Features and Enhancements in Ariba Buyer 8.2

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Features and Enhancements in Ariba Buyer 8.2
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New Features and Enhancements in Ariba Buyer 8.2

• This presentation highlights key differences in
  the user interface between Ariba Buyer 8.2 and
  Ariba Buyer 7.1a. It will help you get acquainted
  with changes that have been made to the user
  interface, by showing you
• How to log on and navigate through Ariba Buyer
  8.2
• How workflows have been improved, e.g, reducing
  wizard steps
• How to access and use the new online help
• How to take advantage of changes to the shopping
  cart
• How to use new catalog search features and
  functionality
• How to use new paging and chooser tools
• We hope this information will help prepare you to
  take full advantage of Ariba Buyer 8.2.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba 7.1aNavigation Login

• 1. You now log into Ariba Buyer on the left-hand
  side of the screen where the navigation panel
  normally appears.

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1. You now log into Ariba Buyer on the left-hand
side of the screen where the navigation panel
normally appears.
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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1aNavigation
Home Page/Swoosh
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5 nav
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3 swoosh

• 3. Like Ariba Buyer 7.1a, Ariba Buyer 8.2 uses
  the swoosh to highlight primary functions. You
  may still click any node, i.e., Create, Status,
  etc. on the swoosh to go to the applicable
  screen. However, now the corresponding areas
  requiring attention will flash in the left-hand
  navigation panel rather than on the swoosh, and
  you can click these links to access your
  requests.
• 4. You may choose to show or hide the different
  functional areas in the navigation panel by
  clicking on the small arrows. The system
  remembers your settings across sessions, so that
  areas you use infrequently do not clutter your
  screen.
• 5. Ariba Buyer 8.2 prominently displays Home,
  Help, and Logout as separate buttons to make
  them more visible, while leaving lesser used
  areas in the black banner, i.e., Preferences,
  Toggle Tips, and Toggle Currency.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba 7.1a Navigation How
to Navigate
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6 fewer steps
7 visual clues

• 6. The number of steps that appear in the
  wizards has been reduced to make it easier and
  faster to enter information. You can still
  follow a step-by-step process and select the
  Next and Prev buttons to navigate within
  steps, or you can go to the last step to enter
  all required information.
• 7. Different types of documents have
  watermarked titles in colored backgrounds.
  These watermarks allow you to tell at a glance
  what type of document you are working on, e.g.,
  Requisition, Expense Report, etc.
• 8. The Buyer cart has been renamed the
  Shopping Cart, and now appears at the top of
  the navigation panel.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1aNavigation
How to Navigate
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9 checkout
11 defaulting
10 multi-select
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• 9. To take advantage of standard web terminology,
  the Summary step has been renamed the Checkout
  step. You can review details of your request on
  the Checkout screen, and make changes before you
  submit a request for approval. Experienced users
  can bypass the other steps and go directly to the
  Checkout step to complete and submit a request.
• 10. You now select items and actions you want to
  perform on them by checking boxes and clicking on
  the desired button(s), rather than selecting the
  Edit button(s) at the end of each row. To
  access a line items Accounting and Shipping
  comments, click the Edit button.
• 11. To conserve space, you will no longer see
  item details by default. You can choose to see
  the details by clicking the Show details link.
  Your preference for either viewing or not viewing
  item details will be retained, even when you
  logout.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1a Online Help

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15 nav
17glossary
16 switch views
13. The help system has been fully reworkedfrom
adding more powerful search tools to providing
new content, index, and glossary. To make Help
easier to access, a Help button now appears at
the top of the Command bar. 14. The bottom of
each inline tip contains two help links that lead
to separate help topics. To learn how to
accomplish tasks for the page you are on, click
theHow To link to learn more about items on
the page, click the Screen Details link. 15.
When you click help links, the new Online Help
will appear in a separate pop-up window. Note
that you can also get to the general help
Contents, Index, Search by clicking on the
links at the top of the Help window. 16. You can
also access the Screen Details from the How
To task topic. 17. Glossary terms are
hyperlinked. To display a definition in a popup
Glossary window, click the underlined term(s).
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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1a Shopping
Cart
19 defaulting/nav
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18 dismiss

