SAP Business Network

Trusted by millions of businesses, SAP Business Network is a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform where companies connect, transact, and partner on shared processes and information.
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SAP Business Network powers transparency, resiliency, and sustainability

Connecting people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises to digitalise transactions and create transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.

Gain transparency

Ensure delivery of the right product to the right customer at the right time by aligning your trading partners with consistent and accurate information across orders, inventory, capacity, logistics, and asset management.

Achieve resilience

Respond swiftly to disruption and supply or demand fluctuations before they impact customers by staying connected to trading partners during disruption, quickly finding new sources of supply, and receiving real-time alerts.

Drive sustainability

Strive for zero waste by incorporating resilience and circularity in your supply chain. Access to diverse partners can expand your supply base and help you act with carbon efficiency in mind, so people can trust in your sustainable practices.

$5.1 

trillion

in annual commerce transacted on SAP Business Network

190 

countries

where buyer and supplier companies transact on SAP Business Network

750+ 

million

B2B transactions handled through SAP Business Network in a 12-month period

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2023 SAP Innovation Awards Winner

Blue Diamond Growers achieves supply chain resilience with logistics visibility.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Richemont

Discover how Richemont International SA digitalised procurement to enable greater visibility, improve efficiency, and establish sustainable sourcing channels.

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Rich’s

Explore how Rich Products Corporation (Rich’s) standardised and centralised its digital procurement processes to improve spend management visibility, control, and compliance.

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Blue Diamond Growers

Learn how Blue Diamond Growers created a collaborative and efficient supply chain with digitalised solutions, connected processes, and integrated automation processes.

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SBB

See how leading Swiss railway company SBB AG optimised its asset maintenance planning and processes to deliver a better-quality experience for riders.

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Spotlight

SAP Business Network named a leader by IDC

Read the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment.

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Drive best-in-class supply chain collaboration

Explore the risks, challenges, and opportunities of multi-enterprise collaboration and get tips for improving business performance with a business network.

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Explore our latest innovations

Invoice file conversion into SAP Business Network invoices

Use the invoice conversion capability to create SAP Business Network invoices. Convert data and manage rules for extracting data with a user-friendly interface.

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E-mails for buyer planning collaboration updates

Automate e-mail notifications for buyers when trading partners make updates. Now, trading partners don’t need to check SAP Business Network for buyer updates.

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Visibility at the container or parcel ID level

Gain logistics visibility with visualised tracking on a map in real-time. Get actionable insights from the SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace solution.

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Additional resources

Improving collaboration with SAP Business Network

Supplier collaboration is essential for meeting sustainability goals. Solutions on SAP Business Network can help you achieve more.

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Solving real-world supply chain challenges

Learn to overcome systemic challenges along your supply chain and read critical use cases from six industries.

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Using AI to improve sustainability efforts

SAP is finding new ways to meld AI with sustainability measures. See what’s being done to help ensure the planet’s future.

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FAQ: Collaboration with your trading partners

Get answers to the most commonly asked questions about SAP Business Network and learn how you can increase efficiency and collaboration.

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Frequently asked questions

According to Gartner, “Multienterprise supply chain business networks support a community of trading partners that need to work and communicate/collaborate on business processes that extend across multiple enterprises, with an end-to-end/shared focus.” SAP defines a business network as a comprehensive many-to-many B2B collaboration platform where companies connect, transact, and partner on shared processes and information.

When a buyer organisation participates in a business network, it can leverage its ERP investment by extending processes to trading partners outside the four walls of its organisation. A business network can help buyers strengthen trading partner relationships, act to mitigate disruption and risk for supply chain resiliency, and drive sustainability to meet organisational goals.

Supply chain visibility helps ensure resiliency to disruption by providing transparency into supplier commitments to demand plans and critical inventory levels managed by suppliers. Visibility enables better measurement of sustainability metrics, carbon footprint, supplier diversity, and other environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives by embedding sustainability into procurement processes, practices, and policies. Better transparency into your supply chain across inventory, capacity, and logistics can help ensure supply, guarantee trading partner compliance, and protect revenue and brand reputation.

Supply chain resilienceis “the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change.” By leveraging a business network, you can respond swiftly to disruptions or changes in demand and supply in collaboration with your trading partners.

A sustainable supply chain is one that fully integrates ethical and environmentally responsible practices into internal company-led processes, as well as those practiced by trading partners. End-to-end supply chain transparency is critical to ensure that sustainability initiatives extend from raw material sourcing to last-mile logistics and includes processes such as product returns, recycling, and material traceability.

SAP Business Network is a portfolio of solutions that enables buyers to collaborate with trading partners across direct, indirect, services procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management.