Integration Toolkit: This loads the file in a shared drive and Integration layer (PI/PO) should pick this up to send to Ariba.Direct connectivity: This is used to send the data to the Ariba system directly.There are also connectivity options like :

Procure to Pay/ Procure to Order (One of these depending on modules implemented in Ariba).

You can also choose data to be sent as an initial load one time and as an incremental load. Generally procurement scenario in Ariba consist of So even though it’s the identical company code master data which gets exported but it needs to go to different modules in Ariba like sourcing and contract management so you need to run the extractors twice. To understand better you need to first extract company code from P2O and then extract company code again from sourcing. So based on what you select you get options to ‘Choose Master data to export’ you get different master data options,

What needs to be run depends on what modules you have implemented in Ariba and a lot of the contents available to download is common among sourcing and P2P and P2O radio buttons However it still needs to be run twice as it updates specific modules in Ariba. When you run the program you see radio buttons like Procure to Order and Procure to Pay, Sourcing, and contracts. So I just did what was the easier thing to do copied the entire program as a Z and then did the changes. The standard program /ARBA/MASTER_DATA_EXPORT needs to be customized or you will keep wasting your time to find the implicit enhancement points which are too less and not in the right places. Sequence for Initial load consideration.This blog talks about how to use the master data extraction program to read data from ECC to Ariba system.

Ariba software