SAP Ariba On-Demand: Q3 2017 Quarterly Release - SAP Ariba Applications
We are pleased to announce that the SAP Ariba Q3 2017 Quarterly Release is planned for deployment on Friday, August 18, 2017*, including SAP Ariba Applications features for the SAP Ariba Supplier Management, SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, and the SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions.
Click on a link to see what's planned for the release.
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SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Features
SAP Ariba Supplier Management Features
SAP Ariba Procurement Features
Planned New Features for SAP Ariba Applications
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Strategic Procurement Features
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing
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Description
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Solutions
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| Participant response status visibility |
This feature would allow for sharing more information about the supplier activity while still hiding their response until the event closes. |
SAP Ariba Sourcing
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| Create sourcing request from spend analysis |
This features helps in automatically creating a Sourcing Request from a Spend Analysis report. The Sourcing Request will be pre-populated with relevant information from the report such as commodity, region, and part-level detail including description, price and quantity. Sourcing Requests will also be flagged by origin in order to track a pipeline of sourcing opportunities created by Spend Analysis. |
SAP Ariba Sourcing
SAP Ariba Spend Analysis |
| Drag-and-drop document imports |
Enables users to add documents to projects by dragging and dropping document icons to a drag-and-drop area in the user interface.
This feature is also available when adding attachments for completed tasks or attachments for posts in a message board.
Sourcing event participants can also use this feature when including a message in a response for an event. |
SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| Cumulative redline of contracts |
Through the rounds of negotiations, the changes made by either parties are captured and stored as part of the agreement document. With that, owners can accept and reject necessary changes in the document itself. |
SAP Ariba Contracts |
| Formula field support in contracts |
This feature will enable customers to use Formula Fields in CLID. This feature comes with the Lookup Table capability as well. |
SAP Ariba Contracts |
| Mobile Approval App for iOS |
With this feature approvals and task completion can be managed through a native iOS application for mobile devices. |
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
| Multi-ID, empty field, and deactivated owner searches |
Enhance searches for the project mass edit by supporting multiple Contract ID filter field, match empty or null values for fields and ability to select for deactivated users in the Owner field. |
SAP Ariba Contracts |
| Import Contract Line Items Document (CLID) using XML web service |
This feature provides a new web service, Import Contract Line Items Document (CLID) using XML, to import contract line items documents in XML format using a SOAP web service. |
SAP Ariba Contracts |
| Business System ID vendor details |
A new Business System ID vendor key value is now available in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing solutions. SAP Ariba uses the Business System ID vendor key value to determine the correct ERP system to use in multiple ERP system integrations. Business System ID represents an identifier used in an ERP to identify an ERP business system. SAP Ariba uses the Business System ID value to match the correct ERP system (System ID) when buyers have a multiple ERP system integration. |
SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| Create contracts in supplier-bid currency |
This feature allows buyers to create or append to a contract, or send a contract to an ERP system to create a PO or OA, in either the event currency or the currency in which the supplier bids. |
SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP Ariba Sourcing
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Strategic Procurement Features
SAP Ariba Supplier Management
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| Dashboard filter of My Suppliers |
Ability to filter on My Suppliers based on category and region |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
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| Expression pattern for text field validation |
Allows users to define a specific format for text field data validation at the time of data entry. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
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| Extended address component |
This feature has the ability to replicate the detailed address fields that exist in ERP. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
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| Mass invite suppliers for registration |
Ability to invite several 1000s of suppliers and track supplier registration status. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
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| Supplier Lifecycle Management Dashboard |
Ability to track activities initiated by the user such as Supplier request, Registration, Qualification, Preferred, Disqualification and have visibility into all suppliers based on the user matrix. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
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| Request additional info on Supplier request |
Ability for approvers to request any additional info or clarification they need when approving or rejecting a supplier request |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture)
