SAP Business Network's purchase order compliance function automates workflows for global suppliers in retail by ensuring integration with SAP and non-SAP systems, as detailed in SAP documentation. It "configures over 100 business rules on the network to automate procurement processes, ensuring touchless transactions, enhanced process compliance, and reduced errors. It supports suppliers in 190 countries and 24 languages, ensuring global compliance with local tax and legal requirements for electronic invoicing."
The network "integrates with SAP and non-SAP systems, offering many-to-many connections and interoperability with third-party networks, and is compatible with multiple data standards. This integration facilitates seamless collaboration, allowing suppliers to access documents via a self-service portal, convert orders into confirmations and invoices, and resolve fulfillment and payment issues, while ensuring negotiated pricing and terms are enforced to reduce maverick spend."
Furthermore, it "digitalizes 28 document types, including purchase orders and payments, enabling network-based business rules for touchless processing and exception-free transactions with suppliers," with "pre-built integration scenarios, intuitive self-service tools, automated upgrades, and transaction monitoring." This ensures compliance and streamlines global retail workflows over simplifying procurement, cutting logistics costs, or automating financial transactions minimally. (Extracts from: https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/discovering-the-sap-business-network-for-procurement/showcasing-scenarios-of-the-sap-business-network-for-procurement; https://www.sap.com/products/spend-management/procure-to-pay/features.html).
