Combined Sourcing and Procurement Operations release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Australia

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated May 4, 2026
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  • Consolidated page of all release notes for Sourcing and Procurement Operations from Yokohama to Australia.

    How to use this page

    To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Sourcing and Procurement Operations release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Yokohama to Australia.

    Tip:
    If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."

    Important information for upgrading Sourcing and Procurement Operations to Australia

    Before you upgrade to Australia, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    New features

    Between your current release family and Australia, new features were introduced for Sourcing and Procurement Operations.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    Multi-currency support
    View and select your local currency while shopping for products in Shopping Hub to provide a seamless multi-currency experience.
    Purchase requisition line-level questions
    Create configurable, line-level questions during checkout in Shopping Hub. These questions are defined in Catalog Builder and are specific to certain products or product categories.
    Category management tab
    Access a unified, filter-based view of category performance across spend, savings, pipeline projects, contracts, purchase orders, and suppliers.
    Category analytics
    View savings opportunities across the sourcing pipeline using the Savings dashboard in the Category Analytics module of the Source-to-Pay Workspace.
    Pipeline management tab
    Gain insights into savings and pipeline projects to enhance visibility, tracking, and collaboration across teams.
    Report savings when awarding multiple suppliers
    Enter the spend and savings data for the sourcing event associated with the pipeline project when awarding multiple suppliers.
    Create a pipeline project from an expiring contract
    Create a pipeline project directly from an expiring contract using a guided, decision-based workflow.
    Search for punchout products in Employee Center
    In Employee Center, you can search for punchout products directly using the AI search bar. After you search for a product, matching items from the third-party supplier's catalog are displayed on the Supplier Site Catalog tab.
    Unified request tracking in Shopping Hub
    From My Purchases in Shopping Hub, you can search purchased products or services using the original or associated procurement record IDs, tracking details from order to fulfillment. Additionally, you can use keywords or the first three letters of a procurement record type to search for and view your purchases.
    Browse punchout and native catalog items from the Categories and Suppliers lists in SH
    In Shopping Hub, you can view both the punchout products and the natively available products from the Categories or the Suppliers list on the Shopping Hub home page.
    Map Product Categories and Units of Measure for Seamless Checkout
    You can map the product categories and units of measure for third-party products to the corresponding model categories. This capability helps to ensure that during checkout, Shopping Hub accurately considers and displays the product category for the purchase order lines (POL) and purchase requisition lines (PRL) based on your predefined mappings.
    Submit an edit receipt request from Shopping Hub
    Shoppers can submit edit receipt requests from Shopping Hub to correct discrepancies in accepted receipts, ensuring accurate updates to purchase orders, purchase order lines, and received quantities.
    Process an edit receipt request in playbook
    Fulfillers can review the edit receipt requests and either confirm or reject them. If the request is valid, they can process the request using the Edit a Receipt playbook in the Source-to-Pay Workspace.
    Edit purchase requisitions with cost allocation adjustments
    Shoppers can modify purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) while maintaining cost allocation across multiple cost centers.
    Spend and Savings Management

    Spend and Savings Management (sn_spend_mgmt) enables category managers to import and maintain their organization’s category taxonomy. Integrating this taxonomy into ServiceNow helps streamline procurement processes, monitor spend, and assess savings more efficiently at the category level.

    Return a product
    Shoppers can now initiate replacements for goods directly from the Shopping Hub/EC. Previously, only returns for refunds were supported. This enhancement allows shoppers to replace faulty or unsatisfactory items, offering greater flexibility and improving the overall shopping experience.
    Using Now Assist for Contract Management in Procurement Service Management
    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.
    Now Assist for Sourcing and Procurement Operations (SPO)
    Activate the following new skills for Now Assist for SPO:
    • Negotiation summarization for fulfillers: Summarize negotiations to keep fulfillers informed on their current status, progress, and action items.
    • Negotiation event summarization for fulfillers: Summarize negotiation events to keep fulfillers informed on their current status, progress, and action items.
    • Purchase order summarization for requesters: Summarize purchase orders to keep requesters informed about their current status, progress, and action items.
    • Purchase requisition summarization for requesters: Summarize purchase requisitions to keep requesters informed about their current status, progress, and action items.
    • Sourcing request summarization for requesters: Summarize sourcing requests to keep requesters informed about their current status, progress, and action items.
    Generate summarization in multiple languages for procurement objects with the multi-language support in the Now Assist console.
    • For fulfillers, the following procurement objects support multi-language summarization:
      • Sourcing request
      • Purchase requisition
      • Procurement case
      • Purchase order
      • Negotiation
      • Negotiation event
    • For requesters, the following procurement objects support multi-language summarization:
      • Sourcing request
      • Purchase requisition
      • Purchase order
    With the Now Assist panel, fulfillers can use agentic AI to summarize the following procurement objects quickly:
    • Sourcing request
    • Purchase requisition
    • Procurement case
    • Purchase order
    • Negotiation
    • Negotiation event
    Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features
    Use Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features to summarize purchase orders and keep fulfillers informed of their status, progress, and required actions.
    Use agentic workflows
    Use agentic workflows for Sourcing and Procurement Operations to fulfill your procurement needs through intelligent product recommendations, guided checkout and off-catalog purchasing processes, and detailed product information. These workflows also help answer procurement-related questions and efficiently track associated records.

