SAP Ariba – News of version 2505

SAP Ariba –news of version 2505

The release of 2505 of SAP Ariba cloud solutions introduces many interesting functionalities. The release is available from 16.05.2025. 

 

May 13, 2025

The most interesting ones are:

 

SAP Business Network 

  • Accessing Supplier's Catalog from Company Profile - supplier company profiles on SAP Business Network now feature a navigation link to the supplier's network catalog. This allows potential buyers to access detailed product and service information, including pricing and specifications. The Network Catalog link on the supplier company profile becomes active after the supplier uploads products to its network catalog. If no products are uploaded, the link remains inactive. 
  • Changes to the User Interface in the sreen where is possible to updated Supplier group. Previously, buyers had to navigate to a different screen to add members to a supplier group. Now, the action is possible in the same Supplier Group screen. 
  • The SAP Business Network audit service, logs selected user and administration actions. It logs user interface audit actions like create, download, purge, or delete audit reports. The audit actions are divided into the following categories:
    • Generic audit actions - purge, delete and download audit reports
    • Inegrated audit actions - create audit reports 

 

SAP Guided Sourcing 

  • Bonus-Penalty in Guided Sourcing - this feature enables buyers or team graders to assign bonus or penalty values to supplier bids as part of the grading and scoring 

 

SAP Supplier Lifecycle and Performance 

  • Ability to Mass-Inactivate Previous Questionnaire Data for Multiple Suppliers at a Time -Previously, SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance allowed buyers to purge the questionnaire data of only a single supplier at a time. Now, buyers can mass-inactivate older questionnaire versions or the complete questionnaire project for multiple suppliers at a time by importing a CSV file. 

 

 

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Read more about the solutions in Supplier Management line of business.

SAP Ariba Procurement SAP SRM SAP S/4HANA for Central Procurement
 

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