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SAP Procurement and SAP Business Network 2302 Release

 

  2302 Early Release Series What's New Guide Release Highlight Release Summary Features Becoming Mandatory  
  An interactive forum to engage with product experts providing simple, direct answers to your questions. Describes new or changed features included in the 2302 (Q1 2023) release. Discover the benefits coming with the 2302 release. Provides a downloadable overview of planned features with links to additional feature content. The opt-in period for these previously release features is ending.  With the 2302 release they will become automatically on for all customers with the applicable solutions, or require other actions by customers for continued use.  

 

  General Features
 
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Workflow Requiring that SAP Ariba Personnel Procure Written Consent Before Making Changes to Customer Sites [PLAF-4717]
A new Service Manager workflow requires that SAP Ariba personnel procure written consent before making changes to any customer site.

Availability of this feature has been delayed. 

         
   Ability to View SAP-Controlled Parameters in Intelligent Configuration Manager and Promote Updates from Test to Production [PLICM-847]
Using the Intelligent Configuration Manager workspace, customers can now view all SAP-controlled parameters in their site. Additionally, SAP Ariba representatives can easily manage SAP-controlled parameters in the customer's site using Intelligent Configuration Manager. Customers can then promote any changes from the test to production site.
     

 

 

  Mobile 
 
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  Display of Supplier Names on the "Requisitions to Approve" Screen in the SAP Ariba Procurement Mobile App [BMA-4311]
This feature enables approvers to view the names of suppliers on the "Requisitions to Approve" screen of the SAP Ariba Procurement mobile app. For requisitions that have items from multiple suppliers, the See all suppliers link is displayed which, when clicked displays the list of the other supplier names. This feature helps approvers prioritize the requisitions that they want to review based on the suppliers.
         
  Integration of cart flow [SAS-3]
Integrated cart flow: Add item to cart (to create new requisition, and to existing requisition),remove line item from requisition, modify quantity of a line item, clear line items from cart, list items in requisition.
       
  Select Address during Checkout [SAS-5]
Enables the user to select an address before submitting the requisition.
       

 

 

  Strategic Sourcing
 
  Sourcing
SAP Ariba Sourcing features are available in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite 
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  Ability to anonymize supplier information in guided sourcing events [SS-32247]
This feature enables buyers to configure the guided sourcing template to anonymize the supplier information in all pages, popups, dialog boxes, and reports for published RFPs, RFIs, and auctions until the events are closed for bidding. Attachments in the events are not accessible to buyers during bidding to protect bidders’ identities. This feature enables buyers to ensure regulatory compliance for events such as public sourcing events.
         
  Ability to Add an Approval Task for Event Timing Change [SS-34063]
This feature introduces an approval task, Approval for Timing Change, which enables buyers to assign approvers to review and approve or reject timing changes in guided sourcing events.
         
  Ability to Block Classic Sourcing Creation and Switch to the New Guided Sourcing Interface [SS-37006]
This feature provides the ability to block users from creating sourcing projects and sourcing requests through the classic SAP Ariba Sourcing interface and encourages users to switch to and experience the new guided sourcing interface.
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  Ability to View Supplier Risk Information in Guided Sourcing Events [SS-38428]
This feature introduces support for viewing supplier risk information for guided sourcing events in draft, Monitor, and Review responses states. In the guided sourcing user interface, buyers can view suppliers' risk levels and scores in various categories. You can search suppliers based on the risk levels, such as high, medium, low, and unknown. Depending upon the supplier risk information, buyers can decide which suppliers to be invited to participate in the guided sourcing event.
         
  Ability to Add Items and Content from a Sourcing Request to Event Sections [SS-38790]
This feature introduces the ability for buyer users to add items and content from sourcing requests directly into guided sourcing event sections.
         

 

  Strategic Sourcing For Industries
Features ONLY available with SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite 

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  Support for RFQ Lean Service Hierarchies in the S/4HANA Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL) Integration Scenario [DMS-16627]
This features introduces support for RFQ lean service hierarchies in the SAP Ariba Sourcing integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud 4BL integration scenario.
 