• 18. To view items you have added to your request,
  click the shopping cart icon on any screen where
  it appears. You can also choose to not show the
  shopping carts contents as you add items by
  checking the box Dont show this page. If you
  later decide you want to see the contents again
  as you add items, click on the cart icon and
  uncheck the box.
• 19. You will no longer see item details by
  default in the Shopping Cart as you did in 7.1a.
  To see item details, click on the Show details
  link. You can also go back to the Catalog to
  continue adding items by clicking the Add Items
  button.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer7.1a Search
Introduction
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21 keyword simple
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23 non catalog

• 20. Ariba Buyer 8.2 provides more powerful search
  capabilities, with a simpler, more customizable
  user interface than Ariba Buyer 7.1a. Note that
  all the Catalog, Non-Catalog, Favorites, and
  Saved Searches tabs have been removed.
• 21. To find an item in the catalog, simply enter
  a keyword and click the search button, or browse
  the links below the search area.
• 22. To access Advanced search options, click
  the Options menu.
• 23. To order items not available in an online
  catalog, click either the Add Non-Catalog Item
  button, or the non-catalog link to fill out a
  non-catalog request.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer7.1a Search
Powerful Search Options
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• 24. You no longer need to go to a separate
  Advanced search page.
• 25. You can use the Options menu to tailor your
  search screen to match your special search needs.
• 26. To select options you want to show up on this
  search page (below the area where you enter
  keywords), click the Options menu and then select
  your desired option, e.g., exclude words, price,
  supplier part , etc. The options you select
  will remain on the page until you remove
  (uncheck) them from the Options menu.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1a Search
How to Display Search Results
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28 search results
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• 27. This screen illustrates what your catalog
  search screen would look like if you had selected
  the options Price, Favorites, and Supplier Part
  (notice how they appear below the keywords
  field).
• 28. This screen also shows results that would be
  displayed if you had searched on the keyword
  batteries.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer7.1a Search
Getting Results
29 how many
30 how much
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• 29. You can select the number of results or items
  that will appear on each page by choosing 10, 20,
  50, or 100 from the drop-down menu.
• 30. You also have several choices about how much
  of the results you want to see, and how you want
  to interact with them. Notice that in this
  example, basic details are displayed (i.e.,
  details of each item are shown with a separate
  Add to Cart button on the right-hand side of
  each item row) because that is what is selected
  in the drop-down.
• 31. By selecting the Details (multi) option
  youll see item details and a checkbox column
  where youll be able to select multiple items and
  add them to the shopping cart in one operation.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1a Search
Adding Items to Favorites
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• 32. It is much easier and faster to add items to
  your favorites in Buyer 8.2. In Buyer 7.1a you
  had to click on the item to view its details
  before you could add it to your favorites. To add
  a favorite now, just click on the Add to
  favorites link next to the item you want to add.
  

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer7.1a Paging
Choosers
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• 33. The way you access pages has been redesigned
  to make it easier to navigate to any page you are
  interested in seeing. To go to a specific page,
  click on the drop-down list and select the
  desired page. You can also go forward one page
  by clicking on the forward arrow on the right, or
  backward one page by clicking on the backward
  arrow on the left. (Note the backward arrow
  does not appear on the first page, and the
  forward arrow does not appear on the last page).
• 34. In Ariba Buyer 7.1a, many screens were
  cluttered with the chooser icons, as shown in the
  top panel. Most of these have been removed. To
  select options other than those that appear in
  the drop-down lists, select the Other option in
  the drop-down list and you will be taken to the
  same selection page that was previously used when
  you clicked on the white plus sign in the blue
  background.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1a Approval
Flow
37Approval Group
35 defaulting
36 Adding Approvers

• 35. The Approval Flow step has been removed in
  Ariba Buyer 8.2, with as much approval
  information defaulted as possible. However, if
  you still need to make changes to the approval
  flow, you can do so on the Checkout page.
• 36. To add one or more approvers to the approval
  flow, click the Add Approver button this will
  display options shown in the screen on the right.
  
• 37. To add a single approver, select the
  appropriate person from the dropdown menu, or
  select Other from the menu to see more
  potential approvers. To add multiple approvers to
  the same position in the approval flow, click the
  Select Approval Group link. This link will
  take you to a page where you can select more than
  one approver. This approver group is a new
  feature in Buyer 8.2.

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Ariba Buyer 8.2 vs. Ariba Buyer 7.1afor Further
Assistance

• This concludes our review of the changes between
  Ariba Buyer v. 7.1a and the new v. 8.2.

For further assistance, please contact
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