| Feature Name & Description |
SAP Ariba Solutions |
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Supplier management Dun & Bradstreet integration [SM-7213]
This feature enables you to integrate SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance with third-party provider Dun & Bradstreet to require requesters to search for potential new suppliers in the D&B database during the request process, as well as include D&B data in supplier profiles. |
Q4
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Enhancements to supplier bank ID management [SM-9657]
This feature introduces the ability to automatically add bank IDs to supplier banks using optional custom country-specific prefixes instead of requiring suppliers to provide these IDs when answering bank account questions. These automatically generated IDs provide a systematic, sequential way of identifying supplier banks using syntax that an integrated ERP system recognizes and prevent suppliers from entering invalid bank ID values. |
Q4 |
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Scoring and score banding in modular supplier management questionnaires [SM-9830]
This feature provides a standardized, template-driven method for scoring answers to modular supplier management questionnaires at the questionnaire and section level. Customizable scoring bands with color-coded indicators provide guidance about the desirability of different scores to approvers and other stakeholders. |
Q4 |
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Supplier management project template import and export support [SM-12643]
This feature introduces full template import and export support for all supplier management project types. |
Q4 |
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see release guide |
Template upgrade validations [SM-14184]
This feature introduces template upgrade validations for supplier registration and modular supplier management questionnaire project templates. |
Q4 |
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see release guide |
Support for displaying full supplier names longer than 35 characters [SM-14213]
This feature adds a new full name field to the supplier database for storing supplier names of up to 140 characters. SAP Ariba solutions use the data in this field to display full supplier names in search results, supplier profiles, contract workspaces, sourcing events, and procurement transactions. |
Q4 |
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New supplier 360 profile [SM-14322]
This feature introduces a new 360 profile for suppliers. It includes a more consistent look and feel with other SAP Ariba and SAP applications; improved navigation, better use of space, and more intuitive organization of supplier profile information and supplier management activities; improved task management; enhancements to the workflow for supplier qualification expirations and requalifications; and compatibility with the Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
Q4 |
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Enhancements to ERP data synchronization with external supplier management questionnaires [SM-15534]
For integrated suppliers, this feature pushes updates from an integrated ERP system to all external questionnaires that are not in approval to improve synchronization between buyer data and the supplier view of external questionnaires. |
Q4 |
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Display new supplier contact names with family names first [SM-15622]
Displays new supplier contact names in the reverse order of how they are created. This applies to all areas that supplier contact names are displayed, including external notifications. |
Q4 |
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Configurable format for supplier search result exports
This feature introduces the ability to configure the value separator and encoding of the export file when exporting supplier search results on the Supplier Management dashboard. These options provide flexibility for users in different locales, and encoding options support export of data in non-Latin character sets such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. |
Q3 |
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see release guide
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Enhancements to ERP integration error handling and error display for supplier data
This feature includes tools that allow customer administrators to better manage schema validation of outbound integration messages and to receive email notifications about integration failures so that they can fix errors in a more timely manner. |
Q3 |
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Enhanced questionnaire configuration capabilities for increased ERP integration accuracy
This feature adds validation for supplier field mapping data and a user interface tool to generate suggested field restrictions when you create text answer type survey questions. |
Q3 |
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Retaining pre-populated data in registration questionnaires after template upgrade
Registration questionnaires now retain pre-populated data after you perform a template upgrade. |
Q3 |
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see release guide
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Enhancements to the internal supplier request
This feature enhances the look and feel of the internal supplier request form and adds type-ahead duplicate checking, which continuously checks for matches to existing suppliers as the requester enters information. |
Q3
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see release guide
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Option to keep external supplier management questionnaires reopened indefinitely
This feature adds a supplier management project template survey setting to keep external questionnaires reopened indefinitely. |
Q3 |
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see release guide
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Enhancements to supplier request duplicate checking
This feature introduces enhancements to the duplicate check against existing suppliers in the supplier request process, including case insensitive matching, improvements to matching accuracy and consistency, and improvements to the user interface that shows potential duplicates. User interface improvements include display of match accuracy scores and which values in the current request match existing supplier records. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
Supplier Risk
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Check for issues before marking a control as ineffective [ARI-4942]
This feature introduces a check to see if a control has any issue management projects before a decision maker can complete an ineffective control review. An additional configuration option allows you to require each ineffective control have at least one issue to provide an audit trail for the ineffective decision. |
Q4
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Enhancements to the My Issues page [ARI-4966]
This feature adds information about the statuses of the engagement risk assessment projects associated with issues to the My Issues page. |
