Configuring Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 3 minutes to read

    • If you have the admin role, you can configure the Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features application so that your fulfillers can use the agentic AI skills in Source-to-Pay Workspace Workspace and Core UI.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    Use the Now Assist Admin console to configure Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features. This console contains everything that you need to install the plugins and configure the agentic AI skills. For additional information, see Overview tab in Now Assist Admin.

    The following table lists the Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features and skills that you can access from the Now Assist Admin console.
    Table 1. Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features and skills in the Now Assist Admin console
    Now Assist for SPO skills Description
    Supplier summarization for fulfillers Summarize supplier details and keep fulfillers informed about their overview, total spends, and performance.
    Purchase order summarization for fulfillers Summarize purchase orders and keep fulfillers informed on their status, progress, and required actions.
    Figure 1. Now Assist skills for Common Finance and Supply Chain features
    Now Assist skills for Common Finance and Supply Chain features section, showing the Purchase order and supplier summarization for fulfillers feature cards.

    Procedure

    1. Install the Now Assist for FSC Common (sn_fsc_genai) plugin.
    2. Navigate to All > Now Assist Admin > Skills to access the Now Assist Skills tab of the Now Assist Admin console.
    3. Expand the Finance & Supply Chain workflow group and select Common Finance and Supply Chain features.
    4. Activate and configure the skills for Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain features.
      Table 2. Now Assist for Common Finance and Supply Chain skills
      Skills Action
      Field Extractor On the Field Extractor skill card, select Turn on to activate the skill.
      Supplier summarization for fulfillers On the Supplier summarization for fulfillers skill card, select Activate skill to activate the skill.
      Inquiry Classifier On the Inquiry Classifier skill care, select Turn on to activate the skill.
      Purchase order summarization for fulfillers On the Purchase order summarization for fulfillers skill card, select Activate skill to activate the skill.
      Note:
      For skills that need activation such as Supplier summarization for fulfillers and Purchase order summarization for fulfillers, perform the below mentioned steps.
    5. Select General Details and review the details about the skill and select Save and continue to go to the next step in the Guided Setup.
    6. Follow the steps to configure and activate a skill using the Guided Setup.
    7. Select Choose input and review the base input table and input fields, and then select Save and continue to go to the next step in the Guided Setup.
    8. Optional: Select Customize and test prompt to test the prompt on a record.
    9. Select Save and continue to go to the next step in the Guided Setup.
    10. Optional: Select Define Availability and choose one of the following options.
      OptionDescription
      Skill is always available Skill is always available to users.
      Customize skill availability The skill is available only when the certain conditions are met (Default).

      Use the condition builder to set your conditions.
    11. Select Save and continue to go to the next step in the Guided Setup.
    12. Choose Select display to determine where you'd like to display the skill.
      OptionDescription
      In-product desktop Both Purchase order summarization for fulfillers and Supplier summarization for fulfillers skills are displayed in the Source-to-Pay Workspace for Sourcing and Procurement Operations, Supplier Lifecycle Operations, and Accounts Payable Operations.
      Now Assist panel Only Purchase order summarization for fulfillers skill is available in the Now Assist panel. Turn on multi-language support for user-entered text with Dynamic Translation in Now Assist applications. For more information, see Configure multilingual service for Now Assist applications.
      Note:
      If you don't see this option, you must activate the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Activate the Now Assist panel standard chat.
    13. Select Save and continue to go to the next step.
    14. Review your choices and select Activate to complete the configuration for the skill.
    15. Select Return to Common Finance & Supply Chain features.
      The skill is activated.