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SAP Procurement 2023 Release Resources:
Extensibility & Configurability

A list of features released in 2023

 

  Early Release Series
Access the presentations and replays from these sessions.
What's New Guide
Describes new or changed SAP Ariba features included in the 2023 releases.
 
           
   

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2305 Release Summary

2302 Release Summary

   

 

  APIs  
  Feature Name & Description Release Enablement Model   Learn More  
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  KT Demo  
  Content Transformation as a Service [IG-44634]
With the content transformation service, buyers on SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA who have a license to SAP Integration Suite can transform their transactional data to meet the data format standards of SAP Business Network. The service transforms both inbound and outbound transaction documents, and reuses the mappings of SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network.
2311        
  Integration and exception monitoring using SAP Cloud ALM for SAP Ariba solutions [PLMSG-8704]
With this feature, SAP Ariba solutions support integration and exception monitoring using the SAP Cloud ALM for Operations (SAP CALM) cloud operation platform. The integration and exception monitoring makes use of the new Integration Event Monitoring Query API for Procurement. This REST API enables SAP CALM to monitor integration message flows between SAP Ariba solutions and SAP ERP systems, including SAP S/4HANA Cloud, or between SAP Business Network and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. 
2311          
  Synchronizing Header Data Updates and Contract Line Item Details of a Contract Workspace With the Linked Compliance Contract Using Open APIs [SC-177776]
This feature enhances the Contract Workspace Modification API and Contract Workspace State Change API by enabling them to synchronize the header level data of a contract workspace with the linked compliance contract, when the contract workspace is updated or published. The feature also introduces a new endpoint to the Contracts Terms Management API that can be implemented in a client application to synchronize line items information in a contract workspace with the linked compliance contract.
2311        
  Enhancements to the Processes Endpoint of the Supplier Data API with Pagination to Include additional Data in the Response File [SM-40801]
The processes endpoint of the Supplier Data API with Pagination uses the GET method to send a JSON request to your site. The API request retrieves header field information about all processes for a supplier. Now, the response file is enhanced to retrieve additional information.
2311          
  Enhancements to the Supplier Data API with Pagination for Extraction of Additional Supplier Data [SM-40968]
This feature enhances the existing vendorDataRequests endpoint in the Supplier Data API with Pagination with additional input parameters, thus enabling customers to extract additional supplier-specific information such as bank data, tax data, and company code data.
2311          
  Date-Based Filters in Sourcing Project Management API and Event Management API [SS-39155]
This feature introduces date-based filters in Sourcing Project Management API and Event Management API to enable buyer users to retrieve project IDs and event IDs, respectively, for a specified time period.
2311          
  Ability to Partially Update Product Attributes Using the Product Hierarchy Management API [SSR-6080]
This feature enables buyers to partially update question, section, product questionnaire, requirement, and term objects using the Product Hierarchy Management API.
2311          
  Category Attribute Object Deletion Enhancement [SSR-6082]
This feature enables buyers to delete product attribute objects, including all of the objects associated with the attribute, using the Product Hierarchy Management API.
2311          
  Change "Ariba Network" to "SAP Business Network" in the SAP Ariba Developer Portal UI [OPEC-11078]
This feature rebrands references of "Ariba Network" to "SAP Business Network" for the SAP Ariba Developer Portal UI. Note that this feature does not affect the naming of the APIs, and SAP Ariba reserves the right to rebrand individual APIs at a future date.
2308          
  Deprecation of the Master Data Integration Job Status API for Operational Procurement [PLMDS-2308]
The Master Data Integration Job Status API for Operational Procurement Version 1 (V1) is deprecated as of the Q3 2023 release. This API will be decommissioned one year from the date of deprecation.
2308          
  Enhancements to the Contract Workspace Modification API [SC-11408]
This feature introduces enhancements to the Contract Workspace Modification API- A new endpoint to change the state of a contract workspace to amend or complete amendment, and New parameters, accessControl and relatedId in the POST and PATCH methods of the /contractWorkspaces endpoint. The accessControl parameter enables users to specify access control permission for the contract workspace. The relatedID parameter enables users to specify the ID of the external system to which the contract is sent. 
Includes SC-11800
2308          
  Supplier Data Integration and Exception Monitoring with SAP Cloud ALM [SM-36867]
This feature introduces support for supplier data integration and exception monitoring using SAP Cloud ALM for Operations (SAP CALM) cloud operation platform in sites integrated with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This integration and exception monitoring uses the Integration Event Monitoring Query API for Procurement. This REST API enables SAP CALM to monitor supplier data integration message flows between SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
2308          
  Product Hierarchy Management API Enhancements to Manage Category Attribute Data [SSR-5730]
This feature introduces enhancements to the Product Hierarchy Management API that enable you to retrieve, create, update, and delete category attribute hierarchy data and item attributes in SAP Ariba.
2308          
  Import Engagement Risk Assessment Responses from External Systems [ARI-18133]
This feature allows you to map an external source for responses to modular questionnaires used as assessments in engagement requests. Integration using the Engagement Risk Assessment External Response Import API enables automatic imports of responses. This avoids the duplication of sending the assessment to a supplier who has already answered the same questions in another system.
2305        
  External Approval API for Sourcing and Supplier Management Supports External Approval of Engagement Tasks [ARI-18725]
This API can be used for external approval of engagement tasks.  Previously, support was recognized only for sourcing projects, contract workspaces, and supplier management projects.
2305          
  Risk Exposure API Enhancement to Retrieve the Risk Exposure for Multiple Suppliers [ARI-19205]
The Risk Exposure API has a new endpoint that enables you to retrieve up to 500 suppliers' overall and category risk exposure so you can integrate the information into other SAP Ariba applications.
Note: This feature is available as of 8/18/2023.
2305          
  Event Management API Enhancements for Fetching Bid History and Attachments [ET-1626]
This feature enables buyers to obtain the following details by using the Event Management API:
• All the bids that the suppliers have submitted for a specific event
• All the bids that a specific supplier has submitted for an event
• Attachments from all the bids that a specific supplier has submitted for an event
2305          
  Decommissioning of Certain TLS Ciphers for SAP Ariba Gateway in Australia Data Center [OPEC-12563]
Certain TLS ciphers no longer meet SAP’s minimum security standards and will eventually be decommissioned across all SAP Ariba products in all data centers. Future release notes will inform you when the ciphers will be decommissioned for other products and data centers.
2305
Starting 2308

