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SAP Business Network Commerce Automation
Integrate your procurement processes with SAP Business Network to achieve smooth procurement collaboration with your suppliers.
What is SAP Business Network Commerce Automation?
Improve spend visibility and supplier collaboration through automation to achieve operational efficiency and assurance of supply.
Reduce cost, mitigate risk, and improve efficiency with supplier collaboration. The SAP Business Network Commerce Automation solution helps facilitate near-real-time information sharing and enhanced visibility into procurement processes.
Compliance with business process and regulatory requirements
Improved supplier management and spend controls
Automated and standardized workflows
Configurable business rules and network validation
How to achieve a three-year ROI of 404%
IDC study reveals the business value realized by SAP Business Network customers.
Key benefits
Improve procurement compliance
Support business process compliance with highly configurable business rules on the network.
Automate spend management processes
Enhance productivity, lower operating costs, and free up your people’s capacity by automating paper-based and manual processes.
Increase transparency of business spending
Gain a holistic view of your organizational spend with greater visibility into orders and invoices in one platform.
Key features
Supplier collaboration
Access a community of global suppliers to easily connect, collaborate, and transact on a network
Digitally exchange procurement and invoice information
Leverage early-payment discounts and payment-terms optimization
Simplify supplier due diligence with automated, network-enabled collaboration and human rights data sharing
Regulatory and business process compliance
Improve compliance through digital matching of invoices to POs and contracts
Comply with regulatory requirements through e-invoicing
Validate transactions based on configured business rules to reduce manual intervention and exceptions
Automated procurement workflows
Automate manual processes to increase productivity, decrease operating costs, and free up workforce capacity
Deliver POs to suppliers digitally across a business network
Reduce paper and energy usage, waste, and carbon footprint
Supplier portal
Allow your suppliers to flip a PO received on the network to create an invoice, eliminating data entry and other errors
Give suppliers a view into invoice status updates to reduce inquiries
Invoice status portal and transaction visibility
Gain visibility into orders and invoices with a holistic view into spend
Enable suppliers to configure notifications to receive e-mails when their invoice status changes
Drive adoption for long-tail suppliers through self-service updates and invoice visibility
Pricing
Deploy with SAP NS2's secure cloud model
Protect your data and mitigate risk with additional security controls.
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Technical and security information
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SAP Business Network deployed through SAP NS2’s secure cloud model
Gain supply chain and procurement process support while operating in an environment dedicated to security, data access, residency, and sovereignty.
Collaborate with trading partners, strengthen operations, and mitigate risk with additional security compliance
By deploying SAP Business Network through SAP NS2's secure cloud model, you can protect your sensitive information with additional security controls to mitigate internal and external risk.
Process and transmit data confidently through the SAP NS2 security model
Reduce TCO and increase time to value through automated solution deployment and security management
Ensure regional security standards are enforced across your trading partner network
Enhanced security for operations
Process and transmit data through the SAP NS2 security model to mitigate the risk of international data exposure and prevent bad actors from accessing supply chain data.
Innovation backed by region-specific resources
Increase control of your cloud operations through a security model with in-country, credentialed resources who understand innovation and regional data regulations.
Localized protection of critical data
Leverage a heightened security model for end-to-end protection and comply with U.S. regulations to safeguard trading partner supply chain information.
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