You can maintain the unique variant name and the partition for SAP Ariba Procurement solutions and SAP Ariba Sourcing solutions. The variant and partition values help the integration code differentiate configuration parameters for different transactions based on solution.
You can specify the defined values when you configure parameters for different transactions for each solution. Partition is the unique name of your site. If you do not want to maintain a variant and partition for a solution, you can add a blank record for the solution.
Note
SAP Ariba Sourcing does not need a variant or partition information, but you need to configure these values so that SAP Ariba integration code can differentiate the parameters maintained for buying and sourcing solutions.How to Map Variants and Partition to SAP Ariba Solutions
Use this procedure to maintain the unique variant name and the partition for SAP Ariba Procurement solutions and SAP Ariba Sourcing solutions.
Steps
- Run the transaction code SPRO.
- Click SAP Reference IMG.
- Navigate to Integration with Other SAP Components → Managed Gateway for Spend&Network for Buyer → Global Settings.
- Click IMG-Activity for Map the Variant and Partition for SAP Ariba solutions.
- Maintain the following parameters:
Parameter name Description Supported values Variant The unique variant name for the SAP Ariba solutions in SAP ERP Example, VREALM_1 Partition The unique name of your site for the SAP Ariba solutions in SAP ERP Example, PREALM_1 Solution SAP Ariba solution name Example, SAP Ariba Procurement or SAP Ariba Sourcing 
Note
For more information, see Mapping Variants and Partition to SAP Ariba Solutions.
Now that you've learned about mapping variants and partition, we'll move on to customizing parameter and prefilter values.