Q4 |
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see release guide
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Ability to re-review completed risk controls and change effectiveness decisions [ARI-6414]
This feature introduces the ability for control decision makers to re-review completed risk controls and change effectiveness decisions. Previously, control decision makers could only re-review controls when an underlying assessment questionnaire was expiring or had expired and the control reverted to pending. Now, control decision makers can react to changing circumstances or new information and provide the most accurate and timely effectiveness status for the control. |
Q4
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Registered suppliers filter for supplier selection in engagement requests [ARI-6507]
This feature introduces a filter that only shows registered suppliers during supplier selection in the engagement request and the enhanced send assessments workflow. This filter ensures that requesters can only select suppliers for whom you have gathered information in approved registration projects when creating engagement requests. |
Q4 |
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Archiving for completed engagement risk assessment projects [ARI-6917]
This feature introduces the ability to archive engagement risk assessment projects so that they are closed to all further activity. An optional advanced archiving workflow supports custom tasks and supplemental questionnaires for requesting and approving archiving. |
Q4 |
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Editable external ID in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk supplier profile [ARI-7079]
Sometimes when a supplier is imported or entered in to Supplier Risk data, the external ID is omitted or entered incorrectly, which can result in poor performance such as lack of media and alerts for the supplier. When activated, this feature allows a Supplier Risk Manager user to edit the supplier's external ID on the supplier profile page, enabling Supplier Risk to provide better results for the supplier. |
Q4 |
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Improved interface for incident listings in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk [ARI-7086]
This feature introduces usability improvements to the incidents list, designed to enable you to distinguish easily between positive and negative incidents. |
Q4 |
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Ability to add engagement risk assessment project owners in the engagement request and on the engagement page
This feature introduces more flexibility for managing control-based engagement risk assessment project owners and project teams without requiring permission to access the advanced view of the project, including changing the project owner from the requester to another person in your organization and adding team members to the Project Owners project group. |
Q3
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see release guide
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Improved handling of inactive suppliers in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
With this feature, suppliers who are inactive in SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions no longer appear in the list of followed suppliers or on the map view, and they do not generate alert notifications on the dashboard, map view, or supplier list. These suppliers are no longer eligible for submission to a third-party provider for risk evaluation, and they are not considered in risk exposure calculations from contributing factors. |
Q3
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UI for admin review of enriched supplier data
This feature enables buyer users in the Risk Manager group to have insight into the enrichment results for any supplier, whether enriched or unenriched, enabling them to see how enrichment was processed for each supplier, either manually or through the automated process, to view supplier enrichment results, and to manually select a different candidate record if desired. |
Q3
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Ability to edit or cancel engagement request at any time before final project approval
This feature allows editing and canceling of engagement requests in any phase before final project approval. Previously, engagement requests could not be edited if assessments had been sent or if the request had been denied. |
Q3
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Issue assignee team management
This feature adds issue assignees to a dedicated assignee project group in the issue management project and provides tools for managing issue assignee team membership, including the ability to add assignees on the issue page. Template creators can use the assignee project group to assign task ownership and grant or restrict edit access control. |
Q3
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see release guide
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Presentation of French-language adverse media in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
This feature adds the French language to the list of languages in which adverse media articles may be presented in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk. |
Q3
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see release guide |
Identification of incomplete supplier data in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
This feature flags supplier records that are ineligible for 3rd-party risk monitoring due to being incomplete or unenriched, so that they are not considered in risk exposure calculations. Users can easily see suppliers that are not monitored for adverse media or by other third party data providers. Risk Managers will have the ability to override those suppliers that are excluded from monitoring. |
Q3
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Improved risk exposure calculation process
This feature improves the risk exposure calculation so that overall risk exposure values are easier to interpret and more representative. |
Q3
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see release guide
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Sharing control-level issues and residual risk across engagement risk assessment projects
This feature includes control-level issues for vendor and service-level controls, and their residual risk ratings, in all subsequent engagement risk assessment projects that use the control and include the same supplier or commodities. This change gives control decision makers better visibility into previous effectiveness decisions for the control and automatically incorporates relevant residual risk. |
Q3
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see release guide |
Enhancements to tasks in control-based engagement risk assessment projects
This feature introduces enhancements to approval tasks and some To Do tasks in control-based engagement risk assessment projects, including allowing stakeholders to resubmit completed approvals to change approval decisions under some circumstances, allowing supplemental questionnaire To Do task owners to save in-progress questionnaires, and allowing supplemental questionnaire approvers to request more information instead of approving or denying the questionnaire. |
