SAP Ariba Sourcing: Advanced Features Part 1 – AR120

SAP Ariba Sourcing: Advanced Features Part 1 – AR120 equips participants to use advanced event content, scoring, grading, bidding rules, auctions, competitive feedback, and reusable sourcing structures to manage complex supplier negotiations. Each lesson links SAP objects and process decisions to operational controls, integration behavior, and evidence that can be reviewed.

The practical case concerns a strategic sourcing team designing a multi-round competitive event with weighted criteria, team grading, market feedback, alternative bids, and controlled supplier communication. Course activities produce advanced event-content design workbook, scoring and grading evidence pack, competitive event execution workbook, and advanced sourcing assurance plan and require learners to investigate a conditional question remains hidden after its trigger response is selected; a team grade is included twice in the event total; a supplier receives feedback that reveals another bidder position; the recommended award uses a scenario that cannot be reproduced from retained data.

After the course, learners can configure advanced event rules, coordinate evaluators, run competitive bidding scenarios, interpret supplier behavior, prevent unfair disclosure, and document a controlled award path.

What You Will Learn

• Map advanced event terms to the roles, data, and controls governing advanced sourcing control.
• Apply weighted scoring models so daily advanced sourcing control activities remain consistent and reviewable.
• Perform team grading workflows using the correct SAP documents, statuses, and approval evidence.
• Test alternative bid handling across normal processing, integration dependencies, and access restrictions.
• Investigate auction rule configuration when observed outcomes conflict with documented business expectations.
• Correct competitive feedback settings issues and prove the fix through focused, traceable retesting.
• Use supplier communication controls results to explain risk, performance, and next-step priorities.
• Document advanced event analysis ownership, review frequency, evidence retention, and escalation criteria.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Instructor walkthroughs are followed by hands-on SAP practice, structured scenario decisions, evidence reviews, targeted troubleshooting, validation checklists, and a final action plan specific to advanced SAP Ariba sourcing.