SAP Ariba Solutions Road Map

SAP Ariba Solutions Road Map
January 2020
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Table of contents
Product overview
▪ SAP Ariba solution portfolio
Vision and direction

▪ Innovation priorities
▪ Product vision
Product innovations
▪ Detailed innovations by solution area/product
– Strategic procurement applications (supplier management and risk, sourcing, contracts, spend visibility)
– Operational procurement applications (guided buying, catalog/spot buy, core procurement, invoicing)
– Network and supply chain (network procurement and invoicing, services invoicing, supply chain, strategic sourcing for
industries, globalization, integration)
– Foundational services (forms, APIs, infrastructure, and security)

Source to Pay – Process Overview
Source and Contract

Define and create Identify and Negotiate &
the category source material manage contracts
strategy and service needs with trading Indirect Goods /
partners MRO Suppliers
Contract
Plan and Forecast Manufacturers
Plan and forecast demand for

goods, services and resources
Logistics
Provider
Buy and Deliver
Initiate a request Execute orders Deliver & receive
for purchasing for goods & goods & services Component
goods & services services Suppliers
Invoice and Pay Services Providers
Create/manage Apply early Pay trading

the invoices and payment options partners for goods
Trading Partner Collaboration
credit memos delivered and
Trading partner & Risk Management
services rendered]
Analytics and Intelligence
Central Procurement Functions
Vision for Autonomous Procurement
Essential pillars in that journey
Experience One platform Intelligent spend management

Provide comprehensive process Deliver an end-to-end scalable Execute the Intelligent Enterprise
capability with an immersive platform with extensibility and strategy, leveraging the intelligent
end-user experience unified integration for technologies (such as AI/ML and
managing all spend analytics) and the digital platform
Business Value Drivers

Efficiency | Effectiveness | Agility | Trust | Experience
SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solution strategy
A journey to autonomous procurement
End user
Guided buying
Category experience
Supplier experience
Category Supplier Buy and
buyer and risk Source Contract deliver Invoice Supplier
Experience
Provide comprehensive process Procurement operations desk
capability with an immersive
end-user experience
Shared services

SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solution strategy
One end-to-end platform

All spend categories: Direct, indirect, material requirements planning (MRP),
services, external labor, and fixed asset
Transformation of a transactional network to an intelligent business network
SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway for both buyer and supplier sides, open APIs,
and unified supplier onboarding
Strengthening integration within SAP Ariba solutions
One platform Seamless process integration with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fieldglass and
Deliver an end-to-end, scalable SAP Concur solutions
platform with extensibility and Extensible through partner ecosystem: Tax, logistics, process, risk, and fraud detection
unified integration for
managing all spend

SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass solutions
Lead to cash
Customer experience
Total workforce management

People engagement
Design to operate
Manufacturing and supply chain
Source to pay
Intelligent spend management Spend management
Execute the Intelligent Enterprise

using intelligent technologies (such
as AI/ML and analytics) and
the digital platform

Business Value Drivers: what outcomes you can expect
Value Levers What it means to customers Examples
▪ Getting more done with fewer resources ▪ Reduce PO error rate

Efficiency
▪ Higher efficiency though automation, digitization, etc. ▪ Improve Operation Procurement FTEs productivity
▪ Focus users on actionable data based on job function
▪ Reduce missed/lost rebates through better discovery & visibility

Effectiveness ▪ Higher quality output through more resilient systems
▪ Increase ROI of customer with better procurement process
▪ Higher process flexibility ▪ Reduce supplier onboarding time

Agility ▪ Higher speed of execution ▪ Quickly multiply price info points in catalogs
▪ Faster pace of innovation ▪ Decrease deployment time for new products
▪ Lower compliance risk ▪ Improve supplier compliance

Trust
▪ Lower risk, higher transparency ▪ Identify risk factors in supplier selection process
▪ Delightful user experience

▪ Increase engagement/NPS
Experience ▪ Higher user satisfaction
▪ Reduce time to complete sourcing and contract processes
▪ End-user loyalty and love

Q1 Innovations in Focus
and business value they provide
Strategic Procurement: Trading partner and risk management
▪ Third-party risk provider framework – Experience | Trust
▪ Supplier Data Replication with SAP S/4 HANA Cloud – Effectiveness | Agility
Operational Procurement: Invoice and Pay

