Driving efficiency, visibility, and growth
SAP Business Network
Driving efficiency, visibility, and growth
What is a standard account of
SAP Business Network?
Get access to a thriving community of over seven
million companies, including thousands of the
world’s largest buyers, with a standard account
of SAP Business Network. In only a few minutes,
you can sign up for an account that provides a
comprehensive suite of tools to run your business
successfully in today’s highly competitive markets.
Streamlined business processes
Create new efficiencies for your business with
tools designed to help you complete tasks faster
in order to sell more.
• Reduce time, errors, and costs with unlimited
e-invoicing and electronic order management
• Quickly resolve rejected invoices to get paid
faster with generative AI invoice-error
classification
• Provide a better customer experience and
receive more-accurate orders with private
catalogs
• Create invoices more quickly, easily, and
accurately with invoices generated directly
from purchase orders (PO-Flip feature)
• Manage multiple customers in one place—sign
up one time, update your profile in one place,
and share your information with all buyers on
SAP Business Network
Increased visibility
Equip yourself with the information you need,
shown how you want it.
• Stay informed to make fact-based decisions
with simplified and intuitive documents
(including POs, invoices, and service sheets)
and payment status updates available directly
from the home page in near-real time
• Obtain actionable insight into transactions with
KPI analytics for on-time payment, days to pay,
and paid invoices, which are shown directly on
the home page. (To get the full suite of available
KPI widgets, including benchmarking widgets,
upgrade to an enterprise account when you log
in to your standard account.)
Enhanced customer collaboration
A standard account enables you to stay in tighter
communication with your customers, allowing for
greater collaboration and better relationships.
• Receive information and timely updates from
your customers with buyer announcements
• Collaborate with customers faster and more
efficiently with message exchange embedded
directly 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 specific
document with “context-free” messaging
available from the messaging tab inside the
portal (for suppliers whose buyers have
activated the feature)
Driving efficiency, visibility, and growth
What is a standard account of
SAP Business Network?
Get access to a thriving community of over seven
million companies, including thousands of the
world’s largest buyers, with a standard account
of SAP Business Network. In only a few minutes,
you can sign up for an account that provides a
comprehensive suite of tools to run your business
successfully in today’s highly competitive markets.
Streamlined business processes
Create new efficiencies for your business with
tools designed to help you complete tasks faster
in order to sell more.
• Reduce time, errors, and costs with unlimited
e-invoicing and electronic order management
• Quickly resolve rejected invoices to get paid
faster with generative AI invoice-error
classification
• Provide a better customer experience and
receive more-accurate orders with private
catalogs
• Create invoices more quickly, easily, and
accurately with invoices generated directly
from purchase orders (PO-Flip feature)
• Manage multiple customers in one place—sign
up one time, update your profile in one place,
and share your information with all buyers on
SAP Business Network
Increased visibility
Equip yourself with the information you need,
shown how you want it.
• Stay informed to make fact-based decisions
with simplified and intuitive documents
(including POs, invoices, and service sheets)
and payment status updates available directly
from the home page in near-real time
• Obtain actionable insight into transactions with
KPI analytics for on-time payment, days to pay,
and paid invoices, which are shown directly on
the home page. (To get the full suite of available
KPI widgets, including benchmarking widgets,
upgrade to an enterprise account when you log
in to your standard account.)
Enhanced customer collaboration
A standard account enables you to stay in tighter
communication with your customers, allowing for
greater collaboration and better relationships.
• Receive information and timely updates from
your customers with buyer announcements
• Collaborate with customers faster and more
efficiently with message exchange embedded
directly 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 specific
document with “context-free” messaging
available from the messaging tab inside the
portal (for suppliers whose buyers have
activated the feature)