SAP Business Network Services Team supports your project through pre-defined and rapid scenario deployment.
Timeline
The following image shows the main activities for the SAP Business Network Supplier Portal deployment aligned with the SAP S/4HANA implementation activities.
The deployment project can only start after all accounts, including SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Network have been provisioned.

This timeline shows how your SAP Business Network for Procurement implementation is aligned with your SAP S/4HANA implementation. Familiarize yourself with the main activities that will require actions from your side. You will discover more details about these activities as you advance with your learning journey.
- Network kickoff goals:
- Understand SKU.
- High-level implementation plan.
- Project team and roles & responsibility, plan the network to be included at go-live.
- Discuss high-level implementation approach.
- Plan spend data analysis.
- Network planning workshop goals:
- Finalize documents in scope.
- Understand high-level trading enablement plan.
- Demo video.
- Discuss provisioning.
- Trigger requirement gathering.
- Network implementation (in test/quality):
- Prerequisites: Master data and basic MM/FI configuration.
- Deliverable: configuration document.