▪ Guided Buying integration with S/4HANA Cloud – Experience | Effectiveness
▪ Non-PO Invoice creation including one-time vendors – Experience
Supply Chain: Plan and Forecast

▪ Expanded MS Excel upload/download and template use – Experience
▪ Product activity messaging to tiered suppliers – Effectiveness | Agility
Network: Trading Partner Collaboration

▪ Introduction of proof of service document – Effectiveness | Efficiency
▪ Integration with SAP Field Service Management – Experience | Efficiency
Foundation Services: Platform

▪ Intelligent Configuration Manager - Efficiency | Agility
▪ Further API expansion – Effectiveness | Agility
SAP Ariba solutions
Strategic procurement applications
Designed to support strategic management of supplier relationships,

sourcing, negotiations, and related contracts and spend
Supplier management and risk

▪ Unified supplier record and enhanced lifecycle management
▪ Risk assessment, mitigation, and impact guidance
Sourcing, contracts, and analytics

▪ Persona-driven category buyer user experience
▪ Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)–based recommendation
assistance
▪ Spend analysis
– AI- and ML-based data enrichment

Supplier lifecycle and performance
Planned Q2/2018 Planned Q3/2018
Recent innovations Planned Q1/20201 Planned Q2/20201 Future direction1
Customer success Customer success Customer success Other new features and capabilities
▪ New supplier 360 profile ▪ Ability to restart denied supplier registrations ▪ Bank account syntax validation ▪ New process framework for custom qualification
▪ Scoring and score banding in modular supplier ▪ Enhancements to the registration update phase ▪ Additional SAP reference data support in SLP and other supplier lifecycle processes
management questionnaires to support individual questionnaire updates ▪ Supplier request and duplicate check ▪ Process flow: qualification expiration
▪ Supplier management Dun & Bradstreet ▪ Multi-language support for supplier name enhancements ▪ Support for buyers registering on behalf of suppliers
integration search ▪ Ability to see both last approved and last submitted
▪ Enhancements to supplier bank ID management ▪ Certification of SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and versions of denied internal registration
▪ ERP profile data & sync option enhancements Performance integration with SAP S/4HANA questionnaires
in the new supplier 360 Cloud for supplier data replication ▪ Periodic reminders for suppliers to update
▪ Supplier management project template ▪ Supplier search relevancy based on supplier registration questionnaires
import/export support name and country code ▪ Customer feedback surveys for supplier
▪ Template upgrade validations ▪ Ability to export individual supplier management management
questionnaires to MS Excel ▪ User activity log in supplier 360
▪ Display full supplier names longer than 35
characters ▪ Ability to refine searches based on hierarchical
▪ Enhancements to ERP data synchronization master data
with external supplier management ▪ Supplier search performance improvements
questionnaires ▪ Ability for buyer to configure sender name in
▪ Display new supplier contact names with family invitation emails
names first ▪ New email notification templates for supplier
registration reminders
▪ Support for analytical reporting in SAP Ariba SLP
▪ Improved status information in the supplier view of
supplier management questionnaires
▪ Display of approver comments requesting additional
information in the supplier view of supplier
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice. management questionnaires
Supplier risk
▪ Archiving for completed engagement risk ▪ Remove users in engagement request and ▪ Introducing third-party compliance risk provider ▪ Risk control and assessment expiration workflows
assessment projects issue project teams using project team framework
▪ Improved interface for incident listings in SAP management ▪ Ability to create a change request to modify a
Ariba Supplier Risk ▪ Introducing third-party Environmental & Social live engagement request
▪ Editable external ID in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk risk provider framework with Ecovadis ▪ Support for upgrading engagement projects to
supplier profile ▪ Ability to automatically identify engagements the latest template version
▪ Registered suppliers filter for supplier selection that only require basic approval workflows ▪ New third-party Financial risk data provider
in engagement requests ▪ Enhancements to engagement task ▪ Ability to edit an engagement change request in
▪ Check for issues before marking a control as management progress
ineffective
1. This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.

