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What are some advantages and restrictions of having SAP Ariba provide my company's Event Day Management (EDM)?
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What are some advantages and restrictions of having SAP Ariba provide my company's Event Day Management (EDM)?

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Advantages

  Restrictions

  1. A neutral third party (SAP Ariba’s Market Coordination team) watches your events as they run and completes administrative actions on your behalf.

  2. The Market Coordination team can assist directly during your events through their reserved phone line service.

  3. SAP Ariba trains members of the Market Coordination team in:

    • Buyer application use

    • Supplier application use

    • General event management best practices

  4. To provide a consistent experience, the Market Coordination team uses a standardized administration policy for all events.

  5. There is no added cost for using SAP Ariba’s EDM services.

  1. Using SAP Ariba’s EDM services restricts your access to certain activities within events, including:

    • Adjusting event timei

    • Removing supplier bidsi 

    • Removing event messagesii

    • Bidding on behalf of suppliers (surrogate bidding)ii

  2. SAP Ariba’s event management policy applies to all competitive events.

  3. The Market Coordination team does not consider company or commodity-specific business policies and practices when administering events. They make decisions based primarily on pricing information (historic, target, or similar) and supplier bidding trends.

  4. SAP Ariba only offers one standardized, non-customizable event administration service

i Applies to competitive events.

ii Applies to all events.

 


Applies To

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