SAP Business Network

SAP Business Network aims to create transparency, resiliency, and sustainability in global supply chains through digitized trading partner collaboration. The network drives trading partner collaboration across procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management by enabling business processes beyond the four walls of a company across the entire value chain.

All trading partners can exchange data, manage workflows and apply network-wide intelligence to improve decision making.

SAP Business Network is reported to serve millions of companies across 190 countries conducting trillions of dollars in commerce each year.

Transparency
SAP Business Network helps to ensure delivery of the right product to the right customer at the right time by aligning trading partners with consistent and accurate information across orders, inventory, capacity, logistics, and asset management.

Resilience
SAP Business Network drives swift response to disruption and supply or demand fluctuations before they impact customers by staying connected to trading partners during disruption, finding new sources of supply, and receiving real-time alerts.

Sustainability
SAP Business Networks helps to strive toward zero waste by incorporating resilience and circularity in the business's supply chain. Access to diverse partners can expand the supply base and help act with carbon efficiency in mind, so customers can trust in a business's sustainable practices.

Key Capabilities

Procurement Collaboration
Supports supply assurance, procurement efficiency, compliance, and spend transparency with a global network of suppliers.

• Collaboration with suppliers
  
• Automates procurement transactions and workflows
  
• Improves spend transparency and supplier management
  
• Enhances process and regulatory compliance
  
• Enforces spend controls through business rules
  

• Improves supply planning, predictability, and quality
  
• Data can be shared with trading partners
  
• Supports rapid response to disruption and risk
  
• Supports efficiency and resiliency
  
• Extends processes beyond organization
  

• Streamlines freight collaboration
  
• Connects with logistics service providers
  
• Offers insight into goods in transit
  
• Tracks shipments enriched by data
  
• Evaluate the impact of deviations
  
• Creates a chain of trust for product genealogy
  

• Maximizes uptime and service efficiency
  
• Deploys a common asset definition
  
• Improves asset data integrity and completeness
  
• Enhances overall equipment effectiveness
  

Finance Collaboration
Frees up working capital to strengthen the financial supply chain and manage risk with working capital management solutions.

• Secures early payment discounts
  
• Provides suppliers with third-party funding
  
• Obtains receivables financing from unpaid invoices
  
• Improves inventory visibility and reduce lead times
  

Customer Collaboration
Supports customer relationships and grows business with tools designed for digital collaboration whether the user is a supplier, manufacturer, carrier, or service provider.

• Frictionless customer collaboration
  
• Streamlined processes to sell, ship and deliver goods
  
• Enhanced visibility along the supply chain and asset management
  
• Business growth and reach expansion to new customers
  

SAP Business Network is designed to offer a better way to collaborate with trading partners and navigate the networked economy.