SAP Business Network Commerce Automation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our customers
Enabling business value, continuity, and resilience
Learn how Lloyds Banking Group reduces supply chain risk and keeps business moving with a strong global network of suppliers.
Soaring through a time of industry turbulence
Find out how Air Canada automated procurement processes and enabled remote collaboration to support employees and drive business continuity despite disruption.
Modernizing procurement to support 3,000 stores
Discover how Woolworths implemented a transformative procurement solution to simplify nontrade purchasing transactions on the path to delivering strategic value.
Leveling up procurement to keep pace with growth
See how Los Alamos National Laboratory enables rapid growth and supports an important national security mission with software that takes procurement to the next level.
Focusing on user experiences and compliance
Understand how DSM unleashed a strategic source-to-pay capability by integrating procurement software with a connected business network of suppliers.
Creating collaborative supplier experiences
Explore how PLDT deployed integrated source-to-pay processes that have shortened cycle times and reduced manual data entry while supporting strong compliance and visibility.
Strengthening supplier relationships
Read about how Mary Kay turned supplier relationships into a strategic advantage as part of a transformation that digitalized source-to-pay processes, providing more visibility and control over indirect spend.
Managing 100% of contracts on a single platform
Discover how Grupo Nutresa generates more value across spend categories after quickly onboarding 300 suppliers and unifying data and experiences across procurement.
Build a business case
Find the best solution for your needs
Explore the portfolio of business network solutions from SAP that can help you meet procurement challenges and realize business goals.
Choose best-of-suite procurement solutions
Achieve organizational value by digitalizing source-to-pay processes with integrated processes, governance, and user experiences.
What are the analysts saying about SAP Business Network?
Build value in procurement with digitalization
Explore how businesses transform their procurement functions to meet challenges amid unstable supply chains, rising costs, and growing uncertainty.
Drive resilience with global B2B collaboration
Find out why companies that use business networks achieve better collaboration and visibility to address business-to-business (B2B) challenges and opportunities.
Technical Information
This product is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any Web browser.
Configuration
Optimize configuration of SAP Business Network Commerce Automation with our comprehensive configuration guide.
Integration
Find out how you can integrate SAP Business Network Commerce Automation with your existing IT landscape.
Get Started
Jump-start your implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.
Services
Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.
Support
Help keep your SAP solutions running at peak performance with our IT experts and support services, including long-term plans, embedded teams, remote technology support, self-service portal, and innovation strategies.
Security and compliance
Focus on your business and customer relationships while keeping your data safe and reliable. SAP takes a proactive, predictive approach to maintaining compliance and data security in the cloud and within an on-premise data center.
Event Spotlight
SAP Spend Connect Live
Watch the keynotes and sessions from the premier spend management conference that brings together experts knowledgeable in procurement, external workforce management, travel and expense management, and business networks. The event offers an immersive experience to explore the spend decisions that fuel your business.
Increase PO and invoice accuracy and automation
Improve operational efficiencies and reduce errors and rework by leaving behind manual processes that cost you time, money, and resources. By extending your existing ERP investment, you can fully automate your purchase order and invoicing processes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Procurement collaboration refers to the digital exchange of documents related to procurement transactions, including purchase orders, order confirmations, order receipts, service entry sheets, and invoices.
The key benefits of procurement collaboration include automated procurement and invoice transactions for faster confirmations and approvals, visibility into all orders and invoices in one platform for a holistic view of spend and improved compliance, and access to a community of global suppliers and buyers. In addition, both buyers and suppliers can benefit from lower costs, greater operational efficiencies, and better collaboration.
With the SAP Business Network Commerce Automation solution, suppliers are notified of new purchase orders in the supplier portal or on the mobile app and can access the document to view details and confirm or reject the order. Suppliers can also flip POs into invoices to ensure accuracy and reduce manual data entry and errors. Invoices are validated against configurable business rules on the network to ensure that documents are error-free and compliant.
When suppliers have visibility into the status of their invoices, they can resolve issues proactively and avoid calling customers’ accounts payables departments to inquire on invoice status. This frees up both parties to focus on more strategic initiatives or exceptions.