Previously, the Ariba system did not send the Purchase Order (PO) attachments or comments to the ERP system, causing users to manually copy attachments and comments to the ERP.

Feature CF-5445: Allow Attachments and Comments as part of Purchase Order Real Time Export provides users of Ariba Procurement Solutions the ability to send the attachments and comments in purchase orders to external systems like ERP systems. This feature is enabled and below parameter needs to be enabled :

Application.Ordering.AllowOrderCommentToERP

Application.Ordering.AllowOrderAttachmentToERP

If you would like to have this parameter enabled on your site, you can create a Case and an SAP Support Engineer can enable it for you.

• This feature is currently available for Web Service channel only
• Only comments and attachments marked as visible to supplier are sent to ERP
• Endpoint integration setup is required

• Attachments on PO Header and Line Level
• Visible to Supplier(Flag) for Attachments
• File Size
• Creator
• Comments on PO Header and Line Level
• Visible to Supplier(Flag) for Comments

• New PO creation
• Change PO action

• For buyer organizations that use PeopleSoft or Simple Generic ERP systems, the organization will have to write their own code for integration with ERP to persist the attachments and comments on New Purchase Order creation and Change Purchase Order action.
• For buyer organizations that use SAP as their external ERP, please note that while the infrastructure to transmit the Attachments and Comments from Ariba has been built, the required development to consume this in SAP ERP will be developed in the future as a road map item (possibly an integration feature in CI9).
• Comments and attachments will not be send to ERP system for the Purchase Order Cancel interface.

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