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joannegammon
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Dear Community, 

To ensure a successful SAP Ariba Implementation, SAP provides several tools and tips to make the implementation more efficient. Within this blog post you will find not only tools and tips available, but also the right moment to use them.

To successfully deploy SAP Ariba Solutions, it is extremely important that you have the Solution Knowledge required to do so.   The best way that you can accomplish this is to get certified prior to engaging on the project.   

Continuous Learning 

Below are details on how you can increase your knowledge: 

    • For online access to available training and exams refer to the SAP Learning Hub. 
    • To schedule and take your Certification, visit the SAP Certification HubAfter successfully passing the exam, you will receive your digital SAP Global Certification. 
    • Once you obtain your Associate certification, you must maintain your certification by reviewing and completing the delta assessment. For information about the Stay Currentdelta program, refer to the Stay Current with SAP Page. 



Access to Solution and Delivery content 

SAP Ariba has solution and delivery content available to our partners, however, to access this content, you will need the following: 

    • An S-User Id, this is assigned by the Partner Security Manager at your company and is used to access SAP Ariba Connect.  If you are unaware of who your Partner Security Manager is, please email the Partner Experience Team at partner@sap.com


Project Readiness 

In preparation for your customer project, please be sure to review the following: 

    • SAP Ariba Deployment Descriptions for all solutions that are being deployed so that you understand the Scope and Deployment Timeline of our SAP Ariba Global Deployment Team.    


SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network Partner Delivery Group – Leading Practices and Complex How To’s 

    • If you experience a configuration problem, or simply don’t know how to approach a complex problem, post it on the SAP Ariba and SAP Business Network Partner Delivery Group under Delivery Forums.  Or look through the list of our Solution Leading Practices under Knowledge Accelerators and Leading Practices. 


SAP Customer Support  – Product Issues and Cases 
If you run into an issue with the product that you believe is a bug or error, please report an incident through SAP for Me, and, if needed, follow up via the Customer Interaction Center.


Note: How-To or Consulting requests should not be raised via a Case. 


Miscellaneous 

    • Consider the use of SAPRoad Maps tool to have visibility of the future product portfolioand the Intelligent Enterprise. 
    • If your customer has questions about cloud performance, security, privacy, compliance, and agreements, please refer to the SAP Trust Centre. 


With this blog post we expect to give you visibility of all SAP Ariba resources available to make your implementation a success! 

Dear consultant, our call to actions for you is to become SAP Certified, certification is the first step in safeguarding your implementations and utilizing the Partner Delivery Community.    The Partner Delivery Community provides you with the latest opportunities to connect, participate, collaborate, learn something new, expand your skills, and most of all – have a little fun! 

Thanks Andrew Gough and Scott Campbell for your outstanding support. 

Joanne Gammon 

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