SAP Business Network for Procurement

Engage in digital supplier collaboration to streamline processes for compliant and efficient buying and invoicing.

Optimize procurement and invoicing processes through supplier collaboration

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Improve visibility, efficiency, and compliance

Discover qualified suppliers, digitalize buying and invoicing, enforce local compliance, and unlock early payments with real-time invoice and cash visibility.

Discover and onboard suppliers faster

Find and onboard suppliers faster using rich trading partner profiles, near-real-time document exchange, and integrated risk and certification data in a single network.

Digitalize buying and invoicing

Reduce errors, increase efficiency, and enforce compliance through supplier self-service, managed catalogs, and digital document exchange with configurable business rules.

Increase payment visibility and invoice compliance rates

Meet local tax rules with supported formats, e-signatures, and archiving, and give suppliers a portal and AI insights to see invoice statuses and rejection reasons in real time.

Improve working capital from payables

Use dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, and receivables finance to offer early payment and unlock cash from invoices to keep suppliers funded and reliable.

Explore business network capabilities for procurement and finance

Find the right suppliers, digitalize buying and invoicing, support compliance efforts, and unlock working capital.

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Digital supplier collaboration

Access a global community of verified suppliers to transact, communicate, and assure supply.

Local e-invoice compliance

Enable suppliers to meet local legal and tax needs through country-specific invoice formats, fields, e-signatures, and tax archiving.

Supplier collaboration portal and insights

Provide your suppliers with one portal to manage orders, catalogs, and invoices, cutting errors and manual work while accessing self-service assessments and reports.

Configurable rules and AI insights

Explain rejections to suppliers using buying and invoice rules as well as an AI assistant so suppliers can correct and prevent future errors.

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Diverse global supplier network

Keep your business moving by finding diverse, qualified suppliers using rich profiles and risk data.

Network-based supplier RFI management

Manage request postings, compare bids, review RFPs and RFIs, and award contracts from a centralized, intuitive interface.

 

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Dynamic discounting

Put your surplus cash to good use and realize cost savings by providing suppliers with greater liquidity and early payments.

Supply chain finance

Offer your suppliers working capital and cash flow freedom through third-party funding.

Virtual card payments

Enhance your payment security, streamline administrative processes, and offer financial incentives with our virtual payment solution.

 

 

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Explore supplier collaboration

Learn how supplier collaboration can strengthen trading partner relationships as well as supply chain resilience.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP Business Network

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The Business Value of SAP Business Network — for Buyer Organizations

Read this executive summary and supporting detail to glean insights into the quantitative and qualitative benefits procurement and supply chain leaders realize from using SAP Business Network.

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SAP named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for a second time

SAP Business Network is recognized as a leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2025 Vendor Assessment.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Business Network provides a large global network of suppliers with rich trading partner profiles that include Dun & Bradstreet data, certifications, sustainability ratings, questionnaires, and verified statuses from third-party checks. Conduct filtered searches, then exchange documents and data with a full audit trail to reduce manual checks, improve risk control, and shorten onboarding.

Digitalizing buying and invoicing means suppliers use a self-service portal to manage orders, confirmations, and invoices, and maintain accurate catalogs for buyers. Orders, changes, and invoices flow as transaction documents instead of email or paper and are checked against configurable business rules and invoice controls. This reduces errors and rework, speeds approval and posting, and helps each transaction follow policy and contracts.

SAP Business Network supports local e-invoice formats, mandatory fields, digital signatures, and compliant tax archiving so your invoices meet country regulations. Configurable business rules validate invoices before they reach your ERP, which reduces errors and noncompliant submissions. Suppliers use a self-service portal to see invoice and payment statuses, and AI explains rejection reasons, so issues are resolved faster and are less likely to recur.

SAP Business Network, together with SAP Taulia, lets you run dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, and virtual card programs on the same set of approved invoices. Suppliers can choose early payment for a discount or use third-party-funded supply chain finance, so they get predictable cash while you keep or extend terms. Treasury can shift between self-funding and bank funding as needs change and use virtual cards to hold cash longer, earn rebates, and reduce payment risk.