Solution and select ‘Support’.  Click the ‘Contact Ariba Customer Support’ link that is halfway down the page to access the Webform.
For phone support:
United States and Canada (toll-free): United Kingdom (Freephone): Europe:
Asia: All other locations, call
 Sourcing Support Desk: 
Ariba sourcing experts will review client projects in draft status and provide general recommendations for best practices in event setup. Following this review an will be sent to the project owner to provide non-commodity advice regarding site functionality, online bidding format, lotting structure, bidding parameters, etc. This service is available by clicking the Ariba Review button on the summary tab of any RFX. 
 Event Day Management:
Our customer support teams offer operational support during your event to ensure an increase in smooth execution through surrogate bidding, reactive auction monitoring, enforcement of event rules, messaging management, pausing, extending and resuming events. 
 Supplier Training:
Pre-recorded supplier training sessions are provided through the Help Menu on the Ariba Sourcing Site. These can be accessed in English 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Training in additional languages supported by the standard software is also available and may include Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.
 Site Administration:
Ariba will assist with standard site administration, such as providing and managing usernames and passwords, editing text at buyer's request, and adding or suspending buyers from the site.  Please note that supplier addition, deletion or edits are conducted by buyers with appropriate permissions. Please contact Customer Support as indicated above for this service.
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6. Capabilities
Ariba Connect – Support and Knowledge Portal for Ariba Customers:
As the business sponsor for your site, you will have the ability to submit service and enhancement requests for your company and access the Knowledge Portal, through Ariba Connect.
Simply click the link “New User” to begin setting up your account. After you set up your account, you will receive an from Connect Support informing you when your account is activated. Please do not try to log on until you receive this .
If you have any issues logging in or creating the account on Connect, you can send an to
Trust.Ariba.com - Real-time information on system performance and security  
Ariba University - Training offerings and schedules
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7. Capabilities
Ariba Commerce Services: When you need help with deployment, adoption, and ongoing performance of your Ariba solutions, Ariba Commerce Services is ready to lend a hand. With agility, experience, and reach, more than 600 professionals around the world, speaking more than 25 languages, offer know-how, technology, and market intelligence to make sure you have the capabilities you need to drive fast ROI through lower costs, higher sales, and optimized cash flow.
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BPC- More than a helpdesk, the Ariba Best Practice Center provides flexible, as-needed support tailored to your specific needs and projects.
Benefits:
• Single, named point of contact who understands your unique situation
• Access to Ariba’s world-leading commerce process and solution expertise and experience
• Proven processes and best practices for nearly all Ariba solutions
• Faster ROI from software initiatives
Business Commerce Enablement- Based on a proven and repeatable approach, The BCE will help you quickly identify, enable, and realize value through a custom-tailored business commerce program. Prescribed by our domain expertise with world-class analytics and considerable insight into what buyers and sellers need to facilitate successful collaboration. The BCE also offers a Success Planning service.
Change Management: A comprehensive plan to provide information, training, support, and motivation for your people to apply your commerce management practices and tools the right way. Specifically designed to drive adoption by focusing on the needs of your team.
Education and Training: On-site and/ or remote courses to guide you through every step of your collaborative commerce journey, offered in a variety of formats to suit your team's situation and needs.
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8. Capabilities
Ariba Commerce Services: When you need help with deployment, adoption, and ongoing performance of your Ariba solutions, Ariba Commerce Services is ready to lend a hand. With agility, experience, and reach, more than 600 professionals around the world, speaking more than 25 languages, offer know-how, technology, and market intelligence to make sure you have the capabilities you need to drive fast ROI through lower costs, higher sales, and optimized cash flow.
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Ariba Technology Services provides three types of service to help improve your Ariba application:
Upgrade Services: A comprehensive set of services that will migrate your Ariba applications, customizations, and data to a new release. With Ariba Upgrade Services, you can significantly improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of your upgrade project because you get focused resources who leverage standard and specialized upgrade tools, along with best practices methodology.