Q3
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see release guide |
New post-project approval phase for control-based engagement risk assessment projects
This feature introduces a new optional phase after the final approval of a control-based engagement risk assessment project for tasks related to post-approval activities. |
Q3
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see release guide |
Easy identification of evaluation-eligible suppliers in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
This feature introduces UI improvements that make it more clear which suppliers have met the minimum requirements for submission to a third-party provider for risk evaluations. When submitting suppliers for risk evaluation, users can select from a list of those that have met the minimum requirements but have not yet been submitted. |
Q3
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see release guide |
New Engagement requests tab on the Risk tile in the supplier 360 profile
This feature introduces a separate Engagement requests tab on the Risk tile in the supplier 360 profile. This tab shows key information about not only the control-based engagement risk assessment projects for a supplier, but also their associated risk controls and issues. |
Q3
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see release guide |
Role-based editability for issues in control-based engagement risk assessment projects
This feature introduces access control settings for sections in the issue form in issue management projects that control who can edit the content in those sections. This access control allows you to define an issue workflow where only the appropriate stakeholders can fill out their designated section of the issue form. |
Q3
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see release guide |
Enhancements to risk control reviews
This feature introduces enhancements to risk control review in control-based engagement risk assessment projects to improve their accuracy and the way they function across multiple engagement risk assessments. They include the ability to review a pending vendor- or service-level control in any engagement risk assessment project where it is required and per-service reviews and effective status for service-level controls. |
Q3
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see release guide |
Risk exposure configuration moved to UI
Risk configuration is now integrated into the user interface which removes the need to perform offline work in a spreadsheet. This saves time and reduces complexity. Customers can now track changes to the configuration settings, save versions, see which users have made changes and what the changes were, providing added visibility to the process. |
Q2 |
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Enhanced workflow for sending questionnaires in control-based engagement risk assessment projects
This feature introduces enhancements to the workflow for sending assessment questionnaires in control-based engagement risk assessment projects to support a more complex workflow with multiple rounds of assessments, and potentially different rounds of external and internal assessments before and after the engagement supplier is selected. In the enhanced workflow, owners of the send assessments To Do task can select which assessments to send at a given time, send different assessments at different times, select the recipients for each assessment, and add a supplier for the engagement after sending internal assessments. |
Q2 |
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Increased variability in risk exposure measurements
Risk exposure levels are now measured from 1.00-100.00 rather than 1-5. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
Ability to upload status and expiry dates of offline risk assessments
This feature allows you to load header data (statuses & expiry) from externally maintained or legacy risk assessments for your suppliers to SAP Ariba Supplier Risk modular questionnaires. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
Support for analytical reporting on control-based engagement risk assessment projects
This feature introduces support for using existing SAP Ariba analytical reporting tools to report on some information in control-based engagement risk assessment projects and associated issue management projects, including some project and project task information and issue management and engagement request questionnaire content. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
New Risk Control Summary report
This feature introduces a new Risk Control Summary report on the risk controls used in the control-based engagement risk assessment projects in your site. Users export this report as a Microsoft Excel file. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
Risk control mappings based on inherent risk screening scores
This feature introduces the ability to trigger required risk controls based on the inherent risk score of the engagement request, providing another way to ensure that engagement risk assessment projects always include the necessary risk controls. Customer administrators can trigger risk controls based on inherent risk score alone or in any combination with the engagement commodities, regions, and departments and the answers to inherent risk screening questions in the engagement request. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
Presentation of Korean-language adverse media in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk
Introduce adverse media in Korean language. |
Q2 |
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see release guide |
Support for internal assessments in control-based engagement risk assessment projects
Internal assessments are modular questionnaire survey documents used to gather evidence of risk exposure in an engagement from users internal to the buyer organization. Selection of a specific supplier is not required to send an internal assessment. |
Q1 |
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Minor user interface enhancements for control-based engagement risk assessment projects
This feature introduces some minor user interface enhancements to the engagement request and engagement pages in control-based engagement risk assessment projects to improve the organization of existing information. |
Q1 |
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see release guide |
Ability to submit an engagement request with no supplier selected
A requester is now able to submit an engagement request for a control-based engagement risk assessment without selecting a supplier. A user with the correct permissions can choose to add a supplier before the assessments are sent out. However, if a supplier is not available or not required, the engagement request project can still be used to determine inherent risk and any associated control assessments can be completed by internal users. |
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