This month we’ve focused on giving you more flexibility within sourcing activities, deeper visibility into your savings data, and launching several new ways for you to interact with the oboloo team and help shape our future.
🎉 New Features
🔄 Flexible Sourcing Invitations You are no longer locked into your initial supplier list once a sourcing activity is created.
- Invite Post-Creation: A new "Invite New Suppliers" button allows you to add suppliers and contacts to an active sourcing event without having to restart the process.
- Manage Active Contacts: Within the Invited Suppliers table, a new View/Edit button lets you manage individual contact access.
- Revoke Access: You can now revoke access for specific supplier contacts immediately. To ensure participation, the system will prevent revoking the final contact unless a replacement is invited first.
🗺️ Enhanced Visualizations & Full-Screen Mode We’ve upgraded how you interact with your data charts:
- Contracts by Location: This graph now supports a Full-Screen toggle for a larger workspace.
- Expanded Insights: The graph now supports more than 5 locations. If you select 10 locations in your filters, all 10 will now display (default remains 5 for clarity).
- Global Table Updates: Full-screen functionality has been rolled out to the majority of tables and cards across the entire platform.
💬 New Support & Feedback Ecosystem We’ve launched three new ways to stay connected:
- AI-Powered Knowledge Base: Our new help center now features an AI assistant that can answer complex questions based on our entire documentation library.
- Integrated Support Chat: Chat with our team, search articles, or raise support tickets directly from within the oboloo platform.
- Feature Requests & Roadmap: Visit roadmap.oboloo.com to see what we're building, vote on features, or submit your own ideas. You can also leave ratings at feedback.oboloo.com.
🛠️ Improvements & Bug Fixes
📈 Savings & Milestone Management
- Milestone Table Defaults: We’ve cleaned up the default view for individual savings records. Baseline Spend is now hidden by default, while Total Projected and Total Realised Savings have been added for immediate visibility.
- Main Table Customization: Six new columns (including Savings Start/End dates and Cost Avoidance vs. Reduction) are now available via the "Edit Columns" button on the Savings Management main table.
- Cleaner Dashboards: The "Projected vs Realised Savings by Category" graph (and several others) now automatically hides categories that have zero or null data, keeping your charts focused only on active spend.
🔍 Search & Collaboration
- Supplier Portal Quick Search: Added a free-text search box to Scorecards, Supplier Documents, and Contract Document tabs to help you find specific files or questionnaires instantly.
- Editable Notes: Users can now edit notes they have created across all modules. A new (non-default) Updated At column can be enabled to track when notes were last modified.
🐞 Bug Fixes
- Data Integrity: Improved the logic for category-based savings graphs to ensure 100% accuracy between the dashboard view and the underlying records.
🔮 Coming Soon
✅ Milestone-Level Approvals Based on user requests, we are building a more granular approval workflow. Soon, you will be able to require specific sign-offs for individual milestones as they are completed, rather than just approving the initial savings record.
🚀 Streamlined Data Imports We are working on an "Easy-Start" import tool that allows new users to upload supplier and contract data while skipping non-essential mandatory fields, making it faster than ever to get your data into oboloo.
📅 Record Metadata We will be adding "Created On" and "Created By" fields to the summary cards of all records (Suppliers, Contracts, and Sourcing) to match the Savings module, ensuring you always know who initiated a record.
🖥️ Expanded Visualizations Following the success of our graph updates this month, we will be rolling out Full-Screen mode to all remaining charts across the platform. We are also upgrading these charts to allow for additional data axis points, so you can visualize more locations, categories, and departments simultaneously without the "Top 5" restriction.
🖼️ Automatic Supplier Branding & UI We will be moving the "Company Website" field under the supplier records to the left-hand summary card and adding it to the initial supplier creation flow.
- Why it matters: By populating this field, oboloo automatically fetches the supplier’s logo (favicon) from their website. This ensures your records look professional and are easily identifiable at a glance without you having to manually upload images. this should encourage users to populate this field more often, however it will remain an optional field.
📊 Smarter Dashboard Graphs
- Hide Empty Data: This month, on the Savings Management home page, graphs now automatically hide categories that have zero or null data. This cleans up your X-axis and removes clutter from categories not in use. We will be adding the same changes to other graphs on the platform for the March release.
- Full-Screen & Expanded Data: We’ve added a full-screen toggle to the Contracts by Location graph this month and updated it to show more than 5 locations when selected in your filters. We will be applying similar functions to other graphs on the platform for the March release.
❤️ Built on Your Feedback
At oboloo, our roadmap isn't driven by us—it's driven by you. Almost every update in this release, from the full-screen tables to the sourcing flexibility, started as a suggestion from our user community.
Thank you for your continued contribution and for helping us shape the future of procurement. Please keep the feedback coming via our new feedback page or the in-app chat!