Sourcing
Adoption Adoption Adoption User experience

▪ Send supplier biding currency in external ▪ Supplier ID included in supplier selection lists ▪ API for auto publishing a Sourcing event without ▪ Intelligent event creation – ability to create an event
approval API task and event details ▪ Data filtering enhancements for the External manual input from unstructured MS Excel data
▪ Send alternative bids in external approval API Approval API ▪ Surrogate bid API
task and event details ▪ Provide event change information to approvers ▪ Envelope bidding with alternative bids for lots
before republishing an event and service items
▪ Configurable bid comparison report ▪ Data filtering enhancements for External
approval API
▪ Ability for suppliers to respond to an entire
sourcing event via email
▪ Data purge for sourcing

Sourcing – SAP Ariba solutions for direct spend
Today Planned (Q3 2018) Planned (Q4 2018) Future direction
Direct sourcing Direct sourcing Direct sourcing Direct sourcing

▪ PIR integration for Bill of Material (BOM) quote ▪ Ability to import plant specific custom fields ▪ Pricing condition support for Lots ▪ RFQ for more than 24 months
▪ Ability to add constraints online level region and ▪ Ability to see make vs buy pricing
▪ Automatically add AML suppliers to BOM ▪ Ability to upload BOM by using CSV files
commodity fields in an optimization scenario ▪ Intelligent Widgets
quotes ▪ Ability to capture detailed cost breakdowns ▪ RFI capability for estimated lead time and ▪ Cost breakdown comparison
▪ BOM comparison download to MS Excel ▪ BOM enhancements estimated price (NPI) ▪ Cost breakdown functional enhancements
▪ Display of item-level audit logs in Material 360 ▪ Cost breakdown usability enhancements ▪ Pricing Predictability
▪ Autofill RFQ from previous RFQs
view ▪ Material Attribute Filters for Item Master Search ▪ Ability to see all related sourcing events in Item
360
Industry sourcing Industry sourcing ▪ Design BOMs
Industry sourcing ▪ Table support in assembled contract documents
▪ Bid spreadsheet formatting improvements Industry sourcing
▪ Backup and export of category attribute ▪ Product Questionnaires
hierarchy data ▪ Change currency in bid revisions (Supplier)
▪ Sourcing event questions as contract terms in
contract workspaces ▪ Bulk Edit of Item Terms
▪ Purge of category attribute hierarchy
▪ Category Attribute Hierarchy support for Material
▪ Search for contract workspaces using contract ▪ Multi-select enhancement for matrix terms
Master ad-hoc items
terms ▪ Show Article types when browsing Category
▪ Allow use of conditions to control the visibility of Attribute Hierarchy
category attribute hierarchy questions to ▪ Continuous Quoting
suppliers

Contracts and Spend Analysis
Core contract management Core contract management Core contract management Core contract management
▪ Allow scheduling agreement as a document type ▪ Display and allow searches based on the last ▪ Contracts workspace metadata extraction and ▪ Implement OAUTH authentication between SAP
for integration with external systems published date of contract workspaces search APIs Ariba Contracts and DocuSign
▪ Purchasing contract (outline agreement) ▪ Support custom document type, document category ▪ Increase the 100 MB attachment size limitation
integration support from SAP Ariba Contracts and item category as outline agreement options for contracts
to SAP S/4HANA Cloud while sending contracts from SAP Ariba to external ▪ Ability to create contracts from documents
▪ User experience enhancements on applications
▪ Intelligent contract repository
commodity escalation clause management ▪ Ability to update legacy contract line items in ERP
screens from SAP Ariba Contracts ▪ Supplier Quotation ID integration support from
SAP Ariba Contracts to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
▪ Bulk creation and management of contracts
▪ Ability to filter values in a field based on data
▪ Bulk eSignature management for contracts selected in other fields
Spend analysis
▪ Create, update and delete APIs for contract ▪ Contract integration with SAP Fieldglass
▪ Custom supplier hierarchy
workspace metadata
▪ New user experience for contracts
▪ Simple MS Excel import and export of SAP Ariba
Contracts
▪ Supplier qualification status integration from SAP
Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance solution
with SAP Ariba Contracts
▪ Central contracts integration support from SAP
Ariba Contracts to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
▪ Enhancements to the External approval API
▪ Scheduling agreement integration support from
SAP Ariba Contracts to SAP S/4HANA Cloud

SAP Ariba solutions
Operational procurement
Deliver the solutions to seamlessly manage the collaboration of tactical

procurement activities and processes with suppliers
Guided buying/core procurement

▪ Project-based spend engagement
▪ Procurement operations desk capability
Catalog and spot buy capability

