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CS
9r2 Feature
Candidate Discussion
Downstream
Jason Brown, Director, Solutions
Management - On-Premise
Chris Chase, Sr. Manager, Solutions
Management - Services Solutions
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Current Approved and Nominated
Enhancement Requests
SP
Approved / Delivered
SP19
• Collaborative Requisitioning: Quick Enablement
• Invoice Reconciliation via Email Approvals
SP20
• Ability to Cancel PCO if Pcard Expired
• Better Pcard Composition
• Support Word 2010 for Contracts
• Browser Certifications: FF7, IE9 (32-bit), Safari 5
• Custom Date Configuration
SP21
• Support Office 2010
• Browser Certifications: IE9 (64-bit)
• Database Certification: Oracle 11gR2
SP22
• Database Certification: DB2 9.7 existing platforms
• Websphere 8 on AIX 6 (Java 6)
SP23
• Websphere 8 on existing Platforms
• Weblogic 10mp3 on existing Platforms
SP24
• Websphere 8 on RHEL
Note: New recent requests: AIX 7, Peoplesoft 9.1
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Nominated
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Recent Candidate Enhancement Requests
Downstream
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Downstream Suite
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Buyer/Invoicing
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Enhanced Search – Object
Permissions
Partial Invoicing
Order Management for
Non-Ariba Network Supplier
Invoice-based Receiving
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Catalog
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Line-Item Pricing Terms
Catalog Usability
Date-based Catalog Pricing
Single-line Non-catalog on
Service Order
Enhanced Search - Catalog
Recent Candidate Enhancement Requests
Infrastructure / Suite
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Infrastructure
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Websphere 8 / RHEL 6
Websphere 7 / DB2 9.6
Better Handling of Failed
Durables
Enhanced Permissions
and Groups
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Suite
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Enhanced Search –
Keyword Performance
Enhanced Email
Notification
Ad-hoc Approver
Functionality
Existing Candidate Features
Feature
Description
Requestor
Usability - Data Entry
Ability to check information submitted in the form before it is submitted.
Includes the capability to have better hover help, indication of what is
required, populating with default values, only allowing acceptable, valid
selection in selection tool, configurable selection widget, better selection
controller such as AJAX search
Various
Usability - Workflow
Ability to walk the user through the screen in a methodical manner so that
they only need to enter smaller amounts / basic of data at a time with default
values; have advanced version of information so the advanced user can add
more detail; error checking validation on each field as well as each "wizard
step" (all information on the step); confirmation page at the end;
Various
Mobile Safari Support
Mobile Capabilities for
Approvals, Tasks,
Notifications
Hybrid - Sourcing
Hybrid - Spend Visibility
Hybrid - Reporting
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Support the ability to use Ariba on Apple iPad
Various
Ability to support via web services (and possibly and application) for
receiving notifications, approval approvals, tasks on a mobile device so no
need to log into Ariba; This is more secure than HTML emails and more user Various and Ariba
friendly and would increase adoption; Additional use case would be to create
a Requisition
Seamless support for Ariba Buyer installed and Ariba Sourcing (Pro, Basic) Various and Ariba
On Demand
Seamless support for Ariba Buyer installed and Ariba Spend Visibility
On Demand
Seamless support for integrated reporting regardless of applications
On Premise or On Demand. Would prefer if the synchronized data
is On Premise.
Various and Ariba
Various and Ariba
Existing Candidate Features
Feature
Archiving
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Description
Ability to archive all data from a certain date for both upstream and
downstream. Archiving means to extract all the records from a certain
period onto an external media in a specified format and delete them from
the system. The user can then take this external media and load it into a
non-Ariba system for reporting. Once deleted out of the system, the
information cannot be re-loaded back into Ariba. This includes all objects,
attachments, history, etc.
Requestor
Requested by >5
customers
Automated Testing
Framework
Include Ariba's automated testing framework to decrease time for Service
Pack and Point Release adoption. Would include the ability for IT users to
create automated tests that can be run against a new SP or PR; This is the
same ATF that Ariba uses today for its On-Demand Solutions.
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More Safe
Customizations
Inventory On-Premise customers unsafe customizations and make as
many of the common ones as possible safe. The purpose is to decrease
time for Service Pack and Point Release adoption.
