The facts on which a report is based determine the data available in the report. When you create a report, you decide what information you are looking for and choose the facts that will provide it. The facts available to you in reports depend on the solutions your company has purchased and the features you have permission to work with in those solutions.
If you have permission to create analytical reports, you can create reports based on the following reporting facts to see data on supplier management projects:
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| SM Project | This fact contains general data about the following supplier management projects:
You can create reports based on the SM Project fact to:
Note SM Project reports can include both process projects and modular questionnaire projects, but analytical reports can't show relationships between them. |
| Supplier Request Project | This fact contains data on internal and external supplier request projects. You can create reports based on the Supplier Request Project fact to analyze supplier request projects by:
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| Supplier Registration Project | This fact contains data on supplier registration projects. You can create reports based on the Supplier Registration Project fact to analyze supplier registration projects by:
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| SM Project Questionnaire Response | This fact contains data about responses to questionnaires in supplier management projects. You can create reports based on the SM Project Questionnaire Response fact to:
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| Task Approvals | This fact gathers data on the full history of approval, review, or negotiation tasks. You can create reports based on the Task Approvals fact to:
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Note
Although data for supplier request, registration, qualification, disqualification, preferred supplier management, and modular supplier management questionnaire projects and their documents can be available in general project, survey, and document reporting, SAP Ariba only supports reporting on them using the reporting facts that are specific to SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance and SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture) projects and documents.Reporting Data Access Control for Facts
SM Project, Supplier Request Project, Supplier Registration Project, SM Project Questionnaire Response, and Task Approvals data are subject to reporting data access control. If your organization uses reporting data access control, Full Reporting Access Authorized group members can see all task approval data regardless of project team membership. Users who are not in the Full Reporting Access Authorized group can only see task approval data in reports related to the projects to which they have access based on project team membership.
If your organization does not use reporting data access control, all users can see all project data regardless of project membership.
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Additional information about the reporting facts for supplier management projects is available in the Reporting Fact Reference guide: SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance and SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (New Architecture) Reporting Facts