▪ Real-time inventory checks
▪ Master data verification
Buying and invoice management

▪ MRO category coverage (assets, stock reservation, OC, and ASN)
▪ Work order integration
▪ New mobile app released
Service procurement
▪ Proof of service

Core procurement – Buying and mobile
Core procurement Core procurement Core Procurement Core Procurement

▪ Asset Management API for SAP-integrated ▪ Inventory reservation for SAP ERP-integrated ▪ Enhanced integration between Purchase ▪ Support for subcontracting act of Japan
sites sites Request (PR) and Service Request (SR) ▪ Budget load performance improvement
▪ Ability to synchronize fields between ▪ Budget check enhancements to Contract V&E ▪ Option to exclude tax from user entered amount
workspaces and documents API for amount based receipting Mobile
▪ Support for the functionality to replace empty or ▪ Enhancements to importing requisitions in SAP ▪ Sourcing tasks
inactive groups based on approval rule ERP-integrated sites
configuration for global groups ▪ Prevent budget reversal when imported
▪ Notify preparers and requesters when orders requisitions are edited
are generated ▪ Importing amendments from external systems
▪ Enhancement to importing requisitions with ▪ Distributing invoice header-level charges to line
expired or deactivated catalog items items for capitalization of assets
▪ Support for ERP purchase order ID while
importing receipts using SAP Ariba web
services Mobile
▪ Validate and enrich requisition data in an
external system

Guided buying
Recent innovations Future direction
Customer success Customer success Customer success Customer success

▪ Filter tiles by user’s job function ▪ Ability to change requests after they are ordered ▪ Improved visibility of RFQs and sourcing ▪ Sending line-level changes on requisitions to
▪ Map header-level RFQ form fields to ▪ Improved chooser for company code and requests SAP S/4HANA Cloud
sourcing projects purchasing organization ▪ Track and view purchase orders
▪ Support for lean services procurement in ▪ Transfer of creator, requester and recipient ▪ Integration with procurement workspace
Guided Buying information from Guided Buying requests to projects
▪ Sending accounting splits, comments and SAP S/4HANA Cloud ▪ Improved error management
custom fields on requisitions to SAP ▪ Transfer of ship to address from Guided Buying ▪ Audit log of administrative activities
S/4HANA requests to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
▪ Sending requisition line-level attachments to
▪ Improved Guided Buying navigation ▪ Sending line level changes on requisitions to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
controls SAP S/4HANA Cloud
▪ Integration/transfer of extended/advanced
▪ Integration of Guided Buying to S/4HANA on- pricing from Guided Buying to SAP S/4HANA
premise with CIG as a pass through
▪ Integration/transfer of form fields and catalog
▪ Global rollout of the improved Guided Buying parametric data from Guided Buying to SAP
navigation controls S/4HANA
▪ Support advanced currency precision handling
Procurement Desk
▪ Enhanced accessibility on the catalog-based
▪ Queue settings based on custom fields purchase process

Catalogs, Spot Buy, MRO and inventory management
Catalogs and CMS Catalogs and CMS Catalogs and CMS Catalogs and CMS
▪ Changing the sequence of execution of catalog ▪ Viewing catalog validation errors in the buyer’s ▪ Catalog data on-boarding to data plane for ▪ Catalog API to provide contract & advanced pricing
content rules site reporting details
▪ Endpoint to fetch standard catalog field ▪ Encryption of Catalog Data at rest for Enhanced ▪ Catalog Open API access in buyer
Spot Buy metadata using Catalog Content API Security ▪ Catalog Data Export – Image search machine
▪ Pass End-user contact information to sellers ▪ Deleting catalogs that are in the New to Buyer ▪ Catalog data publish to new semantic search learning model training
status engine
▪ Paginated display of catalog content documents ▪ Catalog search API integration with new
▪ Changing the sequence of execution of catalog semantic search engine
content rule types
Spot Buy
▪ Upgrade to eBay API
▪ Catalog search engine using improved
search relevance and fast publish
Inventory management
▪ Support for fetching inventory item details from
SAP ERP

