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Ariba Knowledge Nuggets - 10s2 is Here: Readiness Overview

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The document provides an overview of new features and functionality being added to the Ariba solution with the 10s2 release on October 9th. Key areas include expanded collaboration capabilities, improved process efficiencies, and increased access to intelligence and data. Some notable new features include alternative bidding, collaborative requisitioning, internal contracts support, self-service catalog administration, supplier risk reporting, diversity reporting, and custom fact tables to leverage external data in reports.

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Ariba Knowledge Nugget ARE YOU READY??? 10s2 is Here! You asked for better control over total spend, and a stronger handle on risks. These can be achieved through improved collaboration, process efficiency, and intelligence sharing. To deliver, we've added key features and functionality to the Ariba solution's technology, new services to drive value enablement, and introduced new user community resources. Let’s take a look at what is coming on October 9th! 10s2 Release Overview • Extend Inter enterprise collaboration through Collaborative 1 requisitioning, alternative bidding, self-service catalog administration, and new language support for procure to pay Collaboration • Expand additional stakeholder collaboration through internal contracts, pda approvals, and workspace message board 2 • Accelerate efficient commerce processes through enhanced integration options to 3rd party/ERP s/ms, self-service enablement Efficiency options for approval rules, self-service catalog enablement and leverage 3rd party quantitative data in scorecards through Custom fact tables • Increase ROI through flexible Value Enablement services 3 • Gain knowledge share and insights through Ariba Exchange, the industry-leading customer community where companies can Intelligence network, share best practices, and collaborate with partners and peers • Leverage embedded market and supplier intelligence (diversity, risk, parentage) to maximize savings and minimize risk Customer Focus Safe Harbor” & Confidential Information Statement This information reflects the status of Ariba solution planning as of May 2010. All such information is the Confidential Information of Ariba (per the contract between our companies), and must not be further disclosed, as stated in the confidentiality clause of that contract. This Knowledge Nugget contains only intended guidance and is not binding upon Ariba to any particular course of business, product strategy, and/or development. Its content is subject to change without notice. Ariba assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document. Ariba shall have no liability for damages of any kind including without limitation direct, special, indirect, or consequential damages that may result from the use of these materials.
Spend Visibility— 10s2 Feature Highlights Efficiency • Supplier Database Infrastructure Improvement ◊ Increased supplier capacity for improved coverage and automation ◊ More frequent data refreshes (monthly) for more current data ◊ Increased supplier engine performance for faster enrichment automation ◊ Potential long-term integration direct to Analysis and other suite solutions ◊ Ability to match using DUNS (but DUNS cannot be returned to customers) • Custom Fact Reporting Improvements ◊ Ability to load external data to a custom fact table ◊ Facilitates an automated way to load external data ◊ Supports custom dimensions and multi-fact reporting using existing dimension fields Intelligence • Diversity & Green Reporting ◊ Provides the ability to provide an optional Tier 1 Diversity solution for customers, including additional categories and detail breakout, and certificate details where applicable. ◊ Provides the ability to determine suppliers that are certified green vendors and the certifying agency. ◊ Tracking of suppliers with expiring diversity and green certificates. • Supplier Risk Reporting ◊ Provides more comprehensive data to aid in supplier selection and risk assessment ◊ Allows out of box reporting capability for customers that purchase D&B risk scores from D&B (not in- cluded in SV) for predictive risk analysis • Improved Supplier Parentage ◊ Added breakdown to interim levels which can identify more likely sourcing opportunities ◊ Ability to see domestic and global parent suppliers • System & Benchmark Reporting • Supplier Enrichment (**Some features require additional enablement fees •Customer must purchase the optional add-on prior to Ariba Customer Support enablement.**) Intelligence Rapid access to both community based intelligence and Ariba expertise for continuous improvement ♦ Supplier Enrichment ♦ Analysis Reporting enhancements Diversity & Green Reporting ♦ Improved flex field reporting ♦ Enhanced Spend Management Where can you ♦ Supplier Risk Reporting ♦ learn more Reporting Dashboard ♦ System and Benchmark ♦ Accruals reporting about 10s2? Reporting ♦ Usage report enhancements ♦ Improved Supplier Parentage ♦ Performance assessments ♦ Connect ♦ Online community knowledge ♦ Working Capital, Terms, and ♦ Exchange share through Ariba exchange On-time Payment Reporting ♦ Customer ♦ Peer Benchmarking Success Mgr ♦ Ariba Discovery – Extended Supplier Profile
