# How did you handle catalog mapping issues in SAP Ariba without losing spend visibility?

Using SAP Ariba, our planning assumptions now have dated, verifiable source data, and annual plan spend prep dropped from five weeks to nine days. Scenario refreshes can be done in an afternoon, and uncategorized spend decreased significantly after cleanup. The hardest part was catalog mapping, where a large share of spend landed in an unnamed bucket and it took weeks to set up a custom tree after scrubbing vendors. What steps helped you fix mapping and keep spend categorized correctly going forward?

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- Posted at: 13 days ago
- Author title: Senior Strategy Analyst - Corporate Strategy & Planning at PEMEX
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