Technical Details
- Applicable Products
- SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network
- User Type
- Buyer
- Supplier
- Enablement Model
- Automatically on
- SAP Ariba Solution Integrations
- SAP Business Network Discovery
- SAP Business Network
Note
The feature applies to SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network, Release 1908 (Q3 2019, SP06), and later.
Description
This feature supports sending supplier bid and buyer award attachments with quote message documents from SAP Business Network Discovery to the SAP ERP system through SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network.
Customer Benefits
- Suppliers can send single or multiple attachments at the line-item level with supplier bids.
- Buyers can add a single attachment at the header level while awarding the supplier.
Prerequisites
Ensure that the Document Management System (DMS) is configured on your SAP ERP system.
Restrictions
- When the outbound document attachment URL contains special characters, buyers must ensure that:
- The attachment URL is encoded using the UTF-8 compliant character set.
- http:// is not encoded in the URL for attachments.
- The size of a single attachment for individual line items must not exceed 10 MB. If you add multiple attachments at the line-item level, the total size of all the attachments combined must not exceed 100 MB per RFQ posting.
- If you send attachments with duplicate file names, one of the file names will be appended with an underscore1(_1). For example, if you send two attachments as <file name>.<format>, the file names at SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network would be <file name>.<format> and <file name>_1.<format>.
- If you send an attachment with a space in the file name, the space is replaced with an underscore (_) at SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network.
- The following characters are not supported in the file name for attachments:
- Space (SP, ASCII value 32)
- Horizontal tab (HTAB, ASCII value 9)
- Linefeed (LF, ASCII value 10)
- Carriage return (CR, ASCII value 13)
- Colon (:)
- Characters which do not have an ASCII value within 33-126
Feature Details
Previously, buyers integrated with SAP Business Network Discovery through SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network could send attachments only while creating a request for quotation (RFQ) event and not while awarding suppliers. Suppliers could not send attachments while responding to those RFQ events via supplier bid.
Now, as part of this feature, suppliers can send attachments while responding to an RFQ posting, that is, a supplier bid. Also, buyers can send attachments while awarding the supplier.