SAP Procurement Road Map Q3 2021

SAP Procurement Road Map Q3 2021Rob Jones

Sr. Director, Road Maps and Releases

SAP

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Key Outcomes and Objectives1. Resources to gain insights to road maps

2. Key theme areas for 2021 and H1 2022

3. Update schedule information


Agenda

Release and Road map resources

Key initiatives• Guided sourcing• Guided buying• Supplier Management


Release and road map - Schedules

Road map updates

• Q1 – Week of February 22

• Q2 – Week of May 1

• Q3 – Week of July 19

• Q4 – Week of October 18Will cover all of 2022

Release dates

• 2102 – February 19

• 2105 – May 21

• 2108 – August 20

• 2111 – November 12


Recordings and presentations will be posted on the Release Readiness tab/tile in SAP Ariba Connect.

See the Release Feature List and What's New links on the left side of the page for detailed information.

Note naming convention update and visit the Previous Releases Archive and Roadmap tiles at bottom right of page.

Customer innovation resource – SAP Ariba Connect (connect.ariba.com)


• Interactive application

• User selects orientation of data by process, product or industry

• Time horizon set by user

• Save, share and download information

• Documentation links available for released features

Customer innovation resource – roadmaps.sap.com


Stay informed at blogs.sap.com


Customer innovation resource – help.sap.com


Agenda




20

21

–Q

4User Experience & Core Sourcing

• Dutch reverse auctions

• Improved event messaging

• Attachments in email bidding

Analytics & Decision Support

• Grading and scoring in guided sourcing

20

22

–Q

1

User Experience & Core Sourcing

• Japanese reverse auctions

• Multi-stage events

• Include team members in conversations

Best of Suite

• SLP integration –preferred suppliers & 360

20

22

User Experience & Core Sourcing

•Full auction support

•Envelope bidding

•Alternative bidding

•Integration with Forms

Autonomous Procurement

•Automatic event creation for expiring contracts

•Natural Language Processing search

•Award scenario recommendation

Direct Spend

•Support for Factory

•Continuous quoting

Analytics & Decision Support

•Price trend analysis

•Award scenario comparison graph

•Upload award decision via spreadsheet

Best of Suite

•ERP inbound integration

•SLP integration – questionnaires and process flow

•Supplier Risk integration

This is the current state of planning as of Q3 2021. Subject to change without notice.

Road Map

Guided sourcing phased deployment


Agenda




• 2021 Q4 : Improved search capabilities and experience (result of CEI)

• Improve the catalog search results display per page by:

• Displaying more results on the page

• Providing pagination to allow loading of the next set of results

• Allowing users to set the number of results per page

• Allow users to quickly jump to a particular buying channel rather than scrolling down a long page

• Provide an overview of all relevant buying channels for a performed search above the fold

• Display additional information on the search results tile such as item part number, preferred and qualified suppliers, price, and availability

Side Note – coming to GB but no date:

• Search 3.0 Microservice integration:

– Improve relevancy

▫ Short name or description match, only keywords are keywords, ML – learns from user and company behavior, precision calculation and real time learning

• **** Supplier search CEI under way

• Scheduled to wrap up in August, then can plan feature result

• 18 customer participants

• Includes supplier search experience and search results for catalog, non-catalog, rfq, and shop by supplier

Guided buying


• 2021 Q4 : Support for customer internal announcements

• Highly requested feature to provide for customer initiated announcements in GB:• Provide an additional

communication channel to employees

• Allow customers to publish:• Internal announcements and news

within guided buying• Information related to internal

programs or activities that employees need to know regarding their procurement organization

Guided buying


• 2021 Q4 : Improved management and real-time validation of personal addresses

• A collection of features to enable users to quickly and easily add personal addresses in GB:• Provide a screen for users to enter

personal addresses (Create, Edit, Delete)

• Use SAP geolocation service for address validation and type ahead search

• Select company or personal addresses during checkout

Guided buying


• Capabilities

This feature introduces a self-service method to transfer the ownership of approvable documents, like purchase requisitions (PR) and invoices, from one user to another.

• User can submit a transfer request, with the required details, for the selected approvable documents (PR or Invoice)

• Predefined approval flow

• Withdraw and edit, edit after Deny

• Web Service to send update to ERP

• Planned Q4 2021

Self-service transfer of ownership: GB and Buying


• 2021 Q4 : Improvements for an easier and more flexible RFQ process

• Collection of features to improve RFQ process in GB:• Support for alternate bids (Released)• RFQ edit/change

• SAVE- Save action will help users to save the form in draft mode and submit when ready after reviewing or later point of time. This will also help teams to edit/add/modify/review the form information before submission when team buying is built.

• DELETE- Option for users to delete the draft version of the forms.

• COPY- Copy would be help users to copy an RFQ request to a new document.

• EDIT/CHANGE- Edit will be available in applicable states for users to modify the requests.

