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SAP Ariba Procurement 2025 Release Resources:
Buying & Invoicing
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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| Support for Adding Catalog Items, Contract Items, or Unplanned Items in Service Sheets Created in SAP Business Network [ACSS-382] This feature enables suppliers to punch in to the SAP Ariba solution and add catalog items, contracted-items, or unplanned items when creating service sheets in SAP Business Network for purchase orders that are not available in the SAP Ariba solution. |
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| Support for Cancellation and Deactivation of Requisitions [PROC-1010] This feature enables users belonging to the Purchasing Approvable Administrator group to cancel requisitions that are in the Canceling state using the Mark as Canceled option and deactivate requisitions that are in the Approved or Ordering states using the Deactivate option. |
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| New Import Task for Deactivating Supplier Locations Associated with Ad Hoc Vendors [PROC-1016] Based on request, provides the ability in SAP Ariba Buying to deactivate Ad-Hoc Suppliers concerned with embedded vCard based procurement flow |
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| Virtual Card Details for Virtual Card Orders [PROC-1025] With this feature, a new field called Payment Method is displayed on the purchase order details page for virtual card orders. When you click Payment Method, the virtual card details such as the card number, card status, and card holder name are displayed. |
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| Display Requisition Amount in Approver's or Watcher's Currency [PROC-1029] With this feature, the amount in a requisition at the header or line level is displayed as a new field in the approver's or watcher's currency. |
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| New Fields in Purchase Order cXML sent to SAP Business Network [PROC-624] With this feature, the company code, purchasing organization, and purchasing group fields are passed in the purchase order cXML that the SAP Ariba buying solution sends to SAP Business Network. The new fields help users in SAP Business Network to search for purchase orders by company code, purchasing organization, or purchasing group. |
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| Support for Defaulting of Split Accounting Type to Percentage for Correction Service Sheets [ACSS-375] As a buyer administrator, you can enable the split accounting type to default to percentage when a correction service sheet is created. This feature is applicable only for a correction service sheet created in the SAP Ariba solution with reference to the invoiced service sheet. |
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| Download the Supplier's Master Data in the cXML Format for Invoices [INV-606] This feature allows buyers to download the original supplier master data from reconciled and paid paper invoices, as captured at the time of invoice submission. |
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| SAP Ariba Invoice Management Integration with WalkMe [INV-609] This feature facilitates the integration of SAP Ariba Invoice Management with WalkMe Digital Adoption Platform. Buyers can take advantage of easy-to-understand guidance powered by WalkMe for the smart walk-thrus in SAP Ariba Invoice Management. Note: WalkMe content is currently available in only English. |
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| Support for Centralized Payment in Purchase Orders Sent to SAP Business Network [PROC-1008] Multiple Sold -To address can be mapped to single bill to address, thus enabling centralized payment when a purchase order that is created in the SAP Ariba solution is sent to SAP Business Network. Sold To address can be maintained in the SoldToBillToMapImport.csv mapping file that enables this new field to be included in the cXML file for POs. |
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| Prepackaged Reports for Virtual Card Orders [PROC-1011] The Virtual Card Reports folder contains the prepackaged reports for virtual card orders, Virtual Card Charges Load Report, Virtual Card Charge Reconciliation Report, and Virtual Card Charge Exception Report. |
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| New User Group for Virtual Card Orders [PROC-1020] With this feature, only users belonging to the new user group Ad Hoc Vendor Agent can use ad hoc vendor when adding non-catalog line items to a requisition. |
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| New Attributes in Operational Reporting API for Procurement [PROC-1024] The Operational Reporting API for Procurement now supports two new attributes for accounting, Activity Number and Network. |
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| Support for Using Virtual Cards to Pay Suppliers [PROC-977] This feature allows buyers to pay suppliers with single-use virtual cards. The card provider generates a virtual card per purchase order and sends the card details to the supplier. The supplier uses the virtual card to receive payment from the buyer's bank. Then, the buyer's account is charged. After reconciling the amount against the purchase order in the SAP Ariba buying solution, the buyer updates the details to the buyer’s ERP system. |
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| Support for Ad Hoc Vendors for Non-Catalog Items in Virtual Card Orders [PROC-986] With this feature, buyers can create virtual card orders to procure non-catalog items from ad hoc vendors. Ad hoc vendors are suppliers added to SAP Ariba Buying and SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing on an as-needed basis without needing to onboard them. Ad hoc vendors receive virtual card details on the email address of their vendor location. They can charge the virtual card to accept payment for the non-catalog items they sell to buyers. |
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| Support for Spend Consumption Reports [CP-29451] This feature enables users to run the spend consumption reports. The PO Spend report gives you the spend consumption of the purchase orders, the Non-PO Invoice report gives the spend consumption of the non-PO invoices. |
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| Support for Price Validation when Importing Requisitions [CP-29879] With this feature, the imported requisitions are submitted automatically in the SAP Ariba solution when the price of the imported line item is the same as or lower than the catalog price. When the price of the imported line item is higher than the catalog price, an error message is displayed, and users must update the price before submitting the requisition. |
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