#2 – Our Favorite Downstream Feature Update for Consultants Do you want to look for your part in a catalog? Are you looking for a minority supplier? Do you want to search the spot buy marketplace? Now you can do that. This adds filtering options that allow you to narrow down what you want to look for and where you want to search.

That’s a lot to wade through to find a widget in a catalog.

You might end up with 17 hits from catalogs, 10 hits from previous orders, and 3 from the stock room. When you typed whatever you were looking for, anything related to that item would populate. What we like about this feature: Before this update, the only search option in Guided Buying was a little search bar at the top. Top Downstream Feature Updates of the SAP Ariba 2022 Q3 Release #1 – Our Favorite Downstream Feature Update for Clientsįeature Name: Improved navigation for search results in guided buying That means your Ariba administrator, whether in-house or as outside support, will need to configure and activate that update, it will not turn on automatically. Many of the Q3 updates require customer configuration. These are the downstream features that our consultants think will be the most useful to most users from the Ariba 2022 Q3 release. Many of the updates allow buyers and suppliers to be able to track their own orders, confirmations, or invoices, so when they have questions they don’t have to call, email, message, text or otherwise engage Procurement, AP or an admin, which frees up those employees for more value-added tasks, rather than just answering questions. The focus of this particular release seems to be communication and efficiency. You can read about the mandatory upstream update here. The SAP Ariba 2022 Q3 Release on 8-19-22 included 101 new features plus 2 mandatory updates.

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