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

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

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

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