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Ariba Buyer v8.1 Catalog Administration

Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	4 Days
Cost	$2,200.00
Deployment Options:	Instructor-Led:On-Site Training

Audience

Catalog Implementation Specialists who design the catalog hierarchy, create catalog-related mapping files, and work with content providers to generate syntactically correct content files. Catalog Manager Individuals who acquire, validate, edit, import and maintain catalog content.

Prerequisites

Ariba Buyer 8.x Features and Functions

Course Aim

This course teaches the skills required for implementing, configuring and maintaining the Ariba Buyer catalog. Using a combination of lecture, demonstration, and hands-on lab exercises students will learn about the catalog architecture, infrastructure, search engine, search functionality catalog administration. Using the Ariba Buyer Administrator, students will gain experience working with the tools required to administer the catalog including loading catalog subscriptions, maintaining master data, customizing the catalog hierarchy, troubleshoot problems and running scheduled tasks.

Topics Covered

Key catalog concepts. Introduction to the catalog search UI and search functionality. Catalog server architecture leveraging the J2EE multiserver infrastructure. Configuring the catalog for integration with external systems, e.g. ERP backend system. Discussion of the search engine and the related indexing process. Catalog hierarchy configuration and versioning support for UNSPSC commodity codes. Content files and their formats (CIF and cXML). Management of parametric types and catalog extrinsics. Catalog subscriptions and review of the import process. Introduction to the catalog tools available through the Catalog Manager workspace of the Ariba Buyer Administrator (ABA) UI. Pulling it all together: Step-by-step catalog implementation process. Catalog system parameters, debugging techniques, and catalog specific scheduled tasks. Enabling punchout catalogs.