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Selected On-Demand Features
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Buyer
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Collaborative Requisitioning
Real-time Accounting and Budget
Check Approvals
P-card Purchase Orders for
Suppliers and commodities
Enhanced P-card Reconciliation
Enhanced P-card Configuration
Federated Process Control
Catalog
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Self-service Catalog Enablement
Complex Catalogs
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Kits and Bundles
Partial Items
Public Favorites
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Invoice
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Improved End-point Routings
between Systems
VAT Tax Improvements
Queue Management for HighTransaction Volume Processing
Enhanced Invoice Rejection
Handling
Improved Exception
Management Tolerances
Services Procurement
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Supplier Punch-in for Time and
Expense Sheets
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Appendix
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Pre-11s Key Downstream
Buyer
Feature
Collaborative Requisitioning
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Description
There are three components:
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Dynamic Collaboration: This takes the collaborative functionality for Services Procurement and
uses it On Demand for standard catalog and non-catalog items.
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N Bids and a Buy: It enforces that collaborative requisitions are sent to N suppliers based on
certain criteria.
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Quick Enablement Collaboration Request: This was back ported to CD in SP 19.
Documentation: Procurements User Guide: Chapter 5: Collaborative Requisitioning
Real-time accounting and budget
check approvals
This feature provides for budget check at the requisitioning level. The customers can import budgets from
their ERP system and ensures that a user is not able to submit the requisition unless a valid budget is
found and reserved.
Documentation: Ariba Procurement User Guide: Chapter 2: Managing Budgets; Ariba Procurement Data
Import and Administration Guide: Chapter 2: Configuring and Managing Budgets
P-card Purchase Orders for
Suppliers and commodities
This feature enable customers to configure the adjustment types and to edit the accounting data during
the PCard charge reconciliation.
Documentation: Ariba Procurement User Guide: Chapter 7: Using Purchasing Cards; Ariba Procurement
Data Import and Administration Guide: Part II Managing Charge
Enhanced P-card Reconciliation
These features enable customers to configure the adjustment types and to edit the accounting data
during the PCard charge reconciliation
Documentation: Ariba Procurement User Guide: Chapter 7: Using Purchasing Cards; Ariba Procurement
Data Import and Administration Guide: Part II Managing Charge
Federated Process Control
This feature enabled customers to deploy P2P across different group companies which may be on
different ERP systems. This deployment option allows customers to control the business policies centrally
and still give the procurement control to the group companies by creating different realms for each group
company that are governed by a parent realm.
Documentation: Federated Process Control Administration Guide 11s
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Pre-11s Key Downstream
Catalog
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Feature
Description
Complex Catalogs Kits and
Bundles, Partial Items
Support for Kits and Bundle allocations with APC. Eg. New Start induction kits or maintenance kits.
Partial items are the ones that users need to provide the complete information about during requisitioning
process. For example, a shirt could be modeled as a catalog partial item and user can provide a color and
size of the shirt while requisitioning.
Documentation : Ariba Procurement Content, Catalog User Guide, Release 11s
Public Favorites
Ability to display public favorites for other users to view
Documentation : Catalog Administration Guide for Buyers, Release 11s
Supplier Self Service
Ability for a supplier to completely enable and update a catalog. This feature automates the complete
process. The Buyer can set supplier specific validation rules. Suppliers download these rules to create
catalogs. All loaded catalogs checked real time for errors and have real time error reporting. Suppliers correct
the catalogs and only corrected, policy compliant catalogs are loaded in system.
Documentation: Catalog Administration Guide for Suppliers, Release 49
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Pre-12s Key Downstream
Invoice
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Feature
Description
Improved End-point routings
between systems
Buyer administrators can configure end points in Ariba Network and Ariba Buyer to manage and control the
flow of data from an Ariba account to each of the various systems connected to it
VAT Tax Improvements
This feature extends “Support for Tax Detail Extrinsics” and “Support for 0% Tax Rate”
Queue Management for high
transaction volume processing
Queue management functionality extends the current concept of user group to establish clear ownership and
management of approval routing to groups of users.
Documentation: Ariba Approval Process Management Guide: Chapter 1: Approval Process Concepts
Enhanced Invoice Rejection
Handling
If users rejected an invoice reconciliation (IR), the status of the IR was set to Rejected, but the status of the
invoice document was set to Reconciled. For users who relied on the invoice document to review status
information, this caused confusion since there was no indication that the invoice had actually been rejected.
Improved Exception
Management tolerances
Invoice exceptions can now be defined to allow for absolute tolerances based on the difference between
the amount or quantity values on the invoice and the expected values on the associated purchase order
or contract.
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Pre-12s Key Downstream
Services Procurement
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Feature
Description
Supplier Punch-in for Time and
Expense Sheets
This allows a Supplier to punch in from the AN to Services Procurement to create Timesheets and
Expense Sheets on behalf of their contractors.
Documentation: Temporary Labor User Guide: Page 64: Creating Time Sheets from Ariba Network
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