What is procurement collaboration?

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.

What are the benefits of procurement collaboration?

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.

What are the key capabilities of SAP Business Network Commerce Automation?

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.

What are the benefits of invoice status visibility?

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.

SAP Business Network Commerce Automation | Procurement Collaboration

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

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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
Simplify supplier due diligence with automated, network-enabled collaboration and human rights data sharing

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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
Reduce paper and energy usage, waste, and carbon footprint

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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

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SAP Business Network deployed through SAP NS2’s secure cloud model

Gain supply chain and procurement process support while operating in an environment dedicated to security, data access, residency, and sovereignty.

Collaborate with trading partners, strengthen operations, and mitigate risk with additional security compliance

By deploying SAP Business Network through SAP NS2's secure cloud model, you can protect your sensitive information with additional security controls to mitigate internal and external risk.

Process and transmit data confidently through the SAP NS2 security model
Reduce TCO and increase time to value through automated solution deployment and security management
Ensure regional security standards are enforced across your trading partner network

Enhanced security for operations

Process and transmit data through the SAP NS2 security model to mitigate the risk of international data exposure and prevent bad actors from accessing supply chain data.

Innovation backed by region-specific resources

Increase control of your cloud operations through a security model with in-country, credentialed resources who understand innovation and regional data regulations.

Localized protection of critical data

Leverage a heightened security model for end-to-end protection and comply with U.S. regulations to safeguard trading partner supply chain information.