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Anyone looking out for some analytics on SAP Ariba solutions?
Starting with SAP Analytics Cloud Content Release Q2 2024 you will find a new package in your SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere semantic onboarding section by the name of Value Analytics for SAP Ariba Procurement (SAP Datasphere).
The content included serves as a broad foundation to analyze all steps across your sourcing and procurement processes done in the SAP Ariba solution suite. It comes with quite a number of data models in SAP Datasphere that will allow you to get most of your questions answered like
- how is your company's spend behavior?
- how can the sourcing / procurement processes be optimized?
- how can you leverage savings potentials?
You can take this as a starter to get going. And as always you are free to enhance these data models bringing your own data and models for extension cases to get the big picture and reflect data of your company's end-2-end solution landscape.
SAP Analytics Cloud Stories
The package comes with three SAP Analytics Cloud stories to give you an idea of what can be built on top of the delivered SAP Datasphere data models:
1. SAP Ariba Source to Pay - Procurement Strategic Spend Overview
This story provides you with insights into the value your sourcing and procurement program delivers. It does so via providing both direct cost savings as well as corresponding KPIs. In addition, the story provides detailed data that allows you to identify root causes for process gaps, allowing you to drive continuous improvement.
The story consists of 5 pages, covering
- Value Analytics customer gain visibility into the ROI they've achieved using Ariba
- Cost Savings shows spend that has been strategically sourced, price reduction from sourcing events and guided buying RFQs, savings rates as a % of sourced spend and trued-up savings.
- Spend Compliance tracks year-over-year improvement to compliant spend put through proper buy channels
- Working Capital measure captured and lost discounts across supply base
- Process Improvement measure cycle times for all critical source to pay subprocesses like supplier onboarding, sourcing project, contract execution, REQ to PO and invoice processing
2. SAP Ariba Source to Pay - Procurement Operational Spend Overview
This story uncovers the untapped potential of your procurement practice, gaining valuable insights through a holistic operational view of your source to pay process. It will help you to maximize your end-to-end procurement efficiency, mitigate supplier risks and optimize category spend.
The story consists of 5 pages, covering
- Supplier Management: Onboarding of suppliers, risk exposure, geographical distribution, registration and qualification status
- Sourcing: Awarded amounts per event/commodity and risk attached, event leading and pending savings, event participation over time and events per event owner
- Contracts: Contract amounts per project owner/commodity and attached supplier risks, cycle times per project, distribution of contract types and contract expiration term types, overview of expiring contracts
- Buying: spend details per cost center/commodity over time, contract vs. non-contract spend, catalog vs. non-catalog spend, approval cycle times , rejections rates and approval time per approver
- Invoicing: Inovoice amounts per cost center/commodity/over time and cash flow related, amounts per due date
Operational Spend Overview - Contracts
3. SAP Ariba Source to Pay - Supplier 360
This story allows you to gain a complete 360 view over your suppliers.
Discover a panoramic perspective of your suppliers related procurement spend, from a risk, a geography or even an individual supplier angle. This will help you to identify top-performing suppliers, mitigate supplier risks and increase your suppliers’ overall process compliance.
SAP Datasphere Models
Once imported you can find all related objects in the SAP_CONTENT space.
The stories in SAP Analytics Cloud and their data models in SAP Datasphere combine data from various Ariba Solutions like:
Supplier Management
Sourcing and Contracts
Procurement
- SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing
- SAP Ariba Guided Buying (Tactical Sourcing)
Please check the image below to get a first understanding of what is included.
The objects have roughly been separated to reflect applications in the SAP Ariba suite, using the following naming convention:
SM -> Supplier Management
SC -> Sourcing & Contracts
BI -> Buying & Invoicing
Here is one example for analyzing your Invoice line items (based on Analytical API data). It will help you to sort your invoices according to self defined aging buckets and to identify invoices with exceptions easily.
Data modeling has followed the layered approach as for general content development in SAP Datasphere:
In the Inbound Layer (IL) you will find the local table SAP Ariba: Invoice Line Items (LT) (SAP_ARIBA_SRC_INVOICELINEITEMS_AN) and an abstracting view on top SAP Ariba: Invoice Line Items - A (IL) (SAP_PROC_BI_IL_InvoiceLineItems) that adds realm specifica like the reporting currency.
In the Harmonization Layer (HL) on top, you will find the Fact View that combines the Invoice Line Item data with the invoice exceptions plus the Date Grid view that "attaches" the dynamic date buckets to your invoice data to let you check on due dates for your invoices.
In the Reporting Layer (RL) on top, the Analytic Model SAP Ariba: Invoice Line Items - A (RL) (SAP_PROC_BI_RL_InvoiceLineItems) defines additional calculated measures and exposes the data to your SAP Analytics Cloud story.
In case you are operating on multiple realms, don't shy away, this has been catered for throughout the data models. So you can report on single or multiple realms.
Data Integration
How to get your SAP Ariba data into SAP Datasphere?
The data is sourced from SAP Ariba using the following APIs:
- Analytical API
- Operational Reporting API for Procurement
- Operational Reporting API for Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Data API
- Risk Exposure API
- Master Data Retrieval API for Procurement
For replicating the data from your SAP Ariba applications the Ariba Extractor app is used. The Ariba Extractor is a BTP application that you can deploy on your BTP account. It can be modified and extended by customers and partners as they see fit.
Please see the image below to get a better idea of the set up.
Once set up, you can schedule load jobs to have the data replicated into tables of an HDI container that is attached to your SAP Datasphere tenant. The SAP Datasphere models are based on top of these tables.
To get started, you can check out this detailed discovery mission that explains the set up and replication process in detail.
Content Documentation
Now where can you get more info on the analytics package?
For installing the packages on SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere side and getting started please check out the documentation. This will also give you an overview of all data models included.
You can find more details on the Value Analytics for SAP Ariba Procurement content package in
SAP Analytics Cloud Content Documentation
SAP Datasphere Business Content Documentation
Hope you enjoyed reading this blog describing the new Value Analytics for SAP Ariba Procurement package. For feedback and enhancement ideas for the package, please reach out to us at sap_analytics_cloud_content@sap.com
Also if you have questions and want to share with other users feel free to post a question in the community:
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