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Collaborate with your trading partners to respond rapidly and confidently to changing customer demands and market disruption.

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SAP Business Network offers a better way to collaborate with your trading partners and navigate the networked economy.

Procurement collaboration

Improve supply assurance, procurement efficiency, compliance, and spend transparency with a global network of suppliers.

  • Collaborate easily with your suppliers
  • Automate procurement transactions and workflows
  • Improve spend transparency and supplier management
  • Enhance process and regulatory compliance
  • Enforce spend controls through business rules
  • Select suppliers that align with your organization's goals
Procurement collaboration

Collaborate digitally with your suppliers to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and improve operational efficiency.

Supplier discovery

Connect with diverse, qualified suppliers who can deliver the products or services you’re looking for – fast.

Supply chain collaboration

Achieve transparency by enabling plan-driven automation, optimizing capacity and inventory, and streamlining workflows. 

  • Improve supply planning, predictability, and quality
  • Share data with trading partners
  • Rapidly respond to disruption and risk
  • Increase efficiency and resiliency
  • Extend processes beyond your organization
  • Reduce waste and obsolete materials
Planning collaboration

Optimize planning by sharing forecasts, receiving commitments from trading partners, and confirming the feasibility of your plan.

Supply chain collaboration

Gain transparency by collaborating with multiple tiers of trading partners across inventory, quality, and procurement processes.

Logistics collaboration

Collaborate with shippers and carriers to optimize logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk.

  • Streamline freight collaboration
  •  Connect with logistics service providers
  • Gain insight into goods in transit
  • Track shipments enriched by data
  • Reduce carbon emissions based on insights
  • Create a chain of trust for product genealogy
Freight collaboration

Gain visibility into the freight order lifecycle to better manage appointments, share insights, and digitally manage transactions.

Global track and trace

Optimize logistics processes with visibility into goods in transit, notify stakeholders about deviations, and monitor fulfillment.

Material traceability

Create a chain of trust through product genealogy and transparency to enhance safety, sustainability, and customer loyalty.

Asset collaboration

Empower operators, manufacturers, and service providers with a single network for resiliency and transparency.

  • Maximize uptime and service efficiency
  • Deploy a common asset definition
  • Improve asset data integrity and completeness
  • Enhance overall equipment effectiveness
  • Increase asset longevity and utilization
Asset collaboration

Collaborate on a single version of the truth among trading partners for optimal asset data integrity and service efficiency.

Finance collaboration

Free up working capital to strengthen your financial supply chain and manage risk with working capital management solutions.

  • Secure early payment discounts
  • Provide suppliers with third-party funding
  • Obtain receivables financing from unpaid invoices
  • Improve inventory visibility and reduce lead times
  • Incentivize suppliers to participate in sustainability initiatives
Dynamic discounting

Put your surplus cash to good use and realize cost savings by providing suppliers with greater liquidity and early payments.

Virtual card payments

Enhance your payment security, streamline administrative processes, and offer financial incentives with our virtual payment solution.

Supply chain finance

Offer your suppliers working capital and cash flow freedom through third-party funding.

Accounts receivable financing

Leverage an efficient, flexible way to access the capital in your outstanding receivables.

Inventory management

Preserve your working capital by taking control of your lead times, delivery targets, and stock shortages.

Customer collaboration

Manage your customer relationships and grow your business with tools that can help you simplify and enhance digital collaboration for suppliers, manufacturers, carriers, and service providers.

  • Enable smooth customer collaboration
  • Streamline processes to sell, ship, and deliver goods
  • Enhance visibility along the supply chain and asset management
  • Support business growth and reach expansion to new customers
Supplier perspective

Get discovered by global buyers, find new business opportunities, and collaborate with customers to share information in real time and work more efficiently.

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2023 SAP Innovation Awards Winner

Blue Diamond Growers achieves supply chain resilience with logistics visibility.

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