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 integrates project costing capabilities within sourcing and procurement workflows on the ServiceNow platform. The release notes document version history, highlighting enhancements, security updates, bug fixes, and usability improvements from August 2022 through June 2026. These updates aim to improve project association, security, shopping experience, and integration with Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM).
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Key Features and Changes
- Security Enhancements: Starting with version 2.11.0 (December 2025), the broad admin role was replaced with multiple granular sub-administrative roles, enabling precise permission assignments for different administrative tasks. Additionally, deny unless ACLs were introduced in version 2.10.0 (May 2025) to strengthen security controls.
- Shopping Experience Improvements: Version 2.14.0 (March 2026) enhanced the shopping experience by allowing users to shop on behalf of others with better visibility and management, including delegate selection, viewing business owner purchases, and modifying others' purchases.
- Project Access Controls: Version 2.0.0 (August 2023) introduced a change requiring explicit shopper access to project tables to associate projects with requests in Shopping Hub, preventing fulfiller license overages.
- Integration with Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM): In version 2.5.0 (February 2024), minor content changes were made to the intake form to capture project details for employees or requesters with SPM access, enhancing project data integration.
- Application Renaming: The application was renamed from Procurement with Project Management to Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations in May 2023 (version 1.2.5) to better reflect its capabilities.
- Technical and Bug Fixes: Various minor bug fixes and technical updates have been applied across versions, including remediating non‑Glide Cobalt Raven ACLs (June 2026), sandbox access evaluations, and workflow adjustments for invoice state values.
Practical Implications for ServiceNow Customers
- Customers should ensure appropriate roles and permissions are assigned due to the shift to granular administrative roles and explicit project table access, which help maintain security and compliance.
- Users can benefit from improved shopping workflows, including delegated purchasing and project association, facilitating smoother procurement operations aligned with project costing.
- Integration with SPM ensures project data consistency when requesters have access, enhancing portfolio and project management alignment.
- Awareness of version-specific changes and fixes enables customers to plan upgrades and leverage new functionalities effectively while avoiding license overages and security issues.
Version history for the Project Costing for Sourcing and Procurement Operations application on the ServiceNow Store.
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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.