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SAP Ariba On-Demand: Ariba Network Q1 2017 Quarterly Release

We are pleased to announce that the Ariba Network Q1 2017 Quarterly Release is planned for deployment on Friday, February 17, 2017*, focusing on features for Ariba Network solutions.

Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:

Global Tax Invoicing

Drive compliant tax invoicing in more countries

Benefit from added support that lets your suppliers meet new e-invoicing requirements in Mexico and send you compliant services invoices in Chile.

SAP Ariba Supply Chain

Optimize your supply chain and collaborate on quality

Gain real-time visibility and control to better monitor and manage every aspect of supply. Easily ensure that orders meet your business rules and don’t exceed variances you set. Collaborate with suppliers and trading partners to track and process quality issues quickly.

Ariba Network

Make effective order management simple

Automate approval requests before suppliers reject specific POs and prevent rejection of already-invoiced line items and orders. Manage order confirmations more easily and see new unit of measure details. Expedite accurate returns processing to get the right refunds fast.

SAP Ariba Payables

Increase payment efficiency

Process payments in larger batches for greater efficiency. Configure currency-specific APRs and early payment limits on supplier discounts. Easily generate credit memos that meet regulatory requirements. Access new tax info on remittance advice and scheduled payment documents.

 

Click on a link to see what's planned for the release.

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General Ariba Network Features

Collaborative Supply Chain Features

Strategic Payables Features

 

Planned New Features for the Ariba Network

General Ariba Network Features
Feature	Description	Solutions
Help center to replace Help@Ariba	We’re reshaping how users learn, become informed, and find solutions to their questions. With this release, Help@Ariba will be retired for all customers in their test and production sites and replaced by a new help center, which provides a better user experience for accessing relevant content and finding information about your SAP Ariba solutions.  Some of the key highlights of the new help center are:  • Access to FAQs, technical articles, product documentation, and tutorials in one place  • Improved search across all content and attachments  • Tags to find related content quickly  • An easy to navigate Learning Center to browse product documentation  • Ability to provide feedback to us on the content items You access the help center help center as you access Help@Ariba today	Ariba Network
Enhanced confirmation status logic	Previously, when the Retain confirmation status for unchanged line items on change orders rule was enabled, only four line item fields were evaluated to determine if the line item was unchanged: • Quantity • Requested Delivery Date • Unit Price • Supplier Part ID Now, several more purchase order fields are evaluated to determine if the line item was unchanged. In addition, when the rule Retain confirmation status for unchanged line items on change orders is enabled, the confirmation status is retained for any line item that has a rejected quantity (full or partial).	Ariba Network
Additional country-specific invoice fields defaulted from buyer and supplier profile	To ensure legal compliance and facilitate the supplier's completion of invoices, several fields have been added to the buyer's and supplier's profile. In countries that require these values, invoices will automatically be populated with these default values; suppliers can edit the invoice to change them.	Ariba Invoice Management
Preventing suppliers from rejecting purchase orders	Ariba Network buyers can enable a new business rule to prevent suppliers from rejecting purchase orders at the header level. If this new business rule is enabled and a supplier can't fulfill an order, they must contact the buyer to request a change order.	Ariba Purchase Order Automation
Prevent suppliers from sending invoices to selected countries	With this feature, buyers can now update their country invoicing rules to prevent suppliers from sending invoices to selected countries.	Ariba Purchase Order Automation
Prevent suppliers from rejecting invoiced line items (Feature has been delayed)	This order confirmation enhancement improves the validation logic behind rejecting line items or entire orders. With this enhancement, suppliers cannot reject: • Line item quantities that have already been invoiced • An entire order that’s already been invoiced	Ariba Purchase Order Automation
Line-item credit memos for receipts with returned items	With this feature, suppliers can create a line-item credit memo for receipts with returned items from the purchase order, when the Require references to receipts on invoices rule is enabled. The resulting line-item credit memo references the receipts the supplier chose to credit. Suppliers can create a line-item credit memo for receipts with returned items only if they already invoiced the received items. Optionally, suppliers can also create the line-item credit memo for a receipt with returned items from the invoice for those items. In this case, the receipt references are copied from the invoice to the line-item credit memo.	Ariba Invoice Automation
Service invoice date assignment options	By default, the auto-generated service sheet scenario uses the service sheet approval date as the service invoice date. This new rule allows suppliers to enter the service invoice date and retains it instead of replacing it with the service sheet approval date.	Ariba Network
Tax invoicing in Chile: Support for services invoicing	Ariba Network supports Chile's mandated XML format (DTE) for electronic service invoices, including PO invoices, non-PO invoices, and CSV invoices. Business references linked to service entry sheet (SES) are also supported. Suppliers can create DTE invoices on Ariba Network or submit them through an integrated service provider.  Chilean tax invoicing support is also delivered through the Ariba adapter with the addition of new cXML segments.	Ariba-Procure-to-Order Ariba Invoice Automation
Tax Invoicing in Mexico: Legal change regarding payment method codes	Mexican Tax Authority (SAT) has set a list of codes for payment methods that must be included within the mandated CFDI format. These new payment methods are supported by Ariba's UI and cXML accordingly.	Ariba-Procure-to-Order Ariba Invoice Automation
Quote Automation Enhancements - Posting configuration templates for RFQs	While creating RFQs in the ERP system, buyers can specify a posting configuration template from the available templates in Ariba Discovery. Quote automation applies the specified configuration template on the RFQ posting.	Ariba Quote Automation
Quote Automation Enhancements - RFQ postings on Ariba Discovery support attachments	When buyers use ERP systems to publish RFQs that include attachments at the header and line-item level, Ariba Discovery displays the attachments with RFQ postings accordingly.
Quote Automation Enhancements - Downloading RFQ details	On Ariba Discovery, buyers can download and view the details of each published RFQ in CSV format.
Quote Automation Enhancements - Posting configurations support extrinsic fields	On Ariba Discovery, buyers can create fields in a posting configuration template that match the extrinsic fields of an RFQ, capture the data, and display them to suppliers.

