Business Network

Business Network can help life sciences companies increase visibility across the supply chain, streamline collaboration with contract manufacturers, comply with quality regulations, and improve inventory management.

Business Network

Business Network can help life sciences companies increase visibility across the supply chain, streamline collaboration with contract manufacturers, comply with quality regulations, and improve inventory management.

Explore SAP Business Network

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

Procurement Collaboration

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

Procurement Collaboration

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

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

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

Evaluate the impact of deviations

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.

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

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

Dynamic Discounting

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

Accounts Receivable Financing

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

Supply Chain Finance

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

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 designed for efficient digital collaboration whether you are 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

Trading Partner Perspective

Discover the value of SAP Business Network for all other trading partners, including suppliers, carriers, manufacturers and service providers.

New Lead Generation

Get discovered by global buyers looking for your products or services and find new business opportunities.