Sourcing and Procurement Operations (SPO) Yokohama documentation: Have you checked it out yet?

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We’re excited to share the latest Sourcing and Procurement Operations (SPO) updates for the Yokohama release! This release focuses on enhancing user experience, improving procurement processes, and integrating advanced features.  
 

Key features

✅ Punchout Product Search – Search for punchout products directly in Employee Center. 
✅ Unified Tracking – Easily track products/services from order to fulfillment using procurement record IDs or keywords. 

✅ Catalog Access – Access both punchout and native catalog products from the Shopping Hub. 
✅ Category Mapping – Map third-party product categories for accurate checkout and purchase order details.  

Check out the full release notes to learn more about the new features and enhancements. 

Documentation resources 

We’ve been updating our documentation to help you navigate these updates seamlessly. Here are some highlights: 

✅ Agentic Workflows in Now Assist for SPO – You can now use agentic workflows in Now Assist to streamline procurement through intelligent product recommendations, guided checkout, and off-catalog purchasing. These workflows provide detailed product information, answer procurement-related questions, and help you to track associated records. Click here to know more. 

✅ Now Assist for SPO – Now Assist provides AI-powered assistance for summarizing negotiations and negotiation events for fulfillers, and summarizing purchase orders, purchase requisitions, and sourcing request for requesters. Click here to know more.

✅ Search for Punchout Products – In Employee Center, you can now search for punchout products directly using the AI search bar. Click here to know more. 

✅ Unified Request Tracking in Shopping Hub – From My Purchases in Shopping Hub, you can search for purchased products or services using procurement record IDs, tracking details, or keywords. Click here to know more.

✅ Catalog Access – In Shopping Hub, you can now view both punchout products and natively available products from the Categories or Suppliers list on the home page. Click here to know more.

✅ Mapping Categories for Seamless Checkout – Map third-party product categories and units of measure to ensure accurate checkout and purchase order details. Click here to know more.

✅ Edit Receipt Requests – Shoppers can now submit edit receipt requests from Shopping Hub to correct discrepancies in accepted receipts. Click here to know more. Fulfillers can review and process these requests using the Edit a Receipt playbook. Click here to know more.

✅ Cost Allocation Adjustments – Shoppers can modify purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) while maintaining cost allocation across multiple cost centers. Click here to know more. 

✅ Spend and Savings Management – Category managers can import and maintain their organization’s category taxonomy, streamlining procurement processes and monitoring spend more efficiently. Click here to know more.

✅ Product Returns and Replacements – Shoppers can now initiate replacements for goods directly from the Shopping Hub or Employee Center, offering greater flexibility and improving the overall shopping experience. Click here to know more.

✅ Now Assist for Contract Management Pro in SPO – Extract metadata from a signed contract attached in a contract repository record and analyze a contract document with agentic AI to identify non-standard and missing clauses. Click here to know more. 

Stay current, stay ahead!  

Explore our Sourcing and Procurement Operations documentation today. Click here to get started. 

Your feedback matters! 

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