
One should use the legacy contract import feature to load existing contracts or legacy contracts from any other contract repository to Ariba. I share my experiences below on the issues faced, methods adopted to resolve issues / restrictions and automation of the migration process. As data migration is part of any implementation, we were tasked with migrating existing contracts to Ariba for Go-Live. I have been recently involved in a Major Business Transformation project for a client who implemented S/4 HANA and SAP Ariba. While all the above would satisfy the needs of a customer / client requiring a robust contract management solution, there is not much information out there around migration of contracts to Ariba for an implementation.


“Contracts are a critical element of the source-to-pay process,” said Alex Atzberger, President, and SAP Ariba. The company also received the highest score among all vendors in the Market Presence category (customer base and revenue) for the Buy-Side portion of the evaluation. Existing and Third-Party Contract Support.In the Contract Life-Cycle Management for Buy-Side Contracts portion of the evaluation, SAP Ariba had among the highest scores for:

SAP Ariba announced that it has again been ranked as a leader in Contract Life-Cycle Management for Buy-Side Contracts by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc., this time in a new report titled “The Forrester Wave™: Contract Life-Cycle Management, Q3 2016: The 14 CLM Vendors That Matter Most And How They Stack Up,” (The Forrester Wave™: Contract Life-Cycle Management, Q3 2016, Forrester Research, Inc., July 2016).ĭesigned to assess the current state of the market for contract lifecycle management solutions, the Forrester Wave evaluated 14 CLM software vendors using 28 criteria.
