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Customer Readiness Resources 2018 Releases:
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

Stream Recording
February
Article Master
Allow administrators to load Article Master data for the purpose of adding articles to Sourcing Events or Contract Workspaces.
Optional

Stream Recording
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

Stream Recording

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

 

 

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