The most interesting ones are:

SAP Guided Sourcing

• New functionality is available to add, update, and remove URLs to give reference to external content within the sourcing project.

SAP Supplier Lifecycle and Performance

• Supplier Eligibility Validation in Contract Workspaces – this feature enables buyers to set supplier eligibility criteria using supplier registration and qualification statuses from SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. It ensures that only suppliers who meet the specified eligibility criteria are included in a contract. These criteria can be validated during various stages, such as during contract creation, publication, or when transferring contract data and line items to integrated external systems like SAP ERP.

• New Transactional Use Cases for Approvals and Navigational Use Cases for AI Copilot Joule in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance – this feature adds navigational use cases for viewing supplier data and performing common supplier management activities, and transactional use cases for approvals, in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance with AI copilot Joule. Users can get assistance from Joule for viewing supplier profiles, creating supplier request and modular questionnaire projects, finding out approval status for projects and finding the projects that are pending their approval.

SAP Ariba Network

• Enhancement to Supplier Groups User Interface – a new and simplified user interface to manage supplier groups on SAP Business Network.