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| SAP Ariba Contracts |
| This page includes a list of features delivered in the 2018 calendar year for SAP Ariba Contracts customers. 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 |
| 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 as part of the March 2018 release, but was not made available until the November 2018 release. For additional details on this feature please see 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 |
| Supplier engagement risk information in contracts This feature allows users to associate engagement risk projects from supplier risk module to contract workspaces. At the point of contract creation, users will be able to select the engagement request that needs to be associated with the contract workspace thus linking the two objects. This will also allow users to link existing contract workspaces to new engagement risk request. Contract workspace will feature the request status and risk scores of the engagement risk projects that they are linked with. |
Optional | |
August |
| Display section navigation trail in the outline and comparison view of an assembled document This feature introduces a tool-tip that displays the section hierarchy of a clause upon mouse-over in the outline and comparison view of a document. Section hierarchy details are also available at the section-name level through a breadcrumb that displays the full section path. These enhancements are available in both the outline view and the view changes page for comparing document versions. |
Mandatory | |
August |
| Display clause title and path for library clauses in the outline view of a document This feature allows users to view the title and library folder path for library clauses in the outline view of the contract document. |
Mandatory | August | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Propagate changes in currency rate sets to CLID Upon updates to currency rate or addition of new currency rate set, administrators or contract users will have the option to refresh the same data automatically in contract line item documents (CLID). |
Mandatory | |
July |
| Ability to change the Combined Spend setting before the start of the contract workspace approval task This feature allows customers, who have enabled the Combined Spend functionality on contract workspaces, to change the selection for the Combined Spend field on contract before the start of an approval task. This is useful when a procurement contract workspace that was initially not created as a combined spend contract to be converted to the combined spend type to enable spend data aggregation for it. With this feature enabled, users authorized to edit contract workspaces will see the Combined Spend field when they open a contract workspace for editing. |
Optional | |
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 |
| Non-disclosure agreement contracts This feature allows SAP Ariba Contracts users to create, store, manage, and share Non-Disclosure Agreements with counterparties. |
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 |
| Lot Support for Contracts Now administrators can add a lot definition within a procurement contract workspace project template, and users who create a contract workspace based on that template can add a lot to a contract line items document (CLID) within the contract workspace. The lot can be created in the contract workspace without having to first create it in a sourcing event. |
Optional | 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 |
| Control the deletion of line items from a Contracts Line Item Document (CLID) This feature provides users the option to disable line items in the CLID thus preventing further edits while retaining the line item on the User Interface(UI) for future reference. |
Mandatory | |
April |
| Validation of Master Data At the point of amending and publishing a contract, this feature checks and informs users for changes that might have occurred in the associated back-end master data since the contract was last published. |
Optional | |
March |
| Mass edit of the Release Creator and Release Approver fields This feature enhances the project mass edit functionality by adding support for the Release Creator and Release Approver fields in contract workspaces. Mass edit changes to these two fields are synced to the Release Approver and Release Access Users fields in the integrated compliance contracts. These enhancements allow customers to make changes to the users with release access and release approval privileges without having to amend the contract workspace. |
Optional | March | |
| Include the contracts ID from operational procurement system in the CLID Excel and webservice exports. This feature enables the Contracts Line Item Excel and webservice exports to include contract IDs from the operational procurement system. |
Optional | March | |
| Use Contracts Currency in Savings Tracker Use the currency field in Contracts in the savings tracker instead of the default realm currency. |
Mandatory | February | |
| Display risk scores of suppliers to contract owners This feature shows contracts users an in-application snapshot view of the real-time risk scores of suppliers. |
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 |
| 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 | |
| Price by time for sourcing events and contract CLIDs This feature extends the capabilities in Simple RFx that allows for collecting price by time for Sourcing events and Contract Line Item Documents (CLID). Buyers will be able to request pricing from the supplier for a # of periods, chose the periods (Month/Qtr/Year) and when to start the periods. |
Mandatory |
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January |
