2021 Release Resources: Buying and Invoicing Features All

2021 Release Resources: Buying & Invoicing
A list of features for SAP Ariba Buying & Invoicing released in 2021


	2021 Feature Overview webcasts	What's new in SAP Ariba user guide

Buying & Invoicing	Release	Enablement Model		Learn More
		Automatically On 	Customer Configured 	KT 
Support for quantity-based receiving functions in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-1280] - Mobile Feature This feature enables users to perform quantity-based receiving functions, such as fully or partially accepting or rejecting items, in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app. Users can navigate to an associated purchase order from within a receipt and view its details and history. They can also search for receipts that are in composing status.	2111
Adding accounting distributions in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-2329] - Mobile Feature With this feature, SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app users can add accounting distributions to purchase requisition lines.	2111
Support for shopping on behalf of another user in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-2338] - Mobile Feature This feature enables SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app users to make purchases on behalf of other users. They can prepare and submit purchase requisitions using the on-behalf-of person's catalog items, delivery information, and accounting information.	2111
Support for initiating the change order process from the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-2339] - Mobile Feature This feature enables users to initiate the change order process from the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app to send revised versions of purchase orders to suppliers. They can change a purchase order to edit the properties of the line items in the order, as well as add items to or delete items from the order.	2111
Support for creating non-catalog requests in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-2341] - Mobile Feature This feature enables users to create non-catalog requests in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app. Guided buying users can also access shopping category tiles related to non-catalog requests in the home page.	2111
Integrating goods receipt-based invoicing and return receipts with external systems [CP-17088] Buying organizations can use this feature to enable the integration of goods receipt-based invoicing and return receipts with external systems. The data import and export events related to purchase orders and receipts have been enhanced to support the integrations.	2111
Additional form widgets can now be marked for personal information [PFD-12488] Users who belong to the Custom Form Designer group can mark 5 additional form widgets as fields with personal information. This feature adds support for the following widgets: Amount, Datasource Chooser, Date and Time, Datatable, and Paragraphtext. If any of the fields in a form is marked for personal information, the data users enter in the corresponding form documents is encrypted to the highest industry standard.	2111
Enhanced validation of approver lookup tables [PLAF-1606] Previously, approver lookup tables could be uploaded with invalid entries and empty files, because no error message appeared. Now, if an approver lookup table contains invalid information or an empty file, an error message appears and the upload cannot be completed.	2111
Edit approval flow on invoices in guided buying before submitting [SINV-13931] With this enhancement, users can view and edit approval flows on invoices in guided buying before submitting. Previously, users couldn't edit approval flows on invoices in guided buying until after the invoice was submitted.	2111
Support for including compliance contract information in requisitions imported from SAP Fieldglass [SINV-9929] With this feature, information related to compliance contracts (that had been exported from the SAP Ariba solution previously) can be included in requisitions imported from SAP Fieldglass when the Services Requisitions from an External Application web services integration task is run.	2111
Support for push notifications to purchase requisition approvers in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-2747] - Mobile Feature With this feature, push notifications related to purchase requisitions are supported in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app. Approvers receive notifications when they receive a requisition for approval or a nudge, or when the requester withdraws a requisition.	2108
Preventing changes to payment terms for existing line items in requisition amendments [CP-16800] Buyer organizations can use this feature to prevent users from changing the payment terms for existing line items when they are creating amendments to requisitions.	2108
Ability to import distribution lists and assign them as email notification recipients [PL-31270] Sending an email notification to every member of a group can cause undesirable email server traffic. This feature allows you to import external-facing email distribution lists and assign them as email notification recipients instead of assigning groups. When you assign a DL, a single email notification is sent to the DL address, rather than potentially hundreds of emails being sent to group members.	2108
Support for sending request for estimates (RFEs) to suppliers in SAP Fieldglass [SINV-10557] This feature enables you to request estimates for a service from one or more suppliers before you select a supplier to purchase the service from. You send request for estimate (RFE) forms (based on statement of work (SOW) bid templates) to suppliers in SAP Fieldglass from guided buying. You then review their responses, collaborate with them, and select a winner in SAP Fieldglass.	2108