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| Support Qualification expiration - MCP |
Expiration of support qualification request based on system metrics. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance |
| Filtering and sort at column-level for all tables on dashboard and supplier profile |
All columns in tables on dashboard and supplier profile can now be filtered on, and sorted in descending or ascending order. Also, lists can now be exported into Excel. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| Self-service supplier risk score configuration |
This feature allows customers to upload the risk score configuration workbook in their sites in order to not only specify an initial configuration but also update their scoring models on an ongoing basis to make adjustments. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| User experience enhancements for Supplier 360 - Risk tab |
Easy on the eye and meaningful grouping of risk profile components to enable specific business process integrations in the future. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| Supplier enrichment engine in Ariba stack |
Auto enrich and publish for risk intelligence gathering, suppliers integrated with unified vendor model with risk related attributes based on third party reference structure for corporate hierarchy and relationships, to enable risk exposure identification across the entity. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| Engagement level risk assessment critical enhancements |
Skip assessments, add fields for previous assessed date and score, view previous assessments to let user determine resend assessments, resend assessments to a different supplier or internal user. Also, now user can add suppliers downstream in the engagement level risk assessment process instead of mandatory in the engagement request document. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| Engagement risk request to assessment process |
This feature introduces a template-based process for allowing users to request supplier engagements (for example, for contracting work). The engagement level risk assessment process is highly customizable and can include both supplier-facing and internal questionnaires with conditional content, conditional approval flows, and standardized scoring to determine the risk level of each engagement. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| Risk assessment scoring to determine high risk engagements |
Target score and residual risk score calculation when assessment is completed drives the overall risk for the engagement level. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
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Operational Procurement Features
SAP Ariba Procurement
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| Catalog item comparison in guided buying |
This feature allows the end user to compare catalog items within guided buying. |
guided buying capability |
| Allow users to view and run reports |
Configure landing page tiles that give users access to view and run reports, such as reports about requisitions that they created. When users click a reporting tile, they are redirected to your SAP Ariba reporting site to view and run reports. |
guided buying capability |
| Enhanced sourcing processes |
Cancel a submitted RFQ in cases where you decide not to move forward. Create sourcing request documents for high-touch tactical sourcing. |
guided buying capability |
| Commodity code filters in ad hoc requisitions |
This feature allows the end users in guided buying to see a filtered list of commodity codes when creating an ad hoc requisition. |
guided buying capability |
| Purchasing unit hierarchy support in guided buying landing page |
This feature allows for visibility of landing pages based upon Purchasing unit (PU) hierarchy. |
guided buying capability |
| Support for closing or reopening orders based on order status imported from an external system |
This feature gives users the ability to close or reopen orders in the SAP Ariba Procurement Solution, based on the order status imported via flat file from the external system, to ensure that order status is in sync in both systems. |
SAP Ariba Buying
SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing
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| Team requisitioning |
This feature allows multiple users to work on a requisition before submitting it. |
SAP Ariba Buying
SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| Customize purchase order and invoice print layouts |
This feature enables administrators to customize the print layout of purchase orders and invoices. They can create multiple print layout templates for users to select when printing individual orders and invoices. |
SAP Ariba Buying
SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing
SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
| Flexible address formats |
With this feature, customers can change the format of addresses shown in the user interface and print outs. |
SAP Ariba Buying
SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing
SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
| Tax and shipping exceptions on line item credit memos |
This feature supports tax and shipping exceptions on line item credit memos. These exceptions allow exception handlers to edit taxes and shipping charges on line item credit memos during reconciliation to correct discrepancies. |
SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing
SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
For more details, please contact your Customer Engagement Executive.This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of July 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
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Procurement
Service requisitions and email notifications
Greater purchasing flexibility for users in guided buying
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Click on a link to see what's planned for the release.
