SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management 2.

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What‘s new in SP04
Frank Suetterlin, Product Management SAP Procurement
April 15th 2016

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SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management 2.0
Enhancements SP4
 Supplier Registration

 Attachments and Notes

 Supplier Qualification/Evaluation

 Rendering and Check Options in Response (BAdI)

 Workflow Notifications for Evaluation Responses

Supplier Supplier
 Automated Qualification Start upon Purchasing Category Assignment phase-out registration
 Supplier Master/Portfolio

 Maintain Standard Product Classifications

 Flexible Attachment Handling

Supplier
 Enablement of Notes Category
development/ Supplier
 Change search criteria and result list of supplier POWL activity management qualification
management
 Activity Management

 Access Restriction for Activity Types

 Related Suppliers in Internal Task

 Communication History for Tasks Supplier Supplier

evaluation classification/
 Notification Workflow for Tasks portfolio
 Supplier Classification

 Classification Types & Access Restriction

 Related Documents in Profile (BAdI)

 Profile Creation upon Purchasing Category Assignment (BAdI)

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Supplier Registration
Attachments and Notes

You can enable suppliers to upload attachments when filling out the registration. You can then display the uploaded attachments
on the buy side as follows:
 Approvers or category managers can display the attachments when reviewing a supplier registration.
 Category managers can display the attachments on the supplier master data screen under Attachments in the Folders structure
under Supplier-Uploaded Documents.
You can also enable a comment field where suppliers can enter information when filling out the registration. You can then display
these comments on the buy side as follows:
 To approvers on the supplier registration screen
 To category managers on the supplier master data screen under Notes.

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Supplier Qualification/Evaluation
Rendering Options in Response

You can give questionnaire managers the choice between the following rendering options in the question library:
 Answer options are offered as buttons or in a dropdown box. This is supported for single-answer questions.
 Answer options are aligned horizontally or vertically. This is supported for the following question types:
Yes/no questions
Single-answer questions, if they are rendered as radio buttons

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Supplier Qualification/Evaluation
Check Options in Response

You can define whether checks or value lists can be assigned to free-text questions in the question library. Both checks and value
lists allow you to restrict the entries that suppliers can make in qualification responses. Two Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) are
available, providing the following options:
◦BAdI “Define Checks for Answers to Free Text Questions” allows restricting the entries made in the answers in qualification
questionnaires. Active BAdI implementations exist that allow suppliers to only enter a certain amount of characters, to enter
numeric values only, or to specify e-mail addresses. You can create additional BAdI implementations to define further checks.
BAdI “Define Value Lists for Answers to Free Text Questions” allows you to define that questionnaire managers can assign value
lists to free-text questions. As a result, suppliers can select values from a value list to answer a specific question. An active BAdI
implementation exists, allowing suppliers to select a country from a country list. You can create additional BAdI implementations to
define further value lists.

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Supplier Evaluation
Workflow Notifications for Evaluation Responses

A new workflow is available that notifies category managers who have sent out an evaluation request when the corresponding
evaluation response has been submitted by the appraiser. Category managers receive a corresponding work item in their inbox.

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Supplier Qualification
Automated Qualification Start upon Purchasing Category Assignment

In addition to the automated qualification that starts upon registration approval, you can now also start an automated qualification
when a supplier has been assigned to a purchasing category. A BAdI implementation is available to enable the automatic sending of
a qualification request when a supplier is assigned to a purchasing category.

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Supplier Master/Portfolio
Maintain Standard Product Classifications on Sell Side

Suppliers can now add and delete product categories on the sell side. Once the changes are approved they are reflected in the
supplier master data on the buy side.
A new extensible workflow is available, informing category managers when standard product classifications have been added or
deleted by suppliers on the sell side. An approval work item is available in the category manager's inbox.
The approval of changes to the standard product classifications can additionally trigger the workflow for approval of purchasing
categories. This is due to the fact that standard product classifications are typically mapped to purchasing categories.

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Supplier Master/Portfolio
Maintain Standard Product Classifications on Buy Side

The usability for managing standard product classifications on the Product Range tab has been improved: The hierarchy of the
standard product classifications is now clearly visualized. Changes that suppliers have made to product categories on the sell side
and that have been approved are reflected in the supplier master data on the buy side under Product Range. Note that you also
have enable suppliers to make changes on the sell side.

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Supplier Master/Portfolio
Flexible Attachment Handling - Create Shared Attachment Folders

You can create folders to organize different types of attachments in the supplier master data, and you can share these folders with
your suppliers. You can create shared folders either in Customizing for all suppliers, or you can do it in the supplier UI for a specific
supplier.

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Supplier Master/Portfolio
Flexible Attachment Handling - Create Subfolders for Attachments

It is now possible to create subfolders in your attachment folders structure. You can do this for shared folders and for folders that are
only visible on the buy side. Note that you can create only one level of subfolders.

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Supplier Master/Portfolio
Enablement of Notes

You can display a Notes tab on the supplier master data screen. When Notes are visible, category managers can do the following:
 Create notes about the supplier and save this information
 See comments that suppliers have created on the supplier registration screen, provided that you have enabled this function on the
sell side.

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Supplier Master/Portfolio
Change Search Criteria and Result List of Supplier POWL

A Business Add-In (BAdI) is available that allows you to adapt all personal object worklists (POWLs) in SAP Supplier Lifecycle
Management to your requirements. For example, you can add your own fields, remove fields, add or change columns in the results
list, and adapt the field attributes.

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Activity Management
Access Restriction for Activity Types

You can restrict the access to specific types of activities for users with the Activity Manager and with the Participant in Activity role. If
you enable the corresponding Customizing switch, an authorization check is performed on the activity type, and the users can only
access the activities for which they are authorized. Note that the restriction only affects activities themselves, not the tasks belonging
to an activity.

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Activity Management
Related Suppliers in Internal Task

You can enable activity managers to assign related suppliers to internal tasks. By assigning a related supplier, activity managers can
indicate which supplier is affected by the task.

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Activity Management
Communication History for Tasks

You can enable the communication history between the activity manager and the task processor. This means that all communication
texts entered by activity managers and task processors are stored permanently in the task and can be displayed for further
reference.

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Activity Management
Notification Workflow for Tasks

A new workflow is available that notifies activity managers who have created a task when the task has been submitted by a task
processor. Activity managers receive a corresponding work item in their inbox.

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Supplier Classification
Classification Types & Access Restriction

You can define classification types that allow you to categorize flexible classification profiles according to certain aspects, for
example according to their purpose.
You can restrict the access to specific types of classification profiles for classification managers and for users with the Display Role
for Classification. If you enable the corresponding Customizing switch, an authorization check is performed on the type of
classification profile, and users can only access classification profiles of types for which they are authorized.

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Supplier Classification
Related Documents in Profile

You can display documents in flexible classification profiles. The documents are related to the supplier and to the purchasing
category contained in the profile. If you enable the corresponding Customizing switch, a new section is added to the classification
profile, where links to the documents are listed. The following documents can be displayed:
 Qualification responses submitted by the supplier for the purchasing category
 Evaluation scorecards for the supplier and the purchasing category
 Activities related to the supplier and the purchasing category

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Supplier Classification
Profile Creation upon Purchasing Category Assignment

A BAdI implementation is available to enable the automatic creation of a classification profile (type "flexible classification"). The
classification profile is created when a supplier is assigned to a purchasing category.

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