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SAP Business Network is a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform that connects people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises, digitizing transactions, and creating transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.
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What is SAP Business Network?
SAP Business Network enables transparency, resiliency, and sustainability in global supply chains through digitized trading partner collaboration. The network drives
trading partner collaboration across procurement, supply chain, logistics, and
asset management by enabling business processes beyond the four walls of a company across the entire value chain.
This
enables all trading partners to exchange data, manage workflows and apply
network-wide intelligence to improve decision making.
SAP Business Network is reported to serve millions of companies across 190 countries conducting trillions of dollars in commerce each year.
Transparency
SAP Business Network helps to ensure delivery of the right product to the right customer at the right time by aligning trading partners with consistent and accurate information across orders, inventory, capacity, logistics, and asset management.
Resilience
SAP Business Network drives swift response to disruption and supply or demand fluctuations before they impact customers by staying connected to trading partners during disruption, finding new sources of supply, and receiving real-time alerts.
Sustainability
SAP Business Networks helps to strive toward zero waste by incorporating resilience and circularity in the business's supply chain. Access to diverse partners can expand the supply base and help act with carbon efficiency in mind, so customers can trust in a business's sustainable practices.
Key Capabilities
Procurement CollaborationSupports supply assurance, procurement efficiency, compliance, and spend transparency with a global network of suppliers.
- Collaboration with suppliers
- Automates procurement transactions and workflows
- Improves spend transparency and supplier management
- Enhances process and regulatory compliance
- Enforces spend controls through business rules
Supply Chain Collaboration
Supports transparency by enabling plan-driven automation, optimizing capacity and inventory, and streamlining workflows.
Supports transparency by enabling plan-driven automation, optimizing capacity and inventory, and streamlining workflows.
- Improves supply planning, predictability, and quality
- Data can be shared with trading partners
- Supports rapid response to disruption and risk
- Supports efficiency and resiliency
- Extends processes beyond organization
Logistics Collaboration
Collaboration with shippers and carriers to optimize logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk.
Collaboration with shippers and carriers to optimize logistics processes, increase on-time deliveries, and mitigate supply risk.
- Streamlines freight collaboration
- Connects with logistics service providers
- Offers insight into goods in transit
- Tracks shipments enriched by data
- Evaluate the impact of deviations
- Creates a chain of trust for product genealogy
Asset Collaboration
Empowers operators, manufacturers, and service providers with a single network for resiliency and transparency.
Empowers operators, manufacturers, and service providers with a single network for resiliency and transparency.
- Maximizes uptime and service efficiency
- Deploys a common asset definition
- Improves asset data integrity and completeness
- Enhances overall equipment effectiveness
Finance Collaboration
Frees up working capital to strengthen the financial supply chain and manage risk with working capital management solutions.
- Secures early payment discounts
- Provides suppliers with third-party funding
- Obtains receivables financing from unpaid invoices
- Improves inventory visibility and reduce lead times
Customer Collaboration
Supports customer relationships and grows business with tools designed for digital collaboration whether the user is a supplier, manufacturer, carrier, or service provider.
- Frictionless customer collaboration
- Streamlined processes to sell, ship and deliver goods
- Enhanced visibility along the supply chain and asset management
- Business growth and reach expansion to new customers
SAP Business Network is designed to offer a better way to collaborate with trading partners and navigate the networked economy.
SAP Business Network Features
- Supported: Commerce Automation
- Supported: New Supplier Discovery
- Supported: Planning Collaboration
- Supported: Supply Chain Collaboration
- Supported: Freight Collaboration
- Supported: Global Track and Trace
- Supported: Material Traceability
- Supported: Asset Collaboration
- Supported: Dynamic Discounting
- Supported: Supply Chain Finance
- Supported: Accounts Receivable Financing
- Supported: Inventory Management
- Supported: Trading Partner Portal
- Supported: New Customer Lead Discovery
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SAP Business Network Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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SAP Business Network is a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform that connects people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises, digitizing transactions, and creating transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.
The most common users of SAP Business Network are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 29, 2024
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The company I support use SAP Business Network as an automation tool for manufacturing and setting up for sales. Although it is a great tool and save many errors, it need a lot of tweaking to maintain full operations mostly using it printer cycle with the Zebra printers
- Scanning
- Keeping records of locations
- Ease of using
- A better selection of printer driver
- A little more automation of utilities
February 28, 2024
SAP Business Network - Needs improvements.