Invoice management
Core invoicing Core invoicing Core invoicing Core invoicing

▪ Support for filtering payment terms based on the ▪ Non-PO invoices for one-time vendors ▪ Enhanced third-party tax engine integration ▪ Support for subcontracting act of Japan
purchasing unit of the electronic invoice ▪ Simple non-PO invoice creation in Guided ▪ Automatically reject approved invoices canceled
▪ PO-based defaulting of taxes, charges and Buying by the ERP system in SAP Ariba Buying and
discounts on manual invoices Invoicing
▪ Assign invoice source documents to invoice
▪ Commodity Code defaulting in invoices and
exception types
Invoice Responses based on machine learning
▪ Support for Italy SDI invoices
▪ Encryption of invoice data for enhanced security
▪ Ability to import into Ariba Buying and Invoicing
using the cxml channel
▪ Provide ability to report on the invoicing object

Services procurement
Recent innovations
Buying Contract Compliance Buying Buying

▪ Simplified procurement of services ▪ Contract Compliance API ▪ Managing procurement processes for work ▪ Support for limit orders in guided buying for SAP
order based requisitions imported from SAP integrated sites
ERP or SAP S/4HANA ▪ Specifying contract and non-contract item limits for
▪ Importing service sheets from SAP ERP- unplanned items in service purchase orders
integrated sites using SAP Ariba Cloud
Integration Gateway
▪ Managing procurement processes for work
order based requisitions imported from SAP
ERP
▪ Support for limit orders in the buying solutions
from SAP Ariba for SAP integrated sites
Contract Compliance
▪ Toggle to exclude taxes and charges on
releases

SAP Ariba solutions
Network, Supplier collaboration and Supply Chain
Focusing on Ariba Network and SAP Ariba Supply Chain

Collaboration targeted to deliver supply chain visibility.
Network
▪ PO and invoice automation
▪ Service automation
▪ Supplier collaboration/engagement
Supply chain collaboration

▪ Supply chain intelligence
▪ User experience dashboard enhancement

Network
PO and invoice automation
Recent innovations
PO and invoice automation PO and invoice automation PO and invoice automation PO and invoice automation
▪ Purchase order API ▪ Transport terms visibility in items to ship ▪ User management capability for users and audit ▪ Out of office to se the order status to failed
▪ Support for return orders on Ariba Network log enhancements ▪ New invoice creation pages for suppliers
▪ Enhancements to prevention of invoice creation

Network
Services automation
Recent innovations
▪ Simplified procurement of services ▪ Default transaction subrule to allow suppliers to ▪ SAP Ariba get user list for Proof of Service API ▪ Automate provisioning of users and support single-
create proof of service using SAP Field Service sign-on to SAP Field Service Management
▪ Support for planned lean service line items ▪ Add and Download proof of service attachments
Management API ▪ Require proof of service for service sheet creation
▪ Default transaction subrule to mandate proof of ▪ Support for upper and lower tolerance values for ▪ Support service performer on the service sheet and
service invoice for lean services
invoice and service entry sheet
▪ Support for creating service call (proof of ▪ End to end service procurement for planned lean
▪ Support simple service for service purchase services with SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and
service) from purchase order orders with hierarchy SAP Fieldglass
▪ Support for handling service calls deleted in ▪ Support multiple deployment models for SAP ▪ Flip automatically invoice from service sheet
SAP Field Service Management Field Service Management integration ▪ Update proof of service report to show multiple child
▪ Support for unplanned limit service line items ▪ Support for SAP Field Service Management items linked to an outline item
▪ Create service call from PO details for SAP service calls in proof of service report ▪ Add work order information to Proof of Service APIs
Field Service Management integration ▪ Support for limit orders from SAP Ariba Buying ▪ Support outline items with their child items in Proof
▪ Support for changes in purchase orders with or SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing of Service APIs
service calls ▪ Applying contract and ad hoc limits in ▪ End to end service procurement for lean services
▪ Support for proof of service unplanned service entry sheets with AP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP
Fieldglass
▪ Adding service call as proof of service to service ▪ Allowing suppliers to create line item credit and
▪ End to end service procruement for unplanned lean
sheet debit memos against service sheets
services with SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA Cloud and
▪ Configuring invoice and service sheet document ▪ SAP Ariba create, view and update proof of SAP Fieldglass
numbering service API ▪ Unit price change indicator on service orders
▪ Adding work order data to purchase orders ▪ Support price change indicator on service sheet
originating from SAP Ariba Buying or SAP Ariba
Buying and Invoicing
▪ Generating proof of service report

