Driving efficiency, visibility, and growth

Get access to a thriving community of over seven million companies, including thousands of the world’s largest buyers, with a standard account on SAP Business Network. Download the Document

SAP Business NetworkDriving efficiency, visibility, and growthWhat is a standard account ofSAP Business Network?Get access to a thriving community of over sevenmillion companies, including thousands of theworld’s largest buyers, with a standard accountof SAP Business Network. In only a few minutes,you can sign up for an account that provides acomprehensive suite of tools to run your businesssuccessfully in today’s highly competitive markets.Streamlined business processesCreate new efficiencies for your business withtools designed to help you complete tasks fasterin order to sell more. Reduce time, errors, and costs with unlimitede-invoicing and electronic order management Quickly resolve rejected invoices to get paidfaster with generative AI invoice-errorclassification Provide a better customer experience andreceive more-accurate orders with privatecatalogs Create invoices more quickly, easily, andaccurately with invoices generated directlyfrom purchase orders (PO-Flip feature) Manage multiple customers in one place—signup one time, update your profile in one place,and share your information with all buyers onSAP Business NetworkIncreased visibilityEquip yourself with the information you need,shown how you want it. Stay informed to make fact-based decisionswith simplified and intuitive documents(including POs, invoices, and service sheets)and payment status updates available directlyfrom the home page in near-real time Obtain actionable insight into transactions withKPI analytics for on-time payment, days to pay,and paid invoices, which are shown directly onthe home page. (To get the full suite of availableKPI widgets, including benchmarking widgets,upgrade to an enterprise account when you login to your standard account.)Enhanced customer collaborationA standard account enables you to stay in tightercommunication with your customers, allowing forgreater collaboration and better relationships. Receive information and timely updates fromyour customers with buyer announcements Collaborate with customers faster and moreefficiently with message exchange embeddeddirectly within documents including POs, PO-based invoices, and non-PO invoices Easily reach your customers to get the informa-tion you need independent of a specificdocument with “context-free” messagingavailable from the messaging tab inside theportal (for suppliers whose buyers haveactivated the feature)