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In this blog post, you can find the latest collection of new capabilities and features in Central Procurement for SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2402.

Click here for a recap of SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2308 release highlights.

New and Enhanced Features in Central Procurement

Central Purchasing

Process Purchase Requisitions Centrally

With this app, you can now perform the following:

• View the fields relevant to item categories Limit (B) and Enhanced Limit (E) under the new sections Requisition Period and Document Flow Indicator in the Purchase Requisition Item page.

• View material group recommendations whose confidence values are equal to or greater than the defined value of threshold.

• Assign a team of processors to centrally managed purchase requisition items.

Manage Workflows for Centrally Managed Purchase Requisitions

For an item approval, you can now define a step that allows approvers to inquire more information about centrally managed purchase requisition items or send them back for a rework instead of rejecting them using the step type Release of Reworkable Centrally Managed Purchase Requisition Item when you define the approval step.

Furthermore, you can define an exception for this scenario by choosing the action Rework Centrally Managed Purchase Requisition Item and provide details such as the deadlines, action result, and so on in the Exception Handling section.

My Inbox for Centrally Managed Purchase Requisitions

With this app, you can now send a centrally managed purchase requisition item to the requestor in the connected system for rework using the Request Rework button. You can then add your query/comment in the field Decision Note within the popup screen Submit Decision.

Manage Purchase Orders Centrally

With this app, you can now view the requisitioner name under General Information section using the Requisitioner Name field.

Manage Workflows for Central Supplier Confirmations

With this app, you can now use two new start conditions Price deviation exists in atleast one item and All the line items are within confirmed net price tolerance.

Business Add-In for Central Purchasing

With this release, you can use the Change of Fields in Centrally Managed Purchase Orders (MM_PUR_PRMTHB_RPLD_PO_MODIFY) business add-in to modify fields of the extracted purchase order in the Hub system. You can also modify the extensible fields based on your requirement.

Confirm Receipt of Goods - New

With this app, you can now attach files under Attachments section. This feature is applicable only for local self-service purchase requisitions and supports Generic Object Services (GOS) attachments.

Schedule Import of Purchasing Documents and Schedule Automation of Business Processes

With these apps, you can now schedule application jobs to assign teams of processors to purchase requisition items centrally.

Schedule Automation of Business Processes

With this app, you can now select the rule ID under the section Parameters from the list of active rules created in Manage Rules for Automation of Business Processes.

Central Purchase Contracts

Manage Central Purchase Contracts

With this app, you can now search for central purchase contracts with the respective distributed outline agreement numbers. To do so, use the filter Outline Agreement on the list page of Manage Central Purchase Contracts to search for a central purchase contract associated with the distributed outline agreement you provide.

Central Purchasing Analytics

Monitor Purchase Order Items Centrally

With this release, you can now view the supplier confirmations of the inbound delivery date using the field Next Inbound Date and inbound delivery quantity using the field Next Inbound Quantity.

This is a brief overview of the new features available in Central Procurement for SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2402. Hope you found this blog post insightful.

Click here for the complete release highlights of SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2402.

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