Guided Buying
Guided Buying is a lightweight, personalized shopping front end for SAP Ariba that sits on top of Buying/Buying and Invoicing, catalogs, and contracts, steering casual and frequent requesters toward compliant purchasing paths, preferred suppliers, and pre-negotiated catalogs while enforcing procurement policy through configurable buying policies, categories, and frequently bought lists.
Overview
Guided Buying is a lightweight, personalized shopping front end for SAP Ariba that sits on top of Buying/Buying and Invoicing, catalogs, and contracts, steering casual and frequent requesters toward compliant purchasing paths, preferred suppliers, and pre-negotiated catalogs while enforcing procurement policy through configurable buying policies, categories, and frequently bought lists.
Lessons in this topic
- Guided Buying Fundamentals: Purpose, Architecture, and Requester ExperienceIntroduces why organizations deploy Guided Buying, how it relates to Ariba Buying and Invoicing, and the core building blocks that shape the requester experience.
- Configuring Buying Policies and Categories to Steer Compliant PurchasingCovers the practical configuration of buying policies, category curation, and frequently bought lists that determine what each requester group can purchase and through which channel.
- Configuring User Groups, Categories, and Request Behavior in Guided BuyingLearn how Guided Buying's configuration model uses user groups, purchasing categories, and requesting configurations to control what each requester sees, can buy, and how requests route into the procurement backend.