This blog post contains the latest capabilities and features in SAP Ariba Central Procurement in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.
Click here for a recap of the previous release's highlights.
New and Enhanced Features in SAP Ariba Central Procurement
Central Purchasing
Performing Mass Changes to Purchase Requisition Items in Offline Mode
Using the Mass Changes to Centrally Managed Purchase Requisitions app, you can create, update, and delete centrally managed purchase requisition items with a Microsoft Excel file. This is also known as the offline mode of update. With the offline mode, you can download the purchase requisition items in a Microsoft Excel file, make changes within the spreadsheet, and re-upload the updated spreadsheet in the app. The changes are further updated against the respective purchase requisition items. Click here for additional information.
Assigning a Source of Supply to Multiple Purchase Requisition Items
You can assign a source of supply to multiple purchase requisition items in the Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally app. To do this, use the Assign Source of Supply drop-down within the option More Actions on the list page of the app.
Additionally, you can sort, filter, and group sources of supply within the Assign Source of Supply pop-up window.
Displaying Confirmation Notices for Comments Sent to the Creators of Purchase Requisitions
You can see a system-generated notification in the Comments section of the Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally app confirming that an email notification has been sent to the creator of the purchase requisition for your comment.
When you provide a comment, you can notify the creator of the purchase requisition about that comment via email. This information, which is a notification email that has been sent to the creator, is now recorded in the Comments section.
Additional Approvers in Manage Purchase Orders Centrally and My Inbox
You can add new approval steps in the Approval Details section of Manage Purchase Orders Centrally and My Inbox app. Click here for additional information.
Enhancements to Manage Purchase Orders Centrally
You can now:
- View if the centrally managed purchase order is on hold via the new field Category of Incompleteness under the General Information section. Note that this field is only visible for documents that are on hold.
- View all the mappings for the supplier and material of a centrally managed purchase order using the business system name in the system landscape directory and the logical system for any connected system. To view the mapping, you must ensure the Unified Key Mapping switch is ON.
Additionally, when you schedule a centrally managed purchase order output in the connected system, the status is immediately updated in the hub system. You can view the status in the Purchasing Document Status field.
Automatic Price Update for Purchase Order Items in Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally
When you create a purchase order in the Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally app, the Price field of the purchase order item is updated accordingly when the Supplier field is changed.
Data Entry in Central Supplier Confirmation
You can now enter details directly when you create a confirmation item or line in a central supplier confirmation instead of clicking the Create button, which is now unavailable.
When you select the Reference Purchase Order in the confirmation data under the General Information section of a central supplier confirmation, the relevant information is automatically populated in the confirmation item. As soon as you complete entering your first entry, the second entry row is immediately available for confirmation item and confirmation line.
Enhancements to Manage Central Supplier Confirmations
From this release, in the Manage Central Supplier Confirmations app for any new or updated (created before SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2408 release) central supplier confirmation for a purchase order and its item, the first change replaces the existing central supplier confirmation and any subsequent change is appended in the connected system.
Consider a new or existing central supplier confirmation (CSC), CSC 1, for any purchase order (PO):
Before SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2408 release, the existing data in CSC 1 is overwritten for any subsequent change. Similarly, when CSC 2 is created for the same PO, the data from the latest CSC 1 is overwritten with new data in the connected system.
After SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2408 release, when the CSC 1 is updated with new data, it is appended to the existing data. Similarly, when CSC 2 is created with new data, the new data is appended to the existing CSC 1 data in the connected system.
Central Purchase Contracts
Displaying Invoice Receipt Consumption Percentage
With this feature, you can view the IR Consumption Percentage in the list page of Manage Central Purchase Contracts and at the header, item, and item distribution levels of a central purchase contract or of a central purchase contract hierarchy.
At the item and item distribution levels, the percentage calculation is based on the posted invoice receipt against the target value or target quantity, depending on the type of contract selected. However, at the header level, it is the total number of invoices posted for all the items of the document.
Exporting Distributed Outline Agreement Information to Spreadsheets
With this feature, you can now export the information in the Distributed Outline Agreements section to a spreadsheet. Choose the Export Table icon to export all your distributed outline agreements to a spreadsheet.
Generating New Outputs
With this feature, you can now generate new outputs in the Manage Central Purchase Contracts app for central purchase contracts and central purchase contract hierarchies when you change any field that is defined in the customizing activity Define Conditions to Restart Central Purchase Contract Processes in your configuration environment.
This is a brief overview of the new features available in SAP Ariba Central Procurement for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408. I hope you found this blog post insightful.
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