(changed to Customer Configured for 2302)
     
  Enhancement to BOM quote functionality [DMS-17827]
With this feature, buyers can now view and modify the actual quantities of the leaf-level components of a BOM when requesting BOM quotes from suppliers. Also, while working in a BOM quote event, costs are displayed in the currency that the event owner has configured for the event.
         

 

  Contracts
SAP Ariba Contracts features are available in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite   

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  Support for replicating Plant master data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud using SAP Master Data Integration [PLMDS-4922]
This feature introduces support for replicating Plant master data into SAP Ariba applications from SAP S/4HANA Cloud using SAP Master Data Integration. In this release, support is available for the Plant v4.0.0 master data object.
         
  Support for Replicating Product Master Data from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Using SAP Master Data Integration [PLMDS-4926]
This feature introduces support for replicating product master data into SAP Ariba applications from SAP S/4HANA Cloud using SAP Master Data Integration. In this release, support is available for the Product v4.0.0 master data object.
         

 

  Supplier Management
Features in this group are also available with SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite 

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  Enhancements to Summary area in supplier 360° profile to show Sourcing and Contracts data [SM-32192]
This feature gives an overview of the supplier's sourcing events in the Sourcing Events panel and the contract workspaces in the Contracts panel in the Summary area in the supplier 360° profile. The new Business activity area in the supplier 360° profile lists all of the supplier's business activities in other SAP Ariba applications.
Availability of this feature has been delayed. Please check this page for updates on availability. https://support.ariba.com/item/view/KB0582441
           
  Cumulative aggregation of ratings in internal forms or questionnaires of modular questionnaire projects [SM-32493]
This feature enables internal stakeholders of your organization to enter ratings in one or more internal forms or internal questionnaires of a project. Ratings enable your organization to create a formal methodology by which you evaluate responses. You use ratings to evaluate or "rate" the responses (on various parameters such as delivery, quality, service, price, compliance, and so on). The final rating is a simple aggregation of all the individual ratings entered by internal users in their respective internal forms or questionnaires.
 
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  Ability for requesters and approvers to edit supplier addresses in supplier requests with Dun & Bradstreet lookup [SM-34928]
This feature adds the ability for requesters and approvers to edit fields in Extended Address answers in supplier requests that use Dun & Bradstreet lookup. The initial D&B lookup populates the request with address information from D&B, and previously none of this information was editable. With this enhancement, requesters and approvers can edit D&B Extended Address answers in the request to add missing information, including required answers, or to make corrections.
         
  Ability for Questionnaire Recipients in Internal Registrations to See and Edit Otherwise Masked Answers [SM-35073]
This feature introduces the ability for the internal recipients of external questionnaires in registrations on behalf of suppliers to see and edit answers that are otherwise masked, even if they're not members of the Sensitive Data Access group. Masked answers can be prepopulated data from other sources such as an ERP system, or they can be answers that the recipient previously provided and for which an approver has requested more information. This ability enables internal recipients to complete internal registrations on behalf of suppliers by updating those answers in their assigned questionnaires without granting them access to sensitive data in all questionnaires.
         
  Usability Enhancements to Create a Process for one or More Suppliers at a Time Through the User Interface [SM-35109]
Customers can create qualification and miscellaneous processes for one or more suppliers at a time to evaluate them for a specific combination of commodities, regions, and departments based on information in modular questionnaires. However, a few suppliers may have the process already created for them for the same combination. A few other suppliers might have the process creation in various stages with statuses such as In Progress, Qualified, Pending Decision, and so on. This feature provides functionality that automatically excludes suppliers with duplicate processes. For example, the system automatically excludes suppliers that have a status of In Progress for the process being created.
         