Starting 2302
       
  Decommissioning of Certain TLS Ciphers for SAP Ariba Gateway in Japan Data Center [OPEC-12564]
Certain TLS ciphers no longer meet SAP’s minimum security standards and will eventually be decommissioned across all SAP Ariba products in all data centers. Future release notes will inform you when the ciphers will be decommissioned for other products and data centers.
2305
Starting 2308

Starting 2302
       
  Inclusion of Error Messages Generated due to Internal Integration Errors in Document Approval API Responses [PLAF-4930]
A new query parameter enables customers to determine whether error messages generated due to internal integration errors should be included in the responses to Document Approval API queries.
2305          
  Enhancements to asynchronous Audit Search API to support encryption of data [PLMSG-1619]
Customers can now securely download audit data using the asynchronous Audit Search API. The downloaded audit data files are encrypted using the public key. Customers can decrypt the generated audit data files using their private key.
2305          
  Supplier Risk Engagements API [ARI-17708]
The Supplier Risk Engagements API enables you to export control-based engagement risk assessment project data. The API gets the data for engagements, issues, and modular questionnaires.
2302        
  Generic notice data export based on TED data [ET-1191]
Ability to pull procurement notices published on TED via an API in order to send them to additional portals. *Note*: this will require a custom-built integration.
2302          
  Support for API-based Approval or Denial of Requisitions in the 2NV and 3EN Integration Scenarios [GB-20790]
In the Guided Buying Capability with SAP Ariba Buying (2NV) integration scenario and the Guided Buying for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Buying (‏3EN‏) integration scenario, this feature enables approving and denying guided buying requisitions using the Document Approval API. Customer developers can create a client application that makes queries to the endpoints included in the Document Approval API to approve or deny requisitions.
2302          
  OAuth Secret Is Not Required for Access and Refresh Tokens When MTLS Is the Preferred SAP Ariba API Authentication Method [OPEC-11116]
When Mutual TLS authentication is enabled for your application, the OAuth client secret is not required when requesting or refreshing an access token for use when making SAP Ariba API queries. This feature introduces a new header to pass the client ID without the OAuth client secret when an MTLS certificate has been selected.
2302          
  Decommissioning of Certain TLS Ciphers for SAP Ariba Gateway in Australia Data Center [OPEC-11902]
Certain TLS ciphers no longer meet SAP’s minimum security standards and will eventually be decommissioned across all SAP Ariba products in all data centers. The first phase of this decommissioning will begin June 2023 when these ciphers will no longer be supported during the TLS handshake process for API Gateway calls in the Australia data center. Future release notes will inform you when the ciphers will be decommissioned for other products and data centers.
2302
Starting June 1 2023

Starting in 2023
       
  Ability to change the contract workspace status by using the Contract Workspace Management API [SC-16324]
This feature modifies the Contract Workspace Management API to add a new API, Contract Workspace State Change API, that contains the endpoint, POST /contractWorkspaces/{contractId}/state, for changing the status of a contract workspace from draft or draft amendment to publish. This enhances Contract Workspace Modification API to add additional status options, such as putOnHold, resume, and close to the endpoint, POST/contractWorkspaces/{contractId}/state.
2302        
  Enhancements to the Contract Workspace Management APIs [SC-16547]
This feature introduces two new APIs within the Contract Workspace Management APIs, the Contract Line Items Document Management API and the Contract Line Items Document Import API. These APIs enable creating a Contract Line Items Document (CLID), modifying an existing CLID, and importing line item information to the CLID of a contract workspace.
2302        
  Asynchronous Requests Management API [SC-16984]
The Asynchronous Requests Management API enables you to monitor job requests initiated by other APIs that are currently running asynchronously. You can query the status of an ongoing job request and download the error files for failed job requests.
2302          
  Enhancement to the Supplier Data API with Pagination for canceling a qualification or other process from an external system [SM-35128]
This feature introduces an endpoint in the Supplier Data API with Pagination and gives you the ability to cancel qualification and miscellaneous processes that have a status of In-progress for a single supplier from an external system. As a result, you can now access your supplier records in external systems and are no longer required to log in to SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance to cancel qualification and miscellaneous processes.
2302          

 

 

 

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