Sourcing— 10s2 Feature Highlights Collaboration • Alternative Bidding ◊ Buyer can collect pricing based upon their ideal options/terms/ aggregations and allow suppliers to provide their ideal offers also • Custom Offline Response Sheet ◊ Buyer can model very complex events with power of excel ◊ Gather pricing for very large numbers of items in Excel • Strategic External user access ◊ Supplier experience greatly improved when bidding via excel bid sheet ◊ Locked sheet avoids a participant damaging integrity of sheet by accident Efficiency • Scheduled events ◊ Buyers sometimes need to build an event but not publish right away due to Approvals or other commitments, this would allow that capability ♦ Event Reminders ◊ Less work for survey/event owners ◊ Better response rate on surveys/events • Self-service enablement - Approval Rules User Interface ◊ Remove extra approval tasks ◊ Better model business processes ◊ Fully leverages the Condition Engine • ERP and 3rd party Integration ◊ A variety of new integrations are possible. ◊ The use of the integrations are free, but coding might be required depending on the exact system and use cases. Intelligence • Analysis Reporting enhancements ◊ More complete reporting capabilities ◊ Customers can determine after the fact to decide if a field is reportable • Online community knowledge share through Ariba exchange • Peer Benchmarking Collaboration Increased inter and intra enterprise Collaboration and Extensive Coverage (Sourcing) ♦ Event Management Enhancements ♦ Emerging Market Language support ♦ Alternative Bidding ♦ Expanded Purchasing Units ♦ Lot events with lot/line item rank ♦ Custom Offline Response Sheet ♦ Buyer Invoice Entry Improvements ♦ Reminders for RFX and survey ♦ Workflow Improvements ♦ Strategic External user access ♦ Email Approvals on PDA ♦ Internal Contracts Support ♦ Rejection of NonPO Invoices with Invalid Requester ♦ Workspace Message Board ♦ Matching and Exception Improvements ♦ Support for ERP 2 way matching ♦ Electronic Signatures Enhance- ♦ Improved tolerance settings for exception management ments ♦ Indirect Tax Improvements ♦ Notification Tasks ♦ VAT handling for 0% tax rate ♦ Collaborative Requisitioning ♦ Flexibility for Tax Detail Extrinsics ♦ Catalog self-service
Contract Management— 10s2 Feature Highlights Collaboration • Internal Contracts Support ◊ A new Project Type to handle contracts which are neither Buy nor Sell. ◊ New set of matching permissions. ◊ New set of customization fields, Searches, Templates, Reports • Workspace Message Board – Capture offline emails ◊ Ability to make posts and replies. ◊ Unified Message Board with Announcements. ◊ Ability to add one or more Labels to each Topic. ◊ Ability to Email to a workspace via a unique email address for each workspace. ◊ Vastly improves eDiscovery. ◊ Facilitates more journaling type activities. ◊ Allows the Contract Management system to track contract related activity that occurs offline, in email. ◊ Allows greater impact of the Contract Management system on employees who might never even log in. ◊ Allows you to send attachments to the Message Board, and Copy them to the documents tab later. • Notification Tasks ◊ Email Reminders need to be sent out to maintain the contract, not just to create it. ◊ New Task type with a scheduler, designed to send emails to internal and external people. ◊ Schedule Tasks to send ad hoc reminders (or recurring) before/after contract publishes. • Electronic Signatures Enhancements – 3 new features ◊ Adding ability to Sequentially Sign ◊ Adding ability to enable Initials ◊ Ability to configure signature blocks to collect other information (Name, Title, Date, etc) • Efficiency • Self-service enablement - Approval Rules User Interface ◊ Browser-based configuration of approval rules ◊ Robust management of approval processes ◊ Support for simple and complex rules (Serial, Parallel, or mixed) ◊ Ability for customers to migrate to new rules on their own schedule • ERP and 3rd party Integration ◊ Create Project (one webservice WSDL for each project type) ◊ Update Project (if you know the project ID/Contract ID, you can change header fields) ◊ Edit dForm (if you know the Document ID of a particular dForm, you can edit the HEADER fields of it. ◊ Push Terms file (Excel) to URL. Just like Sourcing push today from Award. ◊ A variety of new integrations are possible. ◊ The use of the integrations are free, but coding might be required depending on the exact system and use cases • Ability to control email contents ◊ For the first time On Demand, you’ll be able to configure the contents and format of system emails. ◊ You can modify the variables, content, and text placed in emails. ◊ You can each mail for each project type. • Value enablement Services – Contract Management adoption Intelligence • Analysis Reporting enhancements – Custom Fact Tables • Online community knowledge share through Ariba exchange • Business Contact Improvements