Application Management Services: Application Management Services include: adoption and management of unique customer configuration and enhancements; advanced functional and technical support; monitoring of scheduled tasks and integration events; support of custom code; management of all code migrations and configuration changes with the hosting provider (or customer operations team); and coordination of service pack upgrades.
Hosting Services: Ariba Hosting Services provide Ariba solution deployment and operational maintenance in a secure, fully managed data center that includes dedicated, enterprise-class servers from HP; enterprise-class firewalls with customized firewall policy; 3PAR data storage and a clustered Oracle Enterprise Edition database tier with automated failover; VERITAS for data backup and database tier clustering; Solaris on all servers, and more. 
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9. Technology – Spend Visibility
Community Page on Ariba Exchange
Product Information on Ariba Connect
Best Practice Guides (Help Menu)
Data Extraction Services
Identifying Sourcing Opportunities
Identifying Quick-Hit Opportunities
Analysis & Reporting Guide (Help Menu)
Data Extraction Guide (Oracle)
Data Extraction Guide (PeopleSoft)
Data Extraction Guide (SAP)
Spend Visibility Customer Case Studies
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10. Technology – Sourcing
Check out Ariba Connect, the Knowledge Portal for Ariba Customers!  Find the new features and enhancements for the most recent Sourcing release in the following link:  
You can also access Ariba Connect to search the knowledge base for product documentation, review the Supply Excellence Posts, find the Ariba University training schedule and view helpful reports that organize all Service Request information and metrics:   
Join Ariba Exchange, an online Community/Networking site to help you connect, learn & share with other customers and Ariba Sourcing experts.
Sourcing “How To” documents such as collaborative sourcing using scoring and team grading, savings and pipeline, advanced events types – what are they, and improving your sourcing success;  follow this link for these tips and more: 
To refresh your skills, check out the schedule for the Sourcing webinars and Lunch ‘n Learns.  You can also access the recordings!   
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11. Technology – Sourcing
Locate Ariba Knowledge Nuggets where you can find weekly digests of tips, tricks, Sourcing best practices and more:
Subscribe to Ariba Supply Excellence, Next Generation Strategies for Supply Management:
Check out Ariba SupplyWatch, a quick reference to category insights and trends.  Access this link to subscribe:
Subscribe to Ariba Tech Connect for OnDemand Solution– Valuable Expertise From Ariba Support. 
Subscribe:
Even MORE Ariba Sourcing resources can be found at:
Self-guided Tutorials, Sourcing User Guides, System Administrator Guides and Supplier Tutorials are easily accessed via the Help tab in your user interface.
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12. Technology – Contract Management
Contract Management "How To" docs from legacy loads, creating contract workspaces, to editing assembled docs; you will find many helpful tips here:
Looking for Contract Management webinars? Find the Lunch ‘n Learn replays here:
For Best Practices on improving your Contract Management process search the Knowledge Nuggets here:
Why Connect? Submit and track service request and enhancement requests, view fix defects and service packs, here the latest communication on supported platforms, search the knowledge base for product documentation:
Don't forget that user guides and system
administrator guides are easily accessible
through your Help tab in your user interface.
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13. Technology – Supplier Information Performance Management (SPM or SIPM)
Stay current on the most profitable trends in business commerce by subscribing to Ariba’s newsletters:  
General Info on Supplier Management: 
Supplier Management Guide for 11s releases
- Supplier Guides
Ariba Sourcing and Supplier Management
and SPM Guides
Getting Started, Templates and Guides – Conveniently located within the help guide of your site.
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14. Technology – P2P, P2O, ASP, APC
Ariba’s Home Page:
P2P: the market-leading solution that automates the entire procure-to-pay process and helps you control all goods and services spending for maximum spend under management.
Services Procurement: the only SaaS solution that delivers savings on any type of service, including contingent labor, consulting, marketing services, and print.
Procurement Content: the only solution designed to maximize spend coverage of SAP and Oracle through rapid enablement and adoption of comprehensive supplier catalogs.
T&E: the first truly integrated solution for managing travel costs. It lets businesses combine travel with other spend categories and use a single system for managing everything.
