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SAP Business Network, standard account

Now you can connect more efficiently with your customers to manage sales cycles, improve cash flow, and grow your business.

What is SAP Business Network, standard account?

With your standard account and business profile, you can collaborate with any of your customers that are also on SAP Business Network – at no cost.

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Free to join. Free to transact.

Companies collaborate with their suppliers on SAP Business Network to do business in a simpler and more cost-effective way. With a free standard account, you’ll be equipped to exchange with your customers an unlimited number of documents as you:

  • Participate in sourcing events
  • Share your company profile, certifications, and catalogs with buyers
  • Receive orders and send back invoices and more
  • Monitor the live status of documents and payments

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.

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.

Catalogue 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 catalogue information is easier and you control the details your customers see. Count on receiving correct purchase orders that you can fulfil quickly.
  • Comply with customer requirements
    Validation processes and simple templates help 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 catalogue 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 customised, 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
    Optimising 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. 
  • Enhance process automation for greater accuracy
    Connect your ERP and SAP Business Network solutions with your customers to further reduce data-entry errors and improve data consistency with every transaction.
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 digitalised 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.
Lead generation

The SAP Business Network Discovery solution is a business matchmaking service 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 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.

Resources

Enhanced collaboration on SAP Business Network

Ariba Network is now SAP Business Network, offering exciting opportunities to trading partners. Find out what this means to you.

Learn about KPIs and benchmarks for suppliers

Discover how suppliers can evaluate customer-transaction performance with automatically generated KPIs and community benchmarks.

Discover integrated self-assessment questionnaires

See how SAP Business Network and procurement solutions simplify supplier due diligence with collaboration and data sharing. 

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Flexible financing options to meet cash flow needs

Get paid now for invoices owed by your customers on SAP Business Network. Apply for affordable receivables financing based on your status as a supplier on the network.

Quick links to popular topics

ERP integration: Automated efficiency

Upgrade to an enterprise account and unify your processes through integration to achieve greater automation and more-efficient processing of your transactions and documents.

Recover a forgotten password

If you need to conduct some business on SAP Business Network but forgot your password, follow these instructions.

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.

Get started

Get the SAP Business Network Supplier mobile app

Access SAP Business Network anytime, anywhere. Respond efficiently to customer requests by staying connected to your customers on the go.

  • Create order confirmations, invoices, ship notices, and more
  • See your new leads for sourcing opportunities and respond right from the app
  • Search for, sort, and locate up to 12 months of orders and invoices
  • Communicate in 24 languages, including English, German, Japanese, and Spanish
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Help and support

Self-service support for standard account holders is available through help centres. You’ll find concise, understandable video tutorials, documentation, FAQs, and more about orders, invoices, contracts, leads, and sourcing events.

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