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SAP®Ariba® APIs

Benefits
•• Discover, learn about, and consume APIs
efficiently through a central repository
•• Easily and securely extend SAP Ariba
applications and Ariba Network
•• Build and deploy on the cloud platform
of your choice
•• Reduce cost and time to develop unique
industry- or region-specific applications
•• Foster quicker innovations with rich
developer resources for rapid
prototyping
•• Increase end-user adoption and
satisfaction
Globalization and digital transformation are driving new requirements across all
businesses. To succeed, your company must adapt quickly to constantly changing
market conditions and continuously elevate the user experience.
Cloud-based applications can help you achieve this by delivering new innovations
and technologies faster than ever before. Yet you still need functionality or integra-
tions unique to your industry, country, or way of doing business — which can be
costly and time-consuming to develop. And if you want to capitalize on disruptive
technologies such as conversational interfaces, blockchain, and artificial intelli-
gence/machine learning, you need access to data and processes that support
next-generation user experiences and business models.
It’s clear that connectivity and integration across applications lay the foundation
for digital transformation. Application program interfaces (APIs) provide the build-
ing blocks to complete it, enabling you to meet the demands of the moment with
agility and speed. And with SAP® Ariba® APIs, you gain a powerful resource to
make it happen.

Features
•• SAP Ariba developer portal, a central
repository where you can discover and
learn about available APIs
•• Single, secure pipeline with verified,
authorized access through OAuth server
for validating calls
•• Developer resources such as API guides,
an API catalog, and sandbox, a mock
business environment for rapid
development
APIS: YOUR FAST TRACK TO DIGITAL SUCCESS
SAP Ariba APIs allow you to quickly extend, integrate, and optimize SAP Ariba
applications and Ariba Network to meet unique domain- or region-specific
business requirements. By providing a simple, scalable, and secure way to build
new or extended functionality, they deliver a significantly higher level of data
sharing and functionality for your SAP Ariba procurement solutions. The ever-
expanding array of available Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs
combined with easy-to-use tools and developer resources for rapid prototyping
enables you to create tailor-made solutions without paying for costly
development projects.

•• Tools to manage developer onboarding,

application registration, and other
administrative functions
•• Enhanced capabilities planned for future
releases, such as single sign-on and an
integrated experience with SAP Cloud
Platform
AVAILABLE APIS

Procurement
Document Approval API: Enables you to create and use an external application to
obtain approval, denial, and comments on requisitions and invoices generated in
an SAP Ariba procurement solution, either systematically or by presenting the
approval task to one or more approvers.
Custom Forms API: Enables your application to get custom forms document
information or data for reporting or sending to an external ERP system.
Operational Reporting for Procurement API: Enables you to retrieve header, line
item, and other details for transactions (such as purchase requisitions, purchase
orders, receipts, invoices, and invoice reconciliations) through REST API calls and
then load the data into your preferred data warehouse or application, combine it
with other organizational data, and build reports to fit your needs.
Integration Monitoring for Operational Procurement API: Enables you to
retrieve status of import and export file channel integration events for transaction
and master data in an SAP Ariba procurement solution.
Analytical Reporting API: Enables you to extract and report on analytical data
that you need for specific processes, such as importing to a customer’s ware-
house or creating dashboards for trend assessment.
Catalog Content API: Enables you to fetch catalog data (such as catalog sub-
scriptions, attribute-based faceted catalog data, and all or a filtered subset of
catalog items).

Strategic Sourcing
Operational Reporting for Strategic Sourcing API: Enables you to extract and
report on the transactional sourcing data that you need to make decisions for
operational activities, such as events scheduled to close the next day, tasks due,
or documents awaiting approval.
Integration Monitoring for Strategic Sourcing API: Enables you to retrieve
status of import and export file channel integration events for transaction and
master data in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solutions.

Ariba Network
Flow Extension API: Enables you to enrich processes and documents (including
purchase orders, order confirmations, advance shipment notifications, goods
receipts, and invoices) in Ariba Network with information external to SAP Ariba.
Transaction Monitoring for Tracking Supply Chain Collaboration API: Enables
you to quickly and reliably monitor supply chain collaboration transactions across
Ariba Network and gain high visibility and traceability into associated business
processes and documents.
Discovery RFx Publication from External Marketplace API: Enables you to
publish SAP Ariba Discovery events to an external marketplace to increase the
number of bidders.
Discovery RFx Publication to External Marketplace API: Enables you to post
SAP Ariba Sourcing RFx events on portals and Web sites outside the usual
discovery area, increasing the number of potential bidders by exposing events to
new audiences in new venues.

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About SAP® Ariba® Supplier Management
Solutions External Approval for Sourcing and Supplier Management API: Enables you to
efficiently process external approvals for tasks in sourcing documents, contract
SAP® Ariba® solutions support the
documents, and supplier management approvals documents. Also enables you to
marketplace for modern business, creating
retrieve contract document details.
frictionless exchanges between millions of
buyers and suppliers across the entire Supplier Data API: Enables you to access supplier data on a read-only basis
source-to-pay process. Our market-leading for integration to a third-party tool; for example, to get a list of all suppliers with
solutions enable companies to simplify registered, qualified, or preferred status for a specific category, region, and
collaboration with their trading partners, business unit. (Only available for suppliers through SAP Ariba Supplier
make smarter business decisions, and Lifecycle and Performance and SAP Ariba Supplier Information and
extend their collaborative business Performance Management.)
processes with an open technology
platform. More than 3.6 million companies To see the latest catalog of APIs, go to https://developer.ariba.com/api/home.
use SAP Ariba solutions to connect and
collaborate around nearly US$2.3 trillion in
commerce on an annual basis. To learn READY TO GET STARTED?
more about SAP Ariba solutions and the
transformation they are driving, visit To learn how APIs deliver the speed and flexibility you need to extend and inte-
www.ariba.com. grate your SAP Ariba solutions and Ariba Network, visit http://www.ariba.com/so-
lutions/solutions-overview/platform-solutions/sap-ariba-apis or contact your
account executive.

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