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SAP Business Network for Supply Chain Collaboration:
2023 Release Resources

A list of features released in 2023

 

  Early Release Series
Access presentations and replays from these sessions.
What's New Guide
User assistance documentation for new or changed features included in the 2023 releases.
 
 

2302 Release Summary

2305 Release Summary

2308 Release Summary

2311 Release Summary

   

 

  SAP Business Network for Supply Chain Collaboration  
  Feature Name & Description Release Enablement Model   Learn More  
      Automatically
On
Customer
Configured
  KT Demo  
  Item Reconfirmation in the Supplier Workbench [CSC-15549] 
This feature lets suppliers use the Items to confirm list to revise eligible confirmed line items and reconfirm them. This feature also adds columns for shipped and received quantities to the Items to confirm tile and the Order Confirmation template for Upload/Download
 2311          
  Quality Inspection Results Template for Upload/Download and Displaying Attachments Sent by Buyers [CSC-23132]
This feature adds the Quality Inspection Results template for Upload/Download. Suppliers can use this template to streamline entering inspection results for inspection requests. This feature also enables buyers and suppliers to view attachments that buyers send with inspection requests in SAP Business Network.
 2311          
  Advanced Packaging Enhancements to Support Decimals [CSC-33375]
This feature supports decimal points for packed and shipped quantity for handling unit packaging.
2311        
  Customized Order Confirmation template for Upload/Download [CSC-34744]
This feature enables buyer administrators to create a customisation project for the Order Confirmation Excel template that is used by the Upload/Download feature.
2311        
  Added Specifications for Upload/Download Planning Jobs [CSC-36735]
This feature adds new functionality when creating Upload/Download jobs for planning processes. You can now choose to exclude planning records without time-series planning data from the download. You can also explicitly specify the time window for the download.
2311      
  Order Confirmation Deviation Approval Rule for Scheduling Agreements and Scheduling Agreement Releases [CSC-28869]
This feature introduces a rule that configures deviation approval in order confirmations for only scheduling agreements and scheduling agreement releases. The existing rule to configure order confirmation deviation approval is changed to apply only to purchase orders.
2311          
  Default Packaging Instruction Enhancements for Handling Units [CSC-37434]
This feature provides more options to suppliers for packaging instructions for handling units.
2311      
  Ship Notices to Invoice in Supplier Transaction Workbench [NP-34482] 
This feature enables suppliers to create invoices for ship notices that are ready to invoice by using the Ship notices to invoice tile.
2311        
  Include Related Purchase Order Information in Transaction Document Report Jobs [CSC-33219]
With this feature, buyers can choose whether to include certain purchase order information in a Transaction Document Report job for Upload/Download. Depending on the document type, buyers can include in each returned record the related line item number and buyer part number or include the related purchase order number.
2308          
  Allow Reordering of Key Figures in Views [CSC-35672]
This feature allows buyers to set the order of key figures in views. The key figure order is visible both in the user interface and in Excel files downloaded by running Upload/Download jobs.
2308      
  Quality Inspection Report [CSC-35859] 
This feature adds the Quality Inspection report type for both buyers and suppliers. Reports are generated in Excel format The retrieved information is organized in four sheets: Inspections, Single Result, Summarized Recording, and Attachments. 
2308          
  Additional Customizations for Ship Notice Excel Template for Upload/Download [CSC-39047] 
This feature adds customizations for the Ship Notice Excel template for Upload/Download. These customizations include providing alternate names and translations for standard attributes, hiding optional standard attributes, defining custom attributes to be required, and others.
2308          
  Consignment process improvements [CSC-32655]
This feature improves the consignment process by adding fields to consignment reports and enhancing consignment movement.
2305          
  Automated Transfer of New Handling-Unit Packaging Instructions [CSC-23707]
When a buyer creates or updates packaging instructions in their SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP system, this feature coordinates with SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway the automatic transfer of those instructions to SAP Business Network.
2302        
  Quality Collaboration Improvements [CSC-30172]
This feature makes improvements to quality collaboration, both for quality inspections and quality notifications. For quality inspections, this feature adds the certificate of completion to signed PDFs returned from DocuSign. For quality notifications, this feature enhances a validation check and adds additional subfilters to two quality notification fields.
2302          
  Copy Partner Update Permission [CSC-30854]
This feature adds the Copy Partner Update permission to SAP Business Network. Buyers with this permission can add or replace the copy partner for multiple purchase orders in one operation. Prior to this feature, only buyer administrators could do this.
2302          
  Block ship notice creation when an open quality notification for material without a purchase order reference exists [CSC-31152]
This feature allows buyers to prevent their suppliers from creating ship notices for purchase orders containing a material (Customer part no.) that the buyers previously complained about in a quality notification which did not reference a specific purchase order. Suppliers then cannot send ship notices that contain this faulty material, except for purchase orders that have accepted quality inspections.
2302          
  Planning collaboration improvements to Manufacturing visibility excel and Forecast planning data clearing process [CSC-32654]
This feature makes two improvements to planning collaboration. First, when buyers send forecast-type product activity messages in cXML that are missing certain buyer-sourced key figures, SAP Business Network clears the data for the missing key figures in the buyer's and the supplier's planning tables. Second, suppliers can now modify nonroot customer-defined attributes in downloaded Excel files containing Manufacturing Visibility planning items and then upload these Excel files.
2302          

 

 

 

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