The most interesting ones are:

SAP Ariba Sourcing introduces

• Several enhancements to simplify the management of multi-round sourcing events for buyers will be introduced. Users will be able to focus on the current event round by monitoring round-specific participation and item coverage, send reminders to suppliers invited to the active round, and reuse bids from a previous round as ceiling values when creating a new one. In addition, team grading tasks can now be activated manually for each round in multi-round events.

SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance introduces

• A new user group, “SM Supplier Contact Creator,” designed for creating and editing supplier contacts as part of workflows related to supplier profiles and invitations to complete questionnaires. Using this group, you can restrict the group of users authorized to create and edit contacts even more precisely than with the default permissions, enabling better management of supplier contact information.
• Possibility to display the supplier's most recently published score. The score shown represents the overall score from the most recently published rating summary, which includes all scoring programs in which the supplier has participated, without the user having to leave the supplier's profile.
• Ability to track email delivery for modular questionnaire invitations sent to suppliers. On the supplier's profile under the Questionnaire tab, you will be able to display Email Status and Email Status Date. There was no visibility on the questionnaire invitation emails until now whether they have been delivered. For process of supplier qualification or other processes you can now track whether invitation email was delivered or failed and opened by.

SAP Business Network introduces

• New feature will improve the Order Confirmation process by automatically excluding schedule lines that have already been fully shipped or received. These completed lines can no longer be displayed in OC Excel mass upload/download files or in the Items to Confirm views, so suppliers only see schedule lines that still require action. By removing completed items from confirmation workflows, the feature reduces unnecessary reconfirmation, minimizes manual effort, and helps prevent confirmation errors.