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SAP Ariba Integration | Hands-on Video Tutorials
Tahir Hussain Babar (Bob) from the SAP HANA Academy and the Partner Innovation Lab just uploaded a new series of hands-on video tutorials about SAP Ariba Integration. In this blog post you will find the videos embedded with references and additional information. For an overview about Intelligent Spend Management, SAP Ariba solutions, documentation, training, and more, see Questions? Please post as comment. Useful? Give us a like and share on social media. Thanks! |
Hands-On Video Tutorials
What You Will Learn
In this tutorials series about SAP Ariba integration, we are introduced to the Ariba Procurement and Ariba Network interfaces for creating purchase requests and invoices and learn how we can interact with this data programatically using the SAP Ariba APIs. For this, we can use Postman or the Swagger interface of the SAP API Business Hub. In addition, Bob also addresses, again using Postman, how we can interact with cXML.
On the menu
- How to create a requisition in SAP Ariba Procurement (Buyer)
- How to create invoices as buyer and seller (SAP Ariba Network)
- How to create an application and obtain the application key, OAuth client ID and OAuth secret. required to access SAP Ariba APIs
- How to obtain an OAuth access token (using Postman)
- How to call the API using Postman
- How to call the API using Swagger (SAP API Business Hub)
- How to manually import and export data
- How to post and retrieve transactions using cXML
YouTube Playlist
To bookmark or directly access the playlist, go to
For more in depth coverage about working with SAP Ariba API’s, see
Portals
To follow along, you’ll need access to an SAP Ariba Procurement tenant (buyer), SAP Ariba Network (supplier), and the SAP Ariba support portal to search the knowledge base.
Read the Docs
For the documentation, visit
- SAP Ariba Procurement solutions
- Ariba Network Purchase Orders API | SAP Ariba APIs
- Topics about importing, exporting, and managing data | Administration and data maintenance fundamentals
- SAP Ariba integration toolkit guide | SAP Ariba cloud integration
For the API’s, go to
- SAP Ariba Developer Portal | SAP Ariba APIs
- SAP API Business Hub
- Ariba Network Purchase Orders Buyer API
Overview, Resources, and Highlights
Video Tutorial
In the first video we learn about SAP Ariba, integration, the topics covered in this video tutorial series, documentation, creating requisitions and invoices, SAP Ariba Connect, SAP Ariba Developer Portal, the SAP API Business Hub, data importing and exporting, the Integration Toolkit (ITK), and miscellaneous topics like cXML postings.
0:00 – Introduction
2:10 – Documentation
3:30 – About the video tutorial series
4:30 – About SAP Ariba Connect and Developer Portal
5:30 – About importing and exporting and the Integration Toolkit (ITK)
6:45 – Miscellaneous topics like cXML postings
Creating Requisitions in SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba Procurement
In the second video, we get a brief introduction of the SAP Ariba Procurement and how to create a requisition.
0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – Navigating SAP Ariba Buyers
2:50 – Catalog
4:40 – Shopping Cart and approval flow
Creating Invoices in SAP Ariba
SAP Ariba Network
In the third video, we switch to the SAP Ariba Network, create an invoice, and learn about the different options.
0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – SAP Ariba Network
1:50 – Create invoice as supplier
5:50 – Create invoice as buyer
SAP Ariba APIs
SAP Ariba Connect, SAP Ariba Developer Portal, and SAP API Business Hub
In this video, Bob discusses SAP Ariba Connect, the SAP Ariba Developer Portal, and the SAP API Business Hub.
0:00 – Introduction
0:30 – SAP Ariba Connect (support)
3:25 – SAP Ariba Developer Portal
5:10 – Discover APIs
6:30 – Manage applications
7:30 – SAP API Business Hub
Creating Applications
SAP Ariba Developer Portal
In this tutorial, we learn how to create an application, required for API access to SAP Ariba. The procedure results in an application key, OAuth client ID and OAuth secret.
0:00 – Introduction
1:40 – Create a new application
2:30 – Request API access
4:50 – SAP Ariba Customer Support
6:00 – Generate OAuth secrets
7:00 – Application actions
REST API – Authorization using Bearer Tokens
Oauth Access Token
In this tutorial, we learn how to work with SAP Ariba APIs (as documented) and how to use Postman to call SAP A
0:00 – Introduction
1:30 – Discover API
2:30 – API documentation
3:50 – Obtain OAuth access token using Postman
5:15 – Create POST request
6:00 – Add API key and Content-Type in the Header
7:00 – Authorization
7:20 – Access token
For the API documentation, see
- Ariba Network Purchase Orders API | SAP Ariba APIs
Retrieving Orders data via an API
Ariba Network Purchase Orders API
In this video, we learn how we can can an API endpoint using Postman and using the SAP API Business Hub (Swagger).
0:00 – Introduction
0:50 – Call API using Postman
2:00 – Bearer access token
3:20 – Add endpoint
4:05 – Result
5:25 – Call API using SAP API Business Hub (Swagger)
For the API documentation, see
- Ariba Network Purchase Orders API | SAP Ariba APIs
Manually Importing and Exporting Data
SAP Ariba Site Administration
In this video, we learn how to import data and work with the data dictionary.
0:00 – Introduction
0:30 – Site Manager (Ariba Spend Management)
2:25 – Data Import/Export
2:50 – Data Dictionary
5:30 – Import
6:20 – Documentation
For the documentation, see
- Topics about importing, exporting, and managing data | Administration and data maintenance fundamentals
Posting & Retrieving Transactions using cXML
Video Tutorial
In this video, we learn how we can post transactions to the SAP Ariba Network using cXML posting.
0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – Ariba Network, Supplier
2:35 – Send Purchase Order as cXML using Postman
3:15 – Create invoice
4:00 – Ariba Network, Buyer
4:55 – Retrieve invoice as cXML using Postman
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Thanks for sharing. Great to have all information at one place.
Good Blog.Thanks for sharing.
It's a very great blog.
Could you tell If there is any api to get the receipts in the module of SCC ?
Thank you very much!
Hi Json,
Good question!
Best to post this type of question to the SAP Community forum, https://answers.sap.com
The forum is monitored 24/7 by the topic area experts both from SAP, its partners, and customers.
As others might have the same question, this allows for knowledge sharing.
I'll keep an eye on questions posted
Thanks for contributing,
Regards, Denys
Good blog
Thanks for a very good blog.
I would like to know how suppliers post shipping notifications using cxml.
Or if you have any good content to learn post by cxml comprehensively, please introduce me.
Hi Koichi,
Thanks
Nothing I can think of 1-2-3 but you could consider to post this question to the forum (copy/paste) for a wider reach. Tag with Ariba and CXML