SAP Business Network
SAP Business Network powers transparency, resiliency, and sustainability
Connecting people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises to digitise 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.
SAP Business Network for Suppliers
Collaborate with customers and grow your business with a free standard account.
See how customers are succeeding with SAP
Discover how Döhler is more efficiently managing its logistics ecosystem across 50 global locations using a connected network for business collaboration.
Find out how Vestas Wind Systems plans to achieve total supply chain transparency and supplier engagement to improve planning, optimise spend, and ensure supply.
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.
See how leading Swiss railway company SBB AG optimised its asset maintenance planning and processes to deliver a better-quality experience for riders.
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.
Learn how Merck KGaA realised its digital go-to-market strategy for its lab supplies business and increased sales through digital channels and improved service delivery.
Find out how Grupo Nutresa transformed procurement for greater efficiency and to generate more value across its spend categories while minimising value leakage.
Discover how DSM digitalised its source-to-pay process for indirect procurement with tight technology integration as part of a total procurement transformation.
Discover how Mary Kay made indirect spend management a thing of beauty after adopting modern technologies to digitalise the source-to-pay process.
Additional Resources
Read how SAP solutions enable an intelligent nervous system to connect your extended supply chain and optimize both collaboration and visibility.
This IDC technology spotlight discusses how broad collaboration and transparent, timely data exchange have become critical, and how SAP Supply Chain Collaboration can help.
This whitepaper asset is based on the Economist Impact research findings which provides advice for supply chain professionals to move forward in four key areas, including insights on how specific cloud solutions can help shorten the journey and give you peace of mind.
In this paper, we share takeaways and propose four key actions based on the four trends in the IDC eBook, Securing Today’s Supply Chain for the Future.