2021 Release Resources: Supply Chain Collaboration
A list of features for SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration released in 2021

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	Supply Chain Collaboration	Release	Enablement Model			Learn More
			Automatically On 	Customer Configured 		KT 
	Support GTL Standard for HU Numbers [CSC-15583] This feature provides buyers and suppliers a industry specific handling of handling unit number format for automated packaging structure creation.	2111
	Customizations for quality notifications [CSC-19954] This feature allows buyers to apply customizations to quality notification documents. They can create or update customization projects, each containing one or more customizations. After testing the customizations in the project, buyers can publish the project to selected suppliers.	2111
	Electronic signatures for quality inspections using DocuSign [CSC-23152] This feature allows buyers administrators to require that their suppliers electronically sign quality inspection results before submitting them. Electronic signatures help guarantee the truthfulness of information displayed in documents and are often required by regulatory entities.	2111
	MRP exceptions collaboration for purchase orders with change requests [CSC-24626] To aid in handling MRP exceptions, this feature adds the ability to manage purchase-order change requests from the Ariba Network user interface. Buyers and suppliers can monitor and respond to the change requests they send or receive.	2111
	Validate incoming Manufacturing Planning Visibility planning items [CSC-25261] This feature adds validation checking when suppliers create new or update existing Manufacturing Planning Visibility planning items. Specifically, it checks the combination of the planning item’s part number and location to make sure the combination matches at least one existing planning item that was previously created by the buyer for a planning process type such as Forecast, Supplier managed inventory, or Replenishment.	2111
	Add manufacturing fields and visibility settings to planning processes [CSC-26480] This feature adds two fields, Manufacturer name and Manufacturer part ID (in cXML, ManufacturerName and ManufacturerPartID), to planning items. This feature also introduces two manufacturing visibility settings.	2111
	Quarterly time series for planning and forecast collaboration [CSC-22702] This feature adds the Quarterly time series granularity to the existing Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly time series granularities for planning and forecast collaboration. Forecast commits can be made using any of these time series granularities from both the user interface and Excel files.	2108
	Prevention of duplicate component receipts, carrier information in online component ship notices, and new search filters in Extended Collaboration tabs [CSC-24088] This feature adds functionality to exclude from a flipped component receipt any components that were already received, thus preventing duplicate receipts for a component. This feature also adds more search capabilities for stock transport orders, and adds carrier information to the details page of a component ship notice.	2108
	Multiple views for planning processes [CSC-24240] This feature allows buyers to create views, referred to as custom views, for planning processes and set conditions for them. Prior to this feature, only one view, the standard view, was available for all planning items in a planning process.	2108
	Sold-to BusinessPartner information in purchase orders and invoices [CSC-24925] When a cXML purchase order includes a BusinessPartner element with the soldTo role, this feature shows the information from that element in the purchase-order details page of the Ariba Network user interface.	2108
	Always route the copy of the approval request document to the copy supplier [CSC-25033] This feature adds further enhancements to the order confirmation deviation approval in the multi-tier order scenario. The copy of the approval request document is always routed to the copy supplier.	2108
	Supplier Portal and Workbench [SA-9251] - Feature for Suppliers The Ariba Network supplier home page has been redesigned to be a Supplier Portal, with simplified navigation, an overview of your transactions, and insights and promotional widgets. The Supplier Portal also includes the Workbench, which is a highly customizable page that allows you to get a quick overview of transaction documents that need your attention. The Inbox and Outbox have been replaced with object-oriented menus, which logically group objects by their business process.	2105				(Supplement: Items To Confirm functionality)
	SAP Business Network Supplier Mobile App 6.4.0 [SA-17796] - Feature for Suppliers We’ve added the ability to create new accounts and manage your trading relationships: * Sign up for a new Ariba Network account directly from the mobile app * View, accept, and dismiss relationship requests from potential trading partners	2105
	Quality inspection and quality notification safeguards for required completion [CSC-10368] This feature allows buyers to prevent suppliers from shipping a purchase-order schedule line that has a quality inspection without a decision that authorizes shipment. This feature also allows buyers to prevent suppliers from shipping a purchase-order line item that has a quality notification with incomplete tasks.	2105
	Enhancements to the order confirmation deviation approval process [CSC-19743] This feature introduces usability enhancements to the order confirmation deviation approval process. This includes a buyer report of approved/rejected deviations, and supplier ability to create a ship notice without order confirmation (when order confirmation is not required).	2105
	Attributes for planning items [CSC-20436] This feature allows buyer administrators to define new attributes for planning items. Attributes provide information about planning records such as the supplier or buyer, the customer part number, and so on.	2105
	Excel support and other improvements to attributes [CSC-21958] This feature adds support for attribute data in Excel download files for the Upload/Download functionality. It also improves how users view attributes.	2105
	Configuration of order confirmation deviation types [CSC-10324] With this feature, buyers can configure types of deviations for quantity, delivery date, or price. This allows certain suppliers to exceed tolerances if the buyer approves the order confirmation. This configuration can be made for supplier groups or as a default transaction rule that applies to all suppliers.	2102
	Customer-defined logical IDs to identify the permitted consumption of component inventory [CSC-15640] This feature enhances validation capabilities to ensure that only subcontracting components that are assigned to a supplier or vendor by a particular buyer are allowed to be reported for consumption.	2102
	Report component consumption based on component inventory [CSC-16745] The component inventory-based consumption report feature validates that the buyer batch number of the consumed component matches the buyer batch number that is defined in component inventory.	2102
	Expanded capabilities in planning download and  Planning data  update configuration [CSC-20429] This feature expands the amount of planning information that buyers and suppliers can retrieve using Upload/Download functionality. It also provides buyers with more ways to handle planning information.	2102
	Stock transport order collaboration [CSC-20915] This feature adds support for the stock-transport type of purchase order, which is used when stock is moved between two plants within an organization or in different organizations.	2102

 

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