    Zurich

    Multi-currency support in Shopping Hub

    Enable multi-currency display across approval-related views, including To-Dos, tasks, email notifications, and the Bundles page. Currency values are shown in both the approver’s local currency and the original supplier currency where applicable. The local currency is displayed as the primary value, with the original currency shown as a secondary reference. This display format provides consistent currency visibility for approvers during review.

    Decimal quantity support service-based purchases

    Enable requesters to enter and edit decimal quantities for service-based purchase requisitions and purchase orders without validation errors. Decimal quantities are supported only for services to maintain data integrity. Decimal quantities for goods are not supported and return a clear validation message. This validation logic is consistent across Shopping Hub and Employee Center.

    Automatically assign categories during SR

    Automatically classify service requests, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders into the correct spend categories using the Spend categorization agent. This classification process reduces manual classification effort and improves consistency across procurement workflows.

    Purchase behalf another user Shopping
    Enable users to purchase on behalf of others without requiring delegate configuration in Shopping Hub. Users can manage individuals they are authorized to purchase for, directly within the buying experience. Purchases made on behalf of others are visible through filtering by business owner in the My Purchases view.
    Purchase requisition line-level questions Shopping
    Create configurable, line-level questions during checkout in Shopping Hub. These questions are defined in Catalog Builder and are specific to certain products or product categories.
    Multi-currency support in Shopping Hub
    View and select your local currency while shopping for products in Shopping Hub to provide a seamless multi-currency experience.
    Category management tab
    Access a unified, filter-based view of category performance across spend, savings, pipeline projects, contracts, purchase orders, and suppliers.
    Category analytics
    View savings opportunities across the sourcing pipeline using the Savings dashboard in the Category Analytics module of the Source-to-Pay Workspace.
    Pipeline management tab
    Gain insights into savings and pipeline projects to enhance visibility, tracking, and collaboration across teams.
    Report savings when awarding multiple
    Enter the spend and savings data for the sourcing event associated with the pipeline project when awarding multiple suppliers.
    Create pipeline project expiring contract
    Create a pipeline project directly from an expiring contract using a guided, decision-based workflow.
    Submit multi-product sourcing requests
    Submit sourcing requests with multiple products in a single sourcing intake form, and the third-party sourcing solution will automatically create separate sourcing events for each product.
    Manage third-party RFx tasks in Employee Center
    View and manage third-party Request for anything (RFx) tasks in the Employee Center and navigate to the third-party sourcing tool to review, publish, and award RFx.
    Sourcing Procurement Operations integration Asset

    The Asset Management Integration for Sourcing and Procurement Operations plugin (com.snc.sn_spend_asset) provides an integration between IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Sourcing and Procurement Operations (SPO) applications, enhancing operational efficiency. This integration enables asset managers to access catalog items, including those items without assigned prices, directly within the ITAM workspace. By enabling procurement actions without switching platforms, it streamlines workflows and improves the user experience.

    Sourcing Pipeline Management
    Sourcing Pipeline Management introduces a centralized approach to managing sourcing projects, enabling you to create, track, and manage sourcing activities in one place. It includes workflow automation to reduce manual effort, improves visibility into sourcing activities, and supports tracking and forecasting of cost savings.
    Using Shopping Hub
    Enter decimal quantities when creating purchase requisitions for service items using quick or full checkout flows in Shopping Hub. Edit service acknowledgments with decimal values to enable more precise tracking of service consumption.
    Purchasing tasks and procurement cases
    Review and respond to proposed case resolutions based on conditions defined in the decision tables before the case is permanently closed. When a fulfiller marks a case as resolved, the system now automatically transitions the case status to Awaiting Acceptance, pausing closure until the requester takes action. Requesters are notified via email with actionable buttons and can also accept or reject the resolution directly through the Employee Center. This notification helps to ensure that unresolved issues are addressed before a case is closed, improving resolution accuracy and customer satisfaction.

