Suppliers always need to be invited to Ariba Sourcing events, regardless of their Ariba Network enablement status. They must register on the Ariba Cloud only once for their first participation at uw.supplier.ariba.com.
Yes. In this context, a participant is any supplier/vendor that creates and submits a response to the sourcing event.
Ariba Sourcing is an application for conducting online competitive bidding. It is now in production for use by Procurement Services Buyers only to manage Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposal (RFP) and to support the Strategic Sourcing Efforts Underway at UW.
Some of the benefits provided by Ariba Sourcing include:
Yes. There is a link to the Ariba Sourcing Event Evaluator Getting Started Guide on the PS Intranet at: /ps/sites/default/files/SourcingTraining/UWEvaluatorSourcing-GettingStarted.pdf that you can download and send to the individuals in the department to help them navigate to and through Ariba Sourcing.
Yes. To access the training environment, go to https://arwwweval1.s.uw.edu/AribaBuyer/uw/login.asp.
The email invitations contain a link you can click to access the events you are invited to. Generally this link is labeled Click here.
When you click this link, depending on your Ariba Commerce Cloud account status, do one of the following to access the event:
In the Email field, enter the email address where you wish to receive email notifications including email notifications about events.
In the Username field, enter the identifier that you want to use to log in to your Ariba Commerce Cloud account. The Username field must be in email format, but you don't have to use a valid email address.
TIP: Leave This is my username checked so that your email address and the username are the same.
No. This is an optional field. You are only required to fill in the fields marked with an asterisk (*).