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15. Technology – P2P, P2O, ASP, APC
Connect: Access Ariba Connect to search the knowledge base for product documentation, review the Supply Excellence Posts, find the Ariba University training schedule and view helpful reports that organize all Service Request information and metrics.
Release Readiness: Access Ariba’s Release Readiness site within Connect for new features and enhancements for the most recent Procurement release.
Review information on the latest fixes, defects, and service packs.
P2P
P2O
Procurement Content
T&E
Tech Connect: Subscribe to various versions of Ariba’s Customer Support Bulletin.
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16. Technology – P2P, P2O, ASP, APC
Ariba Exchange: Access Ariba Exchange, an online Community/Networking site to help you connect, learn & share with other customers and Ariba Procurement experts.
Procurement Community:
- View recent content on procurement.
Browse the most popular documents.
Customer Success:
Browse the scheduled webinars, Customer Spot Light calls, and Lunch ‘n Learns and register on the spot. 
Access recordings and documents posted on a variety of topics including procurement.
Locate Ariba Knowledge Nuggets where you can find weekly digests of tips and tricks.
Social Media
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17. Technology – Invoice/Payment
Ariba Connect: /
Invoice and Payment User PDF:
Invoice and Payment Management document:
Supplier Membership: FAQ’s
Ariba Invoice and Payment user library on Ariba’s website
Social Media
Media Coverage:
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18. Technology – Ariba Network
If you have a Network Program Manager (NPM) assigned to you, contact them. They are a great gateway.
If you do not have an NPM assigned, the Ariba Liaison desk is another great place to start:
Contact Andy Wolff—
Ariba Network Training & Materials: Contact Andy Wolff directly at
Commerce Cloud solutions and community:
Ariba Connection Solutions log in :
Website - -
Network Contact Landing page
Ariba Exchange--Marketplace of Ideas and Idea Sharing:
Ariba Invoice Conversion Services:
Ariba Invoice Management:
Product documentation—log on to your Ariba application and press the Help button to access product documentation
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19. Technology – Ariba Network
If you have a Network Program Manager (NPM) assigned to you, contact them. They are a great gateway.
If you do not have an NPM assigned, the Ariba Liaison desk is another great place to start: Contact Andy Wolff—
Ariba Network Training & Materials: Contact Andy Wolff directly at
Ariba Global Invoicing Management:
Ariba Resource Library--
Working Capital Management Solutions-Direct (Paul Floyd):
Ariba Supplier Membership Program (SMP) :
Network Solutions Webinars:
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20. Technology – On Premise Solutions
This section provides links to many helpful Ariba Guides located within Ariba Connect. All of these guides are
also located in the Help section within your instance of Ariba.
Ariba Sourcing (9r1):
Ariba Sourcing – Reporting and Analysis Guide
Ariba Sourcing - Event Management Guide
Ariba Contracts (9r1):
Ariba Contracts – Reporting and Analysis Guide
Ariba Contract - Authoring Guide
Ariba Contract - Process Management Guide
Ariba Contract Compliance – User Guide
Ariba Contract Compliance - Implementation Guide
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21. Technology – On Premise Solutions
This section provides links to many helpful Ariba Guides located within Ariba Connect. All of these guides are
also located in the Help section within your instance of Ariba.
Ariba Buyer (9r1):
Ariba Buyer – Getting Started Guide
Ariba Buyer - Configuration Guide
Ariba Buyer – Customization Guide
Ariba Buyer Procurement - User Guide
Ariba Buyer – Catalog Administration Guide
Ariba Analysis for Ariba Buyer – User Guide
Ariba Network – Buyer Administration Guide (AN 49)
Ariba Invoice and Payment – User Guide
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22. Technology – On Premise Solutions
Other Relevant Information:
Ariba Spend Management – Setup Guide
Ariba Spend Management – Customization Guide
Ariba Spend Management – Suite Integration Guide
Ariba Travel & Expense – Implementation Guide
Ariba Platform Matrix
Upstream Configuration Guide
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