Quick Links
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Features
SAP Ariba Supplier Management Features
SAP Ariba Procurement Features
Planned New Features for SAP Ariba Applications
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Solutions
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| Sourcing Requests tile |
This feature introduces a new Sourcing Requests dashboard action tile for buyers. The Sourcing Requests tile shows information about sourcing requests for which buyers are the owner, team member, or both. |
SAP Ariba Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, advanced edition
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| Support multiple currencies for line items in a Contract Line Items Document (CLID) |
This SAP Ariba Contracts feature allows buyers to specify different currencies for different line items in a Contract Line Items Document (CLID). |
SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, advanced edition |
| Display changes made to line items in contract line items documents |
This SAP Ariba Contracts feature allows owners of Approval, Review, or Negotiation tasks to view differences in line item attributes between the previous published version and revised (published or draft) contract line items documents (CLID) version, thus helping them quickly approve changes. This feature also allows buyers or creators of CLID documents to view differences in line item attributes between CLID document versions. |
SAP Ariba Contracts
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, advanced edition |
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| SAP Ariba Supplier Management |
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| Search based on questions |
This feature provides ability to search on any questions with limited answer types. |
SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing
SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, advanced edition |
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| SAP Ariba Procurement |
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| Combined Spend Contract Workspace |
The concept of combined spend is introduced to permit businesses more visibility and greater flexibility in procurement spend.
- Allow user to see Contract Terms related to Purchase Orders, Receipts, and Invoices
- Allow user to see Contract Workspace related Purchase Orders and Invoices (ad hoc transactions)
- Allow user to link contract document from other Contract Workspace projects that are combined spend |
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| Enhancements to service requisitioning process |
This feature includes the following enhancements to the service requisitioning process:
- User interface changes to allow buyers to create service requisitions by specifying the item category.
- Ability to import service requisitions from external systems and manage them in SAP Ariba Buying solutions. |
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| Managing email notifications |
This feature enables administrators to manage email notification settings and their recipients based on groups and roles. It also enables users to manage their individual email notification preferences and specify if they do not want to receive certain administrative emails. |
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| Ability to add or delete approvers |
This feature allows the end users to add ad hoc approvers/watchers to the requisition approval flow. |
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| Supplier search and details page |
This feature allows the user to search for suppliers by supplier Name. Suppliers are displayed as tiles in search results similar to catalog items. Users will also be able to look at basic Supplier information by clicking on the Supplier tiles. |
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| Improved commodity selection on a request |
This feature allows the user to choose a commodity code from an intuitive tree diagram when creating a request. |
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| Enhanced sourcing processes |
Add multiple line items on a request for quotation (RFQ). Cancel a submitted RFQ in cases where you decide not to move forward. Create sourcing request documents for high-touch tactical sourcing. |
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| Enhanced landing page configuration |
This feature provides an ability to define landing pages using an intuitive UI. The new interface supports landing pages tiles that lead to another landing page, a form, or an external web address. |
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| Cross Catalog Search |
This feature provides the user with the ability to search items from various content channels using a single search interface. |
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| Report of expiring catalog items |
With this feature, a new 'Catalogs with items expiring in 30 days' report displays the various catalogs that contain items that expire within the next 30 days. |
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| Third-party systems integration for tax determination on approvable documents |
This feature supports integration between SAP Ariba solutions and third-party tax calculation systems to allow users to add externally calculated tax data on requisitions and invoice reconciliation documents. |
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| Enhanced approval flow reporting |
This feature provides a new Approvals fact to include approval flow related information. Using this fact, customers can generate a single report to view approved by users, active, and pending approvers. This fact also includes approval cycle times, queue assignments, and provides information about delegated approver roles. |
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| Customizing the accept and dispute action labels on invoice reconciliation documents |
With this feature, customers can define the names of the accept and dispute exception-handling actions displayed on invoice reconciliation documents. This helps exception handlers to distinctly identify all the options available to resolve invoice exceptions before they choose the most appropriate action based on their business needs. |
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| Invoiced amount accumulator changes on contracts and purchase orders |
This feature provides an option to control if the invoiced and available amount calculation on no-release order contracts includes or excludes taxes and charges to avoid that contracts are closed prematurely. It also corrects the way that the remaining amount (amount that is yet to be invoiced) is calculated on purchase orders. |
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| Self-service group management for private help communities |
Assign special groups to your purchasing experts and to the people who maintain your custom help content in your guided buying private help community. Users in these groups can ensure a smooth and successful purchasing experience for your guided buying users. |
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For more details, please contact your Customer Engagement Executive.This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of April 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
