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This page includes a list of features planned for the SAP Ariba June 2018 release. 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. For additional information, visit the Release Readiness tile on SAP Ariba Connect.
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| Feature | Description | Solutions |
| 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. | SAP Ariba Sourcing SAP Ariba Contracts |
| Modular supplier management questionnaire | This feature introduces a new type of supplier management questionnaire for collecting information from suppliers in modular units, providing buyers flexibility to create standalone questionnaires that can be applied for multiple categories, regions, and business units. | SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture) |
| Customer-configurable duplicate check in supplier requests | This feature adds a new questionnaire attribute "Enable Duplicate Check" which includes the question response as part of the duplicate check performed during the supplier request process. | SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture) |
| Support for business unit-specific notifications in supplier request process | This feature supports business unit-specific notifications to suppliers and approvers in the supplier request workflow. The supplier can chose the business unit it wants to submit its self registration request to, which sends the review/approval notification to the reviewer associated with the approval workflow for that business unit. | SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture) |
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| Feature | Description | Solutions |
| Standardized display of rejection reasons for invoices and service entry sheets | When the buyer rejects a Service Entry Sheet (SES), they can provide a comment. The supplier can now view the rejection reasons specified by buyers on the Details tab of invoices and SES. Suppliers need not navigate to the History tab of the documents to find the these rejection reasons. | Ariba Network |
| Allow suppliers to partially confirm fully rejected line items |
If the customer only allows full line item rejection, suppliers will now be able to partially confirm an item that had been fully rejected in the previous order confirmation. The remaining quantity (i.e. the quantity that has not been confirmed by the supplier) will go back to being unconfirmed. | Ariba Network |
| Ability to copy file attachments from supplier proposal to requisitions | With this feature, files sent as attachments with a collaboration proposal from a supplier can easily be selected to be attached to the associated requisition when a user accepts the proposal. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| Multiple delegations (Store Persona) |
This feature allows for multiple delegations for a user as well as the ability for a delegatee to create orders and perform receiving when acting as that user. Documents created will use the users permissions, default accounting and ship-to information, as well as catalog view. This allows a customer to efficiently model stores as users in Ariba. Through delegation, administrators can then assign employees (delegatees) the ability to act as that user. |
SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| SLA report for demand aggregation | This feature allows customers to report on the time it takes to aggregate held lines. It also allows customers to report on other aspects of demand aggregation, for example, load on the purchasing agents, and the order ID for every held item. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| Enhanced approvable edit rules |
This feature introduces additional Edit Rule conditions that let you define under which circumstances the approval workflow should be redrawn or retriggered.
In addition, SAP Ariba now supports the ability to specify absolute and percentage tolerances for the change/increase in Total or Line item amount. |
SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| Ability to manually add approvers belonging to different purchasing units | Previously, you could manually add users to an approval flow, either as approvers or watchers, provided they are from the same purchasing unit as the requester. This feature allows you to manually add a user belonging to a different purchasing unit than the requester, to the approval flow. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| Invoice reconciliation - enrichment and validation | The invoice reconciliation enrichment and validation feature provides a single organizational view in processing and approving invoices. The API brings any validation errors or enrichment required from an external system into SAP Ariba so that end user has one place to verify and execute the settlement process for an invoice. Enrich and Validate API can be triggered from SAP Ariba solution at the time of IR creation, edits to invoice data by approver or at the end of IR approval process in SAP Ariba. Faster invoice processing results in opportunities to take early payment discounts, if applicable, hence positively impacting free cash flow. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| Tax calculation in external systems in partnership with Vertex |
This feature enables integration between the SAP Ariba solution and Vertex, or alternative 3rd party tax provider (Open API), in addition to the integration with OneSource from Thomson Reuters. Buyers can choose either or both requisitions and invoice reconciliation documents as the approvable types for which taxes should be calculated using the external tax solution during following actions:
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SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
| Guided buying checkout page update | With the feature, the Guided Buying checkout user interface will be redesigned to be more efficient and present the user with information that is easier to understand. | SAP Ariba Buying, with the guided buying capability SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, with the guided buying capability |
| Customize invoice ID length | Users can now modify the length of the invoice ID number so that it is more easily consumed by their ERP. | SAP Ariba Spot Buy Catalog |
| Return policy manager | This feature allows the procurement admin to specify a custom message for their end user on how to handle returns for exchange or refund for items purchased in SAP Ariba Spot Buy Catalog. The return policy will be included in the Order Confirmation (OC) and Advanced Ship Notice (ASN) emails that the end-user gets for each SAP Ariba Spot Buy Catalog order. | SAP Ariba Spot Buy Catalog |
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| Replenishment orders for supplier-managed inventory | The SMI model expects the buyers to have a Scheduling Agreement defined to allow the suppliers to replenish. In many industries and regions, the suppliers need to plan and replenish based on their MRP requirements. In such a scenario, suppliers don't rely on an order from the buyers. Instead, the supplier's MRP system plans for fulfillment by automatically creating a Sales Order in their system based on the buyer's demand. | SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration |
| Cancellation of a replenishment order | Replenishment Orders can be linked to the Buyer generated PO and the suppliers can cancel the Replenishment Order which will allow the cancellation of the PO. | SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration |
| Planning collaboration usability improvements | This feature enables additional date filters and settings to make it easier for the user to determine which data is displayed and available for download and upload. | SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration |
| Monitoring and processing of BOM loads into product sourcing | Provides visibility into BOM upload processes for monitoring purpose. | SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
| BOM and material search with advanced filtering and save capabilities | Enhances the search feature with improved user experience to handle multiple criteria search - with filters and ability to choose one or more search terms like Part Type, Contract MFR, Program, Owner, Supplier Category, Pinned Contract MFR, Missing Item Prices, AML Splits, Lead Time, BOM Splits on materials or BOMs. Additionally, the customer can save the search for reusable purposes. | SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
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Access to SAP Ariba APIs is now extended to sites in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) |
With this release, access to the SAP Ariba APIs and the SAP Ariba developer portal will now be extended to sites hosted by SAP Ariba in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) data center. Extension of API access to the Saudi Arabia (KSA) data center enables users and their organizations to:
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| SAP Ariba APIs on SAP API Business Hub |
SAP Ariba API's listed on the SAP Ariba Developer Portal, will now be made available on the SAP API Business Hub. SAP API Business Hub provides easy access to different sandbox application programming interfaces (APIs) of SAP Cloud Platform and other SAP business applications for discovery, testing and learning. |
SAP Ariba APIs |
This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of May 2018 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. Please contact your Customer Engagement Executive for additional details.