  Ability to Access Process Creation Status When a Process is Created for One or More Suppliers at a Time [SM-35129]
Customers can create qualification and miscellaneous processes for one or more suppliers at a time to evaluate them for a specific combination of commodities, regions, and departments based on information in modular questionnaires. This feature provides status information on whether a process created by customers for one or more suppliers has succeeded, failed, or is in some other status.
       
  Default Sample Property File Enhancements [SM-36155]
This feature introduces an enhancement to the default sample property file to improve the user experience. Previously, on the SM Administration  Default field values page, when users export the sample file with field names, the AribaBuy fields were included in the default sample property file. Now, the AribaBuy fields are removed from the default sample property file.
           
   Support for supplier full names of up to 140 characters in supplier imports from sourcing [SM-36157]
This feature enhances the existing Supplier from Sourcing data import task to support import of full supplier names with up to 140 characters in sites that use the supplier full name feature. Previously, import of suppliers with names longer than 125 characters failed.
           

 

  Supplier Risk
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  Import Risk Assessment Response for an Engagement Request [ARI-16209]
This feature allows you to map SAP Business Network as the data source for responses to a modular questionnaire used as an assessment in engagement requests.  Responses are imported, avoiding the duplication of sending the assessment to a supplier who has already answered the same questions via SAP Business Network.
       
  Supplier List Page Enhancements [ARI-17897]
The supplier list page is enhanced with new filter and sort options to improve the user experience when viewing and managing large numbers of suppliers.
         
  Enhanced Translation Support for Master Data Fields in Engagement Requests [ARI-18565]
This feature adds translation support for five master data fields associated with risk control definitions: control name, control owner, decisionmaker, risk type, and assessment IDs. The translated phrases are shown specifically in the control table on the engagement page, supplier selection and review pages of the engagement editing wizard, control detail page, and control table on the engagement requests tab in the supplier 360 profile.
         
  Include Findings When Evaluating Residual Risk for Controls and Engagements [ARI-18749]
In sites set up to allow users to create findings for engagements and their risk controls, this feature adds findings to evaluations of residual risk. This applies when either domain-based residual risk is not enabled, or the site is configured to use the Issues method of calculating residual risk by risk domain.
         

 

 

  Procurement
 
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  Enhancements to Force Process and Cancel Options for Service Sheets [ACSS-75]
This feature enables users to process a service sheet manually using the Force Process button if the service sheet appears to be stalled in the Awaiting External Approval state for 15 days (by default) from the date the service sheet was approved in the SAP Ariba solution. Users can also cancel the service sheets that are autogenerated based on an invoice when the service sheets are in the Awaiting External Approval, Sending to External System, or Submitted states.
         
  Access Invoice Reconciliation Details from Guided Buying [AINV-986]
Invoices in guided buying now have a link for viewing invoice reconciliation (IR) details. Clicking the link opens the corresponding IR document in SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing.
         
  Enabling History Records for enriching requisition data in external systems [CP-21901]
For sites that are configured for external validation and enrichment of approvable data, this feature enables history records for changes made to requisitions by external systems while enriching the requisition data.
     

 

  Guided Buying
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  Improved Design for Finding Requests [GB-3350]
Previously, there were limited sorting and filtering options available when searching for a request. If users had a large number of requests, finding a specific one could have been difficult. Now, users can leverage a redesigned Your requests page to find requests more easily.

Starting in Future

Starting in 2302
   
  HTTPS recommendation for External Site tiles [GB-12935]
Guided buying now examines URLs added by administrators for External Site (Action) tiles and recommends that they use the HTTPS protocol. If administrators add HTTP URLs in these tiles, guided buying issues warning messages indicating that HTTPS is a more secure transport protocol. This message is only a warning and External Site tiles can continue to use the HTTP protocol.
         
  Diversity Information Available in Catalog [GB-16949]
You can now see whether you're supporting a diverse supplier when you purchase items from the catalog. If a supplier supports diversity, you see diversity labels, like "Women owned" or "Hispanic owned", or diversity program information in a catalog item's details.