    Australia

    Multi-currency support in Shopping Hub

    Enable multi-currency display across approval-related views, including To-Dos, tasks, email notifications, and the Bundles page. Currency values are shown in both the approver’s local currency and the original supplier currency where applicable. The local currency is displayed as the primary value, with the original currency shown as a secondary reference. This display format provides consistent currency visibility for approvers during review.

    Decimal quantity support service-based purchases

    Enable requesters to enter and edit decimal quantities for service-based purchase requisitions and purchase orders without validation errors. Decimal quantities are supported only for services to maintain data integrity. Decimal quantities for goods are not supported and return a clear validation message. This validation logic is consistent across Shopping Hub and Employee Center.

    Automatically assign categories during SR

    Automatically classify service requests, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders into the correct spend categories using the Spend categorization agent. This classification process reduces manual classification effort and improves consistency across procurement workflows.

    Purchase for another user
    Enable users to purchase on behalf of others without requiring delegate configuration in Shopping Hub. Users can manage individuals they are authorized to purchase for, directly within the buying experience. Purchases made on behalf of others are visible through filtering by business owner in the My Purchases view.

    Changes

    Between your current release family and Australia, some changes were made to existing Sourcing and Procurement Operations features.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    Components installed Sourcing Procurement Operations

    The Negotiation event table label has been renamed to Sourcing event. This change affects the label only. The underlying table name, [sn_shop_negotiation_event], remains unchanged.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Removed

    Between your current release family and Australia, some Sourcing and Procurement Operations features or functionality were removed.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    The All categories option has been removed from the Categories tab in Shopping Hub due to low usage and its impact on system performance.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Deprecations

    Between your current release family and Australia, some Sourcing and Procurement Operations features or functionality were deprecated.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Activation information

    Review information on how to activate Sourcing and Procurement Operations.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    Install Sourcing and Procurement Operations by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.

    Zurich

    Install Sourcing and Procurement Operations by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store.

    Australia

    Install Sourcing and Procurement Operations by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store.

    Additional requirements

    If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Sourcing and Procurement Operations we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Browser requirements

    If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Sourcing and Procurement Operations we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Accessibility information

    Review details on accessibility information for Sourcing and Procurement Operations, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Localization information

    If there are specific localization considerations for Sourcing and Procurement Operations we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    No updates for this release.

    Zurich

    No updates for this release.

    Australia

    No updates for this release.

    Highlight information

    If there are specific highlight considerations for Sourcing and Procurement Operations we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Yokohama

    • Enable shoppers to view and select their local currency throughout the Shopping Hub experience, including supplier cards, product detail pages, cart, checkout, my purchases, and request tracker.
    • Enable procurement admins to configure and render unique question types for quick and full checkout experiences for each product or service line.
    • Use dashboards and tabs in the Source-to-Pay Workspace to view spend, savings, and pipeline projects, identify savings opportunities, and create pipeline projects directly from filtered lists.
    • Easily track products and services from ordering to fulfillment using procurement record IDs or keywords.
    • Access both punchout and native catalog products from Categories or Suppliers on the Shopping Hub home page.

    See Procurement Service Management for more information.

    Zurich

    • Enable shoppers to view and select their local currency throughout the Shopping Hub experience, including supplier cards, product detail pages, cart, checkout, my purchases, and request tracker.
    • Enable procurement admins to configure and render unique question types for quick and full checkout experiences for each product or service line.
    • Use dashboards and tabs in the Source-to-Pay Workspace to view spend, savings, and pipeline projects, identify savings opportunities, and create pipeline projects directly from filtered lists.
    • Enable requesters to submit sourcing requests with multiple products in a single sourcing intake form, automatically generating individual sourcing events for each product.
    • Allow requesters to view and manage third-party RFx tasks in the Employee Center and navigate to the third-party sourcing tool to review, publish, and award RFx.
    • Initiate catalog and off-catalog procurement workflows from the IT Asset Management (ITAM) workspace using the ITAM-SPO better together feature.
    • Enable decimal quantities for service items when creating purchase requisitions using quick or full checkouts in Shopping Hub and Employee Center.
    • Enable requesters to accept or reject case resolutions through email or Employee Center before closure, reducing premature case closures.

    See Sourcing and Procurement Operations for more information.

    Australia

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    Australia Early Availability
    • View supplier amounts in both local and original currencies across to-dos, emails, and relevant purchasing views.
    • Enter and edit decimal quantities for service-based purchase requisitions and purchase orders, and enforce validation to prevent decimal quantities for goods.
    • Classify service requests, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders into the correct spend categories automatically.
    • Purchase on behalf of other users directly from Shopping Hub and track purchases using the business owner filter.
    • Create a single sourcing request when a requester submits an intake request with multiple products or services.

    See Sourcing and Procurement Operations for more information.