Supplier Information Performance Management -10s2 Feature Highlights Collaboration • Workspace Message Board ◊ Attachments can be loaded into documents tab ◊ Any email thread can be audited ◊ Audit communications between suppliers and buyers that took place in email outside of Ariba ◊ Easily add documents via email to project workspace • Custom Offline Response Sheet • Scheduled Events • Improved Excel Response Sheet • Strategic External User Access Efficiency • Custom Fact Tables to leverage quantitative data from ERP/3rd party data in scorecards ◊ Automated via Integration Toolkit ◊ Available as optional ($$) add-on ◊ Limited to a pre-defined set of fields ◊ Facilitates an automated way to load data instead of manually via surveys ◊ Transform quantitative data from 3rd Party systems into KPI grades to evaluate suppliers ◊ Reduces manual comparison of 3rd Party data with Ariba data • Self-service enablement - Approval Rules User Interface ◊ Configurable by customer ◊ Serial and parallel approval rules ◊ Remove extra approval tasks • Update Template - Team Rules, Documents, Project Tasks, Conditions ◊ Single place for business administrators to make changes ◊ Quick way to make changes to 100’s or 1000’s of workspaces ◊ Easily update approval workflows • Reminders for RFX and Survey ◊ Reminders on start/due dates ◊ Configurable Email Content ◊ Setting at both template and event levels for all event types ◊ Follow-up reminders ◊ Less work for survey/event owners ◊ Better response rate on surveys/events Intelligence • Analysis Reporting enhancements • Online community knowledge share through Ariba exchange Improved business process automation Efficiency to accelerate adoption and throughput ♦ Supplier Database Infrastructure Improvement ♦ ERP and 3rd party Integration Support ♦ Scheduled events ♦ Four new integration flows to support integra- ♦ Value enablement Services tion of Contract Management to 3rd party sys- ♦ Contract Management adoption tems (including SFDC) ♦ Clause Library Build out ♦ Support for SAP Netweaver PI 7.1 ♦ Best Practices center ♦ Streamlined Oracle integrations ♦ Template Design and Development ♦ Enhanced integration to SAP ♦ Procurement BPC Services ♦ Self-service enablement ♦ Custom Fact Tables to leverage quantitative ♦ Approval Rules User Interface ♦ Self-service supplier enablement data from ERP/3rd party data in scorecards ♦ Catalog subscription synching ♦ Eforms

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Ariba Knowledge Nuggets - 10s2 is Here: Readiness Overview

  • 1. Ariba Knowledge Nugget ARE YOU READY??? 10s2 is Here! You asked for better control over total spend, and a stronger handle on risks. These can be achieved through improved collaboration, process efficiency, and intelligence sharing. To deliver, we've added key features and functionality to the Ariba solution's technology, new services to drive value enablement, and introduced new user community resources. Let’s take a look at what is coming on October 9th! 10s2 Release Overview • Extend Inter enterprise collaboration through Collaborative 1 requisitioning, alternative bidding, self-service catalog administration, and new language support for procure to pay Collaboration • Expand additional stakeholder collaboration through internal contracts, pda approvals, and workspace message board 2 • Accelerate efficient commerce processes through enhanced integration options to 3rd party/ERP s/ms, self-service enablement Efficiency options for approval rules, self-service catalog enablement and leverage 3rd party quantitative data in scorecards through Custom fact tables • Increase ROI through flexible Value Enablement services 3 • Gain knowledge share and insights through Ariba Exchange, the industry-leading customer community where companies can Intelligence network, share best practices, and collaborate with partners and peers • Leverage embedded market and supplier intelligence (diversity, risk, parentage) to maximize savings and minimize risk Customer Focus Safe Harbor” & Confidential Information Statement This information reflects the status of Ariba solution planning as of May 2010. All such information is the Confidential Information of Ariba (per the contract between our companies), and must not be further disclosed, as stated in the confidentiality clause of that contract. This Knowledge Nugget contains only intended guidance and is not binding upon Ariba to any particular course of business, product strategy, and/or development. Its content is subject to change without notice. Ariba assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document. Ariba shall have no liability for damages of any kind including without limitation direct, special, indirect, or consequential damages that may result from the use of these materials.