Network
Globalization
Recent innovations
▪ Multi ERP support for Non-PO invoices in Chile ▪ Generating Reports for Failed External invoices ▪ UAE: LICM regulatory changes ▪ Thai language support in all SAP Ariba applications
and Mexico in Ariba Network and Ariba Network
▪ Improved external tax invoice handling in Italy ▪ Ability for buyers to choose if they receive FPA
and Chile PDF
▪ PDF based on official FatturaPA stylesheet
▪ Italy: Attached SDI delivery receipt to cXML
invoice
▪ Regulatory consistent Singaporean eInvoices
▪ Invoicing solution for Malaysia Sales and
Service Tax (SST)

Network
Supplier mobility
Recent innovations
▪ Expanded date range for all list views ▪ Modernized look and feel aligned to new ▪ In planning
▪ Share invoice supplier portal
▪ Share PO ▪ New tiles (all orders, invoices, collaboration

requests, open enablement tasks)
▪ Gateway: Create ASN, Service Sheet
▪ New widgets (PO trends, invoice aging,
▪ Show draft invoice in invoices list company profile leads)
▪ Pin tiles ▪ Gateway: create invoice (non-PO and from PO)
▪ What’s new messaging
▪ Update to leave feedback form

Network
Supplier collaboration
Recent innovations
Supplier Onboarding Supplier Onboarding Supplier Onboarding Supplier Onboarding

▪ Ariba Network duplicate account check ▪ Improve CSV vendor upload for buyers ▪ Trading partner invite API ▪ In planning
▪ Address validation in Ariba network ▪ Extended supplier profile data validation ▪ Usability improvements for user management
▪ Ariba Network supplier profile region drop-down ▪ Managing a high number of customer on Ariba Network
list relationships as a supplier ▪ Trading Partner Search API
▪ Ariba Network supplier profile API ▪ Allow user to use existing network account for
acceptance of fulfillment invite
▪ Usability improvements for role management
on Ariba Network
Supplier Portal
▪ Qualtrics Network Feedback

Network
Supply chain collaboration – SAP Ariba solutions for direct spend
Recent innovations
Planning collaboration Planning collaboration Planning collaboration Planning collaboration

▪ External manufacturing inventory ▪ Addition of endpoint ID and vendor ID fields in ▪ Segregation of duties for planner code ▪ Allow suppliers to share planned replenishment
▪ Manufacturing visibility MS Excel support the manufacturing visibility CSV upload quantities before creating a new replenishment
▪ Subcontracting process improvements for template Order collaboration order
component inventory ▪ Require buyer batch matching in component ▪ Dynamic min and max processing
▪ Enhanced filters for MS Excel upload and Order collaboration consumption ▪ Unlimited and underdelivery quantity tolerance in
download and planning collaboration page ▪ Due ship quantity recalculation ▪ Order confirmation support for scheduling items to ship
▪ New forecast user interface ▪ Routing of product activity messages to tiered agreements (SA) and scheduling agreement ▪ Forecast commit locking
suppliers releases (SA)
Order collaboration ▪ Allow return or reversal on closed-for-receiving ▪ Extending availability of purchasing organization Order collaboration
▪ Order confirmation deviation approval for orders and company code ▪ Generic framework for upload and download -
quantity, delivery date and price ▪ Serial number support for consumed ▪ Adding editable time zone information in the component consumption
▪ Order reconfirmation using MS Excel components in subcontracting order confirmation MS Excel template ▪ Adding editable time zone information in the order
upload/download ▪ MS Excel support for serial number ▪ Add business rule to control estimated price confirmation MS Excel template
▪ Order report enhancements management on advanced ship notices confirmation ▪ Serial numbers in component shipment and
▪ External information source integration ▪ Advance ship notice (ASN) – store schedule line component inventory documents
reference and allow generation of ASN report ▪ Deliver date time and order date enhancements for
Quality collaboration ▪ Advanced packaging assignments for handling order confirmations file upload
▪ Quality notifications report and auto-numbering units
for quality reviews ▪ Align data obtained in items to confirm with data
from order confirmation MS Excel download and
Intelligent Enterprise approach from SAP add additional columns to the order confirmation
▪ Supply chain monitor MS Excel template
▪ Order confirmation deviation alerts
▪ Supplier Managed Inventory alerts Quality collaboration
▪ Forecast alerts ▪ Quality inspection and notification
▪ Quality Notification Chart enhancements

