Reviewing Guided Buying Features and Functions

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Summarize guided buying features and functions

What is Guided Buying?

Guided buying is a capability that integrates with SAP Ariba Buying, SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, or SAP S/4HANA. It gives users outside your professional procurement group one place to search for goods and services in a consumer-like way and purchase using an easy-to-use interface. A simple user experience guides employees to buy from preferred suppliers while complying with internal procurement processes and policies.​

​Guided buying captures an organization's purchasing policies and uses them to guide casual users and functional buyers to the outcomes they need. Users know immediately when a policy is violated rather than finding out after submitting a request.

Key Functionality

  • Customized home page​
  • Intelligent item recommendations
  • ​Customizable tiles and forms based on your business needs and key spend categories
  • ​Simple, configurable filtering and keyword search​
  • Add directly to cart from search results or navigate to the item card for more information
  • ​Quick and easy checkout experience​
  • Buy and receive with a team​
  • Clear and simple transactional status visibility​
  • Self-service procurement available to the end user to manage tactical sourcing requests

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