We use SAP Business Network to manage suppliers and post-sourcing events (requests for quotes, proposals, and expressions of interest) through Ariba Discovery. We also use it to manage our organization's profile so suppliers can find us and our postings. This product helps make our proposal request visible to a large network of suppliers already using the system.
- Large network of suppliers.
- One place for suppliers to see other organizations posting.
- Ability to match based on categories.
- Duplication of supplier network IDs that cause confusion and issue.
- Ability to customize notification options for suppliers.
- Ease of use when replying to postings.
I'm using SAP Business Network within Global Supply Chain for Master Data Management. We use the tool and applications to connect people and provide an automated business process for master data management across systems for multiple users and company sites.
The whole company uses SAP for many more uses cases, Human Ressource management, Finance & Controlling, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, sales, marketing and so on.
The whole company uses SAP for many more uses cases, Human Ressource management, Finance & Controlling, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, sales, marketing and so on.
- automated data transfer
- similar user iterface across different applications
- similar logic across different applications
- facelift for User interface
- bugfixing
February 22, 2024
SAP Business Network 4L GTT with p44 - yet in maturity stage
We use SAP Business Network in combination with p44 for tracking deliveries to customers, but also internally in our production network. We intend to receive more intelligent ETA by gathering milestone data from our 3PL via p44 and enriching those data with further environmental factors which could have an impact on the delivery date. Intelligent algorithms on p44 side are supposed to incorporate data which would impact the delivery time and routes, e.g. extreme weather conditions, traffic restriction information or political limitations.
- Gathering information from different 3PL sources
- Back-end integration into SAP ERP / S/4 HANA EM systems
- Connecting the dots
- Close cooperation with Transportation Management
- Harmonization of integration to Trading partners for collaboration as well as milestone tracking
- Increase the available reports and dashboards
- Improve partner collaboration model within the SAP Business Network
- Enable reports and dashboards by customers without need for Intelligence Insights
- Aligned milestone status between BN4L and Transportation Management
November 01, 2023
SAP a Super application!
We use SAP for everything from purchase of pharmaceutical raw material to release and dispatch of medicine into market. SAP solves our business problems like maintaining inventory, release of raw material after testing for further batch processing, release of in process and final test results, its shows real time status of batch which saves lots of time, it is super easy to use. After final testing of product all results are up-loaded in SAP and as and when batch is packed and release into market. SAP keeps all inventory of manufactured, discard and dispatch products. SAP helps us in maintain record of batch manufactured and in preparation of important document like APQR i.e annual product quality review.
- Inventory management raw material and products manufactured
- Real time status of test results i.e. pass or fail
- APQR preparation
- storage of data
- Perform seamless transaction for release of batch
- SAP should come up with AI chatbot for new learner, as it will help fresher to learn fast.
- Lots of batch data is generated in SAP, if SAP will allow to perform data analysis like 3SD and nelson rule than we don't have to buy other software like Minitab to perform the data analysis.
- Still in pharma industry's integration of SAP is less with manufacturing equipment, i would like to see how SAP can help us in that.
October 27, 2023
Awesome productivity software
Mainly we needed something that brought asset management and out supply chains together under 1 umbrellea
- simplicity
- usability
- detail oriented
- They could add some functionalities
- A better training library for features that are listed but unaware how to use.
- just clean up the overall look of it its kind of dated
October 27, 2023
Our company has found great value in using SAP Business Network.
Critical issues such as supply chain inefficiencies, partner management complexity, erratic demand, worldwide distribution, and financial transparency are essentially addressed by the SAP Business Network. From the time a song is written until it reaches a listener's home, practically every facet of our business is impacted by the broad span of our use case. Our ability to respond quickly to the changing needs of the music industry has been enhanced by this all-encompassing strategy, which has also increased our operational efficiency.
- Real-Time Inventory Management.
- Integrated Supplier Management.
- Collaborative Forecasting with Partners.
- Audit and Compliance Adherence.
- Complex Navigation.
- The mobile version of SAP Business Network lacks the full functionality available on the desktop platform.
- The current integration capabilities of SAP Business Network are somewhat limited.
October 26, 2023
SAP Business Network : A new Ecosystem & Collaboration Platform
SAP Business Network is used for procurement process where it combines the Purchasers with the Vendors. There are a lot of B2B transactions happening and it is used in many fields like Supply Chain & Operations, Plant Maintenance & Asset Management and logistics as well. Comparing to the previous experiences it helped a lot to our customers gaining a good experience especially in the procurement cycle.
