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2008 Feature List
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| Support for separate envelopes for primary and alternative bids [SS-15693] This feature ensures the primary and alternative bids are contained in separate envelopes enabling the team members to evaluate the responses separately. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Enhancements to Excel-file-based email bidding [SS-16570] This feature introduces various enhancements to the Excel-file-based email bidding feature to improve the user experience. The key enhancements include: * Support for event prerequisites * Bidder agreement as an attachment to the event invitation email * Option for suppliers to opt out of an event and further notifications related to the event by declining the event invitation * Response team-related email enhancements such as localized emails, names of response team members in the invitation email, notification about new members in a response team, and improved handling of success and failure messages for bid submission |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Strategic Sourcing for Industries | ||||
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| Usability enhancements to the cost breakdown functionality [DMS-11261] This feature provides enhancements to the cost breakdown functionality for buyers and suppliers in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite. The enhancements enable buyers to perform the following tasks: * Define a formula for the Price term in the RFP event template based on the cost group total values * Configure multiple cost group terms as rollup terms * Add cost groups to analytical reports * Export an event with cost groups to an external system for analysis * Import the cost group content of a line item to an event from an Excel file The enhancements enable suppliers to perform the following tasks: * Export an event with cost groups to an external system for analysis * Submit bids for an event with cost groups by using an Excel file This feature also introduces a streamlined and enhanced user interface, Cost breakdown. The Cost breakdown user interface page allows the buyers and suppliers to view and edit the cost groups content in a single page. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Contracts | ||||
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| Scheduling Agreement integration support from SAP Ariba Contracts to SAP S/4HANA Cloud [SC-10740] This feature enables buyers using the Contract Management with SAP Ariba Contracts (4AZ) integration scenario to publish contracts from SAP Ariba Contracts to S/4HANA Cloud to create and update scheduling agreements. The scheduling agreement integration supports both LP and LPA documents. The documents can contain the header and up to 2000 line items that include materials and free text items. |
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| Enhancements to Contract for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Contracts (4B0) to support advanced pricing conditions and scales in central contracts [SC-11270] This feature enables buyers using the Contract for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Contracts (4B0) to support advanced pricing conditions and scales in central contracts. Central contracts can now include multiple price validity periods and quantity scales. SAP S/4HANA Cloud returns a response containing a Document ID or number, which is updated in the contract workspace in SAP Ariba Contracts in the Related ID field. This document ID is the Central Contract document number which was created in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and the line item numbers are updated against the line items in the contract workspace in SAP Ariba Contracts. |
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| Simplified Excel import of line items [SC-8889] This feature enables you to quickly add line items, including material master line items, to contract workspaces in SAP Ariba Contracts from a Microsoft Excel document. You can specify term values for line items, such as quantity and price. You can also specify values for custom terms. |
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| Serial numbers in component shipment and component inventory documents [CSC-10351] This feature provides support for serial number information in copy ship notices, component shipments, and component inventory. |
Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Forecast commit locking and migration of Planning settings and forecast rules [CSC-15066] For buyers, this feature moves Planning settings to the Planning tab menu for easier access. It also reorganizes how configurations are assigned to suppliers. For suppliers, this feature blocks forecast quantities within a commit lock horizon from being changed, both in the Ariba Network user interface and in Forecast Excel file downloads. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Exclude fully shipped or fully received items from Order Confirmation Excel downloads [CSC-17541] With this feature, an Order Confirmation type job run from the Upload/Download page no longer includes items that are fully shipped or fully received. This feature also adds columns to the Order Confirmation template that contain customer location and shipping instruction information. |
Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Third-party copies of quality inspections [CSC-19284] This feature expands multi-tier collaboration by providing copies of quality inspections to third parties. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Open Order report enhancements for supply-chain visibility [CSC-19753] With this feature, buyers and suppliers can use additional search criteria to refine an Open Order Report: delivery date range, order status, country, and state (when available). This feature also adds columns for the supplier's country, state, city, and street to the generated report, to help in making supply-chain decisions for a specific location. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Schedule line-based order confirmation [CSC-7585] To enforce more granular order-confirmation data, customers can set a transaction rule that requires suppliers to confirm orders at the schedule-line level. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
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| Enrichment of required line-item details in cXML order confirmations sent by integrated suppliers [CSC-17483] With this feature, when the entitlement "Enhanced order confirmation integration capabilities for hosted and integrated suppliers" is enabled, integrated suppliers are able to send a cXML order confirmation that does not use the allDetail type. |
Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Unit price change indicator in service orders [NP-11469] In some business environments, buyers allow suppliers to modify in service sheets and invoices the unit price for line items coming from the service purchase orders or contracts. Buyers can send service orders to Ariba Network from their backend procurement system (such as SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA) where the purchase order cXML document includes line item control keys that allow unit price changes by suppliers. Now, if buyers specify that the unit price is editable in service orders, suppliers can identify the unit price change control keys in the service orders. Suppliers can then change the unit prices in service sheets and invoices. |
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| Transactional support for payment receipts in Mexico [NP-15804] Payment receipts must be issued by suppliers in Mexico when they receive partial payments or payments in full from their buyers after the invoice is issued. Buyers in Mexico who wish to receive cXML payment receipts must configure business endpoints in their Ariba Network accounts. Buyers can either approve or reject payment receipts. Buyers can also run reports for visibility into the Payment Receipts they have received and also for Invoices that have no payment receipts issued. Suppliers can configure their Ariba Network accounts to receive notifications on the payment receipt confirmation status updates from their buyers. |
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| Support for invoicing service purchase orders with hierarchy without service sheet [NP-20125] This feature allows suppliers to create service invoice from a service purchase order that does not require service sheet, and has a service hierarchy. When a buyer sends service orders indicating that supplier does not require to send service sheets for invoicing, Ariba Network flips the outline items from the service purchase order to create a service invoice, maintaining the hierarchy. |
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| Enhancement of blanket purchase order support [NP-21082] This feature introduces support for a new category of service and material line items called limit order in Ariba Network. A limit order line item is defined as the fulfillment of a service or material delivery at a price limited by a predetermined amount within a time period specified by the buyer. It focuses on improving customer experience by optimizing the use of resources. It reduces the time, user effort, and processes involved in procuring low-value materials and services. This feature also introduces a new default transaction rule under Blanket Purchase Order Invoice Rules. Using this rule, users can choose whether or not to add child items while creating an invoice from a purchase order with limit order line items. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Enhancements to line-level credit memos created against contract invoices [NP-22646] Previously, suppliers had to credit full quantity and price while creating line-item credit memos corresponding to contract invoices. This caused inconsistencies in business processes for buyers who returned only partial goods, and expected only partial line-item credit memos from their suppliers. Now, suppliers can create partial line-item credit memos corresponding to contract invoices. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Improved User Interface for Purchase Orders and service entry sheet pages [NS-9798] This feature replaces page header links with icons with menus. Menu items are grouped logically by process, improving navigation and usability. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Nest company settings under user profile [NS-9944] This feature changes the User Interface by nesting the company settings under the user profile and updates the drop down menu sequence. |
Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Extensibility & Configurability | ||||
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| Planning Collaboration Supplier API [CSC-19738] - New API for Suppliers Suppliers enabled for SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration can use the Planning Collaboration Supplier API to retrieve planning information about their buyers. |
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| Purchase Orders Supplier API [CSC-20754] - New API for Suppliers With the Purchase Orders Supplier API, suppliers can retrieve order or line-item information from Ariba Network. |
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| Support of RPA BOTs on the Developer Portal [OPEC-6466] Feature adds a new interface that allows customers to register their RPA BOTs. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
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| Support multiple attachments at header level for purchase orders and order confirmations for suppliers integrated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud [IG-14739] This feature introduces support for multiple attachments at header level for purchase orders and order confirmations for suppliers integrated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud through the Cloud Integration Gateway. |
Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Support for attachments and multiple comments with sales order on SAP ERP AddOn for suppliers [IG-15199] The feature enables suppliers on Ariba Network using SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway to integrate their SAP ERP with Ariba Network to receive attachments and multiple comments with the sales order and send an attachment, if any, on order confirmations to Ariba Network. Now, SAP ERP add-on supports the following features:-Attachments at the header-level for purchase order and order confirmation-Multiple comments at the line-level and header-level on the purchase order. |
Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Support for sending notes in RFQs and quote messages [IG-16754] With the Automation of Source-to-Pay with Ariba Network (42K) scope item, notes in request for quotations (RFQ) and quote messages can now be transferred between SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Ariba Network through the SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway. |
Buyers & Suppliers | see release guide | ||
| Validation of SAML assertions configured on inbound transaction documents in Test Central [IG-17536] The SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway Test Central tool can now validate SAML assertions configured on inbound transaction documents and display the correct test status. It also displays the error details if a test fails and enables suppliers to rerun failed tests. |
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This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of July 2020 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.