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Exploring Procurement Analytics in SAP Ariba

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to outline how business users can analyze procurement data in SAP Ariba.

Analytics Options in SAP Ariba

SAP Ariba Spend Analysis

Helps organizations make trusted and confident spend decisions by delivering 360-degree visibility of enterprise-wide procurement data. By bringing together machine learning–based data classification and enrichment, market intelligence, advanced reporting, analytics, and services, SAP Ariba Spend Analysis provides in-depth visibility of spend data across all source systems.

SAP Ariba Reporting / Analysis

Information visible in reports comes from different sources of data (purchase orders, sourcing events, contract workspaces). It is loaded into the database and then accessed through a web browser that provides a variety of tools for performing different types of analysis. This data can be displayed in the traditional view of rows and columns or can also be viewed as charts. It is available in any of the SAP Ariba applications.

Note

Moving forward, analytics capabilities within SAP Ariba will shift to the SAP Spend Control Tower.

Two diagrams labeled “SAP Ariba Spend Analysis” and “SAP Ariba Reporting / Analysis.” Both feature a computer icon at the top, with flowcharts below showing data processing and classification steps, including icons for machine learning and multi-system spend data

SAP Ariba in App Reporting

SAP Ariba has powerful in app tools that support strategic and operational reporting. The reports that are available to you in the realm’s reporting area depend on the solutions your company has purchased and the features you have permission to work with in those solutions.

Note

The functionality and steps to run a report are the same, independently of the SAP Ariba solution you are working with.

Sourcing reports examples: How many events were run per region in a specific quarter? How many users are creating projects in the system? Which are the identified savings from the sourcing events?
Contracts reports examples: How many contracts by number of suppliers are active in the system? How many contracts are to expire within the next 6 months?
Supplier management reports examples: How many supplier requests are open? How many suppliers have open registrations?
Procurement reports examples: Which suppliers receive the most non-catalog POs? What’s the average wait time for a requisition to be approved?

In the SAP Ariba application, there are three major locations for reports: Prepackaged Reports, Public Reports, and Personal Workspace.

Prepackaged reports are basic reports created by SAP Ariba that are relatively generic.
Public reports are custom reports created by your administrator and can be accessed by anyone with the proper permissions.
A Personal Workspace is the virtual folder for all reports you have run yourself and that you have saved to your account.

This report displays a detailed view of requisition spend with requisition status, requisition date, requisition title, requester, preparer, description, and requisition ID.

A screenshot of requisition summary report, this report displays a detailed view of requisition spend with requisition status, requisition date, requisition title, requester, preparer, description, and requisition ID.

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