SAP Business Network, standard account

Drive efficiency, increase visibility into your business, and collaborate better with your customers.
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What is SAP Business Network, standard account?

SAP Business Network is a B2B collaboration platform where companies connect, transact, and partner on shared processes and information. Access the network as a supplier with a standard account.

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Streamline your business and collaborate with your customers

B2B companies connect on SAP Business Network to do business in an efficient, cost-effective way.

A standard account grants you access to a public company profile, e-commerce tools, and unlimited document exchanges with your customers.

  • Receive orders, send invoices, and more 

  • Monitor the live status of documents and payments 

  • Demonstrate compliance to buyers 

  • Access collaborative tools for better customer interactions 

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Capabilities of the standard account

A free standard account enables you to participate in sourcing events, collaborate on contracts, and transact an unlimited number of documents.

Searchable company profile

Increase your chances of getting seen by new customers with a comprehensive company profile. With this profile that’s searchable and viewable by the thousands of buyers on SAP Business Network, you can increase the visibility of your organization and show what makes your brand special.

  • Demonstrate your corporate social responsibility activities
    Get noticed by buyers looking to purchase from suppliers with certain specialties by uploading your certificates to your profile. Include certifications from a variety of specialty categories, including environmental, social enterprise, diversity, quality, energy, and other.
  • Display your commitment to sustainability
    Import sustainability ratings from EcoVadis Inc. or another provider directly to your profile to proactively and credibly illustrate the sustainability of your organization to potential customers. Be seen by buyers who can filter their search results to only show suppliers with a sustainability rating uploaded to their profile.
  • Comply with customer requirements
    Simplify and streamline the sharing of your organization’s human rights information with the standardized questionnaire that you can complete and attach directly to your profile – buyers that need to comply with legal requirements request this information from all of their suppliers. Complete the questionnaire as a supplier once and share with as many buyers on SAP Business Network as needed.
  • Get discovered
    Connect your company profile with your SAP Business Network Discovery account. Increase your chances of getting more leads that are also specific to your business by completing your company profile.
Lead generation

SAP Business Network Discovery is a solution that sends you leads when your offerings match what companies on the network are actively looking to buy.

  • Receive high-quality leads
    SAP Business Network Discovery opens the door to a lucrative global community of buyers from the world’s leading companies, including many from the Global 2000.
  • Get matched automatically
    With a company profile on SAP Business Network, you're notified whenever our algorithm finds a buyer who is looking for the products or services you offer.
  • Employ effective marketing tools
    It’s simple to create a compelling online presence, manage your profile and company keywords, request buyer endorsements, monitor lead activity, and more.
  • Rely on your dashboard
    Track new business opportunities with a handy, flexible online dashboard that shows you all sales leads, profile views, relationship activity, and more.
  • Proactively search for leads
    You can find leads among SAP Business Network Discovery postings by specifying project amount, product category, service category, and ship-to or service locations.
  • Collaborate efficiently
    Intuitive functionalities help you submit questions to buyers, interact with them through web meetings, and receive messages.
Catalog management

How your business shows up online has never been more critical. With SAP, you can ensure that buyers can search your catalogs easily while relying on up-to-date information.

  • Receive accurate purchase orders
    Updating catalog information is easy and you control the details your customers see. Count on receiving correct purchase orders that you can fulfill quickly.
  • Comply with customer requirements
    Validation processes and simple templates help you create catalogs that are compliant with customer requirements. You can also use your customers’ templates.
  • Improve the buying experience to boost sales
    Accurate and current catalog content makes buying more enjoyable while accelerating your sales and order-to-cash cycles – all at a lower cost.
  • Use PunchOut catalogs to enhance brand recognition
    The PunchOut feature bridges your e-commerce domain with the SAP interface, letting customers browse and buy from a customized, shopping cart—enabled website.
Order management

Receiving digital purchase orders enables quick confirmations or changes and simple issuance of invoices and ship notices.

  • Streamline for greater efficiency
    Streamlining order management on SAP Business Network can strengthen your relationships with customers while simplifying collaboration on end-to-end processes.
  • Accelerate responsiveness
    Your customers can receive immediate, real-time notifications automatically when their orders have been placed, revised, or shipped.
  • Enhance cash flow
    Optimizing order management and quickly fulfilling orders can get you paid faster and reduce days sales outstanding to shorten your order-to-cash cycle.
  • Improve process visibility
    Both you and your customers have access to interactive dashboards on SAP Business Network that provide up-to-date visibility into order status and details.
E-invoicing

With electronic invoicing, you can say goodbye to postal delays or lost invoices and hello to improved invoice visibility, greater processing flexibility, and on-time payment.

  • Reduce errors
    Automatic network validation processes will check for errors or missing fields and flag them for attention to reduce overall errors up to 60%.
  • Accelerate processing
    You can shorten your invoice processing time by converting a variety of document formats into e-invoices and rapidly delivering them to your customers.
  • Improve productivity
    Your self-service portal provides insight into invoice and payment status so you can spend less time calling your customers and more time growing your business.
  • Get paid on time
    Faster, more accurate invoicing means quicker payment. With digitalized and automated processing, you can reduce order-to-pay cycle time by up to 75%.
  • Eliminate paper use
    By moving paper-based invoicing processes online, you can reduce energy usage, waste, and carbon footprint by as much as three times.
Early payment opportunities

With the flexible financing options offered by Taulia, now part of SAP, you can leverage your footprint and history on SAP Business Network to unlock working capital efficiently and transparently to meet your cash flow needs.

  • Access affordable receivables financing
    Based on your history and status as a supplier on SAP Business Network, you can access affordable receivables financing to unlock more liquidity.
  • Attain diverse financing opportunities
    Diverse financing options, such as accepting early payments from customers, can present more ways to remain liquid and maintain financial health.
  • Improve cash flow management
    On SAP Business Network, you have visibility over when you’re going to get paid and for what to help ensure you’re getting paid quickly and accurately.

Dynamic discounting

Review early payment offers from your buyers and choose which invoices to discount so you can accelerate your cash flow.

Supplier financing

Apply for receivables financing through SAP Business Network if you have a qualifying SMB based in the U.S. with over 12 months of history on the network.

Resources

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Showcase your company with a supplier profile

Complete your SAP Business Network profile for free to showcase your company, generate leads, and build trust among the thousands of buyers in the network.

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Drive efficiency and growth for your business

Learn how SAP Business Network equips you to achieve your business outcomes.

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Discover curated resources and connect with your peers

Find the resources you need—including demos, webinars, and blogs. Connect with other SAP Business Network users through questions and blog posts.

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Recover a forgotten password

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Respond to an RFP or RFI

If you've received an invitation to participate in a customer's sourcing event, review detailed guidance about how to respond.

Handle a bill

If you’ve received a subscription or transaction service invoice and are unsure of why or how to pay it, review this help article.

Compliance and operational efficiency are essential to G-P’s success. SAP Business Network streamlines our invoice processing, ensuring smooth operations and dependable service for our customers.

Lori McNally, Senior Vice President, Head of Partners, G-P

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SAP Business Network Supplier mobile app

Respond efficiently to customer requests and stay connected to your customers on the go.

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Self-service support

Find straightforward video tutorials, documentation, FAQ, and more.

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Get started with your standard account

Learn how to set up your profile, dashboards, and use other standard account features on SAP Business Network.