Deploying SAP Business Network Supplier Portal with SAP S/4 HANA Cloud

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Even with the most sophisticated ERP systems, many companies struggle with collaborating with external parties, such as their suppliers. This could take the form of manual, resource intensive processes for sending purchase orders and receiving invoices.

With native integration to SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Network Supplier Portal extends your ERP processes and provides capabilities for near real-time supplier collaboration. It is designed to digitize and automate procurement and invoice transactions, giving organizations visibility, accurate and complete transaction data for reporting, and enhanced compliance.

Not only is the SAP Business Network Supplier Portal natively integrated into SAP S/4 HANA, the deployment process is also designed to align with implementation of SAP S/4HANA. The benefits of parallel activation of transactions via the network include:

1. Minimized customer effort - leveraging synergies from parallel SAP S/4 HANA deployment to reduce the need for customer resources and effort
2. Faster time to value - go-live with the network at the same time as SAP S/4HANA and be ready to transact with suppliers on Day 1
3. Pre-defined and rapid deployment - SAP services experts apply industry best practices for pre-defined use cases

Benefits of native integration between SAP Business Network and SAP S/4HANA

Integration lies at the heart of SAP Business Network's capabilities, enabling smooth data exchange and process orchestration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Network. This native integration ensures that critical data flows uninterrupted across trading partners, enabling near real-time data exchange and visibility. Native integration provides the ability scale seamlessly, without the cost or complexity of maintaining middleware or third party connectors.

SAP Business Network Supplier Portal is already available to RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, premium plus customers

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, premium plus customers have access to SAP Business Network Supplier Portal as an included entitlement. They can leverage the benefits of seamless supplier collaboration at no additional cost. The SAP Business Network Supplier portal comes with free-of-charge SAP deployment services to integrate to their SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution and advisory services for onboarding and enabling suppliers.

Learn more about the SAP Business Network Supplier Portal.