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SAP Business Network 2405 Release
We have identified a need to modify the original schedule for the SAP Business Network 2405 Release. The SAP Business Network release has been re-scheduled for the weekend of May 24-26, 2024.
The availability of some features planned for the 2405 release will be impacted by this change. Please review the list below for updates.
| What's New Guide | 2405 Early Release Series | Release Summary | ||||
| Describes new or changed features included in the 2405 release. | An interactive forum to engage with product experts providing simple, direct answers to your questions. | Provides a downloadable overview of planned features with links to additional feature content. |
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Reminder: Domain and Sub-Domain Allow List New SAP Business Network Sub-processor List SAP publishes an update to the list of sub-processors at least annually or when a new sub-processor is added. You can always access the latest version of the list on the SAP Sub-processors page. Please subscribe to get notified of the updates. |
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| Support for Bulk Actions on Staged Network Catalog Products [BNCAT-2498] - Feature for Suppliers Suppliers can perform bulk actions on the staged network catalog products, such as publishing products, sending products for approval, and approving products. |
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| Notification Enhancement for Priority Support [NEXTGEN-5948] - Feature for Suppliers This feature improves your notification experience by categorizing in-app notifications into three distinct priority levels: Critical, High-Priority, and Normal. The goal is to offer a more streamlined and focused experience by prioritizing and visually distinguishing notifications based on their urgency. |
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| Introducing the Unified Sign-In (ULP) Experience for Suppliers [NEXTGEN-9883] - Feature for Suppliers This feature introduces the unified sign-in experience for suppliers - unified sign-in page (ULP, also known as SAP Business Network login page). ULP allows suppliers to sign in to SAP Business Network with a unified sign-in experience. Note: Per the Release Readiness communication on April 25th, this feature will roll out to Suppliers in phases between April 26 and July 26, 2024. |
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| Support for Status Update Request Document Type with Flow Extension API [NP-37827] This feature enables customers or partners on behalf of the customers, to report any invoice business failure or rejection status sent by the customers procurement system, to their local tax authority in SAP Business Network using the Flow Extension API. |
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| Intelligent Invoice Conversion Support for India Specific Invoice PDF Processing [NP-38087] - Feature for Suppliers Support for PDF invoice processing in India including the tax mandated invoice data to be sent to buyers using Intelligent invoice conversion on the SAP Business Network |
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| Enhancements to SAP Business Network Trading Partner Registration [NP-42603] This feature introduces enhancements to the registration process of suppliers on SAP Business Network using both walk-up registration and registration using trading relationship request. |
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| Enhancements to Relationship Management User Interface [NP-45779] This feature introduces the new and simplified user interface to manage relationships on SAP Business Network. |
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| Support For United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) Version 25 in SAP Business Network [PAY-13954] To create a central table/library of latest UNSPSC and all individual application or team who is using USPSC need to consume the library for their needs through API. |
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| Taulia Payables Solutions: Accepted discounting offers [PAY-9290] When suppliers accept early payment offers in return for a discount on the Taulia application, Taulia copies the accepted discounting offer to the SAP Business Network. This way suppliers can see the expected payment date and payment amount on the SAP Business Network when checking on the status of an invoice and viewing scheduled payments. When suppliers view remittance advices on the SAP Business Network, suppliers can see that reduction in expected payment amount is the result of the supplier's own action in the Taulia application. |
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| Taulia Payables Solutions: Supply Chain Financing Remittance Advices [PAY-9990] When suppliers accept supply chain financing offers on the Taulia application, the Taulia copies the SCF Remittance to the SAP Business Network. This way the supplier can always see the expected payment date and payment amount on the SAP Business Network when checking on the status of an invoice. When suppliers view remittance advices on the SAP business network, suppliers can see that reduction in expected payment amount is the result of the supplier's own action in the Taulia application. |
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| Redesigned User Interface for Contact Management [SA-48422] The user interface for managing Contacts within company profiles of trading partners has undergone a comprehensive redesign. This redesign aims to cater to the contact management needs of various user personas and to provide a unified and efficient experience for different personas to effortlessly manage companywide or customer-specific contacts. |
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| Support for AI-Generated Product Summary and Description for Network Catalog Products [BNCAT-2497] - Feature for Suppliers This feature enables suppliers to generate the product summary and description of a network catalog product using AI. The existing product information such as product name, product description, product summary, manufacturer name, and product category as per UNSPSC category code will be used to generate the product summary and product description. In addition to the existing product information, suppliers can also add more details as prompts to generate AI-enhanced product summary and description. It enables suppliers to better organize the content and improve readability. |