• Provide contract info in RFQ to suppliers• Backend integration redesign for improved

performance and stability

Guided buying


• Benefits• New Semantic search

microservice that can be used across SAP Ariba applications to improve search relevancy, accuracy, and learn over time.

• Improved Relevance• Use AI/ML to create better

search context in addition to keywords

• Continuously learning platform providing better search results over time

• Transparency into Catalog Publish Process

• Real-Time visibility into Progress of Search Indexing Jobs

• Faster Publish Processes and Time Taken to Index

• Continuous data ingestion (via real-time streams) - Eliminates Publish to Searchability delay

Searching for a Bluetooth headset (top) vs a Jabra Bluetooth headset (bottom)

Searching for a laptop bag (top) vs a leather laptop bag (bottom)

Catalog: New search microservice for SAP Ariba Applications

Improved catalog search results


• 2022 Q3 : Brazil tax support in SAP Ariba Catalog for core procurement (Note delay to 2022 due to dependencies on other features)

• Enabling this feature adds several fields to the catalog and content rules to validate these fields (see screenshot)• Requires CMS (Content

Management System) to be enabled in same realm

Catalog


Agenda




“Become the undisputed supplier performance management solution in the market for direct and indirect suppliers by building a platform that provides full transparency into supplier’s strengths and weaknesses

enabling real-time decision making across the supplier base”

Open infrastructure

Scorecards

Analytics

Performance Program Management

Quantitative KPIs Internal & External Sources

Qualitative KPIs

Corrective Action Plans

Network Centric

Supplier performance management


Phase 0 Phase II Phase III Phase IV

Theme

Features

Architecture & Infrastructure Build

Performance Mgmt. e2e flow single/multi suppliers

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Architecture

▪ Scoring engine

▪ Scorecard framework

▪ Integration to SAP/Ariba apps

▪ APIs

▪ Performance architecture aligned with Supplier Mgmt. architecture

Source Data

▪ KPI library

▪ KPI DB - harmonization of Performance & Risk data

▪ Scorecards

Qualtrics Evaluation

▪ Capture & analyze qualitative data

Performance Evaluation (Single/Multi Supplier Program)

▪ Performance Program creation

− Send questionnaires to evaluators via new questionnaire service

− Collect & review responses

− Program Scorecard

▪ Scorecard Templates with banding categories

▪ KPI Library

▪ Consolidate Qualitative KPIs and Quantitative KPIs into overall program scorecard

Supplier collaboration, reports, APIs, integration

Supplier Collaboration, Reports, APIs, Integration

▪ Participation visibility / reminders

▪ Scorecard collaboration with supplier via Network

▪ Reporting and API Extraction of scorecard data

▪ Make Performance KPI data available to other/external applications

Corrective action plan, intelligence

Phase I

Operational KPI score visibility

Operational KPI score visibility

▪ Ability for customers to load KPI scores via API, including CSV Import/Export

▪ UI reporting of operational scores

▪ Present trends over time

▪ Receive S/4HANA operational scores via API

▪ Availability of KPI scores in Supplier 360

Corrective action plan, Intelligence

▪ Performance action plan

▪ Predictive analysis

Beta Test

Development plan


Supplier performance – User experience Preview


Solution Line

Product LineSupplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP)

Supplier Information & Performance

Management (SIPM)

- Legacy product

- New productSLP SPMSIPM Legacy SPM

- New product, anticipated availability 2023 or later*

*SAP Ariba reserves the right to make changes to the roadmap and features at any time

Ariba supplier management modules


• Supplier Performance Management (SPM) is a single dimension tool that allows you to create a Supplier Performance Management project on a supplier by supplier basis

• SPM allows monitoring of suppliers on a recurring basis depending on the individual supplier

• SPM has the capability to collect qualitative and quantitative data in surveys which are then graded and rolled up into scorecards, where KPIs and weights of each are stored, providing an overall score of the supplier and their performance

Legacy SAP Ariba supplier performance management


• The big question - Should we deploy legacy SPM or wait for the future functionality?

• SAP Ariba currently has four options for customers to choose from when it comes to accessing performance functionality:➢ Supplier Information and Performance Management (SIPM) – Current Performance• Maintain existing SIPM and implement legacy SPM

➢ Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP) – Current Performance• Adopt new Supplier Lifecycle and implement legacy SPM

➢ Supplier Lifecycle and Performance – Await Future Performance• Adopt new Supplier Lifecycle and await future performance functionality

➢ S4 Customers – Capture quantitative (“hard facts”) data

Options for customers


Customer resource – roadmaps.sap.com

Questions?


For questions after this session, contact me at [email protected]

Thank you.


Rob Jones

Sr. Director, Procurement Product Strategy – Road Maps & Releases

Washington, DC, USA

[email protected]

Twitter: @RobJonesDC

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