SAP Ariba solutions
Foundation services
Our technology and the ability to deliver reliable, accurate information

to customers, partners, and systems are at the core of the
infrastructure of all SAP Ariba solutions.
Extensibility
Configuration management
Intelligence and Autonomous Procurement Data Platform
Infrastructure, security and master data services

Foundation services
Extensibility
Custom Forms Custom Forms Custom Forms Custom Forms

▪ Forms API –Search filters on date fields ▪ Dynamic filtering of custom form fields ▪ Support editability of forms by approvers in ▪ Improvements in Form Calling External API
▪ Ensure Forms is Fiori 3.0 Compliant based on predefined relationships a classic approval workflow ▪ Custom Forms in upstream
between fields. ▪ Make the Forms solution available in the
▪ Enhancements to data source chooser ▪ Extend custom forms across all Ariba solutions
widget search functionality in custom ▪ Enhancements to Data Source Chooser Australia Data Center
widget search functionality in Custom ▪ Ability to extend forms to other P2P approvable
forms – US Data Center only APIs documents
Forms
APIs ▪ Support Approver's comment for PR, ▪ Forms built-in intelligence
APIs Invoice and IR in Analytical reporting API
▪ Record Count in API response ▪ Audit trail/history for custom form documents
▪ Metadata API parameter to specify custom ▪ Endpoints to download attachments using
▪ No failure API response - Support view templates ▪ Enable calling other Ariba APIs from Custom
pagination for async reporting API the Operational Reporting API for
Forms
▪ Microservice based API for Audit Search Procurement
Developer Portal Service APIs
▪ Inclusion of Full URL field in response to
▪ IP Whitelisting Developer Portal Document Approval API ▪ Audit Service APIs
▪ Deploy GCP in Australia ▪ API Deprecation Framework ▪ Support delegate in External Approval API ▪ Enhance Purge Criteria in Purge API
▪ Add SAML support and Document Approval API
SAP Technology Tools Support ▪ Platform support to make all Public APIs available
▪ Create modified or new versions of REST on Custom Forms
▪ Certify use of SAP iRPA APIs to support CAI conversation flow
▪ Conversational AI integration with Approvals API
▪ Certify use of SAP Conversational AI
Developer Portal
Developer Portal
▪ Developer Portal initiated SSO for
▪ Multi-API Approval
Suppliers
▪ Developer portal enhancements for Partners
▪ Access to SAP Ariba developer
portal extended to Ariba Network suppliers ▪ Onboard Supplier Partner Accounts on Developer
Portal

Foundation services
Configuration management
Configuration Management Configuration Management Configuration Management

▪ Phase 1 launch: Intelligent Configuration ▪ Dashboard Enhancements ▪ Support environment compare
Manager is a persona-based application for easy ▪ Approval Flow Update ▪ Ability to change/update Feature Toggles
configuration management
▪ Ability to view additional parameters ▪ Support for Configuration Export
▪ Ability to change/update Parameters (Buying &
Invoicing, Sourcing & Contracts) ▪ Ability to select available customer sites for ▪ Support for Site Profile Configuration
configuration migration ▪ Single sign-on setup
▪ Ability to package parameter, approve changes
and deploy in test/prod. ▪ Shared secret configuration
▪ Support for role management
▪ Ability to tag/group parameters
▪ Support for configuration audit
▪ Support for intelligence features
▪ Support for defining and adding custom fields
▪ Support for adding custom master data
▪ Support for approval flows

Foundation services
Intelligence and Autonomous Procurement Data Platform
APDP APDP APDP

▪ SAP Analytics Cloud Embedded Reporting ▪ Onboard Supplier Lifecycle and Performance ▪ Onboard Applications data (Procurement,
for Ariba Network (SLP) Sourcing, Contracts)
▪ Onboard ISG data ▪ Onboard Spend Analysis
Intelligence ▪ Onboard Catalog
▪ Guided Buying Recommender with ▪ Support SAP Analytics Cloud Enterprise
Personalized and item-related ▪ Data Extraction APIs
recommendations and tiles insights
▪ Onboard Contract Intelligence
▪ Admin Reports on Guided Buying usage using
SAP Analytics Cloud
Intelligence
▪ Recommender for Suppliers
▪ Price Forecasting: Improve and validate
forecasted price and demands
▪ Catalogs - Item Recommendations: Catalog-
based "quick-release" recommendations +
reinforcement learning
▪ Invoice Automation: Reading invoice and
conversion to digital receipts leveraging
Leonardo
▪ Catalog Enrichment with Semantic Search
▪ Duplicate suppliers account identification
▪ Strategic Sourcing event from unstructured data
▪ Contracts Semantic Search
▪ Contracts Clause Comparison

