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This page includes a list of features planned for the SAP Ariba July 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.
| Strategic Procurement | ||
| Feature | Description | Solutions |
| Non-disclosure agreement contracts | This feature allows SAP Ariba Contracts users to create, store, manage, and share Non-Disclosure Agreements with counterparties. | SAP Ariba Contracts |
| API to trigger workflow in external system | This application programming interface (API) allow users to configure and trigger the export of documents and header level information, from a contract workspace in SAP Ariba Contracts to an external workflow system as well as update approval status in the contract workspace based on updates from the external system. | SAP Ariba Contracts |
| 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). | SAP Ariba Contracts |
| 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. | SAP Ariba Contracts |
| Enhancements to Web Services to Create Service Lines in Sourcing Events | This feature enhances both the current webservices to create sourcing events and to download sourcing event awards with hierarchical service lines support. | SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| Define number of rounds a participant can miss before being ejected from a Japanese auction | Functionality enhancement that allows users to define how many rounds of a Japanese auction a supplier can miss before being ejected from the event. | SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| 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). | SAP Ariba Contracts SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| 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. | SAP Ariba Contracts SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| 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. | SAP Ariba Contracts SAP Ariba Sourcing |
| Issue tracking and remediation - configurable content and approval workflows | This release enhances the existing Issue Management document by establishing a structured framework to follow your issue management process in 5 phases with out-of-the-box tasks embedded in each phase. | SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| Point based scoring on engagement risk project | Point based scoring introduces a way to award / pre-grade each response with a number of points and adds all the pre-grades together to calculate the final score. | SAP Ariba Supplier Risk |
| SLP bi-directional integration to SAP using SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) | Integration through SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) will enable SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle & Performance (SLP) to be integrated bi-directionally with ECC or MDG-s. | SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture) |
| Bank component for supplier management questionnaires | This feature introduces a new answer type, Bank Account, for questions in supplier management questionnaires. Bank Account questions include a set of predefined fields for collecting bank details. Now, instead of adding individual questions to a supplier management questionnaire for each bank detail field, you can simply add a Bank Account question. | SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (new architecture) |
| Operational Procurement | ||
| Feature | Description | Solutions |
| Include catalog images as part of JSON response for items in SAP Ariba Catalogs | This enhancement addresses the limitation around the ability to transfer physical images uploaded as part of the catalog in SAP Ariba Catalogs. With this new feature the locally uploaded images in SAP Ariba Catalogs are extracted, zipped, encoded as Base 64 byte stream and then sent as part of the response along with catalog item details over the network. This allows the caller (e.g. SRM) to obtain catalog item details as well as images associated with the items in the same response object. They will then decode the byte stream, unzip the zipped file and then upload the images into the caller content server. | SAP Ariba Catalog |
| Suppliers can cancel a failed ship notice | When ship notices are not delivered to the buyer's ERP, Ariba Network changes the routing status of the document to *_Failed_*,. Suppliers can now cancel a failed ship notice, which releases the shipped quantities specified in the ship notice document. | Ariba Network |
| Require header service dates on integrated SES and invoice | A new option is being provided to buyers to enforce suppliers to send Start/End date at the header for integrated Service Entry Sheet (SES) and invoices if needed by the ERP. | SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Invoice Automation |
| Email notification enhancements | With this feature, quote automation includes the following information in the email notifications that are sent to suppliers:
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SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Export supplier responses in PDF file | The buyer has the option to download all supplier responses in a non-editable PDF format. This report has the details of all supplier responses to all line items in an RFQ. | SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Generating RFQ reports for buyers | Buyers can create a reporting template for RFQs and run it to generate reports either on schedule or manually. Buyers can generate the following types of RFQ reports:
