SAP ARIBA EXTENSION
Supplier Risk Insights
Financial and operational risk evaluation—without implementing SAP Ariba Risk.
Collect the information commercial risk providers cannot deliver and turn your own supplier knowledge into a structured, reportable risk assessment.
Built entirely with standard SAP Ariba SLP Process Flows
THE CHALLENGE
Traditional supplier risk management can be expensive—and still leave critical gaps.
Implementing SAP Ariba Risk requires additional project effort. External risk content must normally be licensed and integrated separately. Yet the information available for local SMEs and family-owned companies is often limited.
Additional module implementation
Separate content licenses
Integration effort and cost
Limited insight into local suppliers
THE SOLUTION
One process. Two perspectives. Better supplier-risk information.
Supplier Risk Insights combines information obtained directly from the supplier with the practical experience of employees who work with that supplier regularly.
Financial Risk
The supplier provides information that supports an assessment of its financial stability.
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Latest financial statements
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Revenue and business development
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Customer concentration
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Dependency on products or markets
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Supporting documentation
EXTERNAL QUESTIONNAIRE
Operational Risk
Internal stakeholders assess the supplier's actual day-to-day performance.
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Delivery reliability
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Quality consistency
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Responsiveness and accessibility
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Flexibility
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Issue resolution
INTERNAL QUESTIONNAIRE
HOW IT WORKS
Start with the information nobody else can provide.
The process first captures internal operational knowledge. It then continues with the supplier-facing financial assessment and the final risk decision.
Collect Internal Operational Insight
Employees who work with the supplier assess delivery reliability, quality consistency, responsiveness and day-to-day problem resolution.
Internal Employees
Operational Performance
Direct Experience
The process starts with first-hand knowledge that is not available from commercial content providers.
Review the Operational Questionnaire
The completed internal questionnaire is available for review and approval, with the achieved score visible to the responsible approver.
Informal experience becomes documented, reviewable evidence.
Start the Financial Risk Process - Send the Financial Questionnaire
The financial questionnaire is sent to the supplier.
External supplier information and internal knowledge can be collected in one structured process.
Receive the Supplier's Answers
The supplier answers the questions and uploads the requested supporting information. Each possible response can carry a predefined score that remains invisible to the supplier.
The assessment captures evidence directly from the supplier instead of relying only on public data.
Translate Answers into a Risk Score
The customer defines which result represents a good, acceptable or insufficient assessment. The scoring logic can therefore reflect its own risk appetite.
The evaluation model remains transparent and fully controlled by the customer
Review the calculated Score
During approval, the responsible reviewer can already see the score achieved in the questionnaire.
The calculated result supports the decision before the final supplier status is assigned.
The Final Risk Decision -
Select Green, Yellow or Red
After questionnaire approval, the designated decision maker determines the supplier's overall risk status.
Accountability remains with the responsible business decision maker.
Professional judgement can override the questionnaire score when the wider business context requires it.
The selected status appears under 'Processes' in the supplier's 360° profile and remains visible to authorized users.
The current assessment is available exactly where the procurement team works with the supplier.
Monitor the Current Status in a Report
The overall risk status and its expiry date are available in a current operational report without waiting for a separate analytical refresh.
Current Status
Expiry Date
Supplier Monitoring
Risk information becomes visible, persistent and difficult to ignore.
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BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
Meaningful supplier-risk information without a major technology project.
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Standard SAP Ariba
Implemented inside an existing SLP environment using standard Process Flow functionality.
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Rapid Implementation
A focused pilot can be set up quickly, with limited effort and low project risk.
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Unavailable Market Insight
Capture delivery, quality and responsiveness information that external providers cannot supply.
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Flexible Decisions
Use the calculated score as guidance while retaining control over the final status.
MANAGEMENT VISIBILITY
Turn informal supplier knowledge into documented evidence.
Operational concerns are often discussed verbally but remain invisible to management. Once the same information is collected consistently and reported over time, patterns become visible and action becomes harder to postpone.
Information that is only exchanged verbally is easy to ignore. Information documented over time becomes actionable.
ARIBA IMPROVEMENTS SOLUTION
Turn supplier knowledge into actionable risk intelligence.
Collect the information no commercial risk provider can supply—and make it visible where your procurement team needs it.
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