Improved validation for imported cXML invoices [SINV-13111] Previously, external cXML invoices imported into SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing or SAP Ariba Invoice Management that contained errors were being submitted, but they couldn't be approved until the errors were resolved. When the approver denied the invoice, the preparer/requester was unable to resolve the errors, or add any comments or attachments. This created more work for the approver and invoices were often stuck in the approval process or had to be recreated. Now, cXML invoices can't move forward in the approval flow until the errors are resolved, and if an invoice is denied, the preparer/requester can resolve the errors, add comments or attachments, and submit it again.	2108
Support for non-English locales while exporting and importing requisitions in Excel format [CP-13444] This feature enables buyers using SAP Ariba Buying or SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing in non-English locales, to successfully export or import requisitions in the Excel format.	2105
Support for managing teams in procurement operations desk [PD-597] This feature enables procurement operations desk managers to create and manage teams. These teams can be used in rules to assign the requisitions. Managers can also view the status of requisitions processed by their teams. Procurement operations desk agents can be assigned to multiple teams and they can also view their team-based assignments.	2105
Edit and approve invoices in guided buying [SINV-10079] Now, guided buying offers a simplified, more efficient invoicing experience for most types of invoices by eliminating the need to navigate between two separate solutions. You can now edit and approve non-PO and PO-based invoices natively in guided buying without being redirected to SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing. Invoices continue to be reconciled in SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing after they’re approved. Previously, when users clicked an invoice in guided buying, they were redirected to SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing to perform editing and approval. Only simple one-line non-PO invoices could be edited and approved in guided buying.	2105
Support for manual selection of contract when adding a non-catalog service item [SINV-4851] This feature enables users to manually select a contract when adding a non-catalog service item to a requisition. If the contract contains service specification sets (containing service lines in a hierarchical structure), users can also select a specific service line within the hierarchy. When submitting service entry sheets against orders containing such items, users can add the selected service line (or related child service lines) from the associated contract.	2105
Notification recipients upper limit established in procurement test sites [PL-29897] The maximum number of recipients for document creation notifications has been set to 500.	2105
Support for SAP ERP service specification hierarchies [SINV-4243] With this feature, SAP Ariba solutions support the display of the hierarchical structure of service specification sets (containing service lines) in contracts imported from SAP ERP. The hierarchical structure is also supported in the generated catalog items, associated service orders, and the corresponding service entry sheets that are submitted against the orders.	2105
Multi-factor authentication for user login to SAP Ariba solutions [SI-860] Multi-factor authentication is a two-step verification process where users are required to authenticate themselves a second time using a time-based verification code. As compared to the single step authentication process, the multi-factor authentication process provides enhanced security.	2102
Support for displaying dForms in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app [BMA-1806] - Mobile Feature With this feature, dForms in tasks can be displayed as PDF documents in the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app. Links to the dForm documents are displayed in the Documents section of the task.	2102
SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app compliant with Chinese Cybersecurity Law (CCL) [BMA-2088] - Mobile Feature This feature ensures that SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app is in compliance with the Chinese Cybersecurity Law (CCL). Users with accounts at the China data center must consent to the privacy policy related to the Chinese Cybersecurity Law (CCL) before they can start using the app.	2102
Disable SAP Ariba mobile app activation [BMA-2328] - Mobile Feature With this feature, customer administrators can prevent users from activating the SAP Ariba mobile app by configuring their site so that the option to enter the activation code is not displayed in the 'Activate Mobile Device' page.	2102
Support for ending collaboration on requisitions with invoiced or received lines [OPCCC-1076] In a collaborative requisition, clicking End Collaboration results in an attempt to delete requisition lines for which there is no response from the supplier. In the case of requisitions that have lines that are already invoiced, or are partially or fully received in the previous version, users could not end the collaboration in the new version if those lines had no response from the supplier. This feature introduces an option to force the collaboration on a requisition to end in such cases. Forcing the collaboration to end does not delete the lines with no response from the supplier. They will be marked as non-collaborative lines and collaboration will be completed.	2102
Tracking the status of sub-tasks in procurement operations desk [PD-2002] This feature enables procurement operations desk users to track the status of the sub-tasks assigned to other users. The sub-task status is available in procurement operations desk for both, the tasks related to the sourcing solutions, and the tasks related to the buying solutions.	2102

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