Starting in 2305

Starting in 2302
     
  On-Behalf-Of Enhancements [GB-20432]
The on-behalf-of (OBO) buying functionality in guided buying now performs better filtering of ship-to addresses and business entities for improved support of complex organizations. These enhancements are enabled if you set the existing guided buying parameter named PARAM_ENABLE_NEW_OBO_UI to true.
       
  Date format unified in guided buying [GB-22232]
Dates displayed in guided buying now use the same format as in other SAP Ariba applications for better consistency.

Starting in 2305

Starting in 2302
       

 

 

  Catalog & Spot Buy
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  No Features for 2302 Release            

 

 

  Integration
 
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  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.
       
  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.
         
  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.
         
  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.
         
  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.

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.
       
  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.
       
  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.
         
  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.
         

 

 

  SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway (Formerly known as Cloud Integration Gateway CIG)
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  Integration support for transfer of packaging instructions in the 5I2 integration scenario [IG-28249]
With this feature, as part of Subcontracting with SAP Business Network (5I2), when a buyer creates or updates packaging instructions, those instructions are transferred to SAP Business Network through SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway. The transferred instructions are then available to a supplier to pack the material using handling units via advanced packaging wizard during ship notice creation for that buyer.
         
  Integration support for packaging information for handling units in ship notices in the 5I2 integration scenario [IG-37715]
With this feature, as part of Subcontracting with SAP Business Network (5I2), buyers can process the packaging information with handling units in ship notices sent by suppliers from SAP Business Network.
         
  SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway renamed as SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network [IG-41598]
SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway is renamed as SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network. This change is effective from the SAP Ariba 2302 release and it does not affect the functionality of SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway. All the features of SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway continue to remain the same.
         

 

 

  SAP Business Network
 
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  Days to pay KPI widget [BNA-5]
The Days to pay KPI widget displays the average days it takes your customers to pay an invoice. It works with the Paid invoices widget to help you identify customer payment patterns and behaviors. The widget also helps you understand the impact of accepting early payment offers on your organization. The more early payment you accept, the greater reduction in days to pay is achieved. The data can be displayed for All customers or a specific customer and for payments received in the Last month, Last quarter, or Last 12 months.
       
  Invoice cycle time benchmark widget [BNA-12]
The Benchmarking: Invoice cycle time widget calculates the Invoice Cycle Time KPI across SAP Business Network by supplier region, buyer industry, and buyer performance quartile.
       
  Invoice exception rate KPI widget [BNA-188]
The invoice exception rate KPI widget measures the percentage of invoices sent by suppliers to their customer's Accounts Payable (AP) Department that contain an error of some kind and are rejected by AP. The data can be displayed for All customers or a specific customer and for invoices in the Last month, Last quarter, or Last 12 months.
       
  Invoice exceptions widget [BNA-288]
The Invoice exceptions widget calculates the quantity of invoices with exceptions over time. It works with the Invoice exception rate KPI widget to help suppliers understand customer performance. The data can be displayed for All customers or a specific customer and for invoices in the Last month, Last quarter, or Last 12 months.
       
  Enable Deletion of component ship notice. [CSC-32860]
This feature supports the cancellation/deletion of component ship notice.
         
  Continuous Test Environment Support for External Invoices [NG-5332]
SAP Business Network now provides a solution to route and assign the external tax invoices concurrently to the production and test accounts of the buyers and suppliers using tax invoice localization flows. Previously, you as a buyer or supplier could use your tax ID either in your production or test account. Now, you can use your tax ID in both these accounts, which is particularly required to test flows after go live.
       
  Legal profile enhancements for Singapore [NG-5344]
This feature mandates the suppliers in Singapore to configure a legal profile in their SAP Business Network accounts. When buyer enables the country-specific rule for Singapore, SAP Business Network now validates the supplier’s Legal Profile Status in the SAP Business Network supplier account. This helps to identify if the supplier has a legal profile and allow suppliers to submit regulatory-compliant invoices by selecting the appropriate legal profile.
       
