SAP Business Network supplier account

Manage customer transactions, streamline business processes, and achieve greater visibility and business growth with innovative tools.
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What is an SAP Business Network supplier account?

An SAP Business Network supplier account provides tools and capabilities that enable customer collaboration and data-based insights to increase the efficiency and growth of your business.

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Elevate your business operations and improve customer service with a supplier account that includes:

  • Electronic order management and e-invoicing

  • Lead generation

  • Business insights and analytics

  • Access to thousands of buyers on the world’s largest business network

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Key benefits

Streamline business processes

Create new efficiencies for your business with digital tools to facilitate transactions with ease and visibility while managing multiple customers in one place.

Increase visibility

Stay informed to make fact-based decisions with document and payment status updates and turn actionable insights into transactions with KPI analytics. 

Grow your business

Connect to a global network of buyers looking for diverse and sustainable suppliers with a searchable profile and catalog.

Key features

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Searchable company profile

  • Demonstrate your corporate social responsibility activities by uploading all your business certifications.

  • Display your commitment to sustainability by sharing your sustainability ratings.

  • Include your human rights information directly in your profile.

Lead generation

  • Receive high-quality leads when automatically matched with interested buyers.

  • Track new business opportunities with an online dashboard that shows all sales leads, profile views, and more.

  • Proactively search for leads with tens of billions of dollars in business opportunities posted last year.

E-invoicing and order management

  • Reduce errors with automatic network validation processes.

  • Accelerate processing by converting a variety of document formats into e-invoices and rapidly delivering them to your customers.

  • Get paid on time with more accurate invoicing.

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Technical and security resources

SAP Help Portal

Visit the SAP Help Portal to find detailed documentation, guides, and articles to help you implement, configure, and optimize SAP products.

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SAP Community

Check into the supplier community forum often for the latest webinars, demos, documents and more to help you get even more value from your account.

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Portfolio recognition and awards

SAP Business Network is recognized for its multi-facted industry leadership based on verified user reviews, ratings, and in-depth customer insights.

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The business value of SAP Business Network for sellers

IDC highlights the substantial business value and operational efficiencies that suppliers achieve with SAP Business Network.

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Frequently asked questions

Log in to your supplier account. An internet connection and a web browser are the only requirements. See a list of supported browsers.

To establish the connection with your customer on SAP Business Network, you need to have both a supplier account and an invitation to transact from your customer. Two scenarios are possible: 

  1. Receive an invitation to transact (either through a Trading Relationship Request, or from an interactive purchase order), inviting you to create a new account or connect to an existing one.
  2. Create a new supplier account from https://supplier.ariba.com, then share the account number ID with your customer so they can establish the trading relationship.

There is no limit to the number of documents you can transact via SAP Business Network. If you have an enterprise account, fees may apply according to the volume of documents and transactions.

Most suppliers on the network transact for free under one of these two scenarios:

  1. They transact at the standard account level, exchanging an unlimited number of documents with their customers but with limited functionality. Most of these are new or low-volume suppliers.
  2. They upgrade to the enterprise account level and are fully enabled in network functionality but are subject to fees only after reaching a certain threshold of transaction volume.

For the full list of functionalities and pricing, please visit the SAP Business Network accounts and pricing page.

SAP Business Network uses the UNSPSC standard for category classification. You can look up codes for specific items on the UNSPSC website.

 

Consider the following when picking the best product and service categories for your company:

 

• Be general. Search as non-specifically as possible. For example, search "stands" instead of "Wrought iron plant stands with dolphin designs" to help you efficiently pick a commodity.

• Use layman's terms. Your industry-specific knowledge and vocabulary helps you describe an individual product or service but can hinder how searchable you are for potential buyers.

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