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SAP Ariba Procurement 2025 Release Resources:
Contracts
A list of features released in 2025
| Early Release Series Access the presentations and replays from these sessions. |
What's New Guide Describes new or changed features |
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| Contracts SAP Ariba Sourcing features are also available in SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite |
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| AI Copilot Joule in SAP Ariba Contracts [SCONTR-1279] Joule, SAP's generative AI copilot, is now available in SAP Ariba Contracts. Joule uses a conversational interface to help users complete tasks efficiently. |
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| Supplier Eligibility Validation in Contract Workspaces [SCONTR-1445] This feature enables buyers to set supplier eligibility criteria using supplier registration and qualification statuses from SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. It ensures that only suppliers who meet the specified eligibility criteria are included in a contract. These criteria can be validated during various stages, such as during contract creation, publication, or when transferring contract data and line items to integrated external systems like SAP ERP. |
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| Ability to Purge Business Contact Data in SAP Ariba Contracts [SCONTR-1401] This feature allows users to purge data associated with signers who are non-SAP Ariba users and added as business contacts in signature tasks within SAP Ariba Contracts. |
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| SAP Ariba Contracts Integration with WalkMe [SCONTR-1444] This feature facilitates the integration between SAP Ariba Contracts and the WalkMe Digital Adoption Platform. Through this integration, buyers receive on-demand guidance from WalkMe for several commonly used workflows within SAP Ariba Contracts. Note: WalkMe content is currently available in only English. |
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| Managing Baseline and Supplier Contracts for Pre-Award Negotiation in Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP Ariba Solutions [SCONTR-1499] Buyers using SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite or SAP Ariba Contracts integrated with SAP Ariba Sourcing, and who have further integrated with Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) for SAP Ariba Solutions to manage all contract-related tasks, can now also manage baseline and supplier contracts in ICI. These contracts are part of guided sourcing events, which are subject to pre-award negotiation. |
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| Publishing a Guided Sourcing Event with an Unpublished Baseline Contract for Pre-award Negotiation [SCONTR-1510] This feature allows buyers to publish a guided sourcing event configured for pre-award negotiation, even when the linked baseline contract remains unpublished due to a future effective date. |
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| SAP Task Center Integration with SAP Ariba Contracts [SCONTR-1210] This feature enables buyers to use SAP Task Center to process approval tasks assigned to them from SAP Ariba Contracts. |
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| Ability to Customize the Prefix for the Contract ID in SAP Ariba Contracts [SCONTR-1280] This feature enables buyers to customize the contract ID prefix in SAP Ariba Contracts by replacing the default value (CW) with their preferred value. |
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| User Interface Enhancements for Managing Tasks from SAP Ariba Contracts in SAP Task Center [SCONTR-1386] This feature brings enhancements to the SAP Task Center user interface to better manage tasks originating from SAP Ariba Contracts. The new UI is more user-centric, utilizing the SAP Fiori design principles, which aim to improve usability, efficiency, and the overall user experience. |
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| Enhancements to the User Interface for Managing Non-Disclosure Agreement Contracts [SCONTR-1395] This feature introduces several changes to the user interface for managing Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) contracts. |
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| Importing and Exporting Line Items in Large-Capacity Contract Line Items Documents Using an Excel File [SC-22523] This feature enables buyers to import and export line items data to large-capacity Contract Line Items Documents (CLID) using the Simplified Excel Import functionality. Buyers can add or update line items information in the large-capacity CLID in a contract workspace using a preformatted Excel file. |
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| Viewing Supplier Risk Exposure with Custom Category Data in SAP Ariba Contracts [SC-22524] Buyers using SAP Ariba Contracts, integrated with SAP Ariba Supplier Risk and SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance solutions, can view supplier risk exposure data in contract workspaces through custom risk categories. |
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| Predecessor Event for Contracts Created from Guided Sourcing Projects [SC-22525] The predecessor event of a contract is a single-event guided sourcing project or a subproject within a guided sourcing full project from which the contract is created. In SAP Ariba Contracts, contract workspaces now include a project field, in addition to the predecessor project field, to identify and link the corresponding predecessor event. |
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