How do Analytical background reports works?

You schedule a background report to run at an approximate set time. The report runs whether or not you are logged into Ariba Spend Management, and you can schedule it to run in the background once or at regular intervals. You can schedule any report to run in the background, including prepackaged reports and reports that you and other users in your company have created and saved. When a scheduled report finishes running, you receive an email notification. You can view report results as a Microsoft Excel (XLS) file attached to the email notification, or by logging into Ariba Spend Management and opening or downloading the report results.

To create a background schedule:

1. Locate the report for which you would like to create a schedule.
2. Click the title and choose Run in Background.
3. Refine the data as you would normally in a report (if needed).
4. Click Background.
5. If prompted, save the report.
6. Select the schedule for the report.
7. Choose the option to include a copy of the report export in the notification if desired.
8. Set any additional email notification recipients for this scheduled report.

For additional information access the Running Analytical Reports - Report Scheduling SAP Help Portal documentation.

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