SAP Business Network

No business does business alone. Connect across companies to build stronger supply chains and deliver on the customer promise.
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SAP Business Network helps companies gain visibility, increase operational efficiency, and ensure compliance.

SAP Business Network closes the breakpoint between trading partners, enabling transaction exchange, information sharing, and trading partner discovery.

SAP Business Network helps you:

  • Gain visibility to respond more quickly to changing circumstances

  • Avoid or better withstand disruptions

  • Operate more efficiently

  • Comply with internal and external policies and regulations

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Gain visibility into your business processes

Build a stronger supply chain by responding more quickly to changing circumstances through tighter collaboration with your trading partners.

Operate more efficiently

Close the break points between trading partners through digital transaction exchange and information sharing, leveraging business rules and AI.

Drive compliance

Comply with internal and external policies and regulations through configurable business rules, support for product genealogy, and access to supplier profile data.

Building a world-class supply chain

See how 2023 SAP Innovation Awards winner Blue Diamond Growers uses SAP solutions.

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Featured resources

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IDC network adoption research study e-book

Get insights into supplier collaboration and learn how to use business networks for increased automation, efficiency, and communication with suppliers.

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IDC MarketScape Leader for supply chain networks

See why SAP Business Network is the Leader in the Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment.

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IDC MarketScape Leader for sustainability solutions

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IDC MarketScape Leader for accounts payable software

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Business Network is a cloud-based collaboration offering that modernises how procurement and supply chain processes are connected across organisations. It helps to build stronger supply chains, deliver on the customer promise, gain visibility into your supply chain, increase operational efficiency, and ensure compliance.

Supply chain collaboration is extending your organisation’s processes and systems to your trading partners. Gain transparency by collaborating with multiple tiers of trading partners across inventory, quality, and procurement processes along your supply chain, achieving greater customer satisfaction by mitigating supply chain risk and assuring supply.

Procurement collaboration is the practice of partnering with suppliers, vendors, and other stakeholders to streamline and optimise the procurement process. Working closely with key partners helps to enhance transparency, drive cost savings, improve the overall quality of goods and services acquired, strengthen supply chains, minimise risks, and foster mutually beneficial relationships.

Logistics collaboration is working with shippers and carriers to optimise logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk. A comprehensive logistics collaboration solution helps you gain visibility into the freight order lifecycle to better manage appointments, share insights, digitally manage transactions, optimise logistics processes, notify stakeholders about deviations, and monitor fulfilment.

Asset collaboration is the strategic partnership and coordination between businesses and their suppliers or partners in sharing, managing, and maintaining the assets and equipment critical to their operations. This allows for efficient utilisation, timely maintenance, and optimisation of asset performance, ultimately leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced cost-effectiveness.