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SAP Business Network

Trusted by millions of businesses, SAP Business Network is a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform where companies connect, transact, and partner on shared processes and information.

SAP Business Network powers transparency, resiliency, and sustainability

Connecting people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises to digitize transactions and create transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains

Gain transparency

Ensure delivery of the right product to the right customer at the right time by aligning your trading partners with consistent and accurate information across orders. inventory, capacity, logistics, and asset management. 

Achieve resilience

Respond swiftly to disruption and supply or demand fluctuations before they impact customers by staying connected to trading partners during disruption, quickly finding new sources of supply, and receiving real-time alerts.

Drive sustainability

Strive for zero waste by incorporating resilience and circularity in your supply chain. Access to diverse partners can expand your supply base and help you act with carbon efficiency in mind, so people can trust in your sustainable practices.

The largest and most comprehensive business network, trusted by millions of companies around the world

>$4.5 trillion

in annual commerce is transacted on SAP Business Network.

190

countries where buyer and supplier companies are transacting on SAP Business Network.

>752 million

B2B transactions handled through SAP Business Network in a 12-month period.

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Döhler

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Vestas

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Air Canada

Read how Air Canada automated procurement and enabled remote collaboration with SAP Business Network, driving a 33% reduction in the average processing time of non-PO invoices.

SBB

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M Industry

Explore how M-Industry, a group of 23 Swiss companies that create products for the market-leading Migros retail brand, gained greater control over its indirect and direct procurement activities.

Merck KGaA

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Grupo Nutresa

Find out how Grupo Nutresa transformed procurement for greater efficiency and to generate more value across its spend categories while minimizing value leakage.

DSM

Discover how DSM digitalized its source-to-pay process for indirect procurement with tight technology integration as part of a total procurement transformation.

Mary Kay

Discover how Mary Kay made indirect spend management a thing of beauty after adopting modern technologies to digitalize the source-to-pay process. 

Frequently Asked Questions

According to Gartner, “Multienterprise supply chain business networks support a community of trading partners that need to work and communicate/collaborate on business processes that extend across multiple enterprises, with an end-to-end/shared focus.” SAP defines a business network as a comprehensive many-to-many B2B collaboration platform where companies connect, transact, and partner on shared processes and information.

When a buyer organization participates in a business network, it can leverage its ERP investment by extending processes to trading partners outside the four walls of its organization. A business network can help buyers strengthen trading partner relationships, act to mitigate disruption and risk for supply chain resiliency, and drive sustainability to meet organizational goals.

Supply chain visibility enables risk mitigation by providing transparency and insights to help create a supply chain that’s resilient to disruption. Better transparency into your supply chain across inventory, capacity, and logistics can help you assure supply, guarantee compliance, and protect revenue.

Supply chain resilience is “the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change.” By leveraging a business network, you can respond swiftly to disruptions or changes in demand and supply in collaboration with your trading partners. 

SAP Business Network is a portfolio of solutions that enables buyers to collaborate with trading partners across direct, indirect, services procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management.

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