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SAP Ariba Source to Contract 2411 Release Key Innovations Preview

themmert
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‎2024 Oct 22 9:41 AM
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Hello SAP Ariba Source to Contract Community and welcome to our 2411 key innovations blog.

We're excited to announce some great enhancements to our SAP Ariba Source-to-Contract solutions portfolio in Q4 2024. These new features are designed to streamline your procurement processes, boost efficiency, and deliver even more business value. Let’s dive into the details.

 

SAP Spend Control Tower

All businesses generate spend data. But capturing, rationalizing, and deriving insights from that data – especially when it is scattered across multiple systems, in different formats, and of questionable accuracy – is why we announced the development of SAP Spend Control Tower, our command center for enterprise-wide spend analysis, last year.

SAP Spend Control Tower can enable business leaders to answer questions, like where and how much did my organization spend? With what suppliers? Can we break that down by normalized categories? Where are my cost-savings opportunities? What about compliance with environmental and social regulations?

For more information please have a look at our product website.

 

SAP Ariba Category Management

Enhancements to Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This quarter, we are pleased to introduce significant enhancements to our Generative AI capabilities. With these improvements, you can now generate articles in the Additional Resources section for tools like Category Segmentation, Market Dynamics, and Cost Structure on demand—no more default content generation. This selective approach not only enhances performance but also helps you reduce costs associated with producing AI-generated content.

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Configure and Associate Business Units

As a category management administrator, you can now enjoy greater flexibility with our new feature that allows you to create and manage a two-level hierarchy for business units. Edit, inactivate, or delete these units as needed. Additionally, as a category manager, you can associate these business units with strategy and plan documents and various tools within the toolkit.

 

Create Category Strategy Details from the Develop Strategy and Plan App

The new Category Strategy Details capability in the Develop Strategy and Plan app is a key. This tool empowers category managers to create and manage multiple category-specific strategy details that align perfectly with the overall business strategy. Each strategy detail can be linked to one or more goals and business requirements, streamlining your documentation process and facilitating smooth approvals.

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View, Analyze, and Manage Initiatives Across Categories

We introduce the new Initiatives Overview app, which offers functionalities for managing your initiatives efficiently across multiple category strategies. This provides procurement directors and CPOs with a great tool to draw their attention to the initiatives running behind plan. View your initiatives data through customizable tables and charts, filter and sort data, group rows, and add columns based on your needs. Export this data to a spreadsheet and gain visual insights with generated charts. Personalize your views and keep track of timelines to optimize initiatives effectively in your organization.

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SAP Ariba Guided Sourcing

Create Optimization Scenarios for Multi-Round Bidding Events in Guided Sourcing

Our latest update in Guided Sourcing allows buyer users to create optimization scenarios for multi-round bidding events. This feature lets you edit constraints and update scenarios created in previous rounds with the latest data, ensuring more informed decision-making.

 

View Custom Categories of Supplier Risk in Guided Sourcing

Great news for those focusing on supplier risk. You can now view custom categories of supplier risk in guided sourcing events, available in Draft, Monitor, and Review responses states. This added flexibility helps in better risk management during sourcing events.

 

Dynamic Bid Adjustment Percentages in Guided Sourcing Auctions

We’ve introduced dynamic bid adjustment percentages for various auction types, including English forward, English reverse, Dutch, Japanese forward, and Japanese reverse auctions in guided sourcing. This feature allows for more competitive and adaptive bidding processes.

 

Enhancements to Grading and Scoring in Guided Sourcing

We've made some valuable enhancements to grading and scoring in guided sourcing:

- Section level grading is now rolled up for alternate bids on the Consensus grading page and Grade as a team member page.

- Graders can submit grades through the offline grade sheet only for primary bids.

- Sections cannot be graded unless the items in them have been bid.

 

Support for Overriding Terms After Bidding Ends in Guided Sourcing

After the bidding ends, event or project owners, or sourcing bid term editors now have the ability to enter or modify values for a term. Download all editable terms in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, make your modifications, and submit new term values for the event. Supplier bids will be recalculated based on these new term attributes.

 

SAP Ariba Contract Management

Importing and Exporting Service Line Items and Pricing Conditions Using Excel

We've enhanced the Simplified Excel Import functionality in SAP Ariba Contracts. Now, buyers can effortlessly import and export service line item data and pricing conditions in contract workspaces using an Excel file, making data management more straightforward and efficient.

 

Decommissioning of Next Gen UI for CLID

Please note that the Next Gen UI for Contract Line Items Documents (CLID) in SAP Ariba Contracts will be decommissioned. Customers will transition to the classic user interface, available by default, to manage CLIDs.

 

We are continually working to enhance SAP Ariba solutions to ensure you achieve the best results for your business. We hope these new features and enhancements help you streamline your procurement processes, making them more efficient and effective. Stay tuned for more updates and happy sourcing.

 

We invite you to explore these features in more detail in our SAP Ariba 2411 Release Key Innovations Preview session. Also, stay tuned for our additional upcoming blog posts and follow me to stay informed on upcoming feature releases across SAP Ariba.

Thank you for being a part of the SAP Ariba community and we look forward to continuing our journey of innovation together!

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