SAP Ariba Upstream (BAU)

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced SAP Ariba Upstream (BAU) Consultant to support the ongoing operations, configuration, maintenance, and production support of SAP Ariba solutions. The role will primarily focus on Contract Management, Buying, integrations, BAU operations, and production support, ensuring stable and efficient business processes across SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in SAP Ariba upstream processes, Contract Management, SAP Ariba CIG, integrations, troubleshooting, and BAU support.

Key Responsibilities

1. Contract Management

- Configure and manage the creation of Purchase Contracts from Contract Workspaces using Contract Document Types (CDTs), ensuring successful publication and availability within SAP Ariba Buying.
- Support the end-to-end lifecycle of Purchase Contracts, including authoring, approvals, publication, amendments, renewals, contract release orders, and ongoing contract compliance.
- Configure and support Contract Workspaces, templates, document types, approval flows, and related configuration.
- Support contract authoring, review, approval, publication, and amendment processes.
- Troubleshoot contract-related issues and provide production/BAU support.
- Support contract compliance and ensure contracts are available for downstream procurement processes.
- Work with business stakeholders to understand contract-management requirements and resolve functional issues.
- Support testing activities for configuration changes, enhancements, patches, and releases.

2. SAP Ariba Buying / Procurement

- Provide BAU support for SAP Ariba Buying processes and configurations.
- Support procurement processes including requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, receiving, and invoicing.
- Troubleshoot issues related to requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, and downstream transactions.
- Support configuration and maintenance of procurement-related settings.




- Analyse functional issues and coordinate with technical/integration teams where required.
- Support business users with incident resolution and process-related queries.
- Participate in regression testing and validation following SAP Ariba releases and system changes.

3. Integrations and Data Quality

- Positive understanding of SAP integration technologies including IDocs, APIs, SOAP/REST services, XML/cXML messaging, and SAP Business Network.
- Experience supporting integration monitoring tools and production support processes.
- Support integrations between SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA and other connected systems.
- Troubleshoot integration failures and analyse interface messages, logs, payloads, and transaction statuses.
- Support master data and transactional data validation across integrated systems.
- Identify data-quality issues and coordinate with relevant teams for resolution.
- Support reconciliation of Ariba and backend SAP transactions.
- Assist with integration testing for enhancements, configuration changes, and releases.

4. BAU Operations and Support

SAP Ariba CIG & Integration Support

- Support SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) configuration and operational activities.
- Monitor inbound and outbound integration messages between SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA and CALM.
- Analyse XML/cXML payloads, message mappings, interface logs, and transaction status.
- Investigate failed integrations, identify root causes, and coordinate corrective actions.
- Validate master data synchronisation including Suppliers, Users, Company Codes, Plants, Cost Centres, GL Accounts, Payment Terms, Commodity Codes, and Purchasing Organisations.
- Support transactional integrations including Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Goods Receipts, Invoices, and Payment Status.
- Coordinate interface reprocessing and reconciliation activities following production issues.
- Support integration monitoring dashboards and operational reporting.
- Monitor production interfaces and proactively identify recurring integration issues.
- Coordinate with SAP technical, middleware, and business teams for resolution of production incidents.

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