  Tax invoicing enhancements for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [NG-5649]
The Saudi Arabian Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) mandated electronic invoicing between suppliers and buyers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia effective December 4, 2021. As a part of this regulation, SAP Business Network supported few guidelines.
         
  Ability to change the supplier’s email address to access the invoice status portal [NP-32633]
Today, suppliers can only use the email address that was invited to the buyer's invoice status portal to register and look up status of single invoices. Suppliers can now use the latest vendor email address the buyer keeps for them on the SAP Business Network to look up single invoices and register for the buyer's invoice status portal. Suppliers can now also update the email address in their account profile on the SAP Business Network to use to look up the status of a single invoice.
         
  Enhancement to existing address validation functionality with typeahead suggestions [NS-14947]
This feature enhances the existing address validation feature with typeahead suggestions. After you enter the required details in the Country/Region field and type at least two characters in the Address line 1 field, a pop-up window displays with typeahead address recommendations. Once you select the most suitable address from the typeahead suggestion list, other fields including City, State, and Zip are automatically entered. This enhancement to the address validation feature enables you to complete entering address details after adding a small section of the address.
         
  Ongoing SAP Business Network Rebranding Changes 2302 [NS-15209]
The user interface and various email notifications related to user creation, password creation, and username and password retrieval have been updated to align to SAP Business Network branding.
         
  Dun & Bradstreet integration [NS-18198]
This feature integrates Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) information into the registration service as well as the Marketing Profile so that a user can look for their respective company/business and fetch the necessary details during registration. It provides a more simplified and improved registration process with autofill capabilities.

Availability of this feature has been delayed. Please check this page for updates on availability.
       
  ISO Certificates Filter in Search Result [NS-21011]
This feature enables customers to search for suppliers that hold particular ISO certificate. Search results can be filtered to display only suppliers that configured ISO certificate in question as part of their profile.
         
  Deprecation of Discovery features [PAY-10312]
The following features have been deprecated: Suppliers can no longer create custom URLs. Buyers and suppliers can no longer suggest custom product and service categories.
         
  Supplier self assessment questionnaire - Human rights [SA-30188]
A self-assessment that can be centrally-maintained by customers to run Human rights due-diligence activities. Suppliers can take the assessment once and share it with many buyers for efficiency.
       
  Expose Workbench filters and categories for tiles [SA-30201]
The Workbench has been enhanced to improve usability and productivity. The Filters panel is now exposed by default, displaying the most commonly used filters. Tiles are now organized by category in the add tile panel.
       
  Updated User experience for Profile [SA-34416]
Updated user experience for company profile - public view. Buyers will be able to view Supplier profiles in a fresh user experience.
       
  Sustainability Ratings on Trading Partner Profiles [SA-34702]
Suppliers can now display third-party sustainability ratings in their SAP Business Network Marketing Profile to increase trust and provide transparency on their environmental, sustainability, and governance practices to buyers.
       

 

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  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.
       
  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.
         
  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.
         
  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.
         
  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.
         

 

 

 

  Features Becoming Mandatory
     
  Feature Name & Description Original Release Learn More  
  Prevention of very long policies [GB-19746]
Very long policies can cause server errors or long wait times when users attempt to display suppliers, check out, start a functional document, or perform other operations. These are individual policies defined over hundreds of rows using the AND (&&) or OR (||) logical operators. To help prevent these problems, guided buying issues an error if you import a policy defined over more than 500 rows.
2211 Release
Guide
     
  Automatic deletion of inactive budget data [CP-22265]
This feature enables automatic deletion of inactive budget records that are not referenced by any approvable document.
2211 Release
Guide
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This information reflects the status of SAP Procurement and SAP Business Network planning as of January 2023 and the features discussed are subject to change at any time without notice.  SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions and nothing in this web page should be construed to represent any commitment by SAP to include any specific new features in any version of the SAP solutions. Please contact your Customer Engagement Executive for additional details.

 

 

 

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