  • 2. Spend Visibility— 10s2 Feature Highlights Efficiency • Supplier Database Infrastructure Improvement ◊ Increased supplier capacity for improved coverage and automation ◊ More frequent data refreshes (monthly) for more current data ◊ Increased supplier engine performance for faster enrichment automation ◊ Potential long-term integration direct to Analysis and other suite solutions ◊ Ability to match using DUNS (but DUNS cannot be returned to customers) • Custom Fact Reporting Improvements ◊ Ability to load external data to a custom fact table ◊ Facilitates an automated way to load external data ◊ Supports custom dimensions and multi-fact reporting using existing dimension fields Intelligence • Diversity & Green Reporting ◊ Provides the ability to provide an optional Tier 1 Diversity solution for customers, including additional categories and detail breakout, and certificate details where applicable. ◊ Provides the ability to determine suppliers that are certified green vendors and the certifying agency. ◊ Tracking of suppliers with expiring diversity and green certificates. • Supplier Risk Reporting ◊ Provides more comprehensive data to aid in supplier selection and risk assessment ◊ Allows out of box reporting capability for customers that purchase D&B risk scores from D&B (not in- cluded in SV) for predictive risk analysis • Improved Supplier Parentage ◊ Added breakdown to interim levels which can identify more likely sourcing opportunities ◊ Ability to see domestic and global parent suppliers • System & Benchmark Reporting • Supplier Enrichment (**Some features require additional enablement fees •Customer must purchase the optional add-on prior to Ariba Customer Support enablement.**) Intelligence Rapid access to both community based intelligence and Ariba expertise for continuous improvement ♦ Supplier Enrichment ♦ Analysis Reporting enhancements Diversity & Green Reporting ♦ Improved flex field reporting ♦ Enhanced Spend Management Where can you ♦ Supplier Risk Reporting ♦ learn more Reporting Dashboard ♦ System and Benchmark ♦ Accruals reporting about 10s2? Reporting ♦ Usage report enhancements ♦ Improved Supplier Parentage ♦ Performance assessments ♦ Connect ♦ Online community knowledge ♦ Working Capital, Terms, and ♦ Exchange share through Ariba exchange On-time Payment Reporting ♦ Customer ♦ Peer Benchmarking Success Mgr ♦ Ariba Discovery – Extended Supplier Profile
  • 3. Sourcing— 10s2 Feature Highlights Collaboration • Alternative Bidding ◊ Buyer can collect pricing based upon their ideal options/terms/ aggregations and allow suppliers to provide their ideal offers also • Custom Offline Response Sheet ◊ Buyer can model very complex events with power of excel ◊ Gather pricing for very large numbers of items in Excel • Strategic External user access ◊ Supplier experience greatly improved when bidding via excel bid sheet ◊ Locked sheet avoids a participant damaging integrity of sheet by accident Efficiency • Scheduled events ◊ Buyers sometimes need to build an event but not publish right away due to Approvals or other commitments, this would allow that capability ♦ Event Reminders ◊ Less work for survey/event owners ◊ Better response rate on surveys/events • Self-service enablement - Approval Rules User Interface ◊ Remove extra approval tasks ◊ Better model business processes ◊ Fully leverages the Condition Engine • ERP and 3rd party Integration ◊ A variety of new integrations are possible. ◊ The use of the integrations are free, but coding might be required depending on the exact system and use cases. Intelligence • Analysis Reporting enhancements ◊ More complete reporting capabilities ◊ Customers can determine after the fact to decide if a field is reportable • Online community knowledge share through Ariba exchange • Peer Benchmarking Collaboration Increased inter and intra enterprise Collaboration and Extensive Coverage (Sourcing) ♦ Event Management Enhancements ♦ Emerging Market Language support ♦ Alternative Bidding ♦ Expanded Purchasing Units ♦ Lot events with lot/line item rank ♦ Custom Offline Response Sheet ♦ Buyer Invoice Entry Improvements ♦ Reminders for RFX and survey ♦ Workflow Improvements ♦ Strategic External user access ♦ Email Approvals on PDA ♦ Internal Contracts Support ♦ Rejection of NonPO Invoices with Invalid Requester ♦ Workspace Message Board ♦ Matching and Exception Improvements ♦ Support for ERP 2 way matching ♦ Electronic Signatures Enhance- ♦ Improved tolerance settings for exception management ments ♦ Indirect Tax Improvements ♦ Notification Tasks ♦ VAT handling for 0% tax rate ♦ Collaborative Requisitioning ♦ Flexibility for Tax Detail Extrinsics ♦ Catalog self-service
