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| SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| This page includes a list of SAP Ariba Sourcing features delivered in the 2018 calendar year. Detailed information on all features can be found in the release guides and other documentation located on SAP Ariba Connect. Supplemental knowledge transfer materials are available for some features. Click the play or PDF icons to access the materials. For additional information on the monthly release model see the About Release Readiness link on the Release Readiness tile of SAP Ariba Connect. |
| Feature Name & Description | Enablement Model | KT | 2018 Release Availability |
| Supplier alternate response and limits to event questions This feature allows suppliers to provide alternative answers to questions. In addition to this, the event owner can set a maximum for the number of alternative responses that a supplier can provide. |
Optional | December | |
| Read-Only Terms in Line Items With this feature, customers can make terms of line items in sourcing and contracts as read-only. Note: This feature was communicated with the March 2018 release readiness, but released later with the November release. Additional information can be found in the March 2018 SAP Ariba Applications Release Guide. |
Mandatory |  |
November |
| Report exports without the need for ActiveX controls SAP Ariba Contracts used a legacy technology - ActiveX control to export reports and contract Authoring. ActiveX dependency for contract authoring was removed in Q2, 2017 release. With this release, ActiveX dependency for reports exports will be removed as well. |
Optional | |
October |
| Require supplier to give a reason for declining to bid on items or lots Suppliers can decide which of the event line items / lots they want to bid on and which they want to decline to respond to. With this feature, if a supplier declines to respond to an item, the buyer can require the supplier to select from a list reasons for not responding. We have a standard list of reasons, but customers can draft their own and have Support update the system with their list. |
Mandatory | October | |
| Creation of items using plants/sites This feature allows one to get pricing on multiple plants/sites for the same material/article without having the material/article stored in the item master. |
Mandatory | August | |
| Ability to hide countdown clock from suppliers view in Dutch auctions Allows Buyers to hid the countdown clock from suppliers view in Dutch auctions. |
Mandatory | August | |
| Inclusion of additional header fields as columns in search results This feature lists additional header fields including custom fields in the Show/Hide Columns section of the search results table properties menu. This makes it possible to select the required header fields for display as columns in the search results. |
Mandatory | July | |
| Enhancements to Web Services to Create Service Lines in Sourcing Events This feature enhances both the current webservices to create sourcing events and to download sourcing event awards with hierarchical service lines support. |
Mandatory | July | |
| Define number of rounds a participant can miss before being ejected from a Japanese auction Functionality enhancement that allows users to define how many rounds of a Japanese auction a supplier can miss before being ejected from the event. |
Mandatory | July | |
| Support for line item types and line item definitions in service line items This feature allows users to indicate the service line item types such as Standard, Blanket, Contingent, Information and Open Quantity as well as create line item definitions for all three levels of services hierarchy (service line, service outline and service specifications). |
Optional | |
July |
| Ability to clone adhoc tasks while copying a sourcing project or a contract workspace This feature allows users to replicate tasks in to a new sourcing project or contract workspace while copying an existing contract workspace or project respectively. |
Optional | |
July |
| Expanded reporting capabilities on item attributes in sourcing and contracts With this feature, sourcing and contracts users can run reports on self-configured item terms as well as terms that are integrated in to sourcing or contracts from the materials master. |
Mandatory | |
June |
| Enhancements to RFx Event import/export file to include the Comments field This feature enhances the current RFx Event excel import/export functionality with the ability to now include the comments as part of the system generated import/export file. The enhanced functionality will be available to both Buyers and Suppliers. |
Mandatory | May | |
| Suppress supplier RFX award indicators and emails This feature enables organizations to hide the RFX View Awards and Download Award Summary tabs from suppliers and automatically suppress RFX award emails. The functionality is controlled by the new "Hide Award Info" template rule so organizations can control which events will have award indicators and emails suppressed. |
Mandatory | May | |
| Include supplier line-level attachments in award data sent to ERP This feature extends SAP Ariba Sourcing so the award data it sends includes attachments that suppliers have added to line items. |
Mandatory | May | |
| Update Material Master items in CLID from sourcing award With this solution users should be able to update line items into a CLID from a Sourcing Award. |
Mandatory | |
April |
| Append or update line items in contracts from a sourcing award without manual amendment of the contract workspace This feature will ensure that line items from a sourcing award can be updated or amended in to a contract without manually changing the status of the workspace. With this solution, all contracts - draft, draft amendment and published contracts will be listed from the sourcing award. When a user selects a published contract, application will create Price Update Amendments automatically, update the contract line items document by adding or updating line items, then close the amendment. |
Mandatory | |
April |
| Expose Header Level Text to suppliers in an integrated sourcing event In Integration scenarios, there is a need to map ERP Text at Header level for Sourcing Requests or Projects. Moreover, there has to be a visibility control that needs to be automatically set based on ERP data. |
Optional | March | |
| Automatically invite Preferred suppliers to Sourcing events This feature allows for Suppliers that have been identified as Preferred in SLP to be automatically added to Sourcing events based on the Category or Region combination selected in the Sourcing event. |
Mandatory | |
February |
| Market Basket Lots with linked Items This feature adds a new parameter to basket lots to link individual items to items inside the lot. Prior to this feature, basket lot pricing could only be collected at the lot level. Now suppliers can provide individual item pricing which automatically links to the items within the lots. As a result, the lot price will be calculated by the items that exist outside the lot. The benefit of this feature is that it forces suppliers to use existing item pricing and separate out packaging costs. Reduces the amount of data a supplier has to enter and therefore speeds up the bidding process. Speeds up event creation by making it easier to create lots. |
Mandatory | |
February |
| Award Approval at the Line Item Level This feature allows for an approver to choose which line items in an award scenario that they will approve or reject. Items approved will be awarded, rejected items are returned to the event as a rejected award scenario. |
Optional | |
February |
| Sourcing Optimization Usability Enhancements This feature is a collection of visual enhancements that eases the use of the optimization feature and increases customer adoption. |
Optional | |
February |
| Warning note to users during the upload of documents to the cloud This feature allows users to control the storage of confidential documents on the cloud by displaying a warning indicating that the uploaded contracts or newly created documents will be stored on the cloud. |
Optional | |
February |
| Category attribute hierarchy Automatically add item terms to both Sourcing and Contract line items based on category and/or region. One can also automatically add Sourcing Event Questions based on category and/or region. |
Optional |
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February |
| Article Master Allow administrators to load Article Master data for the purpose of adding articles to Sourcing Events or Contract Workspaces. |
Optional |
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February |
| Participant Read Only Line Items This feature allows you to lock suppliers down on pricing for certain items while you continue to negotiate the price of other items within a sourcing event. |
Mandatory |
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January |
| Update Material Master Items in CLID from Sourcing Award With this feature in addition to appending lines to a Contract Line Item Document (CLID) in a contract workspace from a sourcing award, the lines with the same material number can now be updated. |
Optional | January | |
| Supplier bidding by email This feature enables participants to respond to RFQs or submit bids for single-item events via email. |
Optional | |
January |
