What is SAP Business Network?

SAP Business Network is a cloud-based collaboration offering that modernizes how procurement and supply chain processes are connected across organizations. It helps to build stronger supply chains, deliver on the customer promise, gain visibility into your supply chain, increase operational efficiency, and ensure compliance.

What is supply chain collaboration?

Supply chain collaboration is extending your organization’s processes and systems to your trading partners. Gain transparency by collaborating with multiple tiers of trading partners across inventory, quality, and procurement processes along your supply chain, achieving greater customer satisfaction by mitigating supply chain risk and assuring supply.

What is procurement collaboration?

Procurement collaboration is the practice of partnering with suppliers, vendors, and other stakeholders to streamline and optimize the procurement process. Working closely with key partners helps to enhance transparency, drive cost savings, improve the overall quality of goods and services acquired, strengthen supply chains, minimize risks, and foster mutually beneficial relationships.

What is logistics collaboration?

Logistics collaboration is working with shippers and carriers to optimize logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk. A comprehensive logistics collaboration solution helps you gain visibility into the freight order lifecycle to better manage appointments, share insights, digitally manage transactions, optimize logistics processes, notify stakeholders about deviations, and monitor fulfillment.

What is asset collaboration?

Asset collaboration is the strategic partnership and coordination between businesses and their suppliers or partners in sharing, managing, and maintaining the assets and equipment critical to their operations. This allows for efficient utilization, timely maintenance, and optimization of asset performance, ultimately leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced cost-effectiveness.

SAP Business Network

No business does business alone. Connect across companies to build stronger supply chains and deliver on the customer promise.

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Gain visibility, increase operational efficiency, and ensure compliance

SAP Business Network closes the break points between trading partners, enabling transaction exchange, information sharing, and trading partner discovery.

SAP Business Network helps you:

Gain visibility to respond more quickly to changing circumstances
Avoid or better withstand disruptions
Operate more efficiently
Comply with internal and external policies and regulations

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Gain visibility into your business processes

Build a stronger supply chain by responding more quickly to changing circumstances through tighter collaboration with your trading partners.

Operate more efficiently

Employ business rules and AI to automate processes, increase productivity, decrease operating costs, and free up workforce capacity.

Drive compliance

Comply with internal and external policies and regulations through configurable business rules, support for product genealogy, and access to supplier profile data.

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Business Network Assistant

Use AI to facilitate collaboration between buy-side, sell-side, and partner entities across procurement and supply chain processes.

Connect beyond the walls of your company

Proactively execute source-to-pay processes to improve productivity, support cost management, and reduce risk.
Optimize working capital by autonomously identifying, negotiating, and discounting opportunities between buyers and suppliers .
Orchestrate logistics with agility by continuously optimizing transportation flows.
Reduce asset downtime with automated alignment between operators and maintenance service providers.

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Meet e-invoicing mandates with built-in compliance

Collaborate with your suppliers over SAP Business Network to ensure compliance with mandates in more than 40 countries.

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Reaching new heights and navigating turbulence with global supply chain operations from source to pay

Learn how aircraft manufacturer Embraer is improving efficiency, enhancing process quality, reducing costs, and strengthening collaboration with suppliers by connecting its procurement operations on SAP Business Network.

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Creating supply chain visibility to increase logistics and transportation efficiencies

Discover how Corona, a global manufacturer of home, construction, industrial, agriculture, and energy products, has optimized its worldwide logistics and transportation operations by implementing several innovative SAP solutions.

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Improving vendor relationships and maximizing strategic spend with SAP Ariba solutions

Discover how multinational food giant Rich Products Corporation (Rich’s) is better serving its vendors and strengthening trading relationships from purchase order through invoicing with centralized, real-time data and a user-friendly self-service vendor portal enabled by SAP Ariba solutions.

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Improving Customers’ Operations Through Collaborative Asset Management

Discover how measurement technology company Endress+Hauser is helping customers transform how they manage their manufacturing plants using the SAP Business Network Asset Collaboration solution and SAP Business Technology Platform.

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See what analysts are saying about SAP Business Network

The Fabric of Business: SAP Business Network and the AI-First Enterprise

Discover how SAP Business Network supports AI innovations as described in this 2026 research brief by Ardent Partners.

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SAP named a Leader in worldwide multi-enterprise supply chain commerce network assessment

Explore SAP's strengths in the Leader category of the 2025 IDC MarketScape for multi-enterprise commerce networks.

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The Business Value of SAP Business Network — for Buyer Organizations

Read this executive summary and supporting detail to glean insights into the quantitative and qualitative benefits procurement and supply chain leaders realize from using SAP Business Network.

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Featured resources

Supply chain collaboration maturity model

Review the IDC research into business networks and their impact on supply chains. Use the IDC model to assess your supply chain collaboration maturity.

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Snapshot of the business value of SAP Business Network

See the ROI and business outcomes that SAP Business Network customers have realized, based on research by IDC.

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The SAP technology platform that powers the network

Watch how you can streamline transactions, enhance visibility with AI-driven insights, ensure compliance, and even simplify supplier onboarding.

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Frequently asked questions

: SAP Business Network is a cloud-based collaboration offering that modernizes how procurement and supply chain processes are connected across organizations. It helps to build stronger supply chains, deliver on the customer promise, gain visibility into your supply chain, increase operational efficiency, and ensure compliance.
: Supply chain collaboration is extending your organization’s processes and systems to your trading partners. Gain transparency by collaborating with multiple tiers of trading partners across inventory, quality, and procurement processes along your supply chain, achieving greater customer satisfaction by mitigating supply chain risk and assuring supply.
: Procurement collaboration is the practice of partnering with suppliers, vendors, and other stakeholders to streamline and optimize the procurement process. Working closely with key partners helps to enhance transparency, drive cost savings, improve the overall quality of goods and services acquired, strengthen supply chains, minimize risks, and foster mutually beneficial relationships.
: Logistics collaboration is working with shippers and carriers to optimize logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk. A comprehensive logistics collaboration solution helps you gain visibility into the freight order lifecycle to better manage appointments, share insights, digitally manage transactions, optimize logistics processes, notify stakeholders about deviations, and monitor fulfillment.
: Asset collaboration is the strategic partnership and coordination between businesses and their suppliers or partners in sharing, managing, and maintaining the assets and equipment critical to their operations. This allows for efficient utilization, timely maintenance, and optimization of asset performance, ultimately leading to improved productivity, reduced downtime, and enhanced cost-effectiveness.