Describing SAP Ariba 2405 Release Features

• Applicable Products
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing
  • SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
• User Type
  • Buyer
• Enablement Model
  • Automatically on

This feature enables you to save the filtering options for supplier search in guided sourcing. You can save any number of guided sourcing default filters as well as the filters integrated from SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance as preferred filters.

Filter preferences are linked to users and when a user accesses the supplier search, the saved filters, if any, are displayed by default. The values specified for the default or integrated filters are not saved; only the filtering options are saved.

You can modify the saved filters if you wish to. After you modify the filtering options, you must choose the Save preferences button to save the changes. Only one set of filters is saved at a time and every time you save preferences, the saved filters are overwritten with the new set.

• To be able to access the SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance filters, your site must have an active integration with SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance.
• This feature is supported only in the guided sourcing user interface. To use this feature in the guided sourcing user interface, your site must have guided sourcing enabled and you must be a member of the Category Buyer group.

• Filter values are not saved; only the filtering options are saved.
• The loading of Custom filters in the Filters panel of the Invite Suppliers page may be delayed.

Previously, there was no option to save the filtering options and the filters were reset when the user exited a session. Now, you can save filters and the filters are retained across sessions.

A new Save preferences button is added to the supplier search panel in guided sourcing.

• Applicable Products
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing
  • SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
• User Type
  • Buyer
• Enablement Model
  • Automatically on

This feature enables buyers using guided sourcing to create survey events in guided sourcing projects. You can create a survey either by using the Create → Document option or from a survey template in the project if your guided sourcing project contains a survey template. This feature provides seamless to-and-fro access between the guided sourcing interface and the classic sourcing interface where the survey workflow, including creating and monitoring, takes place.

When you create a survey by using the Create → Document option, you can choose any of the available survey templates. However, when you create a survey from a survey template that is available in the project template, you cannot change the template.

Surveys are listed in the Project Insights section if the project template contains the Project Insights section. You can also choose to add surveys to the Quick Links section for easy access.

• This feature is supported only in the guided sourcing user interface. To use this feature in the guided sourcing user interface, your site must have guided sourcing enabled and you must be a member of the Category Buyer group.
• You must also be a member of a user group with permissions for creating sourcing projects or a group that is authorized for creating surveys (SPM Agent) in the supplier management application.

• If you choose the the back button in the shell bar when you are in the Draft view of a survey, the Dashboard is displayed instead of the project page in guided sourcing.
• If you have opened the survey from the dashboard, the Actions → View Project option in the survey opens the project in the classic sourcing interface unless the Application.AQS.NavigateToNewUI parameter for the site is set to Yes.
• You cannot create a Publish Document Task if it is not part of the survey template.
• You cannot create document choice-type surveys in guided sourcing. You can only select a survey that is available on your site.
• Because surveys are created and monitored from the classic sourcing interface, the accessibility capabilities in those pages might vary from the accessibility capabilities in guided sourcing.

Project Owners could not create surveys from guided sourcing projects. Now, you can create surveys from guided sourcing projects.

• A new option, Survey, is added to the What do you want to create? dialog box that appears when you select Create → Document.
• Surveys are added to the Project Insights section if your project template has the Project Insights section.

• Applicable Products
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing
  • SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Suite
• User Type
  • Buyer
  • Supplier
• Enablement Model
  • Customer configured

This feature enables buyers using classic SAP Ariba Sourcing integrated with SAP Business Network Discovery to migrate postings from the legacy SAP Business Network Discovery to the new SAP Business Network Discovery for guided sourcing.

• Your site must be integrated with SAP Business Network Discovery.
• The parameter Block classic sourcing creation (Application.AQS.RFX.BlockClassicSourcingCreation) must be enabled for your site.
• You need to submit a service request to SAP Ariba Support to enable this parameter.
• A member of the Customer Administrator group must enable the Block supplier research posting (Application.AQS.RFX.BlockSupplierResearchPosting) ICM parameter.

The legacy SAP Business Network Discovery postings are not editable during the migration.

Previously, there was no option to migrate postings from the legacy SAP Business Network Discovery to the new SAP Business Network Discovery for guided sourcing.

Now, buyers can migrate postings from the legacy SAP Business Network Discovery to the new SAP Business Network Discovery for guided sourcing.

A new parameter, Block supplier research posting (Application.AQS.RFX.BlockSupplierResearchPosting), is added to the Intelligent Configuration Manager → Manage Configurations page.

You can migrate postings from the legacy SAP Business Network Discovery to the new SAP Business Network Discovery for guided sourcing using the following procedure:

1. From the Administration tab, navigate to Site manager in the left pane.
2. Choose Scheduled tasks.
3. In the Scheduled tasks page, search for DiscoveryMigrationFromClassicToGuidedSourcingTask.
4. Select Run that corresponds to DiscoveryMigrationFromClassicToGuidedSourcingTask.

After the migration finishes, the status of the migration moves to Completed.