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SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Automatically attaching all the supplier responses in a PDF file when a buyer awards | Buyer administrators can configure a rule so that when a buyer makes an award, quote automation automatically attaches all the supplier bids in a PDF file, attaches it to the QuoteMessage cXML document and sends it to the ERP system. Buyers can use this PDF file for compliance purposes. | SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Download event details with list separator option | The event detail download file will now be available in both comma and semicolon separated files. | SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Language translations for custom fields | With this feature, administrators can upload language translations of custom field names created in a posting configuration template so that suppliers can view the translated labels on the Provide Your Quote page. Quote automation provides a CSV template file which administrators can download and then edit with the desired language translations and then upload them to the specific posting configuration template. You can upload only one translation file for each language in each posting configuration template. | SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Remove line item from bid | Suppliers can now remove any line item from the Provide Your Quote page and continue with the bidding process. Quote automation removes the line item from the bid. Suppliers can include the line item when they create a new bid. | SAP Ariba Commerce Automation: Quote Automation |
| Guided buying capability integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud | Targeted for casual and functional buyers who purchase from suppliers as part of their function in SAP S/4HANA, this integration with guided buying capability of SAP Ariba allows procurement organizations to scale self-service purchasing across spend categories while enforcing compliance. | SAP Ariba Buying, with the guided buying capability SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing, with the guided buying capability |
| Display users approval amount on user profile | This feature displays a users approval amount (approval limit) when editing the user profile. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing |
| SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP Ariba Master Data Native Integration | Native Integration between SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
| Allow service order-based invoicing without service sheet | With this feature, SAP Ariba can be configured to NOT require approved service sheets as part of the process when manually creating an invoice against a service order. | SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
| Increased maximum size of approver lookup CSV files to 30 MB | This feature will allow customers to upload CSV rule files up to 30 MB in size. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing SAP Ariba Invoice Management SAP Ariba Contract Invoicing SAP Ariba Catalog |
| Validate Sender address instead of From address in approval emails when Delegate Access is enabled | With this feature, SAP Ariba validates the Sender attribute instead of the From attribute in email meta data during approvals. This prohibits email delegates (an Outlook feature) from approving documents on behalf of someone else when using email approval in SAP Ariba. This feature also captures the attempt in the History of the document and sends an email notifying the intended approver. | SAP Ariba operational procurement solutions |
| Enhancement to items to confirm list feature | The list view, Items to Confirm, allows suppliers to process purchase order line item for order confirmations faster and more efficiently. The functionality is now being made available to all Ariba Network suppliers. | Ariba Network: Supplier |
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Feature |
Description |
Solutions |
| Buyer-controlled routing of orders | A new buyer transaction rule has been added that allows buyers to override the supplier's routing method for orders that match specified conditions. Buyers can use this rule to prevent types of orders from being routed to an external supplier integration channel. An order that matches any of the conditions is routed to the supplier's online inbox instead. This provides flexibility to buyers and allows the downstream processes to be set up accordingly. | All SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration buyer users All supplier users with a relationship with one or more SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration buyers |
| Build priority in aggregated view of forecast | Extract build priority on aggregated level for the forecast data. | All SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration buyer users All supplier users with a relationship with one or more SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration buyers |
| Enhanced webservice to export pricing data from product sourcing | This feature adds the ability for customers to get back data from SAP Ariba Product Sourcing into their storage repositories like DATA LAKE through an enhanced webservice. | SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
| Enhanced material 360° view | Detailed view of the material that includes graphical view of price trend, AML suppliers, PIR information, sourcing events, contracts created, and associated BOMs on a single tab along with links to quickly access supplier information, sourcing events, contracts and associated BOMs. | SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
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Feature |
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Solutions |
| SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP Ariba Master Data Native Integration | Native Integration between SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and SAP Ariba Procurement Solutions. | SAP Ariba Buying SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing SAP Ariba Invoice Management |
| API to trigger workflow in external system | This application programming interface (API) allow users to configure and trigger the export of documents and header level information, from a contract workspace in SAP Ariba Contracts to an external workflow system as well as update approval status in the contract workspace based on updates from the external system. | SAP Ariba Contracts |
This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of June 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.
