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SM-25931
This features enables buyers to classify their suppliers based on multiple characteristics and support diversity to encourage business with suppliers identified and verified as diverse.
Companies are increasingly interested in supporting "Diversity & Inclusion" programs through procurement to increase spend with suppliers identified and verified as "diverse" using definitions specific to the buyer organization.
Buyers can tag their suppliers with Diversity status in SLP which will then be available for them in the procurement process. This helps in tracking the spend and in meeting the company goal for diversity inclusion.
Supplier Management
Buyer
Automatically On
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
For SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management, this feature requires the “new architecture".
You must be a member of the SM ERP Admin, SM Ops Admin, Supplier Risk Manager, or Customer Administrator group to import supplier data in SM Administration.
- Note: for customers who use guided buying, you must belong to both the Supplier/Customer Manager and SM Ops Admin groups.
In the Diversity Info data file:
- You cannot remove or deactivate the diversity types.
- You can only update the Display Name and not the Name or Locale.
- The locale field is not supported.
In the Vendor Diversity data file, sourceSystem field is not supported.
Strategic Sourcing 2105
Supplier Information & Performance Management 2105
Supplier Lifecycle & Performance 2105