Introducing SAP Ariba Direct Materials Sourcing for Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA
Explaining Key Direct Material Sourcing Processes
Setting Up SAP Ariba Direct Materials Sourcing for Automotive and Industrial Manufacturing in SAP S/4HANA
Setting Up SAP Business Technology Platform

Adding Applications and Activating Subscriptions in Your SAP BTP Account

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to add services for SAP Ariba Direct Materials Sourcing to your SAP BTP account.

SAP Ariba Supplier Quotation Management

Business Purpose

SAP Ariba supplier quotation management is used by suppliers to submit quotations to your sourcing projects and contract renegotiations.

Technical Explanation

SAP Ariba supplier quotation management runs on SAP Business Technology Platform. The service needs to be created in your SAP BTP subaccount. To create it, go to Instances and Subscriptions. There are two plans available: small test and small. Small test reflects the test environment, and small reflects the production environment. After successful activation, the status will be Subscribed.

How to add SAP Ariba Supplier Quotation Management to SAP BTP

Event Mesh Standard

Business Purpose

SAP Event Mesh is a capability that allows applications to communicate through events and messages. This subscription is used in SAP Ariba supplier quotation management for functionalities such as publishing sourcing projects, transferring quotations, or transferring legal transactions.

Technical Explanation

SAP Event Mesh is a cloud subscription running on SAP Business Technology Platform and it is available on the Cloud Foundry environment. It allows applications to communicate through asynchronous events. It also enables event-driven architecture across hybrid environments. You need to activate SAP Event Mesh in your subaccount to publish sourcing projects to suppliers. Once the subscription is correctly activated, the status will be Subscribed. Then you will have access to the SAP Event Mesh user interface.

How to Activate SAP Event Mesh on SAP BTP

Summary

  • Add SAP Ariba supplier quotation management and SAP Event Mesh services to your SAP Business Technology Platform subaccount.
  • Activate service subscriptions to enable supplier quotations and event-driven communication for sourcing projects.
  • Use the appropriate subscription plan for test or production environments when setting up each service.
  • After successful activation, confirm the subscription status is Subscribed.