For high-volume suppliers who transact thousands of documents per year, they can integrate the network directly with their back-end systems. This means that your suppliers only create and maintain one company profile, one set of business assessments, one account number and one set of credentials for every customer they are connected to on the network.

In a true business network, buyers and suppliers only need to onboard once and they can connect to many other organizations that are already on the network. Improved efficiency and standardization with many-to-many connections vs one-to-one The following sections below will also explain how a business network benefits both buyers and suppliers over portals.ġ. Before getting into the details, there is one thing to make clear: SAP Business Network is a true business network. This blog lists the 3 key differences between a supplier portal and a business network, and the advantages of a true business network. However, the definitions have blurred in many ways through marketing and vendors positioning their solutions against each other.

The discussion differentiating between supplier portals and a true business network is not new.

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