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| Peppol Integration for Singapore [NG-6303] SAP Business Network now extends Peppol integration for Singapore to exchange invoices between suppliers and buyers. Both the supplier and buyer must be registered users of Peppol. |
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| Enhancement for Japanese Invoices to Display Tax Rate of Line Items [NG-6369] With the introduction of TEKIKAKU SEIKYUSHO TOU HOZON HOUSHIKI invoicing method in Japan, SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing displays the tax summarization calculated at the header level during invoice creation. You can now display the tax rates for each line item on SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing for Japanese invoices. This is possible by creating custom fields that can capture the tax rates of the line items and additional line-item information, if available. Note: Availability of this feature has been delayed. It is planned to be enabled for all customers with the 2408 Release. |
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| Intelligent Invoice Conversion Support for Inbound Email Channel to Receive PDF and Scanned Invoices [NP-38357] - Feature for Suppliers Support for inbound email channel to receive PDF and Scanned paper invoices from suppliers for Intelligent invoice conversion on the SAP Business Network |
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| Allow suppliers to subscribe to receive a notification when an order is ready to invoice [NP-39498] Suppliers can now subscribe to receive a notification when an order is ready to invoice. Previously, suppliers had to login to SAP Business Network to access the Orders to Invoice tile in the supplier workbench to determine if an order is ready to invoice. With this feature, suppliers can receive an email notification as soon as an order is ready for invoicing. The email provides a link to the order’s details page so that the supplier can start the invoice creation process from the email. |
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| Support for Marking an Invoice Attachment as the Original Invoice [NP-36965] The Create Invoice page now supports assigning one header attachment as the original invoice. To make it easier to identify the original invoice, an Assign as original invoice button is available for one of the attachments. |
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| Enhanced Responses to Discovery Postings Using Generative AI [PAY-18057] - Feature for Suppliers With the help of Gen AI response generation, suppliers will be able to respond to RFIs in a timely manner, even when dealing with complex and detailed requests. Using Gen AI for RFI response can help suppliers reduce costs associated with manual labor and resource allocation. Gen AI generated RFI response reduces the likelihood of errors or omissions. Gen AI generated RFI responses are grammatically correct and consistently written. |
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| Sort Planning Records by Projected Stock Status [CSC-39639] This feature allows suppliers to create Upload/Download jobs for Inventory and Replenishment process types where the planning records are listed in order of how critical their projected stock situation is for future time buckets. Viewing the planning records in this order helps suppliers quickly identify which planning records to address first. |
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| Support for Classic and Standard Audit Logs [CSC-42570] This feature reinstates access to classic audit logs by adding a submenu you can use to choose between classic (legacy) and standard (Intelligent Configuration Manager) audit logs. |
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| Improved Visibility of Cancelled Component Receipt [SBNI-45] This feature enables you to view the cancelled component receipts of your purchase orders in the Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG) addon inbound flow |
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| Quality Inspection Material Revision Level [SBNI-146] Suppliers can view the Revision Level on Quality Inspect. This field is sent from Buyers ERP system to Supplier when buyer creates the quality inspection |
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| Visibility of Inspection Lot Cancellation to Supplier [SBNI-440] The feature enables the supplier to have a visibility when a buyer cancels the inspection lot. When a buyer creates a inspection lot in the buyer ERP, the request is sent to the supplier on SAP Business Network |
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| Improve Supplier Visibility of Purchase Order Line Items Deleted by Buyers [CSC-34486] This feature improves visibility for suppliers when buyers delete line items in regular purchase orders. When buyers delete line items, SAP Business Network prevents suppliers from submitting documents (order confirmations, ship notices, service entry sheets, invoices, and others) against these line items. Prior to this feature, SAP Business Network prevented suppliers from submitting documents against deleted line items, but suppliers did not know if line items were deleted or blocked. Suppliers also needed to implement their own logic if they wanted to determine which line items were deleted in purchase orders. |
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| Enhancements to the Purchase Order Integration to Indicate Line Items Deleted in the Purchase Order [SBNI-12] With this enhancement, SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network provides integration support for the suppliers integrated with SAP Business Network to view the line items deleted by the buyers in the purchase order. The buyers can decide on suppliers who should receive the purchase order with line items marked as deleted. |
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This information reflects the status of SAP Procurement and SAP Business Network planning as of May 2024 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.