Supplier notification emails will be sent 2 weeks prior and will point to a self-enablement landing page, with short videos.Supplier change management for the global roll-out starting May 21st Suppliers accounts were selected based on feature usage and activity, so some of your suppliers may already be on the new portal.For each supplier account transitioned, the account admin was sent 2 notification emails.An early adopter program has been in place for the last year, with several thousand suppliers already successfully transitioned.Phased roll-out with early adopter program: For buyers, there are no changes to network configuration, transaction rules or any migration of documents.

Suppliers have the option to return to the old portal by clicking on “Back to Classic View” (via shell bar, or in settings menu).

order confirmation, invoice creation, and supply chain collaboration documents) remain the same, there is no change to supplier transaction workflows No impact to current processes, transactions or configurations:

See brief video (~3 minutes) below for an overview.

And suppliers will see new widgets that provide quick status overviews, opportunities, and insights.

Across the network, the navigation menu has been updated with new labels, replacing “inbox” and “outbox”.

Suppliers will see two new pages, the portal homepage and workbench, both user configurable to be optimized the way they work.

New portal home page and workbench for all suppliers : Below is a short summary of what network buyers need to know about the change and recommended actions.

On May 21st, the SAP Ariba Network product team will be starting global roll-out of a new supplier portal homepage and workbench to all network suppliers. AN UPDATED VERSION OF THIS BLOG CAN BE FOUND HERE.

Ariba supplier portal