1. Ariba
Knowledge
Nuggets
Businesses have spent billions streamlining their internal operations. Yet
few have tackled the inefficiencies typically involved in dealings between
companies. But the fact is, the payoffs of doing so can be significant. For
example, when buyers and sellers optimize business commerce by
eliminating paper-based processes and outdated infrastructures that lead
to lost productivity and revenue, they gain a competitive edge.
THE ARIBA NETWORK
But even with automated systems and processes in place, buyers often
struggle to collaborate effectively with sellers. In fact, 80 percent of buyer-
Realize the benefits of
doing business through seller collaboration is still handled manually. In addition, most struggle with
the Ariba® Network, such lack of visibility into nearly 60 percent of total spend. At the same time,
as: sellers also face major obstacles as they strive to increase market share
• Reduced cost of sales and business from existing customers – goals that are harder than ever to
and procurement achieve in today’s economy. To overcome these challenges, companies
• Faster payment cycles need a roadmap for enabling collaborative business commerce.
and improved spend
visibility
AribaConnection Solutions solve these problems by enabling buyers and
• Lower cost of sales sellers to establish and strengthen professional trading relationships. This
and reduced maverick
spend offering leverages proven methodologies to help buyers discover, connect
and collaborate with Ariba-enabled sellers and provides sellers with
• Increase ROI from
your collaborative increased exposure and opportunities to collaborate with Ariba Global 2000
business commerce buyers. The ultimate goal is to connect like-minded buyers and sellers so
initiatives they can migrate offline business to online channels and fully realize the
• Strengthen value of the Ariba Network.
relationships with
trading partners
• Find new trading
partners
• Leverage data and
expertise from the
How does this differ from
world’s largest, web- Ariba Discovery™?
based trading
community
• Gain access to best
Ariba Discovery™ offers automated
practices and leading tools to help you connect with a broad
adopters selection of buyers who are actively
• Migrate spend from sourcing new suppliers, whereas
offline to online
channels AribaConnection Solutions deliver customized resources to
support transacting with more of your customers on the
network. The consulting-style approach helps you proactively
optimize your relationships with underleveraged trading
partners while finding and maximizing traction with new ones.

2. AribaConnection Solutions focus on four key areas:
Volume Acceleration. Comprehensive data collection and root cause analysis of your on- and offline transactions
are combined with customer outreach to help you drive more transactions through the Ariba Network
Transaction Jump-Start. Ariba works with you to research and understand why transactions aren’t yet flowing
over the Ariba Network with established trading relationships and then helps develop an action plan to remedy the
situation so you can realize expected ROI.
Collaboration Alignment. Cross-referencing of your existing customer list with data on Ariba Network buyers lets
you identify companies with whom you could be transacting online but are not. You also get help establishing more
collaborative relationships with those customers and creating mutually acceptable on boarding strategies.
Prospective Partner Engagement. Careful selection of potential trading partners who represent a good fit for your
business is followed by networking gatherings and webinars, one-on-one meetings, and other personalized assis-
tance to help you engage and assess opportunities for working together. This includes things like connection calls
that let you market your business to a specific buyers and spotlight calls that give you a forum to educate large
groups of buyers about specific eCommerce topics.*
*For elite seller partners only
Ariba Network—AN49 Release
As we approach our release of AN49, once again, Ariba is ready to
enhance the world's leading business network. Targeted for this weekend,
we will upgrade the Ariba Network to Release 49 (AN49), which will deliver
many new features to improve the way you buy, sell, or manage cash.
Here is a short list of the key features that will be offered in Release 49
For more information visit Ariba Connect and view the release guide*:
ARIBA DISCOVERY
Enhanced Supplier Matching: To boost the quality of matches between Supplier Discovery Postings and suppli-
ers, the system now empowers users with the ability to indicate bad matches. Indicating bad matches gives Ariba
the ability to continue to improve matching in the future. Suppliers can also add sub-users to their account, expand-
ing the number of users that can log in to Discovery. To improve geographical matching, buyers and suppliers are
now required to select precise territories for postings and supplier profiles.
Improved Communications: Enhancements have been made to Ariba Discovery's posting and response process
to help increase communications and give greater transparency to suppliers. When a response to a posting has
been read, Ariba Discovery now sends notifications to suppliers. When a posting is closed, Ariba Discovery will send
a summary that lists how many shortlists and awards were involved to suppliers, as well as an alert to buyers en-
couraging them to shortlist and rate suppliers. Suppliers can also more easily opt-out of specific types of messages
using the improved opt-out control panel in their profile.
More Detailed Commodity Selection: When selecting goods or services (commodities) users will be required to
make more detailed selections. This will improve the general data quality of both supplier profiles and buyers' post-
ings. Buyers will be further limited to selecting up to three commodities, in order to assure a more limited and accu-
rate match with supplier capabilities. Purchasing needs that span more than three commodities should be broken up
into multiple postings, so each good/service need is matched with the most applicable and capable suppliers.
* Release details subject to change. For full details of release AN 49; please see Final Release notes located on Ariba Connect