- Creates a network between different partners (buyers, sellers etc.)
- Improves the visibility for the processes
- Digitalize the Procure-to-Pay cycle
- In some cases, it promises a lot but still lacks more partners joined to the network
- Being the pioneer, the idea behind the product can be confusing sometimes
- It is still not accessible for all kinds of markets (especially small and mid sizes)
SAP Business Network revolutionized our Construction & Development Company's operations. Its intuitive interface and robust analytics optimized our supply chain and procurement processes, enhancing project planning and risk management. Seamless collaboration among stakeholders improved communication and transparency, leading to streamlined workflows and notable improvements in project timelines, cost management, and resource allocation. This platform ensured regulatory compliance, making it an indispensable tool for enhancing overall project efficiency. Highly recommended for comprehensive and effective management solutions.
- Facilitates seamless communication and information sharing between stakeholders, enhancing project transparency and collaboration.
- Optimizes supply chain and procurement processes, leading to improved resource allocation and cost management.
- Provides robust analytics for data-driven decision-making, fostering effective project planning and risk management.
- Improve user interface for enhanced intuitiveness and ease of use.
- Enhance integration capabilities with other software and systems for smoother data exchange.
- Provide more comprehensive and customizable reporting options to meet diverse business needs.
October 25, 2023
Nice approach but still a long road to go
Firstly, European suppliers are not committed to changes, therefore, we figured out during pilot phase in Central Europe that common suppliers were not willing to register in SAP Business Network (at that time it was called Ariba Network). Furthermore, even if the usage is easy and a user can be trained within hours, it is hard to manage users, vendors etc.
- Finding new suppliers
- Enable suppliers
- Purchase Order Monitoring
- Invoicing
- Document Exchange with suppliers
- Catalogue enablement
October 13, 2023
Helps us meet our goals
We use the Network to collaborate with our suppliers and exchange with them. We send them our orders and are receiving the OC and ASN as well as then invoices from them
- Purchase Orders
- Invoicing
- Order confirmation
- Vendor Onboading
- Bank Data
October 13, 2023
feel happy
- usage as transport network for our PUR documents
Problem:
- onboarding process for our Supplier
- understanding, what is it
- no single sign on for internal users
Problem:
- onboarding process for our Supplier
- understanding, what is it
- no single sign on for internal users
- if its works - very reliable
- fast
- transparent
- network rules
- duration of onboarding
- costs for enterprise accounts
- user UX
October 13, 2023
SAP Business Network Adoption Challenge
All Direct and indirect Spend, used for PO, OC, ASN, INV. End to End PTP.
- Send transaction documents through the network
- Ability to manage the invoicing rules set
- Supplier Enablement, data accuracy for onboarding new suppliers
- Alignment of buyer and seller in their network use, and ensuring the adoption of the business team for the solution.
October 13, 2023
Although we originally came to this fairly opportunistic, it has become a strategic platform to us
We use the SAP Business Network to transact business with our customers and it is one of the most used eCommerce channels in Computacenter.
- Easy integration
- Wide reach to different suppliers
- Give flexibility to transact either fully integrated or where required also with a manual touch
- Complex account logic / multiple ANIDs required
- Getting transaction reports across multiple ANIDs
October 13, 2023
Supplier on the SBN
We are using the SBN as a supplier to connect with our buyers across multiple geographies.
At the same time we are using the SAP Ariba Portal solution to integrate with some of our suppliers.
At the same time we are using the SAP Ariba Portal solution to integrate with some of our suppliers.
- Integrations
- Analytics
- Documentation
- Account management - too many "rogue" accounts are created
- Discovery - Network catalogues are a nice feature but should be better controllable in regard to reach - as we are not allowed to sell everything to everyone..
October 12, 2023
Review from e-invoicing stand point
I m currently responsible for supplier enablement and increasing e-invoicing rate in our organization. One of our recent issue was unreliability on PDF uploader, we have started to experience issues when partnership of SAP with cloudtrade was changed. Unfortunately we had to off-board many of our supplier due to re-occurring issues with the PDF uploader and very slow support via route of ticketing on Ariba connect. Otherwise I really like your products and happy that we decided to invest into more of your other solutions
- Adding new solutions
- Communicating changes in their products
- Close collaboration (with NDL, Customer Success Manager)
- Support via Ariba connect - slow resolution, asking questions that were already mentioned in the ticket
- PDF uploader with Cloud Trade