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Using IBM® App Connect to interact with SAP Ariba

By Shahmini Arumugam posted Fri March 31, 2023 03:23 AM

  

Co-author – Srihari Ananda Kumar 

SAP Ariba is a cloud-based procurement and supply chain collaboration solution. It is an end-to-end system that focuses on sourcing, strategic reporting, governance, competitive bidding, and contract management, which enables fast responses to your business needs.

Building a flow in IBM App Connect with SAP Ariba

Use App Connect to build flows that integrate with SAP Ariba and other applications. The connector is displayed as SAP Ariba on the App Connect User Interface (UI). 

To allow App Connect to connect to your SAP Ariba account, you need to complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer Catalog page or flow editor.

For more information on connection fields, see How to use App Connect with SAP Ariba.

SAP Ariba objects

The following are the SAP Ariba objects that can be run in App Connect.

Objects

Description

Contract workspaces

A contract workspace is a container that contains the information and documents that are related to a contract.

Organizations

Organizations that are registered with SAP Ariba.

Sourcing projects

Creation, monitoring, and awarding of sourcing events such as requests for information (RFIs), requests for proposal (RFPs), and auctions.

Suppliers

Suppliers that are registered with SAP Ariba.

Users

User management tasks include viewing, adding, and modifying users in SAP Ariba.

Scenario 1: Create a sourcing project in SAP Ariba for each project retrieved from Insightly

Consider this scenario: Create a sourcing project in SAP Ariba for each project retrieved from Insightly. In this example, the projects are retrieved from a specific timestamp, and a sourcing project is created in SAP Ariba based on the project information.

In this flow:

  1. You run a scheduler-based flow that retrieves projects from Insightly.
  2. The projects are retrieved at a specified time. 

    For example:


  3. For each Insightly project, a sourcing project is created in SAP Ariba.
    The sourcing project is created based on the project’s information, such as the project title, contract effective date, user ID, template ID, and project reason.

    For example:



Resources

Try out our templates

You can view the following use cases in the Templates gallery in your App Connect Designer instance.

  • Create a sourcing project in SAP Ariba for each project retrieved from Insightly

    Template URL: https://<your-instance-id>
  • Create a supplier in Coupa for each supplier profile downloaded from SAP Ariba
    Template URL: https://<your-instance-id>/templates/Create%20a%20supplier%20in%20Coupa%20for%20each%20supplier%20profile%20downloaded%20from%20SAP%20Ariba

You must enable the Designer AI features in your containerized environment in order to access the App Connect templates. For more information, see The preloaded IBM App Connect templates.

You can also import these use cases directly into your App Connect Designer. These templates are added to a public GitHub repository at https://github.com/ot4i/app-connect-templates/tree/cp4i-templates/resources.

For more information about the supported connectors, see App Connect Connectors.

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