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| A simpler & smarter SAP Ariba Help Center [AUC-6197] SAP Ariba has reimagined how our buyers and suppliers get help and assistance using our products. Our goal is simple: to empower you to find the help you need with the least effort, so you can derive the business value you expect from your SAP Ariba investment. We’ve been listening to you carefully in numerous research engagements to prioritize improvement opportunities in our current Help Center. |
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| Microsoft Edge Chromium browser support [PL-34978] All SAP Ariba cloud solutions support the Microsoft Edge Chromium browser (32-bit and 64-bit). |
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| Supplier Portal and Workbench [SA-9251] 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. Starting May 21st all existing suppliers will be transitioned to the new portal experience. To minimize disruption to day-to-day operations, we recommend all users review KT and the short videos linked below to become familiar with the new navigation and prepare for the change.
See more of what’s new: Enterprise account users Standard account user |
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| SAP Business Network Supplier Mobile App 6.4.0 [SA-17796] 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 |
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| SAP Business Network: Improved supplier registration [NS-10511] This feature introduces a more streamlined onboarding experience for both existing suppliers and net-new suppliers, and also introduces SAP Business Network as the name for the unified network experience for all trading partners. It includes two different workflows: when a buyer invites a supplier to establish a business relationship, and when a supplier initiates a relationship (walk up). This makes the supplier registration process easier to navigate and understand. It includes a refreshed look and feel, a new universal registration landing page, buyer branded invitation messages, improved navigation, augmented search for existing accounts, improved communication directives, more intuitive UI, and overall enhancements to the registration workflow. |
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| Discounting Supplier Experience Improvements [PAY-5707] The early payment and discounting capability has been improved to help you more easily access, review, and accept offers. You can now download and print offers as PDF and choose to receive a daily digest of early payment offers. |
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| Object-oriented menus for Ariba Network [NS-7561] The Ariba Network Inbox and Outbox have been replaced with object-oriented menus for all buyers and suppliers. Menu items are now grouped logically by process, improving navigation and usability. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Validate the delivery-date tolerances in ship notices [CSC-14603] This feature allows buyers to set how many days early or late a ship-notice delivery date can be from the delivery date requested in an order or release. If during ship-notice validation this feature identifies a ship-notice delivery date that is outside the allowed tolerance, it prevents submission of the ship notice. Buyers can configure these tolerances for all their suppliers or for supplier groups. |
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| Order confirmation for enhanced-limit material and service line items [CSC-21608] With this feature, suppliers can create confirmations for enhanced-limit service and material line items in a purchase order. Suppliers can edit the service start and end dates, and update the expected value. |
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| Tax invoicing enhancements for Hungary to comply with 3.0 XSD schema change effective April 01, 2021 [NG-1387] Ariba Network provides tax invoicing solution for Hungary. Previously, the invoicing solution was using 2.0 XSD schema for invoice reporting to the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) system. However, effective April 1, 2021, NAV mandates the use of 3.0 XSD schema. * The invoicing solution continues to work as before and now provides an option to enter an exemption or VAT out of scope reason as required by 3.0 XSD schema. * The invoicing user interface now displays the list of exemption or VAT out of scope reason provided by NAV and the suppliers can specify the reason for zero-rate VAT during invoice creation. |
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| Tax invoicing enhancements for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to comply with Brexit effective January 01, 2021 [NG-1395] In accordance with Brexit, effective January 01, 2021, the United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union (EU). Northern Ireland remains considered as a European Union country for supply of goods to the European Union (EU), but not for supply of services. Ariba Network now provides an enhanced invoicing solution for the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. |
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| Support for the Services Procurement with Ariba Network and SAP Fieldglass (4R2) integration scenario with SAP S/4HANA Cloud [NP-20140] This feature provides support for the Services Procurement with Ariba Network and SAP Fieldglass (4R2) integration scenario. It includes integration between SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Fieldglass, and Ariba Network for services procurement and supports the exchange of documents such as orders, service sheets, and invoices. |
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| Enhancement to support integration between Central Procurement and SAP Ariba Discovery for Central RFQs [NS-14083] As part of the scope item Automation of Central Procurement Quotes with Ariba Network (5JT), this feature introduces a new extrinsic element in the existing Quote Request and Quote Message cXMLs to differentiate between Central RFQ (cRFQ) coming from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Central Procurement Hub versus local RFQ objects from Quote Automation, so that SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway can route them accordingly. |
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| Supplier classification based on diversity [SM-25931] This features enables buyers to classify their suppliers based on multiple characteristics and support diversity to encourage business with suppliers identified and verified as diverse. |
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| Support for new EDI document format for the quality inspection document type [IG-24113] With this feature, suppliers on Ariba Network can send and receive quality inspection documents through the EDI routing method in the ASCx12 EDI863 document format. |
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This information reflects the status of SAP Ariba's planning as of April 2021 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.