Foundation services
Infrastructure, security, and master data service
Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure

▪ Public Cloud – All Ariba applications ▪ Cloud Integration Gateway in US Data Center ▪ Ariba Network on HANA ▪ All Ariba Applications FedRAMP Certified
except the Ariba Network available in ▪ APDP on Google Cloud Platform in US Data ▪ Public Cloud – All Ariba applications except the ▪ Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)
Australia using Google Cloud Platform Center Ariba Network available in Japan using Google
Cloud Platform
Security Security
Security ▪ Cloud Integration Gateway available in US
▪ Act As group functionality for users without datacenter ▪ IP Whitelisting
▪ Clam AV TLS upgrade
other admin permissions ▪ Multi-Factor authentication
Master Data Service ▪ Mutual Authentication for outbound web services

Master Data Service ▪ File Fortification of uploaded files
▪ MDNI & MDNI Job Status API is available in ALL
▪ Add new Currency code CNH - Yuan data centers (RU, KSA&UAE)
Renminbi (offshore)
Master Data Service
▪ MDS on HANA available in all DCs
▪ Support SCIM API
▪ Support SCIM API
▪ API to find the last completion timestamp of the
replication and also the current status
▪ Granular Level Permissions
▪ Add API to “Integration Monitoring APIs for
Procurement and Sourcing Realms” for polling
status
▪ Integration Event Percentage for Import events
▪ Provide Group Descriptions as part of the csv
group export

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SAP Transformation Navigator provides you with clear guidance to chart the Intelligent Enterprise:
▪ Based on your currently used products, this free self-service produces an individualized report highlighting business value, detailing integration to SAP S/4HANA
and other cloud products, and explaining transformation services and license information.
▪ With the new time-slider feature, you can even identify the best point in time to engage in your journey to becoming an intelligent enterprise.
▪ Discover the tool and your transformation path at https://support.sap.com/stn.

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SAP customers and partners
► SAP Road Maps
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► IT Planning Resources
► Innovation Discovery
► SAP Transformation Navigator
► SAP User Groups
► SAP Ariba Connect
► SAP Ariba Release Readiness
► SAP Ariba Product Info and Documentation

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Vision and direction

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Source and Contract

Plan and forecast demand for

Invoice and Pay Services Providers

Create/manage Apply early Pay trading

Experience One platform Intelligent spend management

Business Value Drivers

Business Value Drivers

One end-to-end platform

Business Value Drivers

Total workforce management

Execute the Intelligent Enterprise

Business Value Drivers

Value Levers What it means to customers Examples

▪ Getting more done with fewer resources ▪ Reduce PO error rate

▪ Reduce missed/lost rebates through better discovery & visibility

▪ Higher process flexibility ▪ Reduce supplier onboarding time

▪ Lower compliance risk ▪ Improve supplier compliance

▪ Delightful user experience

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Operational Procurement: Invoice and Pay

Supply Chain: Plan and Forecast

Network: Trading Partner Collaboration

Foundation Services: Platform

Designed to support strategic management of supplier relationships,

Supplier management and risk

Sourcing, contracts, and analytics

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Adoption Adoption Adoption User experience

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Direct sourcing Direct sourcing Direct sourcing Direct sourcing

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Recent innovations Planned Q1/20201 Planned Q2/20201 Future direction1

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Deliver the solutions to seamlessly manage the collaboration of tactical

Guided buying/core procurement

Catalog and spot buy capability

Buying and invoice management

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Core procurement Core procurement Core Procurement Core Procurement

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Customer success Customer success Customer success Customer success

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Core invoicing Core invoicing Core invoicing Core invoicing

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Buying Contract Compliance Buying Buying

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Focusing on Ariba Network and SAP Ariba Supply Chain

Supply chain collaboration

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▪ Share PO ▪ New tiles (all orders, invoices, collaboration