  • 4. Contract Management— 10s2 Feature Highlights Collaboration • Internal Contracts Support ◊ A new Project Type to handle contracts which are neither Buy nor Sell. ◊ New set of matching permissions. ◊ New set of customization fields, Searches, Templates, Reports • Workspace Message Board – Capture offline emails ◊ Ability to make posts and replies. ◊ Unified Message Board with Announcements. ◊ Ability to add one or more Labels to each Topic. ◊ Ability to Email to a workspace via a unique email address for each workspace. ◊ Vastly improves eDiscovery. ◊ Facilitates more journaling type activities. ◊ Allows the Contract Management system to track contract related activity that occurs offline, in email. ◊ Allows greater impact of the Contract Management system on employees who might never even log in. ◊ Allows you to send attachments to the Message Board, and Copy them to the documents tab later. • Notification Tasks ◊ Email Reminders need to be sent out to maintain the contract, not just to create it. ◊ New Task type with a scheduler, designed to send emails to internal and external people. ◊ Schedule Tasks to send ad hoc reminders (or recurring) before/after contract publishes. • Electronic Signatures Enhancements – 3 new features ◊ Adding ability to Sequentially Sign ◊ Adding ability to enable Initials ◊ Ability to configure signature blocks to collect other information (Name, Title, Date, etc) • Efficiency • Self-service enablement - Approval Rules User Interface ◊ Browser-based configuration of approval rules ◊ Robust management of approval processes ◊ Support for simple and complex rules (Serial, Parallel, or mixed) ◊ Ability for customers to migrate to new rules on their own schedule • ERP and 3rd party Integration ◊ Create Project (one webservice WSDL for each project type) ◊ Update Project (if you know the project ID/Contract ID, you can change header fields) ◊ Edit dForm (if you know the Document ID of a particular dForm, you can edit the HEADER fields of it. ◊ Push Terms file (Excel) to URL. Just like Sourcing push today from Award. ◊ A variety of new integrations are possible. ◊ The use of the integrations are free, but coding might be required depending on the exact system and use cases • Ability to control email contents ◊ For the first time On Demand, you’ll be able to configure the contents and format of system emails. ◊ You can modify the variables, content, and text placed in emails. ◊ You can each mail for each project type. • Value enablement Services – Contract Management adoption Intelligence • Analysis Reporting enhancements – Custom Fact Tables • Online community knowledge share through Ariba exchange • Business Contact Improvements
  • 5. Supplier Information Performance Management -10s2 Feature Highlights Collaboration • Workspace Message Board ◊ Attachments can be loaded into documents tab ◊ Any email thread can be audited ◊ Audit communications between suppliers and buyers that took place in email outside of Ariba ◊ Easily add documents via email to project workspace • Custom Offline Response Sheet • Scheduled Events • Improved Excel Response Sheet • Strategic External User Access Efficiency • Custom Fact Tables to leverage quantitative data from ERP/3rd party data in scorecards ◊ Automated via Integration Toolkit ◊ Available as optional ($$) add-on ◊ Limited to a pre-defined set of fields ◊ Facilitates an automated way to load data instead of manually via surveys ◊ Transform quantitative data from 3rd Party systems into KPI grades to evaluate suppliers ◊ Reduces manual comparison of 3rd Party data with Ariba data • Self-service enablement - Approval Rules User Interface ◊ Configurable by customer ◊ Serial and parallel approval rules ◊ Remove extra approval tasks • Update Template - Team Rules, Documents, Project Tasks, Conditions ◊ Single place for business administrators to make changes ◊ Quick way to make changes to 100’s or 1000’s of workspaces ◊ Easily update approval workflows • Reminders for RFX and Survey ◊ Reminders on start/due dates ◊ Configurable Email Content ◊ Setting at both template and event levels for all event types ◊ Follow-up reminders ◊ Less work for survey/event owners ◊ Better response rate on surveys/events Intelligence • Analysis Reporting enhancements • Online community knowledge share through Ariba exchange Improved business process automation Efficiency to accelerate adoption and throughput ♦ Supplier Database Infrastructure Improvement ♦ ERP and 3rd party Integration Support ♦ Scheduled events ♦ Four new integration flows to support integra- ♦ Value enablement Services tion of Contract Management to 3rd party sys- ♦ Contract Management adoption tems (including SFDC) ♦ Clause Library Build out ♦ Support for SAP Netweaver PI 7.1 ♦ Best Practices center ♦ Streamlined Oracle integrations ♦ Template Design and Development ♦ Enhanced integration to SAP ♦ Procurement BPC Services ♦ Self-service enablement ♦ Custom Fact Tables to leverage quantitative ♦ Approval Rules User Interface ♦ Self-service supplier enablement data from ERP/3rd party data in scorecards ♦ Catalog subscription synching ♦ Eforms