Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations release notes
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Summary of Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations Release Notes
The Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations application on the ServiceNow Store integrates project costing capabilities with sourcing and procurement processes. These release notes document updates, enhancements, and fixes from version 1.2.1 (August 2022) through version 4.0.1 (June 2026), helping customers track improvements that optimize project-related purchasing and administrative control.
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Key Features and Changes
- Enhanced Purchasing Experience: Users can now shop on behalf of others, select delegates without routing, view purchases made by business owners, and modify these purchases (version 2.14.0, March 2026).
- Improved Security and Permissions: The broad admin role was replaced by granular sub-administrative roles to enable precise permission assignments for administrative tasks, accompanied by related changes to system properties, ACLs, and flows (version 2.11.0, December 2025).
- Access Control Enhancements: Explicit access to project tables is now required for shoppers to associate projects with requests, preventing license overages (version 2.0.0, August 2023).
- Integration with Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM): Intake forms now include project detail questions visible only to employees or requesters with SPM access, enhancing integration without impacting existing customers (version 2.5.0, February 2024).
- Application Renaming: The app was renamed from Procurement with Project Management to Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations to better reflect its capabilities (version 1.2.5, May 2023).
- Security Enhancements: Added deny unless ACLs for SPO applications to strengthen access control (version 2.10.0, May 2025).
- Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements: Multiple minor fixes and sandbox access evaluations to improve stability and functionality across versions.
Practical Impact for ServiceNow Customers
- Improved control over who can associate projects with procurement requests helps manage licensing costs effectively.
- Delegated shopping capabilities increase flexibility and efficiency in procurement workflows.
- Granular administrative roles provide better security and governance by limiting permissions to necessary scopes.
- Integration with SPM allows for richer project data capture without disrupting existing workflows.
- Regular updates and fixes ensure the application remains stable and aligned with evolving security standards.
Next Steps
Customers should review role assignments to leverage the new granular administrative roles, verify access permissions to project tables for shoppers, and utilize the delegate shopping features to optimize procurement processes. Additionally, those using Strategic Portfolio Management should enable relevant intake form features to capture project details effectively.
Version history for the Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations application on the ServiceNow Store.
Version history
- Version 4.0.1 - June 2026 (Australia)
- Changed: Remediated non‑Glide Cobalt Raven ACLs in product code (DIRS0000421).
- Version 2.14.0 - March 2026
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- Changed:
- Enhanced the shopping experience by enabling shopping on behalf of others, with improved visibility and management of these purchases.
- Users can select delegates without the delegate route, view business owner purchases in My Purchases, and modify purchases made on behalf of others.
- Changed:
- Version 2.11.0 - December 2025 (Yokohama)
- Changed: Enhanced security by replacing the broad admin role with multiple granular sub-administrative roles, enabling more precise permission assignments for specific administrative tasks. This update includes changes to system properties, ACLs, roles, and flows.
- Version 2.10.0 - May 2025
- Add deny unless ACLs for SPO apps.
- Version 2.8.7 - February 2025
- Minor bug fixes.
- Version 2.8.1 - November 2024
- Evaluated sandbox access for client-callable script.
- Version 2.5.6 - May 2024
- Minor fixes.
- Version 2.5.0 - February 2024
- Changed: Introduced minor content changes to the intake form that an employee or requester fills in with project details to be captured in the integration experience with the Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) product. Note: These project questions are only available on the intake form if the employee or requester has access to SPM. There is no impact on existing customers.
- Version 1.2.7 - December 2023 (Utah)
- Minor fixes.
- Version 2.0.1 - November 2023
- Minor fixes.
- Version 2.0.0 - August 2023
- Changed: In Shopping Hub, only shoppers who have explicit access to the project tables will now be able to associate a project with a request. Previously, this was implicit and users were automatically enabled to select project information. This was causing fulfiller license overage issues. Note: Impacts customers whose shoppers were not given explicit access to the project tables.
- Version 1.2.6 - June 2023
- Fixed: Minor bug fixes.
- Version 1.2.5 - May 2023
- Changed: Renamed this application to Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations. This application was formerly named Procurement with Project Management.
- Version 1.2.3 - February 2023
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- Changed: Modified the Procurement with Project Management better together workflow to address a new state value introduction in the Invoice table.
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Note:This is not a business functionality change, just a technical change. Only existing customers with the Procurement with Project Management application will see these changes.
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- Changed: Modified the Procurement with Project Management better together workflow to address a new state value introduction in the Invoice table.
- Version 1.2.2 - November 2022
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Minor fixes.
- Version 1.2.1 - August 2022
- Minor fixes.