 

Collaborative Supply Chain Features
Feature	Description	Solutions
Error notification improvements	It is important that buyers find out quickly whenever there is an error in a document or a failure in its delivery. With the "error notification improvements" feature, Ariba Network provides buyer users immediate notification of error messages for all documents transmitted through Ariba Network, including Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain messages.	Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain
Supply chain collaboration dashboard	Decision makers need want real-time status information about orders, shipments, deliveries, and payments, and they especially need proactive exception alerts when suppliers are unable to meet key supply chain requirements, so that they can ensure availability of supply. The supply chain collaboration dashboard feature enables decision makers to aggregate all key actionable supply chain data into personalized dashboards. For example, procurement managers may customize their dashboard with a chart that tracks supplier performance over time, while transportation managers might employ a chart tracking carrier performance.	Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain
Quality notification collaboration	Quality notification collaboration allows buyers and their trading partners to collaborate on quality information to record and process internal or external problems associated with defects, customer complaints, and related quality issues. With this feature they can submit the following types of quality notifications to record and process internal or external issues:  • Defect analysis  • Customer complaint  • Deviation reported by supplier  • Complaint against vendor  • Documentation	Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain
API for error monitoring	Buyers often need timely information about the status of purchase orders and other documents as they are transmitted through Ariba Network. The "API for error monitoring" feature allows buyers to create applications that aggregate and report the status and error messages for their documents in Ariba Network.	Ariba Collaborative Supply Chain

 

Ariba Strategic Payables Features
Feature	Description	Solutions
Dynamic discounting – automated credit memos	With the SAP Ariba Payables solution buyers may configure the Ariba Network to create dynamic discounting credit memos in countries requiring a credit memo to support early payments agreed upon after the issue of the invoice.	Ariba Network Ariba Discount Professional
Currency-specific discount rates	Buyers can configure currency-specific annual percentage rates (APR) that apply to buyer-initiated discount offers.	Ariba Network Ariba Discount Professional
Currency-specific early payment limit configuration	Buyers can now configure payment limits per currency that apply to all buyer-initiated discounts. When the early payment limit is reached, Ariba Network prevents suppliers from requesting further payments in the given period.	Ariba Network Ariba Discount Professional
Remittance advice and scheduled payment enhancements	Remittance Advice and Scheduled Payment documents now display information about the amount per withholding tax type. The Remittance Advice Detail report has the following new fields: Header  • Supplier Tax ID Line Items  • Payable Reference: Payment Proposal Number  • Comments The cXML DTDs now support multiple withholding taxes at the item level.	Ariba Purchase Order Automation
Large batch payment support	The SAP Ariba Payables solution has been enhanced to support larger payment batches; payment batches containing up to 10,000 remittances can now be processed.	Ariba Payables AribaPay

For more details, please contact your Customer Engagement Executive.

* This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of January 2017 and the features discussed are subject to change at any time without notice.  SAP Ariba assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions and nothing in this web page should be construed to represent any commitment by SAP Ariba to include any specific new features in any version of the SAP Ariba solutions.