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SAP Procurement and SAP Business Network 2305 Release
2305 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 2305 release. | Discover the benefits coming with the 2305 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 2305 release they will become automatically on for all customers with the applicable solutions or require other actions by customers for continued use. |
Customer Action Required |
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Feature Name & Description | Impact Date | Learn More | ||||
Enforce the Use of HTTPS in SAP Ariba Solutions [SI-6537] This feature enforces the use of HTTPS in SAP Ariba solutions. Customers need to update all HTTP URLs, including vanity URLs, to HTTPS, and reconfigure your outbound endpoint URLs to HTTPS before the Q3 2023 release to ensure that SAP Ariba can transmit data, receive data, and display URLs in the user interface and email messages. Vanity URLs should only be updated to HTTPS if your SAP Ariba solution site is not on s1-2.ariba.com or s1-2-eu.ariba.com. |
2308 | What's New | ||||
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. This feature is optional for 90 days. After 90 days, SAP Ariba plans to turn it on for all customers in the Australia data center. If you continue to use the decommissioned ciphers after August 2023, the TLS handshake process for API Gateway calls will fail and the API calls will not be completed and all API integrations will fail. |
2308 | What's New | ||||
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. This feature is optional for 90 days. After 90 days, SAP Ariba plans to turn it on for all customers in the Japan data center. If you continue to use the decommissioned ciphers after August 2023, the TLS handshake process for API Gateway calls will fail and the API calls will not be completed and all API integrations will fail. |
2308 | What's New |
Features Becoming Mandatory |
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Feature Name & Description | Original Release | Learn More | ||||
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. |
2303 | Release Guide |
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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. |
2303 | Release Guide |
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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. Ciphers will be decommissioned in June 2023 (2306) |
2303 | Release Guide |
Strategic Sourcing For Industries Features ONLY available with SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
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Feature Name & Description | Automatically On |
Customer Configured |
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Custom Field Header Support in the S/4HANA Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL) Integration Scenario [DMS-17970] This feature gives buyers the ability to use custom header fields in the S/4HANA Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL) Integration Scenario. |
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Multiple Sourcing Request Template Support in the S/4HANA Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL) Integration Scenario [DMS-18224] This feature adds support for multiple sourcing request templates in the S/4HANA Sourcing with SAP Ariba Sourcing (4BL) Integration Scenario. |
Contracts SAP Ariba Contracts features are available in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
Enablement Model | Learn More | |||||
Feature Name & Description | Automatically On |
Customer Configured |
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Migration of Contract Workspaces to SAP Ariba Contracts and Icertis Contract Intelligence [SC-17778] This feature enables buyers using SAP Ariba Contracts integrated with Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba solutions to migrate legacy (or existing) contract workspaces and agreements between SAP Ariba Contracts and ICI or from third-party applications to SAP Ariba Contracts and ICI. You can establish a mapping between the contract records in ICI and SAP Ariba Contracts by using the IntegratedSystemReference.csv file. Creating a mapping between the records in ICI and SAP Ariba Contracts facilitates seamless navigation between the user interfaces and helps you manage the records from either of the systems. |
Catalog & Spot Buy |
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Feature Name & Description | Automatically On |
Customer Configured |
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No Feature in the 2305 Release |
SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway (Formally known as Cloud Integration Gateway CIG) |
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Feature Name & Description | Automatically On |
Customer Configured |
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SAP Central Invoice Management Integration with Invoice Status Portal in SAP Business Network [IG-38768] Buying organizations can send invoice details including status from SAP Central Invoice Management to the invoice status portal in SAP Business Network using SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network. If a buying organization has configured the invoice status portal in SAP Business Network, suppliers can view the invoice details including status in the invoice status portal. |
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Renaming SPRO Menu Components in the SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA Addons of SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network. [IG-41640] The SPRO nodes associated with the following addons are renamed: • SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network, addon for SAP ERP • SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network, addon for SAP S/4HANA The UI components of SPRO nodes contain the short name, Managed Gateway for Spend&Network. The content on the Performance Assistant pages associated with the SPRO nodes displays the name as SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network. Also, the name “Ariba Network” is renamed as “SAP Business Network” throughout the SPRO menu components. |
for Supply Chain |
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Feature Name & Description | Automatically On |
Customer Configured |
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Consignment process improvements [CSC-32655] This feature improves the consignment process by adding fields to consignment reports and enhancing consignment movement. |
This information reflects the status of SAP Procurement and SAP Business Network planning as of April 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.