Spend management innovations
Recent innovations
Enhanced catalog experience
Maximize catalog management efficiency and value through completely refreshed capabilities in SAP Ariba Catalog. Improvements include streamlined catalog uploads, simplified scrolling and filtering, radically improved comparison of catalog versions, and templatized catalog exports.
Accelerated invoice workflows
Streamline invoice approvals and reduce processing delays with improvements like multi-threaded parallel workflow, substitutions, and ad hoc approvers.
Automatically generated skills library
Simplify qualification library management with an AI-powered feature that automatically generates relevant qualifications from job posting templates and descriptions.
Improved supplier performance evaluation
Transform supplier performance evaluation from subjective, manual questionnaires into a strategic, data-driven business process for accurate monitoring, faster assessments, and better results.
Planned innovations
SAP announces the Autonomous Enterprise at SAP Sapphire, with Autonomous Spend as a core domain to help customers move from reactive management to continuous intelligence with AI assistants and agents.
Q2
2026
Sourcing Assistant
Orchestrate the sourcing lifecycle for faster event launches, smarter award decisions, and higher cost savings and compliance through policy-driven negotiations.
Q2
2026
Procurement Contract Assistant
Use a conversational, AI-driven process to create compliant contracts that reduce risk, protect revenue, and drive value.
Q2
2026
Invoicing Assistant
Automate accounts payable processes to eliminate or minimize human intervention during invoice processing and payment scheduling.
Q3
2026
Category Management Assistant
Drive smarter category strategies with AI-powered insights, continuous optimization, and real-time market visibility.
Q3
2026
Supplier Management Assistant
Streamline the full supplier lifecycle by using AI agents to unify data, monitor performance and risk, and automate collaboration for more resilient procurement.
Q3
2026
Requisition Assistant
Simplify and speed purchasing with proactive buying-channel guidance, accurate supplier and item recommendations, and advanced requisition-aggregation intelligence.
Q3
2026
Buying Assistant
Optimize purchasing decisions, reduce spend leakage, and improve user experience through AI-powered analysis, supplier recommendations, and catalog management.
Q3
2026
Services Procurement Assistant
Manage statements of work from end to end with clear terms, approvals, and audit trails to mitigate risk and yield predictable outcomes.
Q3
2026
Receiving Assistant
Streamline the goods and services receiving experience by auto-creating goods receipts and service entry sheets and guiding users through quality tracking and returns.
Q3
2026
Spend Intelligence
Get deep visibility into your unified, enriched SAP and non-SAP spending data. Drive intelligent growth using AI-based insights, analytics, and cross-team collaboration.