Category Management
	Feature Name & Description	Release	Enablement Model			Learn More
			Automatically On 	Customer Configured 		KT 	Demo
	Ability to Maintain Tools Independent of the Strategy and Plan Documents [CAT-4560]  This feature enables lead category managers to do the following: -Create, update, and maintain tool documents independent of strategy and plan documents in a toolkit. These tool documents can be created specific to different regions and categories. -Associate or disassociate tool documents with multiple strategy and plan documents. -Update tool documents in strategy and plan documents if you have made any changes to the associated tool documents in the toolkit. -Assign category managers the capability to create or update tool documents. This feature is enabled only for the Cost Structure and Market Dynamics tools.	2405
	Support for Two-Level Cost Structure Components in SAP Ariba Category Management [CAT-4633]  This feature allows you to do the following: -As a category management administrator, you can create two-level cost structure components by establishing a parent-child relationship between the components. -As a category manager, you can use first-level (parent) and second-level (child) cost structure components to define the cost structure for your category. Category managers can now add and remove cost structure components and use decimal values when defining the percentage for cost structure components. This feature offers category managers a more detailed perspective on cost distribution and cost drivers related to the category.	2405
	Enhancements to Mapping Between the Initiative and Associated Guided Sourcing Project Fields [CAT-5798]  This feature includes the following changes: When category managers create a guided sourcing project from an initiative, the following fields of the guided sourcing project are now prefilled: -The Baseline Spend and Currency fields of the guided sourcing project are prefilled with the value defined in the Baseline Spend / Currency field of the initiative. -The Target Savings % field is prefilled based on the values defined in the Estimated Benefits and Baseline Spend fields of the initiative. Category management administrators can now assign a type (UoM, Currency, %, and Other) for a KPI measure.	2405
	Accelerating Enterprise Category Strategy Development  with Generative AI-Enhanced Content Recommendations [CAT-4777] Introducing Dynamic Content Recommendations: a game-changer within our Category Management Application. Empowering category managers, this LLM-integrated feature fills Market Dynamics, Category Segmentation, and Cost Structures tools with context-aware insights. Say goodbye to data entry hassles as tools now launch with preloaded content, revolutionizing strategy planning in SAP Category Management. Includes CAT-6653	2402
	Ability to View the Supplier 360° Profile from SAP Ariba Category Management [CAT-6718]  This feature enables organizations to integrate SAP Ariba Category Management with SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. The integration allows category managers to navigate to the Supplier 360° profile page in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance from the Category Suppliers page of SAP Ariba Category Management. The Supplier 360° profile provides a comprehensive view of the supplier information that can help category managers with their strategy decisions.	2402
	Built-In Support in SAP Ariba Category Management for Easy Access to Support Resources [CAT-7125]  SAP Ariba Category Management provides users quick and easy access to information from SAP support knowledge base through the built-in support capability, which appears as a headset icon on the shell bar. Users with SAP S-user accounts can also report and monitor support incidents through the built-in support panel.	2402

 

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