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In the intricate dance of sourcing, contracts, purchasing, and managing the supply chain, there's a vital step that often gets overlooked: evaluating the financial health of your suppliers. It's akin to checking the pulse of your business partners, e...

MattMontgomery · 02-29-2024

Here are some of the over 70 features from the 2402 release (February 2024) for SAP Ariba and the SAP Business Network that I think are especially cool. Please comment on any you think should be on the list.Accelerating Enterprise Category Strategy ...

MattMontgomery · 02-07-2024

Adverse Media Monitoring: A Silent GuardianIn the continuously evolving digital age, businesses are continually exposed to diverse risks which can be internally triggered or influenced by external factors. One such external influence that can tilt a ...

MattMontgomery · 08-25-2023

Here are the 4 areas of new features out of my quick count of 64 new SAP Ariba features and 27 SAP Business Network features that I thought were really interesting in the August 19, 2023 (2308 Procurement and 2308 Business Network) release for SAP Ar...

MattMontgomery · 07-10-2023

When managing third-party risk there is a need to determine the risk profile of that supplier and highlight where the third-party is either not in an acceptable state or is trending negatively. Many solutions will offer that information through dash...

MattMontgomery · 06-03-2023

I followed up with the Product Management and Product Engineering team late this week and and they finalizing testing but assuming all goes well this feature will be reintroduced in the June Service Pack.

MattMontgomery · 05-17-2023

To supplement Melissa's answer, on the risk engagement assessment there is only one primary contact assigned to be notified of the assessment. However, as each assessment sends out the one or more risk control questionnaires to be completed, the sup...

MattMontgomery · 04-04-2023

Note that as you are setting up the scorecard in your scorecard template that for each metric you need to have it enabled to share with the supplier.

MattMontgomery · 04-04-2023

Today in SIPM you can use a custom fact table (look under the Score Card section in this link https://help.sap.com/docs/ARIBA_SOURCING/605fe6c015834314b3acaee8bbd7f699/7d5e3f7071ea1014ad3dbdaa3b5a5c88.html).Are you asking if you will be able to have ...

MattMontgomery · 03-31-2023

Talk to the Relish team and I think you will find they have the documentation and support that you need to cover the implementation.

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Why Financial Health Reviews are Crucial in Supplier Evaluation

Things I think are cool in the SAP Ariba 2402 Release

Uncovering The Critical Role of Adverse Media Monitoring in Risk Management Solutions

Things I think are cool in the SAP Ariba 2308 Release

Risk Aware Decisions

Re: Issue with feature SM-32192: Enhancements to the Summary Area in Supplier 360° Profile

Re: Change assignee in the Risk Assessments section

Re: Ariba SPM: Is it possible to share scorecards with vendors using Business Network?

Re: APIs for data transfer from ERP to SPM survey

Re: Ariba integration with Relish