3. Ariba Activity Data: In a release scheduled for later this fall, Ariba Discovery will add a new tab in suppliers’ profiles
which allows the community to view suppliers’ activity across multiple Ariba solutions, including Ariba Sourcing, the
Ariba Network and Ariba Discovery. Aggregated data gathered from various application systems provides more in-
depth detail about the capabilities, performance, qualifications, and competitiveness of suppliers.
Abuse Reporting Tool: Ariba Discovery now gives buyers the ability to report and flag suppliers who respond to
postings with spam messages or abuse and misuse the system. When an abuse incident is reported, an
investigation is triggered to evaluate the situation.
BUYER FEATURES
Ariba Supplier Enablement Automation™: Dramatically improves management and tracking of supplier
enablement and replaces manual tracking tools such as spreadsheets or offline databases. Ariba Supplier
Enablement Automation embeds supplier enablement task assignment, delivery of automated notifications,
reminders, and status tracking into the Ariba Network. This empowers buying organizations or assigned third-party
service providers with self-service capabilities to invite multiple suppliers and ramp them quickly on the Ariba
Network.
Automatic Invoice Archive File Delivery: Automates delivery of invoice archive zip files. Instead of logging on to
download these files, buyers and suppliers can transmit invoice archive zip files via https to their own archiving
solution, to an Ariba service, or to an eArchiving provider.
Supplier Self-Signed Invoices: Suppliers who have implemented their own digital signature solution (via cXML)
can now create self-signed invoices. Buyers may choose to allow supplier self-signing via a configurable business
rule: ("Allow supplier self-signed cXML invoices").
ASN Requirement for Invoicing: Requires Advanced Ship Notices for an order before invoices can be submitted
to assist in improving supply chain compliance. Provides flexibility for suppliers wishing to modify quantities before
shipping.
Ariba Payment Professional: Improved error handling and routing status, including the ability for business users to
resolve payment problems without requiring IT resources.
Large Document Attachment Support: Increases the size limit on document attachments from 4Mb to 10Mb.
HTML Discount Notification Email: Higher impact HTML-based emails allow buyers to insert their logos and
custom text into the header and body of discount notification emails.
Discount Calculation Calendars: Gives buyers the ability to define their scheduled payment
runs and holidays to ensure discounts are calculated based on the anticipated day of
settlement for the supplier.
Enhanced Discount Metrics Reports: Valuable new discount reports that show monthly and
12-month rolling aggregate data for key discount metrics.
Enforced Standing Early Payment Terms: Provides ability to assign and enforce pre-
negotiated early payment terms through the Ariba Network without requiring additional
supplier acceptance of those terms.

4. ARIBA NETWORK — AN49 Release
SUPPLIER FEATURES
Ariba Supplier Enablement Automation™ Task List: Dramatically improves enablement of new
trading relationships on Ariba Network and helps to increase the customer satisfaction through easy
collaboration. The task list provides suppliers an overview of all assigned tasks by activities per
customer. Pending tasks are highlighted and reminders are sent when tasks are overdue. A
customer-specific Information Portal allows the buyer to include additional content and reference
files.
eInvoicing Enhancements: Ariba has significantly enhanced our eInvoicing offering with new
services and features to simplify use and compliance with international tax laws, including the
following:
- PDF Versions of cXML Invoices: Provides easily-read versions of cXML invoices to simplify
invoice viewing and reading in bulk for suppliers and auditors.
- Automatic Invoice Archive File Delivery: Automates delivery of invoice archive zip files. Instead
of logging on to download these files, suppliers can transmit invoice archive zip files via https to their
own archiving solution, to an Ariba service, or to an eArchiving provider.
- Supplier Self-Signed Invoices: Suppliers who have implemented their own digital signature
solution can now create self-signed cXML invoices.
- Enhanced Paperless Invoicing: Extended support of paperless invoicing in Singapore, as well as
to invoices in foreign currencies.
- Increased VAT Compliance: Support for eInvoicing in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Poland,
Singapore, and South Africa, with greater compliance for local tax invoice laws.
- Stronger Integration to the Ariba Exchange: Connect to the Ariba Exchange forum with just a
click of a button from Ariba Network. Suppliers can more easily collaborate with peers, share best
practices, and access the latest news and information in the Ariba Exchange community.
- Capacity Expansion of Document Attachments: Increased size capacity for attachments from
4MB to 10MB. Suppliers can now attach files up to a total of 10MB to POs and invoices, allowing for
better handling of documents with a large number of line items and attachments.
- Ariba Catalog Tester Enhancement: Ariba replaced the drop-down list in the Catalog Tester with
an auto-completion chooser which allows users to perform a more detailed search. Search results
now display information such as credential name, Ariba buyer version, created
by and last updated by data, making it easier for suppliers to select different
customer credentials during testing.
- Ship To information in Inbox: Suppliers can now view the PO ship to
information and sort orders by ship to in the PO summary page and PO detail
report. This makes it easier for suppliers to service customers with different ship
to locations.